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The UTF-8 encoded BOM is an offense to engineering.

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113290842836069180

Oh hey TIL why the UTF-8 byte order mark is the seemingly random byte sequence <EF BB BF>. It's simply because that's the UTF-8 encoding of U+FEFF, the code point that's also used as the byte order mark in UTF-16 and UTF-32.

UTF-8 has no issues with byte ordering, so the UTF-8 BOM is an oddity that shouldn't be emitted. But it exists and is specified because it's what happens if you take a BOM-ful UTF-16/32 sequence and naively transpose it to UTF-8, the leading U+FEFF BOM becomes <EF BB BF>.

Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
https://jwz.org/b/ykaO

I got offered a 300k/year rust job but they said they'd only hire me if I promised never to use cargo-mommy.

So needless to say, I'm still looking for a job.

(for mastodon reasons I must make it clear that this is a joke)

I used "crowdstrike" as a verb at work today, to paraphrase: "CI is broken because github crowdstruck us with a bad rust compiler update". AKA: usable any time an automatic update from a vendor breaks your infrastructure.

All I'm saying is, if they didn't want this neologism, they shouldn't have ruined my flight home from Italy.

#crowdstrike

can we not do the "weird" thing -_- there's nothing inherently wrong with being "weird", and lots of people who have been bullied or marginalized or oppressed are labelled "weird" in society and a lot of threat modelling is around "weird" people which tends to single out like people with mental illnesses, people of colour, disabled people, queer people, etc...

this isn't just an abstract "don't use problematic stuff" thing, leaning into the idea that "weirdos" are a threat and to be shamed is leaning into stuff that's already actively weaponized against lots of innocent people just living their lives, and no, this is not going to change the focus from them, it'll just reinforce the idea that "weird" is bad

also it's sad that "weird" resonates w/ people more than "fascist" :\

PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices

do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme

Some day we're going to have to give all the loanwords back, and english is going to collapse like a house of cards.

a huge formative experience happened when I was 16. I was brought into my mother’s office and hired to compell a guy to use his computer who was refusing to use his computer, and exclusively used his IBM selectric.

First up, the guy was an unlikable jerk. However, first thing he does when I get there is refuse to even talk to me about the situation until AFTER I read The Invisible Computer by Donald Norman.

It’s a good book I cannot summarise in the 50 characters I have left in this post

Idk who needs to hear this but "Lone Wolf" assassin's don't hide their intentions and delusions behind encrypted iCloud accounts and impenetrable firewalls on their lappy.

They write rambling manifestos. Make lengthy wild eyed vlogs staring directly in the camera. Create hundreds or thousands of posts and replies on the internet bemoaning the target of their obsession.

Crazed political extremists don't keep their persuasions clandestine. They tell the whole fuckin' world. Anybody who'll listen.

Do you post to a non-fediverse social network in addition to posting to the fediverse? Please boost for reach (or not, I can't tell you what to do)

everybody wants to be good at programming but nobody wants to suck at programming for 5 years so they can be good at programming

As it’s that time of year:

"How does AI impact my job as a programmer?": https://chelseatroy.com/2024/05/26/how-does-ai-impact-my-job-as-a-programmer/

This is a brilliant piece told from the perspective of a Computer Science teacher.

It really hits in all the right places and mirrors a lot of my issues.

I appreciate the pragmatic approach of not fighting but letting folks see how it fails on interesting problems.

The article does not hesitant to point the finger back at the programming culture itself.

infohazard heuristic: if it gets over 20 reblargs and updoots it's a psyop

If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.