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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hahhhh there we go. there was a second, very subtle leak of substring entries; we fixed it.

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akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

the only reason my phone that is over 10 years old doesn’t work is because of the choice to stop updates

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akareilly@hachyderm.io ("Wren Reilly") wrote:

I don’t want a new phone. I want my perfectly good hardware to keep getting updates until it actually stops working. I want replaceable batteries that get recycled. If a company stops giving updates I want to be able to change the OS.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

IME this baffles some people. how can i possibly write code without a compiler at every step of the process?

well i have this secret method, it's called "thinking"

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ways in which chatbots are like a claw hammer:

• you can make a mess with one end
• you can use it to deal with the mess... maybe.

but a claw hammer doesn't bill you by the token.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i guess this is related to "code must always compile". at times, i go days between compiles while i work out structures during a refactor.

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

Latest bandcamp find: FLUISTERAARS

https://fluisteraars.bandcamp.com/album/jacht-der-mysteri-n

Dutch atmospheric black metal, album release tomorrow.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

ohhhh. some people just can't think ahead in software design, can they?

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

There are also plenty of valid reasons for folks to decide to NOT respect me.

Like, I'm quite bad at anyything related to music or rhythm. This makes me not fun at many types of social events.

I also miss a lot of pop culture references. Hell, I haven't seen most of the furry-bait movies or TV shows that have come out in the past decade or so, despite them being hot topics in the fandom. Sometimes this makes me miss jokes in ways that kill the vibe.

I'm quite bad at flirting. I'm quite bad at recognize when I'm being flirted with. I suspect these two observations are, in fact, the same observation.

My sense of humor (puns!) can annoy the hell out of some people.

But, y'know? Take it or leave it. You're entitled to a refund, but nobody paid to listen to me. :P

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Some positive beliefs, for balance:

• Computers should serve the interests of individuals and their communities, not governments or corporations.
• The solution to the "devs are rolling their own crypto" problem isn't to scold them, but to give them better tools that solve their problem correctly and get out of their way.
• Products and services that position themselves in a marketplace based on privacy claims should actually do a better job at their cryptography. (Most of them suck ass.)
• Consent is more important to me than aesthetics. There are some kinks or subcultures I am personally repulsed by. I will still defend their rights, because it's not harmful.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

If it wasn't clear from a lot of my writing in recent years, I think a lot of the harm inflicted on society comes from the following ideas:

• That social hierarchies are a desirable thing rather than a phantasm caused by looking at socially constructed variables rather than embracing diversity
• That parasocial interactions are worthwhile
• That the convenience of centralization is worth the downsides

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i remember this old recording when it happened, she is just still killing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9xAKcRajM

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woof@aria.dog ("Dog with Glasses Plushie :neodog_glasses: :waow: ") wrote:

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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

noted: protecting my mental health
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-09-10T06:14Z/

the number of RSS feeds I'm unsubscribing from weekly is too damn high 🫩

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

oh good, chez's team are LLM-sceptical https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme/issues/1028

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

I don't know, man, "embrace neo-nazism to appease twenty-seven posh assholes" seems a worse option than just prosecuting the shit out of them until it is no longer an issue.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/09/silicon-valley-democrats-lost-california/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

listen to this shit they set up to make it sound inevitable, like anyone could be doing this
https://youtu.be/XYhtkxR5sV8?t=457

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49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:") wrote:

CVE-2026-87464: Use after free in WebGL in Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Critical) found by yours truly!

rce with sandbox escape. go big or go home baby

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qole@techhub.social ("Qole :mastodon:") wrote:

The most suspicious things that AI boosters say are not the positive things. They're the apparently negative things. The AI broke containment. The agents set up a message board to secretly conspire. Or the most egregious, that the AI will become Skynet and kill us all. As @pluralistic says, it's part of the scam, the fearmongering is aimed at investors, who want to invest in a growing industry. AI needs to be perceived as growing, even if that growth is supposedly a threat.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/ai-superintelligence-risks-warnings-scientists-politicians

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MetalGearHazumu ("Pepper Roo (Hazumu Plisken)") wrote:

Here is a photo with another suiter and the dino in the mirror.

#Furry #Fursuit #Fursuiter #FurryFandom #FurryCommunity #Fursona #RaptorMask #Furmeet #NottsFurs

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

if you told me that Karriem Riggins and Liv.e would be playing together i would have told you that you had sedated me and were implanting wonderful dreams to disarm me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYhtkxR5sV8

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

oops. we got distracted while that was running... but anyhow it did fix the overflows; time to figure out how deep the stack actually needs to be.

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49016@catgirl.cloud ("⬡-49016 :neobot_box_cat_ears:") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.catgirl.cloud/@49016/117240284833294070

who needs a CV when you can have a CVE

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we figured out that almost all the runtime was going to the log-load transform, and almost all the problems that require debugging are in the label transform. so we commented out the call to the log-load transform for the sake of rapid testing, but to be sure we fixed things, we have to do full runs.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

sweet, yep, we found the leak, we think. push-reg64 and pop-reg64 each take a single parameter, as you will perceive, but they were tagged as taking none, so they were never consuming the entries.

need to do a full run to be sure we got it though

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

hmmm it's clearly leaking substring entries. easy thing to do.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

a bunch of them are overflows of the substring entry stack; we can fix those by increasing the stack size. it currently only allows three entries, so it's no surprise it overflows. we want to know how many it actually needs, so, time to increase it one by one...

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

okay. so first and most obvious, there are error messages from the hex transform's internals, interspersed with the actual hex dump. we had made the call (documented in comments) that this particular failure mode should really run to completion even if it's going to produce invalid output, because it's a lot easier to diagnose this complex a system when you can see evidence that it mostly hangs together

jwz wrote:

Ok so I guess the new covid vaccines are out, can someone under 65 in California just get them without lying, or are we still doing the lying thing? Asking for a friend who is fictional.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

we learned C on Mac System 7 as teenagers in the 90s. those machines did not have memory protection. writing a byte to the wrong place wouldn't kill your program, it would corrupt its data structure, or, worse, the OS's. so we're old hands at this sort of thing, though there are good reasons people find it intimidating. it's really nice to feel like we still have those skills.