Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺Here’s a great article about features to look forward to in Go 1.26 (planned for February): https://antonz.org/go-1-26/
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On the off chance that you ever need to parse a `GameSettings.bin` file used by Battlefield: Bad Company 2, here's a basic parser for the binary format written in Go.
🔗 https://gist.github.com/cetteup/85b0c52a398b714a632ca60dfc350422
If you ever have a Cloudflare pages build fail because it's installing (unnecessary) tools from your .tool-versions file, here's my ugly workaround: https://cetteup.com/515/how-to-ignore-a-tool-versions-file-in-cloudflare-pages-deployments/
I finally spent some time updating my concurrent player tracker. Rather than building something custom, I'm just using a public Grafana dashboard.
Feel free to browse concurrent player numbers covering the past 4+ years (for most games): https://census.cetteup.com/d/demze1fgse2gwe/concurrent-players
Wladimir PalantGerman law is making security research a risky business.
Current news: A court found a developer guilty of “hacking.” His crime: he was tasked with looking into a software that produced way too many log messages. And he discovered that this software was making a MySQL connection to the vendor’s database server.
When he checked that MySQL connection, he realized that the database contained data belonging to not merely his client but all of the vendor’s customers. So he immediately informed the vendor – and while they fixed this vulnerability they also pressed charges.
There was apparently considerable discussion as to whether hardcoding database credentials in the application (visible as plain text, not even decompiling required) is sufficient protection to justify hacking charges. But the court ruling says: yes, there was a password, so there is a protection mechanism which was circumvented, and that’s hacking.
I very much hope that there will be a next instance ruling overturning this decision again. But it’s exactly as people feared: no matter how flawed the supposed “protection,” its mere existence turns security research into criminal hacking under the German law. This has a chilling effect on legitimate research, allowing companies to get away with inadequate security and in the end endangering users.
internetarchiveInternet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive
"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books."
-Chris Freeland, Director of Library Services
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/internet-archive-responds-to-appellate-opinion/
Molly WhiteThe Internet Archive lost its appeal in the Hachette case. What a huge, devastating loss for all of us.
This was a first: I just fixed a Go implementation of this `gslame` function by using int32 rather than int. Turns out the old C/C++ implementation relies on integer overflows. https://github.com/openspy/openspy-core/blob/5993df54c6b289361228920fa0db7209aed4cfe5/code/core/OS/gamespy/gamespy.cpp#L4
How about this for a Go developer job ad: "len(team) < cap(team)" 😎