Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 13

Them: "Could you record this session?"
Me: "Sure!"

Me, 1 h later, converting and listening to the session: "Aaaaugh my Swedish accent!!!"
The recording: "... so this catalog is defined by the user support team in eash location ..."

I haven't listened to myself speak for years, I forgot how much it can hurt. 😅

When people have said things like "Aaron Schwartz's tragedy was caused by the legal system and overzealous prosecution", I have heard some people respond along the lines of "please respect his family; they have disagreed with this type of framing".

That objection seems to be 100% off the mark, because here's what his family and girlfriend said on his memorial site:

Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.

rememberaaronsw.com/memories/

On April 21, 2010, the antivirus company McAfee released an update to its software used by its corporate customers. The update deleted a key Windows file, causing millions of computers around the world to crash and repeatedly reboot. Much like the CrowdStrike mistake, the McAfee problem required a manual fix.

Kurtz was McAfee's chief technology officer at the time. Months later, Intel acquired McAfee. And several months after that Kurtz left the company. He founded CrowdStrike in 2012 and has been its CEO ever since.

businessinsider.com/crowdstrik…

#CrowdStrike

@AN/CRM-114 There is no government firewall between my home and the internet exchange two kilometers away where google's servers probably are.

The equipment in my home is the same router and the same APs as before.

It's possible that the building's router could be different and suffer from buffer bloat, but then I feel like that should be visible in the ping latency.

It's super weird.

I finished #TheBoysS4.

Ho. Ly. Shit. On all the levels.

#TheBoys

In this new apartment, 100 m from the previous apartment, youtube is often crap, stutters and downgrades to 144p. In the old place youtube always ran without a hitch.

It's the same ISP in the same physical residential block, just one tower over. speedtest.net says ping is 14 ms, download is 300 Mbps, upload is 150 Mbps. It's a mystery.

I've been assuming WebM is "web movie" and WebP is "web picture".

Someone said they thought P in WebP is for "predictive". I don't think so.

VP8 uses (as do other video codecs) P-frames, predictive or predicted frames which are deltas to the frames before them, and I-frames, intra frames, which are complete images. VP8 does not have bidirectional B-frames. I guess this is where "P is for 'predictive' " came from, but WebP does not use P-frames, WebP is based on VP8 I-frames.

Maybe the P comes from the P in VP8? I have not been able to find an explanation for what VP3/4/5/6/7/8/9 stands for.

The announcement, the documentation, the Wikipedia article, neither of them explains the WebP name.

"Did you know? WebP is pronounced 'weppy'. /(wĕpˈē)/"

Ha! I did not know. Nobody does that. Sorry, Google.

web.archive.org/web/2010100302…

"I'm no security expert but [biting and insightful question that will receive a longer, more deflective and less insightful answer than it deserves]"

Sky News: "Global IT outage: 'We're deeply sorry', CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says"

farside.link/invidious/xySnsTQ…

youtu.be/xySnsTQLqB8

#crowdstrike

smbc-comics.com/comic/jpeg

The M/o/Vfuscator contains a complete mov-only floating point emulator. Since it is approximately 500,000 instructions, you must explicitly link to it if you need it.

🤣

Here we go: "The single instruction C compiler"

github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfus…

The M/o/Vfuscator (short 'o', sounds like "mobfuscator") compiles programs into "mov" instructions, and only "mov" instructions. Arithmetic, comparisons, jumps, function calls, and everything else a program needs are all performed through mov operations; there is no self-modifying code, no transport-triggered calculation, and no other form of non-mov cheating.

@Luci for dyeing @R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: @Luci for dyeing Some people have been designing fantasy CPUs like that, yeah.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-inst…

But in the real world: "recent Intel x86 MMUs are actually Turing-complete OISCs"

And TrapCC compiles this weird subset-of-x86 architecture.

I seem to remember there's also some normal x86 instruction that is flexible enough that it can be used as an instruction set of its own.