Napped-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Humans evolved to use a base 10 counting system probably due to the fact we have 10 fingers, while computers use a binary system.

This is because your computer has just one finger.

It's a middle finger, and your computer hides it behind every single error message it displays.

#programming #facts

Therapist: Mercator sphere isn't real, it can't hurt you
Mercator sphere:

Irregular reminder that hitting the numbers next to menuconfig search results jumps you directly to the symbol config

An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/01/aswf_foss_oscars/

ASWF is the open source foundation run by the folks who give out Oscars, and you've probably seen the results

← by me on @theregister

What's that? An RFC drop you say, hmmm? A proposed standard for the eBPF Instruction Set Architecture? Sign me up! https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9669

does anyone know how i might go about exporting const data (like some array/structures) from a binary using DWARF info?

Ghidra can see the data and decode the types perfectly, but doesn't have a mechanism for exporting it as C code.

I started playing with pyelftools but it seems like I'd need to write a whole lot of code for this, so im hoping someone else has already solved it...

#reverseengineering #hacking #decompiling

Having left two years ago, I hadn't noticed until now, but apparently @fedora abandoned its account (last post in July and "find us on Mastodon" in bio) with 189k followers on X. I'm really proud of the project for making a principled decision, no matter how hard it seems. ❤️

Yet another breakage caused by a commit starting with "Fix".

# zypper dup
...
Package download size: 666.0 MiB

🍷 hail him!

Also, in case anyone is counting, Starlink is now 63% of all active satellites.

2 out of ever 3 satellites up there now is owned by that awful billionaire. He effectively controls Low Earth Orbit. That should terrify everyone.

if (RUNNING_ON_VALGRIND) {
// obviously memory-safe code
} else {
// subtly memory-unsafe code
}

Went outside to smoke, shut the door, turned around and found myself face to face with a coyote.

He skidded in his tracks into a sit, did a 180 on his haunches, claws skittering on the cement, and LAUNCHED himself down the street, clipping his rump against my partner's car and setting off its alarm which set off MY car's alarm, and then the garage floodlight turned on, which turned on the NEIGHBOR'S lights.

All in a span of less than five seconds.

I witnessed a moment of pure, unadulterated chaos, leaving me with a deeper understanding of the animations of Scooby Doo and Wil E Coyote.

Improving the Raspberry Pi graphics stack is an ongoing commitment for @igalia, and I’m happy to contribute to this process! We’ve just introduced Super Pages to the RPi 4/5, bringing some solid performance boosts for real-world applications — like PS2 emulation! 🎮🚀

Check out the benchmarks and implementation details in my latest blog post!

🔗 https://mairacanal.github.io/unleashing-power-enabling-super-pages-on-RPi/

https://chaos.social/@rixx/113381352980372544

I forgot about beans on toast! England should be included in good cuisine

Also known as Mihai transform.

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/113379561286582386

Hm so after login to KDE my monitor goes full brightness for a while now. Thought it might be a 6.12 kernel thing, but it's happening with 6.11 too. Probably due to some userspace component, maybe KDE itself then. But I'm still going to blame @mairacanal obviously.

this has to stop