I swear if I see another "principal engineer" post a screenshot of resource monitor, whining about the "good old days" without even doing a 3-second exploration into what the numbers they posted mean or why they are that way, I'm going to become a supervillain
I’m told that many Germans are stockpiling cheese and sausages in anticipation of a COVID lockdown — planning, in other words, for a Wurst-Käse scenario.
crack theory / troll logic: what if a nontrivial number of "C evangelists" are actually government agents trying to actively sabotage the computer science industry so they have more easy access to vulns
the syslog() function in glibc has a buffer overflow that lets attackers get root. it's had it SINCE FUCKING 1993.
FOR MY ENTIRE TIME ON THIS PLANET.
When will enough be fucking enough and we ban the writing of new programs in C from an industry standards level?
ALERT: liblzma and xz version version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 have backdoors installed into their code. Downgrade below 5.6.0 or upgrade to 5.6.2 when it is released. More to come when I learn more.
Ideally, I'd like to see libc get ported to another more sane programming language, but that take would get me pilloried by neckbeards that insist that C is possible to write safely.
At least I don't have to be pager bitch for THIS time when the entire internet broke due to C.
Fun fact: if you ever need to extract assets from a slide deck template you can change the `.pptx` extension to `.zip` and unzip it. Then you can get at all the meaty goodness inside.
PPTX, DOCX and XLSX files are sparkly zip files.
Computer scientists believe in numerology. Don’t believe me? Witness some numbers and see if they register as suspect to you:
- 2147483647
- 47455420
- 0.30000000000000004
- 2
- 260
- 4096
- 14
- 9