Mastodawn

aks 17h ago

Lu wilson 1d ago

recording from the final seconds of nudel's life from another jammer

#doompasta

aks 6d ago

Liam Proven 6d ago

Galileo's Basilisk

https://hexmhell.writeas.com/galileos-basilisk

<- an eloquent counter to Rationalism, LessWrong, TESCREAL, the Singularity, the rise of AI and AGI, and what's more, it's fun!

Galileo's Basilisk

I am disappointed that I have to write this. It is deeply embarrassing that the thing I am writing about has gone on for so long, that so...

hex_m_hell

aks May 10

froos May 10

how to make your cross-platform audio engine bloat free in 5 easy steps: https://garten.salat.dev/135-clang-wasm-audio/ (i almost fell off the chair when i saw step 4). shoutout to @sqx

🌱 clang wasm audio

aks Feb 21

Jens Gustedt's Blog Feb 15

Defer available in gcc and clang

About a year ago I posted about defer and that it would be available for everyone using gcc and/or clang soon. So it is probably time for an update.

Two things have happened in the mean time:

A technical specification (TS 25755) edited by JeanHeyd Meneide is now complete and moves through ISO’s complicated publication procedures.
Both gcc and clang communities have worked on integrating this feature into their C implementations.

I have not yet got my hands on the gcc implementation (but this is also less urgent, see below), but I have been able to use clang’s which is available starting with clang-22.

I think that with this in mind everybody developing in C could and should now seriously consider switching to defer for their cleanup handling:

no more resource leakage or blocked mutexes on rarely used code paths,
no more spaghetti code just to cover all possibilities for preliminary exits from functions.

I am not sure if the compiler people are also planning back ports of these features, but with some simple work around and slightly reduced grammar for the defer feature this works for me from gcc-9 onward and for clang-22 onward:

#if __has_include(<stddefer.h>) # include <stddefer.h> # if defined(__clang__) # if __is_identifier(_Defer) # error "clang may need the option -fdefer-ts for the _Defer feature" # endif # endif #elif __GNUC__ > 8 # define defer _Defer # define _Defer _Defer_A(__COUNTER__) # define _Defer_A(N) _Defer_B(N) # define _Defer_B(N) _Defer_C(_Defer_func_ ## N, _Defer_var_ ## N) # define _Defer_C(F, V) \ auto void F(int*); \ __attribute__((__cleanup__(F), __deprecated__, __unused__)) \ int V; \ __attribute__((__always_inline__, __deprecated__, __unused__)) \ inline auto void F(__attribute__((__unused__)) int*V) #else # error "The _Defer feature seems not available" #endif

So this is already a large panel of compilers. Obviously it depends on your admissible compile platforms whether or not these are sufficient for you. In any case, with these you may compile for a very wide set of installs since defer does not need any specific software infrastructure or library once the code is compiled.

As already discussed many times, the gcc fallback uses the so-called “nested function” feature which is always subject of intense debate and even flame wars. Don’t worry, the implementation as presented here, even when compiled with no optimization at all, does not produce any hidden function in the executable, and in particular there is no “trampoline” or whatever that would put your execution at risk of a stack exploit.

You may also notice that there is no fallback for older clang version. This is because their so-called “blocks” extension cannot easily be used as a drop-in to replace nested function: their semantics to access variables from the surrounding scope are different and not compatible with the defer feature as defined by TS 25755.

So for example if you are scared of using big VLA on the stack, you may use the above code in headers and something like

double* BigArray = malloc(sizeof(double[aLot])); if (!BigArray { exit(EXIT_FALURE); } defer { free(BigArray); }

to have an implementation of a big array with a failure mode for the allocation.

Or if you want to be sure that all your mutexes are unlocked when you leave a critical section, use and idiom as here

{ if (mtx_lock(&mtx) != thrd_success) { exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } defer { mtx_unlock(&mtx); } ... do something complicated ... if (rareCondition) { return 42; } ... do something even more complicated ... }

Just notice, that you’d always have to use the defer feature with curly braces to ensure that the gcc fallback works smoothly.

Simple defer, ready to use

With this post I will concentrate on the here and now: how to use C’s future lifesaving defer feature with existing tools and compilers.

Jens Gustedt's Blog

aks Feb 14

lcamtuf

Feb 14

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

aks Feb 14

Per Vognsen Feb 14

An interesting example of parallel discovery: the zero memory widget (ZMW) library released in 2003 (discovered in 2001-2002) vs Casey's first presentation of immediate-mode UI in 2005 (discovered in 2002). I assume approximately no-one has heard of ZMW. https://perso.univ-lyon1.fr/thierry.excoffier/ZMW/zmw-0.2.4/zmw.html

Using the Zero Memory Widget library (ZMW 0.2.0)

aks Jan 27

Taggart

Jan 26

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/113694884783855934

It's 2026 now. Boost if you're ready to destroy genAI entirely.

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aks Jan 19

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Lu wilson Jan 19

like our AI bro brethren before us, we can look at AI as a black box and assess it for what it does:

no matter what's inside:

- AI takes work away from my friends.
- AI gives more power to suits, less to workers.
- AI makes us reliant on big tech companies that totally have our best interests at heart.

i don't need to know anything else to know that.

aks Jan 18