Trailblazing Braille Taser

Personally, my goal is to challenge people to think critically about billionaires. Taylor Swift is a great example precisely because fans have put her on a pedestal where she can do no wrong. If the goal is to gather an angry mob, then sure, it’s more effective to focus on Bezos, the guy they already dislike.

If she was a good billionaire, she wouldn’t have hoarded wealth to this degree! Yes, Bezos is 200x worse, but I would bet (less than $1B) that she will catch up in the next decade and we’ll all still be apologizing for her.

Except everyone writing C is writing sloppy C. It’s like driving a car, there’s always a non-zero chance of an accident.

Even worse, in C the compiler is just waiting for you to trip up so it can do something weird. Think the risk of UB is overblown? I found this article from Raymond Chen enlightening: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633

“Never stop sucking.”

-James Dyson

Yeah, there really should be some expectation of stewardship in exchange for absurd post-Disney copyright durations.

Actually I would like to read that. Might be worth the risk?

You’re coming dangerously close to setting Rufus free. I have a feeling you’re about to be visited by a time traveler with a dire warning if you keep trying this.

💡If we simply make it illegal to… not have children? No, that’s not right. Not want to have children? No, impossible to enforce. Ah, it must be illegal to profess the lack of desire to have children. What a beautiful and simple law that will certainly address the root cause of falling birth rates.

What does “maintain a lower profile” mean specifically? I think the point of a private tracker is that you don’t need to enable DHT, which effectively broadcasts to the internet that your IP address is trying to download content identified by a specific hash.

Isn’t that the whole point of a private tracker?

I’m honestly not sure what you’re saying. Countries like the US with poor public transit infrastructure think alcoholism is serious solely because of people who drink and drive?

I was thinking mowing at night is the worst time because the morning dew would promote mold growth while the blades of grass are most damaged. But I’m just making shit up.

For practical purposes, it’s probably good enough. You could write a program to check whether it’s non-repeating up to N digits, so just set N high enough that it will last you for a few thousand releases…

I think the real Robinhood is rolling in his grave. And his merry men as well, they’re all spinning in their collective, fictional graves.

I have a similar story. I started a new job and inherited a ball of mud written in Python while the creator was out for a few weeks. When he got back, he was grumpy about my changes. I guess he preferred it with more bugs 🤷‍♂️

Aha, I didn’t realize compromising availability was sufficient for the CVE definition of security vulnerability. Projects I’ve worked on have typically excluded availability, though that may not be the norm.

And I see your point about some exploits being highly asymmetric in the attacker’s favor, compared to classic [D]DoS.

The chances of the coin flip yielding heads are roughly 50%, if coins don’t not exist.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but DoS is exactly the same thing as “denial of service”.

My point is that memory leaks can only degrade availability; they are categorically distinct from security vulnerabilities.

I had to look it up to check my memory. Yup! https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2015/06/05/how-gitlab-uses-unicorn-and-unicorn-worker-killer/

I don’t think memory leaks could ever amount to a security vulnerability, but it just feels yucky. I guess I shouldn’t cast stones, I write C++ at work.

Git kinda has it? Have you seen git notes? https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes