I’m of limited mental capacity. Who’s doing the supervising in this thing?
Readit NewsLispSporks22 commented on Tesla starts using 'Supervised Full Self-Driving' language electrek.co/2024/03/28/te... · Posted by u/CharlesW
LispSporks22 commented on Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise openwall.com/lists/oss-se... · Posted by u/rkta
Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it's "great new features". We even worked with him to fix the valgrind issue (which it turns out now was caused by the backdoor he had added). We had to race last night to fix the problem after an inadvertent break of the embargo.
He has been part of the xz project for 2 years, adding all sorts of binary test files, and to be honest with this level of sophistication I would be suspicious of even older versions of xz until proven otherwise.
Nice. I worked on a Linux disto when I was a wee lad and all we did was compute a new md5 and ship it.
LispSporks22 commented on Monogon: A Linux userland in pure Go github.com/monogon-dev/mo... · Posted by u/caust1c
How can one be anti-Go? It's a solid, fairly resource unintensive language.
Too much typing ‘if err..’ everywhere
LispSporks22 commented on Scripts should be written using the project main language joaomagfreitas.link/scrip... · Posted by u/freitzzz
We have some Perl scripts that are freaking immortal.
The rest of the code base started in Java, then Clojure, now it’s Go. The scripts are there still in their very-not-modern Perl style though. They have a self-evaluating behavior consisting of data blocks that are interpolated. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how it works. Very discouraging for the casual passerby looking for some cleanup to do.
LispSporks22 commented on The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022) maxread.substack.com/p/th... · Posted by u/dbcooper
I love this guy
LispSporks22 commented on Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging twitter.com/sarah_edo/sta... · Posted by u/tosh
I hate Angular with a passion. It's easily the most verbose, overly complex front end framework I've ever used which just takes the fun out of building web apps and make it a pure pain. I would rather work on a farm and shovel pig shit all day than work in Angular again.
My last job forced Angular on me, I quit after a while (not because of solely that reason) but I told them Angular was a bad choice and they chose to overrule me. Pretty funny now, they will have to endure the pain of migrating a large app which makes me feel good.
Make stupid choices, win stupid prizes.
I’ve hated working on every Angular project I’ve worked on. No matter the team, the experience level or complexity, it’s always been an absolute misery.
I cannot understand how it was invented/why it exists, how smart people at Google convinced themselves to use it. I cannot understand how they let it escape into the wild or even why those not forced to use it, choose it.
I know I’ve begged before for this, and it’s pointless, but please if you’re in the position to, please consider snuffing it out and starting over.
> it's almost unkillable.
Kills my iPhone XS Max daily though.
The navigation is completely broken as well. Some things don’t close, back button might or might not work, never seems to remember where I was before, frequently rescrolling stuff.
This is all after ad blocking.
Without it, endless spam of embedded ads distracting me, wasting my time. Janky loading, page hangs on clicks.
I’m not sure wtf their engineering team is doing but the site’s basically broken. Maybe it’s the normal state of things. Before I was using some third party app that was working great until Reddit killed api access.
My usage of it has dropped as well. It’s just unpleasant to use now.
LispSporks22 commented on Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum github.com/Veltas/zenv... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I think it is direct threaded Forth but there is a conditional token table in there (tokens.asm). Thought it might be some clever hybrid of threading techniques, but I don’t see how tokens is used.
LispSporks22 commented on Zenv: Forth for the ZX Spectrum github.com/Veltas/zenv... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
My first 'job' as a kid was working at Oasis Software on White Lightning, which was a Forth based game making kit for the ZX Spectrum (amongst other platforms). About a million years ago now. Or now ago million, if you know Forth. https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/software/utilities/white...
I play around with White Lightening occasionally because of the ease of making games with it on C64 and the comprehensive documentation (PDFs of it have been preserved).
Man, I hate living in a nanny state like Texas where big government is reaching into all parts of peoples lives.
Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.