Notices by Federico Mena Quintero (federicomena@mstdn.mx)

@tindall Waaaaay back in the day, I really appreciated software like Turbo Pascal 6 or Corel Draw 3 where hitting F1 anywhere brought up context-sensitive help. *ANYWHERE*, and it took you to the help page for *exactly* the place in the program you were in at that time.

There was even small tutorials for little workflows in the contextual help. It was wonderful.

Hey #rustlang people - want a super easy bug to fix? Librsvg uses the regex crate to turn ' and \ into \' and \\ in escaped strings. This is totally doable without so much machinery:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/issues/493

On responsible vulnerability disclosure - https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/on-responsible-vulnerability-disclosure.html

@kde 💜

Please help me build a list of words in non-English languages that are insulting as "gimp" is to mean a disabled person.

(I want to write something along the lines of, "you wouldn't call your software 'tullido' in Spanish)

Por fin terminando un cajón. #carpintería

So there's a debatable regression in bzip2-1.0.7. It cannot uncompress some files from lbzip2, which worked fine with bzip2-1.0.6, because of the fix for CVE-2019-12900.

Bzip2-1.0.6 and before had a bug with unvalidated input, which a fuzzer found to lead to a buffer overflow.

However, those version seemed to work for lbzip2 files, which (arguably wrongly) were writing the input value larger than bzip2 expected.

https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2/issues/24 - people who want to do code digging appreciated!

Bzip2 1.0.7 is released - https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/bzip2-107-is-released.html

#photography peeps, I want to upgrade my equipment. I want a light, low-light capable, video-capable camera. Full frame SLR (I have some fast Nikon prime lenses, but screw-focusing, not ultrasonic), or mirroless? How well does mirrorless do these days in low light?

Preparing the bzip2-1.0.7 release - https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/preparing-the-bzip2-107-release.html

People from All Distros(tm), can you please send me the output of

objdump -x /usr/lib64/libbz2.so | grep SONAME

Thanks!

(Trying to see if every distro patched bzip2 to produce the same shared object name.)

Library versioning experts, what do you think of this for bzip2? https://gitlab.com/federicomenaquintero/bzip2/issues/19

Do you speak #arabic, #persian, #hebrew, #urdu, or any right-to-left language? Librsvg needs help to find test cases for those languages, and people who can tell us what the correct behavior is. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/issues/439

Boosts appreciated!

TFW *NOTHING WORKS* and then you discover that the plate of food you just brought is pressing down on the Ctrl key.

This paper on a malloc() replacement that DOES COMPACTION even on C/C++ is making the rounds: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.04738.pdf

Scarily beautiful.