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Noticed some nasty spam in my inbox this morning, had some trouble getting in to codeberg's site initially, now see the above message.

would cold-restarting sshd every hour also make this unlikely / harder to exploit?

This post is another example of why I like zig so much. It seems to get people talking about performance in a way which helps them learn how things work below today’s heavily abstracted veneer

I miss Openboot firmware that was on SunOS servers and workstations. It was IIRC mostly written in FORTH and we could write forth snippets at the serial console to make mods / query the pre boot environment. I also found the SGI boot firmware similarly functional. Both allowed changing boot settings and allowed to boot from network without any trouble at all. Graphical BIOS that came with the x86 systems was such a downgrade for us especially since you could not interact over serial/remotely with a simple terminal connection. IMHO

With respect to end of sentence spaces. I'm an "old" and learned on typewriters and type two spaces is etched into my muscle memory and my brain. It wasn't until 2016 that while working collaboratively on a large google doc (which was occasionally brought into Word by others) that I was made aware that two spaces were no longer the norm.

It was like an editing PVP game where these would be fixed in near real-time by others in the document we were working on :-)

Yes the web text today removes these today but I still prefer reading text in the old RFC document style where it's not only fixed width fonts, but also right and left column justified. In emacs this can be done by selecting a region and doing a C-u ESC q

:-)

I liked programming the m68k cpus. They were also the CPU used in my computer science department curricula for assembly language programming classes.

At school we had lots of Sun{2,3,4}, Apollo, HP, Mac, and NeXT computers which we could practice on. Kinda saw the writing on the wall when we got a 6 CPU i386 sequent symmetry system and then SPARC, MIPS RISC, and PowerPC while nothing really from Motorola. I never enjoyed programming x86 cpus after being self taught on 6502 and then m68k systems :-)

I still have an ATARI Mega ST and a Sun 2 at home for sentimental reasons only.

I’ve used emacs to open and edit binaries back in the old days - basically one long line. We often needed to install proprietary software in non standard locations so changing the embedded strings within binaries worked great and better than using vi (pre vim era). Always best if the new path had a length less than that of the existing one.

In any event I guess the whining about editors will never stop but meanwhile they seem to be GoodEnough(tm) for me and most things.

Emacs used to be mocked for being bigger than the OS but now I think most editors are much larger. I used to work at a University lab helpdesk of sorts where first time users of UNIX systems would ask us for help getting started entering their first CSCI programs on a Sun or other UNIX-like os and my unscientific but high n observation is that vi, emacs, ed or cat all worked and occasionally people would find a way to get confused equally on any method when starting out. Level of education didn’t seem to make a difference.

Editor ergonomics seem to be very personal, like furniture so I’m glad we have so many options.

On another side note I am glad that most text input fields across many operating systems and applications usually do the right thing with Emacs cursor control sequences e.g. CTRL-a, CTRL-n, CTRL-p, CTRL-e. So hopefully that legacy lives on

This scene in the book is maybe one of the earliest examples of fuzzing being used n fiction :-) ?

I use my cluster of rpis to run light compute jobs so I prefer to run everything in RAM using alpine Linux. I don’t need to have sdcard or nvme adding extra cost. NFS for persistence and cheap independent wall warts plugged into a couple power strips. However I guess if you need the IOPS maybe the nvme is called for and worth the extra cost.

I still read/triage my email with a text only client in a terminal. Much faster for me to consume when the font, spacing and layout is consistent. The bonus is that it also avoids sending good and bad telemetry back to other parties.

Yes. All 9 of my rpi4 systems run the aarch64 image. I some issues with 3.11.0 but 3.11.3 should work pretty well now.

I am guilty of favoriting both go and rust for production deployments for the simplicity (usually a single binary, not a million files of some framework’s and dependencies files). Also it’s my hope that the modern libraries and language safety features and smaller size might be helpful in efficiency and security.