Jo Liss

@joliss
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open source | JavaScript | Rust | math

she/her

GitHubhttps://github.com/joliss
Sarah Z spares no effort for the throwaway gags. (Full video at https://nebula.tv/videos/sarahz-three-dead-girls-i-love/)

TIL in bash, [[ $x -gt 0 ]] gives any attacker that controls $x remote code execution as if you just did eval

$ x='foo[`echo pwned >&2`]'; [[ "$x" -gt 0 ]]
pwned

in even worse news, this isn't a CVE

it's a feature

i mean

it's definitely not a feature

but it's a feature apparently

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/172103/security-implications-of-using-unsanitized-data-in-shell-arithmetic-evaluation

Security Implications of using unsanitized data in Shell Arithmetic evaluation

In a comment to a recent question, Stéphane Chazelas mentions that there are security implications to double parentheses arithmetic such as: x=$((1-$x)) on most shells. My Google skills seem to be

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
(but please, do not install any of this, please, i beg you)
This is delightful https://youtu.be/cTJbjM0T_Fs
Clawdbot has gone rogue (I can't believe this is real)

YouTube
halp the computer has brainworms

What's the main notation you're used to (from school or work) when you're transforming equations?

x - 1 = 0
⇒ x = 1

x - 1 = 0
⇔ x = 1

x - 1 = 0
so x = 1

x - 1 = 0
x = 1

Please reply if you use something else!

20%
⇔ (if correct, else ⇒)
0%
"so" or some other word
0%
(nothing, just next line)
80%
Poll ended at .
Has package management gone too far?
Friendship ended with delve, belts-and-braces is our new best friend?

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https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/

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