Posts by hailey@hails.org
 (DIR) Post #B3AlhsEXmwo9svENbE by hailey@hails.org
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       Computers can be understood https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/
       
 (DIR) Post #B3f04trh7HMNhoDOMq by hailey@hails.org
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       discovered a cool trick for writing a script that runs some commands in parallel and waits for all to complete while also logging and propagating errors properly
       
 (DIR) Post #B4EJfAU1VRtxKgkQqG by hailey@hails.org
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       trying to make anything on the computer now
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ykcswnMubGOtUxTE by hailey@hails.org
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       There's a particular strawman response to the concerns that LLMs damage literacy, impair learning, etc that goes like "well people said the same thing about the calculator!" "Socrates said writing would make people dumb!" and the reason it's a shit take is it pretends that pedagogy just doesn't exist. We _do_ study the effect of various technologies and methods used in teaching. We _know_ that certain methods of teaching reading are ineffective and damaging, three-cueing for example.It is in fact anti-science to believe that all concerns about new technologies and methods being damaging are automatically invalid, especially in the face of mounting evidence supporting those concerns.
       
 (DIR) Post #B58CGmQnScy6xYQ0R6 by hailey@hails.org
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       so it cost anthropic $20k to find this openbsd crash bug which amounts to putting a negative integer in a tcp field where a negative integer was not expected by the c code which does some cavalier int cast bullshit, ie. a vuln which is totally fuzzable, and quite certainly would have been found by the fuzzers of the 2010s had anyone cared to burn that much compute on fuzzing openbsd.The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B58CGsd4PuLqBMCtOq by hailey@hails.org
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       I don't mean to throw shade at openbsd here, it's a scrappy project running on the smell of an oily rag and I have a lot of respect for that kind of scrappy resourcefulness, but it's key to understanding why the most salient factor here is big tech deciding to throw lots of money at it. That this is the best they got for $20k really speaks to why nobody bothered previously.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5FQ0RM6oJ7uQU323s by hailey@hails.org
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       posting on the fish subreddit and asking whether anyone prefers breathing water over air
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xm1aJKhCo0KJyl1s by hailey@hails.org
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       With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all timehttps://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x
       
 (DIR) Post #B5Xm1gavKiRRocFtHU by hailey@hails.org
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       really got this one in right under the wire before they start removing 486 support from linux
       
 (DIR) Post #B6IxiSl4sm7VHRin7Q by hailey@hails.org
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       I read that Postgres *itself* had an SQL injection vuln so I was like HUH and tracked down the fix... what are we doing here guys
       
 (DIR) Post #B6IxiSxU8e2ptvWhSS by hailey@hails.org
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       In the same batch of fixes there is an RCE where Postgres passes user input straight into the sprintf format string omg
       
 (DIR) Post #B6IxnTEuWMBEDk3zeq by hailey@hails.org
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       @azonenberg it was snprintf. fix here https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/ba27389c2cfa1485bbe26754b23d3f6b4c4e72e2, full list of fixed cves here https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-184-1710-1614-1518-and-1423-released-3297/
       
 (DIR) Post #B6L5PdWNpUuR6nIma8 by hailey@hails.org
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       Hello I am the rust lang project. Today we are debating whether or not to allow LLMs. Some ground rules first: no talking about any of the ways in which LLMs are bad, and absolutely no talking about the consequences of using them. Let's keep it civil folks!
       
 (DIR) Post #B6L5PkVZqtQKmJyjnU by hailey@hails.org
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       "social, environmental, and economic concerns aside..." literally what concerns are even left at that point? That is all of the concerns
       
 (DIR) Post #B6mpAwWBEpuWCko64W by hailey@hails.org
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       rsync was basically done until the maintainer discovered vibecoding