Howard Chu @ Symas

CTO Symas Corp., Chief Architect OpenLDAP Project, Musician

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2024-11-07 05:23:40

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@npub1nr9…ad73 it's driven by actual supply/demand as a currency, not by speculators

2024-11-06 23:32:28

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 don't forget your pepper spray
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2024-10-30 05:34:11

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@npub1jc6…fvz5 how tech companies should handle user data: companies should not collect user data.

2024-10-30 05:25:53

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@npub17lg…9uux isn't that just a roundabout way of saying Google isn't developing anything novel any more? LLMs are only regurgitating what they've been fed.

2024-10-30 05:16:24

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@npub1l4e…vqs5 there's even an app that can read your cat's facial expressions https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.universitedemontreal.felinegrimacescale&hl=en-US

2024-10-29 21:51:14

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@npub18jh…phdn reminds me of Maze Runner https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1790864/

2024-10-27 17:47:49

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@npub1tfy…7es7 that pattern needs its symmetry fine-tuned so it can fully interlock (like an Escher interlocking tile design) so you don't have to reroll excess cookie dough over and over

2024-10-27 17:08:19

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@npub13j3…fq0x that's the key to the very first Star Trek novel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spock_Must_Die!

2024-10-26 02:32:41

Y'know, when I was learning my way around Unix system programming, I was told "the source code is the documentation" and that worked for me. When I wanted to find out if there was a C library function to do what I wanted, or how it worked, I read the C library source code. When I didn't like how the library worked I changed it and recompiled it.

2024-10-26 01:45:57

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@npub1pc2…eqwt so Intel gave up on them too soon?

2024-10-25 06:09:56

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@npub14k8…xgac the Borg battle seems to have gotten far more elaborate too. Tholian webs, whale space probe, Apollo's hand, too much stuff to identify it all

2024-10-25 06:05:51

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@npub1kyg…cvp9 I wanted to write an LDAP driver for it. Too much trouble...

2024-10-24 03:37:17

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@npub1dt0…7205 just get one of everything and worry about it later. Worksforme for both donut shops and dim sum.

2024-10-22 20:55:58

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@npub1w30…dh68 and yet they're still polling at 50%...

2024-10-22 20:24:13

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@npub1gwh…v0k6 @npub1p6v…x7qg a cat wrote the documentation

2024-10-18 19:01:01

The percentage of developments from SillyCon Valley that were ever actually worthwhile is vanishingly small. Especially in software. https://mastodon.social/@parismarx@mastodon.online/113328904050064175

2024-10-18 17:51:02

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Speaking of encrypting data at rest, I just finished up integrating #LMDB's encryption support into #OpenLDAP slapd. https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/merge_requests/721
Using libsodium's chacha20poly1305 cipher, writes are about 20% slower than without encryption. Reads are a bit slower still. OpenSSL's chacha20poly1305 is a bit faster than libsodium's, though I only measured these in single-threaded workloads. Not sure if OpenSSL's internal locking affects multithreaded workloads here.

2024-10-16 04:40:27

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@npub1rv4…ft5j Encryption at rest is always that way though, whatever software is accessing the data always has to have the encryption key(s) available.

2024-10-14 19:16:45

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@npub15h9…udm0 careful, if you call people out for using AI they're going to accuse you of being toxic.

2024-10-07 21:52:47

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In the "we told you so" department https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113268331805903567

2024-10-05 23:20:51

Remember. https://mastodon.social/@hyc/110935452036317050

2024-10-05 20:18:07

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By the way, the US doesn't just send $$ to Ukraine. The majority of that US aid to Ukraine consists of weapons/military hardware. The funds allocated to Ukrainian aid are actually spent in the US, supporting US jobs in the military industrial complex and boosting local economies all around the country.
https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-us-aid-going-ukraine

2024-10-05 20:17:19

Saw this pic on FB. Funny it doesn't mention that Republicans just voted to cut FEMA's funding.
1 https://mastodon.social/@stevej@mstdn.social/113256072383291759
2 https://mastodon.social/@KinoGhoul@toot.community/113256064385933833
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2024-10-04 07:21:07

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@npub1rrq…p5au lol

2024-09-29 23:13:27

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@npub1mmf…eknq sure, but climate change isn't real, so what would they have spent the money on in Appalachia?

