Notices by Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social), page 21

Error messages and logs are part of software's UI and API.

I've finally managed to open-source this project which I created at work, but which is now also in use by Mastodon:

https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash

There is a nice little demo page where you can play with it here:

https://blurha.sh

Toot! already supports it for image placeholders while loading, but other clients should easily be able to include it too.

I’ve been playing Game Boy Tetris for 30 years now. Some day I’ll make 500,000. #tetris #gameboy #retrogaming

#Blurhash core repository is finally live! Thanks @WAHa_06x36

https://github.com/woltapp/blurhash

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A couple of the younger ones are playing.

Remember several days ago when there was a giant raccoon in the back yard? Now there are at least 5. It's a raccoon family sniffing around my yard! 😍

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

Decided to see what would happen if I trained a neural net to write names for self-aware AIs.
May I present: GPT-2 trained on AI names from Iain M. Banks's Culture novels
https://aiweirdness.com/post/185883998702/ais-named-by-ais

Lizzo's "Boys" as Hieronymus Bosch art: a thread