Ankit Pati

@ankitpati
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Ankit PatiOct 2
Picard TipsSep 30
Picard diversity tip: The fact that a crewmember looks alien to you does not make them any less of a Starfleet officer.
Ankit PatiSep 7, 2025
Show threadabadideaSep 7, 2025
@ankitpati “reboggles” is a word that I made up to describe the concept independent of platform. after all, if you want to be that pedantic, not all my followers are on mastodon! 😂
Ankit PatiSep 7, 2025
Show threadabadideaSep 4, 2025
okay, y’all passed, it’s been three hours and a hundred reboggles, and no-one has earned a one-way trip to the center of the sun by ever-so-helpfully informing me why the .gitignore isn’t actually literally 48 years old. gold star for mastodon 🌟
Ankit PatiAug 30, 2025
Show threadabadideaAug 28, 2025
@_yossi_ probably what's going to happen is they're going to tell us to start with an internet connection and then disable it when the installation is finished. Which is a complication for us, because the offline machines we have specifically reserved for such offline requirements have been rendered physically and emotionally unable to connect to the internet
Ankit PatiAug 30, 2025
Show threadalberta is a hoaxAug 28, 2025
@0xabad1dea in the immortal words of Elvis Costello, "Oh, I used to be disgusted, and now I try to be amused."
Ankit PatiJul 23, 2025
samimJul 22, 2025

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

Ankit PatiJul 14, 2025
Show threadOldmeanroyJul 11, 2025
@georgetakei Think about how ignorant the average person is and reflect on the fact that 50% are less informed.
Ankit PatiApr 11, 2025
Show threadManfredApr 10, 2025
@whitequark Debugging isn't debugging before the "still can't explain the error within this set of axioms, so let's doubt those assumptions too" spiral reaches "Is it me? Am I even real? Who really is perceiving this error? Does my brain have a JTAG port?" levels of unhinged paranoia. The rest is just sparkling spellchecking.
Ankit PatiFeb 21, 2025
Show thread⬡-49016 (moved to catgirl.cloud!)Feb 20, 2025

@bagder

Version: latest version from git

ah yes. what a great version specifier

Ankit PatiFeb 21, 2025
daniel:// stenberg://Feb 20, 2025

For educational purposes we disclose this recent hackerone report on #curl claiming its sprintf() implementation is bad because it can be made to deref a bad pointer when you use it incorrectly. You know, exactly how all sprintf() implementation work - by design.

This is not the first time we had this "flaw" reported. (I did not check the "AI slop" checkbox on this one)

https://hackerone.com/reports/2990139

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Format string vulnerability,...

## Summary: A vulnerability has been identified in the curl library’s formatted output functions (specifically in curl_msnprintf and its related functions). When a malicious (attacker-controlled) format string containing the %hn conversion specifier is passed, the function incorrectly attempts to write the number of characters printed into a pointer that is not provided by the caller. This...

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