2024-09-28 18:56:58

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@npub1wnv…899h Ah yes, typical "facebook engineering" ...

2024-09-26 18:46:41

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@npub1c6l…p5wz ah the infamous thagomizer https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/07/thagomizer-why-stegosaurus-spiky-tail.html?m=1

2024-09-20 23:17:45

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@npub1ekx…puy8 and he's the runt!

2024-09-20 22:52:59

Hudson on his favorite perch #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-09-20 17:23:28

Pro tip: if you get offended because people reply to your social media posts, you're the problem, not them.
This is a medium for 2-way conversation. If you're only using it for 1-way broadcasting, you're probably too full of yourself to have anything to say that's worth hearing.

2024-09-18 23:53:08

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@npub1pdv…gqz2 it gave us Capt Pike. And Michelle Yeoh.
So, some interesting characters. That's about it.

2024-09-18 15:46:56

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@npub1tvk…egdw at first it looked to me like a metal detector, and perhaps its user left it in disgust after only finding that metal frame. But looking closer I see it's not. Oh well.

2024-09-17 19:24:26

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@npub1alm…57vz for $150M you could just make it free. For everyone.

2024-09-16 23:39:17

From a freshly opened pack these cookies are hard and dry as a brick. I have a theory that they're made that way because the air is so humid in these isles that within hours of exposure the cookies soften up and actually get a bit chewy.
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2024-09-16 18:39:28

I guess DMARC works. I'm now getting daily reports from various mailers that have rejected spurious emails using my personal domain.

2024-09-15 11:56:00

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@npub1a56…jgz2 because I don't want to use a public CA. But sure, I could write a script to renew my own certs automatically.

2024-09-15 04:07:55

Ah, today marked 10 years since I last configured TLS certificates for my personal email server. Meaning, my old certs expired and Seamonkey refused to download my email again.
And the old script I used to generate the certs in OpenSSL didn't quite work exactly as it used to with the current OpenSSL. So annoying. And even after fixing it up, 10 years from now I'll have to figure this out again I suppose.

2024-09-11 17:46:28

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and yes, I would otherwise have gotten up but no, I didn't move until Hudson woke up himself.

2024-09-11 17:28:24

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@npub1cat…9z7c good luck with it on Experian. I've been trying to register online or phone for days.
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2024-09-11 07:14:34

Good morning #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-09-10 18:12:17

Quick reminder - any docs you've found for #OpenLDAP online anywhere besides openldap.org were probably written by people who have no idea what they're talking about.
Stop using web search to find information that's already included in the official docs bundled with the release and already installed on your local machine. Especially with AIs producing garbage answers these days, you're just wasting your time.
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10256#c3

2024-09-10 15:29:51

Ah, happy to see one of my KODI enhancement requests has been merged https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/23103

2024-09-08 20:00:27

if you fry dumplings in a non-stick pan are they technically still pot-stickers?

2024-09-06 15:13:17

Where is Simon sleeping - the comfy blanket? No. The fluffy cushion? No. The sunny cat tree? No... #CatsOfMastodon
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2024-08-27 18:18:58

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@npub14cw…hfwc or never, in this case. https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/23616

2024-08-27 18:14:00

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@npub14cw…hfwc Exactly. Fixing it on their side would be a couple line change. They refuse.

2024-08-27 18:02:13

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@npub14cw…hfwc essentially, the OpenSSL guys want the behavior that a 2nd OpenSSL_cleanup() call should always crash. Frankly it goes against normal C programming practice, such as free(NULL) being a no-op.

