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Is/was "solid rot" slang for something somewhere?
In my head it was just part of solid and rotation which was exactly that the code did and all I ever thought of, but once the other person pointed it out it was like "oh, right".
Can anyone comment on the mindset of someone who creates a Blogspot for a single article? Is it anything beyond "I want to post this anonymously and have it hosted for free indefinitely"? It feels like an odd solution, but I also can't think of a better one.
The author found "ether-rot-mutex" amusing enough to start the blog and name it after the thing. They anticipated more posts in the future, but they didn't happen.
I wonder what happens if you name your mutex ether-rot-mutex.
This brought me back to college and me learning about steganography. I wonder how many images are floating around with secret messages in them! Also reminds me of people who immortalized themselves by putting their initials or a favorite phrase in the header of a file format that got popular (like Mike did at Microsoft for .exe's; every exe header starts with MZ, which is really friggin cool) Or the "Don't Steal MacO…
https://www.ironicsans.com/2006/09/interview_seetharaman_nar...
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Meta is to Facebook what Alphabet is to Google. I don't think we have to worry.
Agree. Though, in my outsider perception Alphabet == Google + a bunch of failed stuff + self driving cars. Whereas Meta == Facebook + an absurd $$$$$ attempt to convince the public wearing headsets is revolutionary + forget about that whole destroying society thing. At least the self driving cars might have positive net impact. ;-)
Now, comments don’t end up inside compiled files right? This has to be a string, not a comment??
What am I missing?
I’m utterly confused. The author argued he found that "comment" in a binary file. I assume it’s an executable compiled file of some sort. Now, comments don’t end up inside compiled files right? This has to be a string, not a comment?? What am I missing?
This brought me back to college and me learning about steganography. I wonder how many images are floating around with secret messages in them! Also reminds me of people who immortalized themselves by putting their initials or a favorite phrase in the header of a file format that got popular (like Mike did at Microsoft for .exe's; every exe header starts with MZ, which is really friggin cool) Or the "Don't Steal MacO…
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I'm curious if they explicitly excluded their blog from Google search results, they don't seem to have the highest opinion of Google from various posts.
Doesn't look like it. I see 3 pages from the blog when I search site:frankiesjoint.blogspot.com . None of them are the post about ether-rot-mutex .
This brought me back to college and me learning about steganography. I wonder how many images are floating around with secret messages in them! Also reminds me of people who immortalized themselves by putting their initials or a favorite phrase in the header of a file format that got popular (like Mike did at Microsoft for .exe's; every exe header starts with MZ, which is really friggin cool) Or the "Don't Steal MacO…
On a tangent re: immortality: reminds me of the names you'd see in splash screens of various products. After one too many years of seeing “Seetharaman Narayanan” in the Photoshop splash screen, I just had to look him up. https://www.ironicsans.com/2006/09/interview_seetharaman_nar...