pvaneynd @pvaneynd@octodon.social
Unix/Common Lisp/Debian/Sailing/Photography hacker, also working on Python/Windows/FreeBSD and ML.
Working at Cisco, they don't pay me enough to talk for them.
#fosdem network stats for Saturday: identified operating systems per unique MAC:
8295 android
4904 Linux
3499 iPhone/iPad
3199 OSX
996 Windows
23 BSD
total 22352 identified out of 64723 MACs
More privacy-by-design,VPN's and HTTPS make identifying clients harder ❤️
#FOSDEM temporary IPv4 network is being distributed since a few days and everything looks good.
T-7 days...
@erica I used https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ with some success.
Good hunting 😉
Oh so AWS Aurora just dies without logs or errors when I insert too much data... Not nice :(
Why do I keep breaking DBs?
@chloe725 "zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-id/" should list all pools available. But indeed zdb -l should give you more information about the label on the disk itself.
If you're designing your own keyboards, these are two very valuable resources:
Keyboard Layout Editor (KLE) lets you quickly make a key arrangement that's comfortable for you
http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com
And for the case, I use the Plate & Case Builder which lets you export the shapes as SVG, DXG, or EPS files
http://builder.swillkb.com/
Just copy the, JSON from KLE and set the parameters you need. Experiment until you find something you like
Both are web tools so there's nothing to install
Report that #letsencrypt is handling a vulnerability:
"[Investigating] The tls-sni challenge has been disabled due to strong credibility of a vulnerability report."
https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/5a55777ed9a9c1024c00b241
Impact to #golang
"Welp, the #golang autocert (https://golang.org/x/crypto/acme/autocert …) @letsencrypt package is now broken because it relies on tls-sni-01, which just got emergency shut down:"
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
<<The recent reveal of Meltdown and Spectre reminded me of the time I found a related design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU – a newly added instruction whose mere existence was dangerous.>>
Believe it or not I had sort of prepared a neat little tootstorm on OoO and speculative execution when I realised that what is really needed is an analysis on what tradeoffs were chosen as opposed to yet another OoO description.
What seems to be missing from everything I have read are two points:
a) speculative execution and OoO go back a long time (IBM S/360 model 85),
b) they are essential for performance: you simply cannot get “the numbers” otherwise.
Some of you might be old enough to…
@Altruest jovanotti started out as a rapper in Italian. Filip Kowlier of you want some exotica in a strange local dialect. His older group ''t Hof van Commerce' was more hop-hop. A more local and recent artist is Tourist LeMC.
btw, read the project zero post on spectre/meltdown if you haven't already. it's really clever. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html
@bhtooefr or most GPU's which don't do this either. They just have a lot of 'threads' and accept that many of them might need to pause to wait for memory etc.
So we're having a alert level orange (second highest) for a heavy storm tonight. This after the darkest December for 80 years.
Guess who got a roof full of solarpanels last summer 😥.
Let's hope we still have them, and the satellite dish, tomorrow morning...
@kwaktrap kwak🐣
people: "we can build a nationwide internet through the wireless!"
me, an RF engineer with years of tactical mesh network PHY experience, multiple radio licenses, and an apartment two blocks from her corner office at a leading manufacturer of wideband SDR hardware: "good fuckin' luck"
@LottieVixen doesn't the usual trick of 'keep pressing the key until the alternatives appear' (so holding down e would show ė, èé etc) work for you?