2024-08-27 17:50:05

"OpenLDAP should leak the SSL ctx" https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10255
[OpenLDAP should leak this memory instead of freeing it...]
some days you just can't win.

2024-08-25 19:32:21

"We and our 1444 marketing partners respect your privacy..."

2024-08-18 22:03:05

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@npub15cz…5fvs yet another reason why true experts prefer trackballs.

2024-08-18 21:59:51

I designed my personal website to load in 1 second on 38.4kbps dialup internet. I spent a lot of my life getting work done with my laptop tethered to a StarTac phone on 14.4kbps CDMA. Modern web developers have no clue what real world internet connectivity is like for the majority of users. https://mastodon.social/@simon@simonwillison.net/112984044070256201

2024-08-18 21:45:06

Go home facebook, you're drunk.
"53 comments. Be the first to comment."
Yet another reason you should never use a database "designed" by facebook "engineers"...
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2024-08-10 05:55:23

OH: Unlike most software, bugs don't just sneak into his code - they charge in, with a bellowing battle cry and a full marching band.

2024-08-09 01:34:58

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@npub1rrt…xj48 depends on the brand, I think. I've got a couple different ones, one that behaved like you said, and one that so far has been discharging gracefully.

2024-08-08 19:05:46

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@npub16r0…z5pl The kicker now is that after this year's halving, the price has not doubled, so mining companies are going broke and will have to decrease or halt operations. No matter what happens, the network only gets weaker from here on.

2024-08-08 19:03:37

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@npub16r0…z5pl If the price *does* double, that's only enough to keep the currently running miners operating. But the network is then twice as valuable as before, making it more worthwhile to attack it, meanwhile the amount of hashrate protecting the network has only held steady.

2024-08-08 18:38:47

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@npub16r0…z5pl I could link it, but you can't see it anyway since Twitter banned my account.

2024-08-08 18:27:11

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@npub16r0…z5pl Re-read my May 15 2022 post, screenshotted above. NgU doesn't fix the problem, it can't.

2024-08-08 17:37:16

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@npub1n2s…hkx2 Is there a formal term for that? It just sounds like "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

2024-08-08 17:06:35

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@npub12ks…kf3h at that point, the Enterprise D had been out of service for years, and probably didn't have up to date personnel files.

2024-08-08 16:17:44

Bitcoin is for people who failed at math...
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2024-08-08 15:43:07

Just donated to Malala Fund again today https://assembly.malala.org/stories/the-day-harrow-high-school-students-answered-malalas-call-to-action

2024-08-06 13:03:46

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@npub155y…uvx4 never used it, but spent years using its key sequences in Turbo Pascal

2024-08-05 20:12:31

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@npub13jd…uun7 I bet you'll dislike this https://cl.gy/XWop

2024-08-05 19:12:14

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@npub1pc2…eqwt it's about time. "Security flaws" used to just be called "bugs". Preventing them should just be part of their normal job responsibilities.

2024-08-05 16:30:30

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@npub186s…54uq I reference Apollo's single-level store as my direct inspiration for #LMDB https://openldap.org/pub/

2024-08-05 16:14:21

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@npub1ckj…7633 how do they know they haven't hit any CPU bugs and that all the digits are correct?

2024-08-04 20:35:41

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@npub14ux…jx88 talk about razor sharp focus, eyes on the prize...

2024-08-04 20:02:01

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@npub1cy3…j872
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2024-08-04 19:59:22

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@npub1cy3…j872
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2024-08-04 17:58:22

Not all software is built iteratively on top of what already exists. E.g. #LMDB reuses a few pieces of existing code but mostly it's from the ground up freshly written and is clearly better than everything that existed before. https://mastodon.social/@eob@social.coop/112470103965115025

2024-08-04 15:54:48

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@npub1e2m…kzm2 hey, do you have a model name/number of that cat tree? Mine may be due for an upgrade...

