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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 abstr…

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 / quer…

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 wo…

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…

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 …

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 persisten…

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 …

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). …