The_Decryptor

Yeah, I actually really don’t like JSON. It looks simple but actually isn’t, that’s a bad combo.

CBOR is much nicer, but annoyingly they made their human readable debug version of it similar enough to JSON that people assume it’s just a binary form of JSON, it isn’t.

The entire number and math system is just a straightforward implementation of IEEE 754.

Yeah, but using doubles for everything is its own downsides e.g. it’s why JSON “can’t” store 64bit integers for starters.

They did add the BigInt class recently, which annoyingly you can’t use with JSON because it requires specialized handling (Because of the aforementioned issue with JSON).

(So you “can” store 64bit integers in JSON, the spec just says not to, so people just ignore the spec. You just then run into silent truncation issues with clients that do follow it, like browsers.)

Windows Terminal is the terminal emulator that hosts the shell (cmd or PowerShell, or anything else really). It’s the modern replacement for “conhost”.

It’s also a fantastic app, some of the devs are on Mastodon too.

This behavior is actually in line with what I’d expect, as Unicode support in Windows predates UTF-16, so Windows generally does not handle surrogate pairs and instead operates almost exclusively on WTF-16 code units directly.

So it’s just straight UCS-2, and the software does enforce that, pretty much the opposite of “WTF-16”.

Edit: Pretty sure “modern” (XP+ I think) Windows actually does enforce UTF-16 validity in the system, but there’s always legacy stuff from the NT4/2K era that might turn up.

Phones and tablets? They’ve displaced computers for a fair few people, and it’s hard to consistently run a P2P client on those devices (And that’s ignoring metered connection costs)

That’d at least make sense, this is a (literal) black box. Seriously, my monitor takes long enough to wake that it’s at the boot loader screen by the time it’s ready.

I found a post on Reddit claiming it’s a RAM thing, and I should enable XMP to avoid it. But I’ve already got XMP enabled so I need to poke around it again.

And also disable the 5 second delay in the bootloader, not like I’m ever using that fallback option.

❯ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 14.565s (firmware) + 5.778s (loader) + 2.920s (kernel) + 3.307s (initrd) + 3.972s (userspace) = 30.544s
graphical.target reached after 3.926s in userspace.

You’re letting me down firmware!

Yeah, the Python equivalent would be something like this.

try:
    config = get_config()
catch:
    sys.exit(1)

It’s possible to handle these things, but if you explicitly don’t then you’ll discover them at runtime.

Maybe he overheard it from somewhere.

I’m still annoyed that “OPAQUE” never seemed to catch on. Uses a username/password combo as normal, but never actually sends the password to the server, only a proof of knowledge. Even if the server is hacked and the DB leaked the attackers can’t actually recover anything resembling a password from it, since the server simply never possesses it.

Passkeys are superior (No password at all), if only the UX around them was better.

They’ve released at least one screenshot, but since they mostly use it for internal testing, and they very rarely ever release those builds, there’s not much to go on.

So builds they didn’t intend to release provide the best insight.

Now I’ve only ever used the English releases, but I know before Vista that this simply wasn’t a thing. Each language release was a separate build, handled separately by different teams. So there was never a mixing of languages or loading strings at runtime, they were hardcoded into the binaries that shipped on disk.

The actual term for it is “Pseudolocalization”, might throw up a hit

People fell for ELIZA, turns out humans are the ones that fail the turing test.

And this is mine.

A couple more times and they might actually reference what really failed.

It was Apple. Or rather, regulators and partnering companies leaning on Apple to manage the content on their app store better, including the content that you could find via those apps.

Could say something about how the app stores are a monopoly power, and the chilling effect these wide ranging and heavy handed content policies have, and why the open web (and web apps) are a better option. But we also handed the web over to Google anyway, so it’s not that much better.

We’re as close to quantum computers as we are to ChatGPT becoming sentient.

It’s important to remember that when BPA was shown to be harmful and was replaced in products, the replacements weren’t picked because they were shown to be safer, they were picked because there were no studies about them at all.

And when the replacements were studied, most of them turned out to be similar or even worse.

It’s plastic itself which is the problem.

It’s “set foot”, didn’t even notice the difference at first.

But it’s clear they aren’t actually about that, otherwise 2020 would have rolled along smoothly and they would have had the same “gods plan” mindset during the 2020 social protests.

Obviously that was Joe Biden interfering in gods plan, so they were just doing the right thing in trying to undo it.