Mark

https://mark.youngman.info

One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it

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2024-09-18 23:54:28

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Nostr isn't currently resilient to spam, I'd guess

2024-09-18 20:58:39

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Just spam, I believe. You can filter them out if your client has that ability. I use Amethyst and it was easy enough

2024-08-18 10:39:34

Glenn Greenwald teaches journalism 101 https://rumble.com/v5b2z25

2024-08-03 17:42:37

Undefined behaviour endgame: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20240803-clang.html

2024-08-02 22:14:09

New boss same as the old boss https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/02/starmer-live-facial-recognition-plan-would-usher-in-national-id-campaigners-warn

2024-07-31 09:42:10

Summary of how Bitcoin devs are thinking about the future
#nevent1q…rpy8

2024-07-31 07:55:39

Using git bisect to find when an issue was introduced: https://research.swtch.com/bisect

2024-07-25 17:33:18

I feel like Bubbles in the suburbs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQUR7Fts-w

2024-07-25 17:22:50

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What's going on over there is difficult to even imagine, let alone justify. And yet Western elites are unified on the issue. Not often you see the Bidens and the Trumps agree.
I struggle to understand what outcome or strategic goal they believe makes such carnage worthwhile. They must realise they will evoke intense karmic forces in response to this - in the cause-and-effect sense, not the spiritual-bollocks sense.
It's either complacency or something they deem crazily important.
https://x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1815348253212246440

2024-07-25 17:09:33

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Child_No_Surviving_Family

2024-07-23 21:49:18

https://www.shepherdly.io/post/code-reviews-are-not-effective-at-finding-bugs

2024-07-22 19:16:58

I learned a new word: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

2024-07-22 18:03:19

State of the British psyche update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lfq3auK808

2024-07-18 18:43:31

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I was hoping someone would come up with some clever cryptography that allows you to have a master, cold-storage key that generates child keys which are all used to post under one identity.
If you lose a child key, you sign a message with your master key to publicly revoke it somehow and generate a new child key.
No idea if this is feasible or not.

2024-07-17 16:39:44

More good programming advice: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY

2024-07-17 16:20:01

Good programming advice https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load

2024-07-16 15:50:04

It's not about delivering lines of code and commits. It's about delivering value

2024-07-15 21:11:17

Spent hours trying to get a self-signed cert working locally - then mkcert solved it in 5 mins https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

2024-07-12 07:22:32

"We have found while Rust mitigates kernel vulnerabilities, it is beyond Rust's capability to fully eliminate them; what is more, if not handled properly, its safety assurance even costs the developers dearly in terms of both runtime overhead and development efforts." https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hongyu

2024-07-11 02:13:24

https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

2024-07-09 06:31:12

Oops https://cyberpress.org/1-4-gb-nsa-data-leaked-online/

2024-07-08 05:56:55

https://concerningquality.com/state-explosion/

2024-07-07 00:51:21

Fun chart. Labour vote totals 2001-2024. Corbyn losing got more votes than Starmer winning https://image.nostr.build/ecc1b066c4cf758d88431e1dbaca23d93f6a5e4868e4280a1f152dfa35156eb5.jpg

2024-07-04 12:52:20

Generate audio from text - lots of voice options https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

2024-07-01 13:36:50

Netflix slides about company culture https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/culture-1798664/1798664

2024-06-26 22:05:55

https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

2024-06-17 12:06:22

"If there is an escape that escape will be used" Christine Lagarde

2024-06-15 10:21:59

Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the West's interest in Gaza is really all about:
"It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity [...] The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal"
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/ben-gurion-canal-suez-israel-9021520/

2024-06-14 08:53:32

Early internet news report: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X84muuaySVQ

2024-06-12 11:28:34

I wonder if anyone questioned the original dependency choice in this situation. Given the colossal effort they've had to make to switch to a different dependency - the switch itself and all the devs learning the new way - it seems to me that a different approach at the start could have potentially saved lots of time. https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feats-ai-powered-conversion-from-enzyme-to-react-testing-library-at-slack/

2024-06-10 22:21:02

Sounds about right:
https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst
While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it. “While I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple. I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex.”

2024-06-10 18:52:52

This guy seems good if you want to understand how LLMs work: https://m.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos

2024-06-06 06:11:52

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James

2024-05-31 23:23:48

Oops https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ppv06e3n8o

2024-05-30 15:28:15

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I'm not against it - on twitter I tended to follow people I actually know, and then put others in lists and essentially use them as a news source.

