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Public service announcement.

(Created by https://bsky.app/profile/campfireharve.st )

If anyone tells you that a string (like a command-line argument) contains a list of smaller strings with a specific separator character in between them, immediately ask "In that case, what happens if the separator character needs to appear in one of the list items?" Instant knee-jerk reflex.

There's more than one good answer. Like "you can escape the separator with this other character" (in which case you know what question #2 is). Or "here is a specific reason why it _can't possibly_ be necessary to put the separator in a list item" (maybe list items are something like numbers or C identifiers which already have a restricted character set).

But if they just say it doesn't seem _likely_, or worse still, demand you justify why you need to, run a mile from whatever software is under discussion.

The Apple Watch has a closed down ecosystem, only compatible with the iPhone. @trusted_device reverse engineered its interfaces and opened it up for compatibility with Android! ✨ WatchWitch ✨ allows you using your Apple Watch ⌚ on Android devices, interpreting your health data, answering messages on the Watch and more.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHz8NHMhtLY
Read the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210

The Apple Watch uses IPSec over Bluetooth?!?! That’s mildly horrifying but also a certain level of genius

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07210

Just realizing that the https://botsin.space domain has been memorialized last week.

#BotsInSpace #fediverse