2024-08-04 03:19:00

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@npub1t5c…zuy7 looks purrfect

2024-08-03 22:22:24

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@npub1n9u…rzgl there will always be conflict one way or another ;) https://mastodon.social/@OutOnTheMoors@beige.party/112881805753616269

2024-08-03 22:08:06

Loving all the memes spawned from this
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2024-08-03 17:02:38

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@npub1u2k…wwy8 this looks like a useful gadget for your purpose https://iotawatt.com/
Logs, dashboards, whatever...

2024-08-03 16:32:27

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@npub1k69…6sjx heh, it's coming up on 30 years since I wrote any 56k code for a Falcon. I wonder if mine even still power on.

2024-08-02 22:31:15

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@npub1kys…gtlf Finite but for most practical purposes, the number of possible states is inexhaustible.

2024-08-02 22:01:21

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@npub1ftd…4cve acting as customer support will drive any sentient being to murderous rampage, yes.

2024-08-02 19:49:32

Funny thing about "embarrassingly outdated appeal to binaristic gender norms" - every person alive today, and who has ever lived, had 1 male and 1 female parent. That's the norm, yes.

2024-08-02 03:19:26

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 re-read what I wrote.

2024-08-02 03:18:42

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 cmake is ridiculously opaque when things go wrong, but this is pretty basic Unix / ld behavior and not cmake's fault.

2024-08-02 03:16:28

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@npub1ua7…rrg3 if you only have file libXX.so.0 then you don't have the -dev package installed. The linker only recognizes .o, .a, and .so suffixes. You need to symlink libSDL2-2.0.so.0 to libSDL2-2.0.so for ld to see it.

2024-08-01 20:02:22

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@npub1ae8…zhu5 yes, but don't expect the different seasons to be coherent. They each do cosmic-scale upheavals that are completely ignored in the following season. But it's great to see the characters back in action.

2024-08-01 17:47:38

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@npub1e6t…jj6r huh, never came across these in my ST hacking days. Cool stuff.

2024-08-01 00:01:38

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@npub13le…6saf reminds me of my Atari 1020 color plotter. Was it the same under the skin?

2024-07-31 21:30:59

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@npub1rml…xa6t
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2024-07-31 20:53:12

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@npub1rml…xa6t you can barely see the face, shouldn't be too hard in gimp

2024-07-31 17:50:02

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@npub1su4…a0dw Funny that this is "Intel's response" when they spent so many years leading and defining the market.

2024-07-31 14:52:26

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@npub1fnl…d00k #OpenLDAP only accepts contributions from original authors, not resubmissions from 3rd parties. As such, AI contributions are ineligible. https://openldap.org/devel/contributing.html

2024-07-31 09:07:06

This is why my policy has always been: never just answer a question, always give a pointer to the answer.
1) it saves repeatedly writing the same answers over and over
2) the asker is more likely to remember the answer and actually learn
https://mastodon.social/@rayckeith@techhub.social/112877800926170787

2024-07-31 08:52:15

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@npub1dt0…7205 need a good inflatable mattress. That'll block condensation from the ground soaking your sleeping bag too.

2024-07-31 03:16:30

I guess Facebook/Meta is hiring programmers without Unix experience these days.
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10245

2024-07-31 02:44:48

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@npub1f05…grer lemme dig up my Jaguar64 devkit...

2024-07-30 22:51:52

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@npub132h…f594 hmmmm. Mixed feelings on this one, being from California, and knowing too much about Avalanche blockchain...

2024-07-30 20:25:34

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@npub1f6g…mr6z good. Now they just have to follow the money...

2024-07-30 03:11:52

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@npub19u5…3n6l rust implementors are unserious

2024-07-29 22:15:48

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@npub1vuj…mr6e ah yes, everyone I knew ditched Atari DOS and switched to Sparta DOS as fast as they could. For me esp because it would take advantage of the US Doubler I installed in my 1050 floppy drive.

2024-07-29 22:06:36

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@npub1llr…vvmp looks cheep

2024-07-29 19:33:10

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@npub1dxd…fzm9 tying it all back together
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