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🏳️‍🌈 he/him
🍎 compiler intruder
🦅 memory safety hawk

Last Notes

2025-02-26 01:41:14

The swift strict memory safety proposal has been accepted: https://forums.swift.org/t/accepted-se-0458-opt-in-strict-memory-safety-checking/78116

2024-12-16 01:06:03

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@nprofile…gyrf one thing that weirds me out about “direct UB” is that on one hand, compiler implementers accept this would normally be a trap if it did execute, but on the other hand it’s OK to just delete them (and thus not trap)

2024-11-22 04:02:44

We have published a Clang PR on the swiftlang fork of llvm-project that enables -fbounds-safety fully. Go play with it! https://github.com/swiftlang/llvm-project/pull/9665

2024-11-12 15:49:04

This is, and I cannot stress it enough, extremely funny
https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/113468983124678228

2024-11-12 15:49:04

This is, and I cannot stress it enough, extremely funny
https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/113468983124678228

2024-11-09 03:47:44

Apple’s Messages is encrypted end-to-end, but iCloud backups of your messages are not by default. They are, along with most of the rest of your data, when you enable Advanced Data Protection. Also consider whether the people you are messaging with _also_ turn it on (or else messages may be recoverable from their end).
Signal is always end-to-end encrypted and doesn’t have backups in this way. Telegram is generally not end-to-end encrypted.

2024-06-30 02:05:57

guys I think I screwed up
https://media.tech.lgbt/media_attachments/files/112/703/116/384/767/639/original/362c952ca33b4dce.png

2024-05-25 13:46:24

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@npub1src…fms4 might be missing a “k” next to 61? 😅

2024-03-17 22:19:00

OH: “I work in BDSM: business development, sales and marketing”

2024-03-10 23:22:23

Did you know that for a long time surgeons didn’t want to wash their hands before an operation because they thought their hands weren’t dirty?
This is a toot about the backlash on memory safety.

2024-02-08 22:15:19

OH: the collective noun for a group of software engineers is a “merge conflict”

2024-02-08 07:45:55

TIL the kids are calling 1990s “the one thousands”

2023-07-02 00:21:02

To address extreme levels of exploitation and system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
* kernel is limited to 6000 pointer dereferences/day
* platform binaries to 600 pointer dereferences/day
* WebContent and blastdoord 300 pointer dereferences/day

2023-06-12 15:12:54

Sentences that would probably ruin your morning if you made CPUs at Samsung: “I have a strong suspicion that Samsung (or whoever designed this particular chip) messed up their store forwarding, and accidentally forwarded the entire register without clearing the upper bits.”
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833315