@xal

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oh god how did this get in here I am not good with computers
websitehttps://xal.systems
An osu developer found that Windows 27881.1000's libc says that pow(-1, 2) = -1. Poking around in bindiff reveals they tried to add an optimization that skips the main approximation when the base or exponent is 1, but screwed up. Woops!

arm developer website is so bad it's like a parody of modern web practices:
✔️ no content in page, only 6mb javascript
✔️ page content loaded by making individual requests for each section (each of which takes 0.2s for me)
✔️ actual text on page returned as json {"content": "base64 of html"} (not a joke)
✔️ said html wraps every header with 8 unstyled divs
✔️ two post requests to /track per second

possibly the only documentation that makes me WANT to read their pdf instead

@jj another instance of "modern CSS being pretty good" i learned about recently: you can specify colours relative to other colours. in this table, the centre square has `background-color: var(--theme)`, and the squares around it have `background-color: oklch(from var(--theme) calc(l + 0.1) calc(c - 0.05) h)`, etc. Oklab generates pretty gradients, being a perceptual colour space
what is going on in EDA land o__O
it's like they're actively trying to make the handwritten version of this as ambiguous as possible
horrible ctf knowledge becoming useful while porting openspades to aarch64: fixed a crash that happened because the script interpreter relied on the x86 representation of pointers-to-member-functions. arm differs from almost every other ABI for C++ because they reserve the lowest address bits!
gnuplot (❤️) one-liner to look for any weird increases in connection attempts due to regreSSHion: journalctl -S 2024-04-01 -u sshd -g "Connection closed" -o short-unix | cut -f 1 -d " " | gnuplot -p -e 'set terminal png size 960,720 small; set xdata time; set format x "%b %d"; binwidth = 60*60*24; set boxwidth binwidth; bin(x,width) = width*floor(x/width); set xtics binwidth rotate out; plot "-" using (bin($1, binwidth)):(1.0) smooth frequency with boxes title "login attempts"'
Somehow there are way more than this, even
OpenZFS ASCII art comments, greatest hits volume 1 (according to me)
Larry Masinter almost immediately spots a problem with the proposal, pointing out that the owner of foo.co.uk could set a cookie for every domain registered under .co.uk. He does not believe you can tell "merely by syntax what the actual domain of authority is for a DNS name". We are still dealing with the consequences of ignoring Larry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Suffix_List).
Public Suffix List - Wikipedia