2024-05-30 12:14:51

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Basically I want to have groups of npubs I can look at without publicly following them.

2024-05-30 12:14:01

Is there any nostr client that does something similar to twitter's lists? Always surprised by how few people use twitter lists - only way to make twitter usable imo #asknostr

2024-05-30 12:09:56

Mainstream media in a nutshell: https://x.com/LukeGromen/status/1796150043042279775

2024-05-29 19:47:28

"To realize the spirit of Mu you must, without being sidetracked, travel along an iron rail stretching to infinity. One halt, much less many, will thwart enlightenment. The narrowest separation from Mu becomes a separation of miles. So take care, be vigilant! Don’t let go of Mu even for a moment while sitting, standing, walking, eating, or working.”

2024-05-28 20:04:28

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

2024-05-23 18:32:35

One underrated thing about vim modal editing is the magic of having the cursor bounce and then transforming characters in a few keystrokes. It's not even about efficiency. It's the innocent fun of a kid in a jungle gym. And it never seems to get old. It significantly increases the joy of coding for me

2024-05-22 14:19:19

Not sure if I want a new body or a new head. Tough choice. https://x.com/biogerontology/status/1792971189708566837

2024-05-15 08:00:01

First things first https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230725-00/?p=108482

2024-05-13 20:41:31

https://twitter.com/htmx_org/status/1790103192296198644

2024-05-11 19:34:41

https://www.monumentallabs.co/ourwork

2024-05-06 00:18:42

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Ok read the blog post - should have done that first...

2024-05-05 23:59:03

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Is it possible to create multiple accounts with the same utxo? If not, this seems like a great solution to spam

2024-04-29 20:16:48

AWS charges for unauthorised writes to S3: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

2024-04-28 06:59:26

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I think the more devs that accept the possibility of jail and continue anyway, the lower the chance gets.
Which begs each person to ask themselves a question: Is jail a price worth paying to defeat this injustice?

2024-04-27 19:28:24

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Already watched it, and felt optimistic myself. I think their bucket already has too many holes, and more are being created, at an ever increasing rate - it's too late to plug them all.
It's unfortunate the powers that be cannot see this - or maybe they do but they feel they have to try, that this is just the way it has to be.
It seems they intend to throw a tantrum. I imagine it'll be scary, some will have wealth confiscated, some will be jailed - all in their desperate attempt to swim against the current. And then they'll lose the financial powers they have anyway. Such a waste.

2024-04-25 20:02:21

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/arcanedoor-new-espionage-focused-campaign-found-targeting-perimeter-network-devices/

2024-04-24 10:44:04

Long article, but worth the read.
https://medium.com/@john_25313/c-isnt-a-hangover-rust-isn-t-a-hangover-cure-580c9b35b5ce
"But, the reputation that memory safety problems currently have of being plentiful and trivial for sophisticated attackers to find and exploit is wrong.
[...]
C programs generally have a small number of external dependencies, where often those dependencies are among the most used pieces of software out there [...] Most other languages are much better equipped to support programmers leveraging the work of other programmers. In some sense, that’s a good thing from a business perspective. But from a security perspective, more dependencies not only tends to increase our attack surface, but it leaves us more open to supply chain attacks.
[...]
I have personally always been far more concerned about minimizing dependencies than buffer overflows. There are straightforward approaches to minimizing memory safety problems [...] But digging into each and every dependency?
[...]
My intent here isn’t to argue for using C over Rust, it’s to show that decisions around language choice are far more complex than the sound bytes people fling around."

2024-04-18 21:54:03

Current mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3ZFu_i_oQ

2024-04-12 07:45:20

https://opsec101.org/

2024-04-09 07:38:10

Maybe disaster recover drills would be useful - prevent high-level disagreement in the moment and lead to a more polished response https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-bitcoin-fork-centralized-decision-making-saved-the-day/

2024-04-05 07:39:02

Old article about Autotools https://web.archive.org/web/20190120112032/https://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/

2024-04-04 07:36:44

http://www.underhanded-c.org/

2024-04-04 07:28:01

List of qualities of a great dev. I only skimmed it - it's too long. I bet it was written by a dev or team who over complicate problems. They've certainly done that with this pdf. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/03/Paul-Li-MSR-Tech-Report.pdf

2024-04-03 19:49:22

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/

2024-04-03 19:48:41

https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/

2024-04-03 16:32:21

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

2024-04-03 11:00:33

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Can't beat his Newsweek Why the web won't be nirvana article: https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306

2024-03-31 21:41:39

Starting to get pretty convinced that AI development isn't going to work https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

2024-03-30 21:58:50

https://letsconvene.im/

2024-03-30 07:33:26

xz-utils backdoor: https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27 and Ken Thompson lecture: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

2024-03-27 09:37:40

https://gofetch.fail/ - and a good explanation of how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhDbLV4Los

2024-03-24 22:38:01

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/opinion-the-unspoken-truth-about-managing-geeks.html

2024-03-24 20:55:28

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I remember when I was a kid looking out the window of a car, passing lines and lines of terrace houses and thinking "each of these has people living in them, each with their own life and problems."

