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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

hangin’ out

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cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

While I was out, my colleagues finally root-caused and fixed a nasty low-probability bug causing crashes on a specific Hubris-based machine.

It's an exciting consequence of our firmware being weird along three axes, simultaneously:

1. We use privileged/unprivileged mode on the Cortex-M7 (most systems don't, or use unprivileged only very cursorily)

2. We use the MPU to effect component memory isolation.

3. We use the STM32H7 FMC to access expansion peripherals on an FPGA through a parallel bus.

tl;dr: ST's default memory mapping for the FMC, combined with the ARMv7-M default memory attribute map, combined with our decision to have the kernel bypass the MPU (thereby using that default memory map), _combined with_ the M7's access speculation behavior to "normal" memory... meant that we'd occasionally get spurious accesses into the FPGA that would take out the system, despite having no code able to actually _do_ that.

This deserves a blog post but you can kinda reconstruct the details by reading the issue thread backwards: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/issues/2198

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

A reminder that Signal will never reach out to you proactively, never send you a Signal message, and never ask for your verification code. The only way to correspond with Signal is via email (support@signal.org) or the Signal Support Center (support.signal.org).

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fkamiah17@syzito.xyz ("MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸") wrote:

Things haven't started too well in Windsor, have they? 😂

After a giant image of Epstein and 47 was laid out on the lawn, and another projected onto a tower at the castle, activists disrupted a Republicans Overseas event celebrating the start of the state visit at Windsor last night.

#FuckTrump #UKPolitics

Attachments:

• video: Clip of protesters disrupting a dinner

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

Dr. Marvin Dunn, whom I've posted about before, is an extremely brave #Florida professor of Black history. He's one of the heroes of the resistance that shut down #AlligatorAuschwitz. He is completely against violence, but also completely against bullcrap.

He says: "True, I don't usually cuss but this shit has gotten serious! So, now you can get fired for saying something hateful about a racist who said George Floyd was a "scumbag" and he was glad Floyd was dead? You know what?..."

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

When (Google) X moved into our new digs in 2015, I suggested naming the conference rooms after dead products to keep us humble: Newton, Edsel, etc. This did not go over well. (They were eventually named after fictional robots, which... honestly seems like a far more biting commentary on Google X's output.)

At Oxide I've got my choice of dead computer company mugs each morning, and guess what our naming scheme for our conference rooms is....

(Oh I made that sign out of walnut and oak)

Anyway, culture fit could be much worse

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

thread

https://thepit.social/@peter/115218108012661763

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

as a formerly-conservative guy who now has some progressive opinions, i have a few thoughts on the last couple years of assassinations and assassination attempts.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

WASM 3.0 is released! And guess what gets a mention? @spritely's Hoot! https://webassembly.org/news/2025-09-17-wasm-3.0/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:

Saudi Arabia has signed a 'strategic mutual defence' pact with Pakistan, signalling to the US and Israel that the kingdom is willing to diversify its security alliances as it looks to bolster its deterrence
— Financial Times

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

10. And now, today, this announcement that Binance - you know, the company that PLED GUILTY TO MONEY LAUNDERING is nearing a deal with Trump’s DOJ to get rid of the compliance monitor they have had in place TO ENSURE THEY AREN’T LAUNDERING MONEY. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/binance-nears-deal-to-escape-compliance-monitor-imposed-by-doj

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Kash Patel—the Director of the FBI—testified in front of Congress today that he had no idea who Dylann Roof was.

To clarify: in June 2015, Roof, a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi, entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and gunned down nine Black people *after they invited him to take part in their Bible study group.*

You’re now more informed than the director of the FBI.

Remembering is an act of rebellion.

#history

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats

How we listen to and involve developers: Wishes, Signals, and the Shape of Standards

@bkardell and @Meyerweb chat with @w3c's @dontcallmeDOM

https://www.igalia.com/chats/dominique

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linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#MAGA #1C

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patriksvensson@mstdn.social ("Patrik Svensson") wrote:

Oh look! It arrived! 😍

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Wen@mastodon.scot wrote:

I see that Trump is being welcomed with heartwarming pictures, projected onto Windsor Castle.

Apparently 4 people were arrested for something or other.

#Trump #Epstein #RandyAndy #Abuse #LedByDonkeys

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streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

WELCOME TO WINDSOR CASTLE, DONALD TRUMP 🏰🇬🇧

The British public greeted him with a gigantic banner right outside the castle where he’s staying with the King this week—funded by 1,770 people.

This trip is all about polishing Trump’s image 🪞✨ so please, absolutely do NOT share the world’s largest photo of him with Jeffrey Epstein 🚫📸

Thank you for respecting the President’s delicate PR moment 🙏😂

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aaron.rupar@threads.net ("Aaron Rupar") wrote:

PATEL: The estate of Epstein has a voluminous amount of information that they have not released

LIEU: Wouldn't it be great if the FBI subpoenaed the estate?

PATEL: The estate is under no obligation to provide that information

LIEU: That's just false. You're the frickin' FBI! You can subpoena information

Attachments:

• video: 93a0a83a0c0e22d0.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CarolineMalaCorbin ("Prof. Caroline Mala Corbin") wrote:

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence in US

The vanished study opened with: “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

Actually a pretty well know fact to those who care about facts

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Ex-CDC director: RFK Jr. required political sign-off on decisions
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/politics/video/monarez-cdc-hearing-rfk-political-decisions-digvid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
funhouseradio@mastodon.world ("FunHouse Radio") wrote:

► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
#meme #memes #cats #pets #photo

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz ("DougMerritt (log😅 = 💧log😄)") wrote:

UTF-8 wasn't designed by IBM, contrary to some rumors; it was designed by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike.

(And this is also what I personally heard in real time from the Unicode Committee when UTF-8 was first designed)
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

strongly agree: Klein was way off in this issue of his podcast, normalizing Kirk’s spreading of hate & pretend debates.

https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hafxlnw235qrcil2lpohp2ly/post/3lz2bihsh622g

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aselrod.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Alan Elrod") wrote:

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…”@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiographywww.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

A lot of people will start learning very fast about privacy on Discord.

Or rather, that there is no privacy on Discord. :blobeyes:

> Five hours after Charlie Kirk was shot this week, an Atlanta man got a phone call from an Illinois police officer asking about a photo he shared with a couple of close friends on a private Discord chat.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-kirk-assassination-sparks-6da

If you run any kind of project or community and use Discord, this would be a very good time to reconsider your choice of a platform.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

In all seriousness, though...it should cost more (psychically) to add bajillions of deps to a project's tree, and the cost should go up the heavier it already is.

Call it a Module Wealth Tax.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The idea that package managers are "bad" or "evil" is wrong. OTOH, the consequences of low-friction software accretion are bad, and sometimes evil. We need a middle ground. That's why I support forcing CAPTCHAs for every dependency, including for each sub-dependency, including for every update.

(this is a joke...ish)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@NfNitLoop +1000; this is not a "people don't know how to code" thing, it's a "wow, this inscrutable quasi-syntax that adds spooky action at a distance and provides no temporal clarity might not actually be great" thing.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Did not think that this was how we were going to learn to appreciate every NPM dependency as a high-interest, unstructured loan, but if frontend decides to re-evaluate "fling it together, hope for the best" culture, I'll take it.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

imagine what we could have if the teams behind the vape web server and the doom pregnancy test joined forces