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Wikipedian, character encoding nerd, engineering graduate, software programmer ; genderqueer 🜬, not that much of a "trap", but proud of it
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Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

The Cloudflare Blog
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@0xabad1dea Jacob Marley and the Wailers… wait.

I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.

Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time.

The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword???

The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back.

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'Tin pest' makes more sense to me. Tin just doesn't want to be locked down in a shape like that. I get it. But why would any metal want to grow hair??
https://xkcd.com/3115/
anyway TL;DR fuck AI but also fuck people who detract from the real problems by exhausting everyone with misinformation and fake scares
I am absolutely devastated to hear that Asian scripts expert Andrew West has passed. I have a long-term project on the back burner that I intended to present to him one day after he kindly sent me the data I needed to do it. https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2025-July/011467.html
Andrew C. West 魏安 1960–2025