2024-03-22 17:16:59

Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols is a masterclass in avoiding censorship. All he had to do to say the word he really wanted to say - and he does repeat it over and over - was torture the word "vacant".

2024-03-21 15:06:09

Yeah this got me - and inspired me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0yz_9upiY

2024-03-16 18:55:55

Understanding the EU's Cyber Resilience Act https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act

2024-03-14 21:32:22

"Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres and has to be climbed on foot to reach" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJCy64adY3Y

2024-03-13 21:22:53

https://image.nostr.build/d9475d8c6e1b72d7fff72022b4c4ce3472b5e47ae3f57ae6c05f8d7b85d11805.jpg

2024-03-10 10:17:43

Linux server problems: https://sadservers.com/

2024-03-02 15:42:46

https://twitter.com/testaccountoki/status/1763857564222009822

2024-03-02 11:00:23

https://www.srenity.online/

2024-02-29 22:29:17

If you enjoy chocolate, seems might be worth enjoying it while prices are still reasonable
https://image.nostr.build/b17c1be3571549349976f104a2b1cd5f541a1758c11f4a4e0b541db2d03d575f.jpg

2024-02-29 21:46:26

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Sounds I'm like the 100th person with this suggestion...

2024-02-29 19:30:44

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I'd consider bootstrapping wikifreedia with all wikipedia's content. Then you're in competition with them immediately, compared to building from the ground up which seems like a much longer and tougher proposition

2024-02-29 19:25:20

Doesn't feel like it's going to be long now before the world is hit with mass starvation - this decade I think: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-68427383

2024-02-27 23:46:44

Always been a sucker for a good speech: "Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." Poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s

2024-02-26 22:04:39

He's captured my exasperation with me shiny technology: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WN3CSOai_ZU

2024-02-25 18:35:14

What I try to do:
"The highest paid most skilled engineers are generally language ambiguous, meaning they can quickly learn to code in any language, are not strictly tied to conventions, meaning they will do what works, are able to code in simple ways, and are extremely pragmatic to reach goals
"It's the low end of engineers who overengineer, overcomplicate, are cultist about their tech stack, etc."
https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1761817375492497525

2024-02-21 23:59:19

http://eradman.com/entrproject/

2024-02-18 22:14:03

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I tried to look up the percentage of global trade that used dollars and failed

2024-02-18 22:06:15

https://www.myrmikan.com/pub/Myrmikan_Research_2024_02_15.pdf The fall of the US dollar?

2024-02-15 17:15:21

More Apple scumbaggery https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/

2024-02-10 18:21:27

Some soviet-era animation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Rx3tYL7tw
https://animatsiya.net/film.php?filmid=983

2024-02-10 18:11:09

https://twitter.com/FlohOfWoe/status/1756311209471627653

2024-02-04 15:24:56

My favourite short story, I bought a little city by Donald Barthelme https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzXj-PL6Ms

2024-02-04 10:57:06

Interesting talk on human behaviour / advertising https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCG-Jo51d4

2024-02-01 22:16:48

US elite 1% opinions vs pleb opinions: https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf

2024-01-29 12:48:56

Easy to forget as a programmer that we're here to solve problems - that's it. If Costco's solution works, there is no need to waste money modernising it https://twitter.com/scottew/status/1751357591375208689

2024-01-26 08:54:49

Aligns with me on how complexity gets into codebases: https://twitter.com/transmutrix/status/1750563200708309466

2023-12-31 08:31:30

Just discovered https://search.marginalia.nu/ Looks like the kind of search I'd want

2023-12-31 08:26:06

4 billion if statements https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

2023-12-08 00:07:52

Trains with built in obsolescence: https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/

2023-12-06 08:18:22

A taste of what's to come https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/1838394/financial-contagion-hsbc-china-hong-kong

2023-11-29 20:09:41

“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY

2023-11-23 16:31:24

Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural