Longtime FreeBSD user
I toot a lot of HN stuff cuz I used to work on it.
I'm here for the toots and glorks.
Into:
#grindcore
#deathmetal
#metal
#blackmetal
#gabber
#hardstyle
#baroqueclassical
#goth
#hardcore
RIP Mabo.
I'm gonna miss you.
Shit I miss you already.
ouch.
Guess I'm glad I don't use anything associated with this but JFC
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
little story for tonight.
while i was goofing around with #globalTalk, I ended up searching for some old Simpsons icons for my classic Macintosh (an LC 475), and stumbled upon an entry on the garden called Banned Simpsons Icons. (Who could resist downloading something with a title like that?)
They were called the "Banned Simpsons Icons" because Fox once sent the artist - Jeanette Foshee - a cease & desist letter for her uncannily perfect renderings of the copyrighted characters. they planned on suing her for every penny she made ($0.00) on them. this was back in 1995.
i thought - hell, what a wild story. why don't I get a hold of the artist - jeanette - and find out more about her banned icon set?
what i stumbled upon broke my heart, and i ended up spending a week digitally preserving what i could find.
read the rest of this diary entry here: https://www.dialup.cafe/~vga256/diary.htm
"Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling".
A bot? An AI? Just a silly reporter? Another fine waste of #curl maintainer time.
## Summary: Hello security team, Hope you are doing well :) I would like to report a potential security vulnerability in the WebSocket handling code of the curl library. The issue is related to the usage of the `strcpy` function, which can lead to a buffer overflow if the length of the input is not properly checked. The vulnerable code snippet is located at [this...
I finally did it!!!
a complete FPGA toolchain (synthesis, placement, routing, and programming) running entirely in the browser
vga256
daniel:// stenberg://
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