Mastodawn

Ran into this little guy on the way home. It scuttled over to block my path, stared at me for a moment, then pounced a tiny worm. Then just sat there and let me take photos of it really close.

Chris 8h ago

We're released Netty 4.2.11 and 4.1.132. These contain many bug fixes, and fixes for two CVEs both rated *high*:

- CVE-2026-33871: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frame flood Denial of Service.
- CVE-2026-33870: HTTP/1.1 Request Smuggling vulnerability in chunked encoding parsing.

Release notes for 4.2.11: https://netty.io/news/2026/03/24/4-2-11-Final.html
Release notes for 4.1.132: https://netty.io/news/2026/03/24/4-1-132-Final.html

Also of note: We had 17 people contribute to Netty 4.2.11, of which 5 are new first time contributors 😲

#netty #java

Netty.news: Netty 4.2.11.Final released

Chris 10h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@chrisvest/116048545609216183

kind of exhausting to be getting these several times a week

Chris 12h ago

There are a few makers of wifi routers that are based in the US, but regarding the actual manufacturing of the consumer-grade wifi routers themselves… I haven't been able to find a single one that's actually made in the US. There are many lists of claimed-to-be-made-in-the-US routers, but they have all been lies upon closer inspection.

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Chris 14h ago

@joe are we sure it counts? He looks AI generated already

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Chris 18h ago

@AkaSci most likely a lot of Chestertons fences labeled “safety” and “reliability”

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Chris 18h ago

@fasterthanlime I notice you didn’t say a _good_ register allocator

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Chris 18h ago

@whitequark opportunities not taken are sacrifices on the altar of waste.

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Chris 18h ago

@tagir_valeev on the user side, is there a good way to figure out which plugins causes UI freezes one might be seeing?

Chris 19h ago

Pretty inconvenient to have a bank that only offers phone support from 1am to 6am my time

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