aaviator42 (u/aaviator42)

aaviator42 commented on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower

kelsey98765431 · a day ago

I am not super familiar with the windows ecosystem but my understanding is that scoop is a package manager similar to choco or nuget correct? is scoop seen as bloated? thanks

aaviator42 · a day ago

The lack of awareness is that the vast majority of users are not aware of and don't use scoop (or probably any package manager) on Windows, especially to install GUI apps, and that doesn't automatically make them "not sane".

aaviator42 commented on My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers usenix.org/conference/use... · Posted by u/layer8

Muromec · 2 days ago

If everyone has the same parser the whole classes of bugs just stop being exploitable. The classic one being one parser at the edge validates somethhing and the further down the line sees another result which it expects tp be rejected during validation.

Both parsers could be buggy, but when they have different kinds of bugs, you get a zero click undetectable exploit

aaviator42 · a day ago

It significantly increases the attack surfaces of bugs that do exist in the parser if the same implementation is used everywhere.

aaviator42 commented on My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers usenix.org/conference/use... · Posted by u/layer8

socalgal2 · 2 days ago

As someone who works on specs that are shared across different organizations' implementations, you can write all the specs you want but no conformance tests = no conformance.

aaviator42 · a day ago

A good point! Conformance tests seem like a great idea to me to go along with specs.

aaviator42 commented on My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers usenix.org/conference/use... · Posted by u/layer8

hinkley · 2 days ago

Maybe an argument to use zlib consistently.

aaviator42 · 2 days ago

An argument for a better defined file format specification perhaps, but I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for everyone to use or have to use the same implementation.

aaviator42 commented on Fastmail breaks UI in production twitter.com/licyeus/statu... · Posted by u/blux

mistertrotsky · 19 days ago

This doesn't actually work. The mobile app is just a wrapper around the web interface.

aaviator42 · 19 days ago

I thought apple didn't allow this?

Edit: apparently "hybrid apps" using webviews are allowed as long as they're not "thin wrappers" for websites and provide meaningful functionality. See also: the capacitor framework.

aaviator42 commented on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops linaro.org/blog/linux-on-... · Posted by u/MarcusE1W

ZiiS · a month ago

Been daily driving an M1 for two years at this point; no complaints.

aaviator42 · a month ago

With a Linux distro on it?

aaviator42 commented on Why not to use iframes for embedded dashboards embeddable.com/blog/ifram... · Posted by u/rogansage

aaviator42 · a month ago

I think iframes are pretty darn handy and it's really not that hard to leverage their strengths in a secure manner.

aaviator42 commented on Westbrook police say they mistakenly posted AI-generated drug seizure photo pressherald.com/2025/07/0... · Posted by u/gnabgib

aaviator42 · a month ago

We're very close to the point where no one is going to be able to make out what is an AI image and what is not and it's already fucking up a lot of stuff and it's going to get much worse.

Posted by u/aaviator42 2 months ago

Laid-off workers should use LLMs to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec theverge.com/news/698468/...

aaviator42 commented on TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3 arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kozika

aaviator42 · 2 months ago

I really miss the time before generative images and video were a thing. We opened such a can of worms. Really seems like a "the scientists were so occupied with if they could they didn't stop to think if they should" situation. What is the actual utility of these tools again beyond putting artists out of work?

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