Interesting list of #examples of #software that was #accidentally #turingcomplete https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accide..
The #mnt #reform #laptop is fully #opensource , both #hardware and #software https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/.. It's a very cool piece of hardware! Definitely a laptop I wouldn't mind having!
Ouch, very easy to lose tonnes of #money doing #crypto #transactions https://old.reddit.com/r/ethereum/commen.. There is no #recourse either... You can literally #bankrupt yourself in one #click , one #leak or one #software #bug ...
Great #overview on #gameboy #software #development https://gbdev.io/guides/tools.html Definitely something I want to look at in the future!
Great #article on reading the #sourcecode of #legacy #software https://www.heltweg.org/posts/who-wrote-..
Yay, your #antivirus #software now more than likely #mines #crypto ! https://twitter.com/mAxius/status/147696.. This is the #dystopian #hell #future we never asked for but got anyway!
Damn, looks like #companies are going to start #requiring that #contractors #install random #software on their #local #machines such that they can be #monitored at all times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295.. Very concerning trend.
Man, quite a #serious #java #log #bug #rce found in log4j: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-z.. This has *massive* ramifications against tonnes of existing #software , including even #minecraft #servers !
A great #discussion about how #bad #us #submarine #software actually is: https://fixvms.com/ Specifically #vms , the #voyage #management #system used for #underwater #navigation .
And this is why we need #opensource #software and #accountability https://bigtechnology.substack.com/p/a-x.. #xiaomi #phones could be used to #censor anti- #china 's #ccp terms according to the #lithuanian #government - and this was only found because the #blocklist was #shipped on the #device rather than being #uploaded #remotely ...
The new #playstation 5 might soon be #jailbreaked with the use of #secret #root #keys #embedded into the #software https://twitter.com/fail0verflow/status/..
Just watching a #review of the #jingpad #linux #tablet running #jingos - the #hardware actually materialized and it seems to be pretty okay. The #software apparently needs some work - but for the most part it seems like a solid little device. Definitely much better than #pine 's #pinetab which is *painfully* #slow . I'm hoping they might release a #pinetabpro so I can replace the internal board on mine with something better, but it might be #incompatible ...
#trump 's new #socialmedia #platform appears to be based on #mastodon - and #leftwing #software people are already #upset and #threatening #legal action: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/.. Bare in mind, the new #website went live *accidentally* - it was only supposed to be #available to a #handful of #internal #users - not to the entire #web ! These people are mad, this is why I don't run their crap. I should at some point add a #permissive #license to #deadsocial ...
I generally agree with the approach to #sustainable #software described in this #blog https://www.jefftk.com/p/designing-low-u.. I generally like single-file #libraries that I can include entirely in my project, anything too large or temperamental makes me nervous! The only thing I have begun to #backtrack on is my position on #database implementations - #deadsocial for example is now experiencing the very real #limitations of a multi-file based " #database ".
It'll cost about $150 for #amazon 's new #paperwhite #eink #display https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22684.. The only thing I wish is that it is #opensource - but that of course is completely against Amazon's goal of controlling the #software and #hardware stack to prevent #bypass of their #store ...
Just a little reminder that the #internet #technology and #software we use today - may not work tomorrow: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/10/tech/.. In this case a tonne of of important 9/11 #footage cannot be easily accessed as it is in #adobe #flash ... I imagine this *exact* problem for #javascript in the future once we move fully to #wasm ... It will simply be disabled due to #security . Long live #html though!