Kevin Chadwick

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Co-founder, Network, Security, Systems and Embedded engineer (Ada).

In Candore Decus - Honour in purity

KISSIS: Keep it simple so it's securable.

If you want to write secure code. Then this is the best place to learn.

"https://learn.adacore.com"

“learn.adacore.com"

An interactive learning platform to teach the Ada and SPARK programming languages.

learn.adacore.com
Even an A.I. clock is right twice per day.
Speculative execution has caused many security issues particularly for Intel chips in recent years. Speculative execution is where the processor guesses/speculates what work might be wanted and does it just in case it will actually be needed and throws the results away if not. A quick internet search suggests typically 28% is wasted. That is a lot of electricity globally. Is it even worth it? There is atleast one easy to use language available (Ada) with efficiency akin to C.

Yet another friends profile copied.

Facebook really need to block account creation whose name and 80% of the visible profile pics pixels match an existing account.

My daughter sings "Ghost Butlers" and now I really want to see a movie with ghost butlers! 😭
What has been done to Boris Johnson is quite frankly. Disgusting.
If you run Linux and care about security then you should install openntpd. It takes seconds on Ubuntu and will replace systemd-timesyncd. Unfortunately OpenSSL lacking LibreSSL libTLS means constraints aren't enabled but it is still far more secure from exploitation where it really matters.

"The best code is stupid readable code"

A great quote from this old but interesting talk.

"https://youtu.be/0yXwnk8Cr0c"

Ada, Past Present and Future

YouTube

@kevlar700 @NewsDesk They’re using some kind of language I’ve never heard of like “ Rapid unscheduled disassembly”

Last night after a curry I had a rapid unscheduled disassembly in the toilet

A great thing about Mastodon is that you get content based on your follows. Rather than tracking. I used to look at posts out of interest on Twitter that I utterly disagreed with and then I would get inundated with similarly nonsensical posts. Maybe I liked a counter argument 🤔. Does this mean that tracking can result in leading to people finding more and more posts confirming their thoughts and turning them into beliefs even when they are in the minority and potentially wildly incorrect?