You’re probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
Published on 09/26/2024, 481 words, 2 minutes to read Unless your servers can print for some reason When I saw news of the upcoming 9.9 CVE, I was thinking it was something significant, like a buffer overflow in the glibc DNS client, a ping of death, or something actually exciting. Nope, it’s CUPS, the printing […]
Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998
Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998. In 1999, some members from the MMC Association decided to split and create SD Association.But nobody seems to exactly know why. MMC’s origins are non-trivial to source. At the time of writing, the Wikipedia article on the MultiMediaCard cites a Tom’s Hardware blogpost, which briefly […]
It’s hard to write code for computers, but it’s harder to write code for humans
2024-09-27 Writing code for a computer is hard enough. You take something big and fuzzy, some large vague business outcome you want to achive. Then you break it down recursively and think about all the cases until you have clear logical statements a computer can follow. Computers are very good at following logical statements. Now, […]
Mathiness
Mathiness is a term for calculations and formulas that may look and feel like rigorous mathematics but lack true analytical rigor or validity, and often disregard logical coherence or factual accuracy. Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West introduced this term in the book Calling Bullshit as a way to spot bullshit. New-school bullshit uses the language […]
I Am Tired of AI
Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in general. Now, I am all for finding and […]
Imbue (YC S17) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer
Imbue (F.K.A. Generally Intelligent) is an AI research company working directly on building human-level general machine intelligence that can learn naturally in the way humans do. Our mission is to understand the fundamentals of learning and build safe, humane machine intelligence. Here are our open roles: Founding Product Engineer (SF, Full-time): https://jobs.lever.co/imbue/0764f1c0-89e5-452f-ab41-ff1d1ba8… Research Scientist (SF, […]
Normans and Slavery: Breaking the Bonds
The fortunes of modern Bristol were founded on slavery. During the 18th century the city boomed as a result of its participation in the export of Africans to North America. Regrettably there is no official monument in Bristol today to mark this episode in its history, only a plaque erected privately in 1997 and a […]
What the Photographer Who’s Taken Philosopher Portraits Thinks of Philosophers
Steve Pyke Connemara 2024 Steve Pyke is a renowned portrait photographer. He has published ten books, including the award-winning I Could Read the Sky (with Timothy O’Grady). He has photographed politicians, astronauts, film directors, artists, laborers, and—in two collected volumes—philosophers. He was the staff photographer at The New Yorker for several years and, in 2004, […]
Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales
Enlarge Carol Yepes | Moment California recently became the first state to ban deceptive sales of so-called “disappearing media.” On Tuesday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2426 into law, protecting consumers of digital goods like books, movies, and video games from being duped into purchasing content without realizing access was only granted through a temporary […]
Small3dlib: Suckless PD 3D software rasterizer
Public domain 3D software rasterizer for (not only) resource-limited computers. If you like this, you may also like my similar project: raycastlib. These two libraries can very easily be combined together — here is a proof-of-concept gif (environment rendered with raycastlib, cubes with small3dlib): eye-candy previews Pokitto (32bit embedded console, 48 MHz, 36 kB RAM): […]