thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is still a new situation. There is a lot we don't know. We don't know if there are more possible exploit paths. We only know about this one path. Please update your systems regardless.

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

patriciogonzalezvivo

Please consider using http://lygia.xyz instead of copy/pasting this functions. It expand suport for voronoi, voronoise, fbm, noise, worley, noise, derivatives and much more, through simple file dependencies. Take a look to https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/lygia/tree/main/generative

Generic 1,2,3 Noise

float rand(float n){return fract(sin(n) * 43758.5453123);}

float noise(float p){
	float fl = floor(p);
  float fc = fract(p);

emiller

#!/bin/bash
#
# git-mv-with-history -- move/rename file or folder, with history.
#
# Moving a file in git doesn't track history, so the purpose of this
# utility is best explained from the kernel wiki:
#
#   Git has a rename command git mv, but that is just for convenience.
#   The effect is indistinguishable from removing the file and adding another
#   with different name and the same content.

mrange

[F#] Implementing Coroutines (async/await) using continuations

Coroutines or async/await is not a new concept as it was named in 1958 by Melvin Conway. Coroutines had support in languages such as Simula(1962), Smalltalk(1972) and Modula-2(1978) but I think one can argue that coroutines came into mainstream with C# 5(2012) when Microsoft added async/await to C#.

The problem with subroutines

A thread can only execute a single subroutine at a time as a subroutine starts and then runs to completion. In a server environment subroutines can be problematic as in order to service connections concurrently we would usually would start a thread per connection, this was the idiom a few years ago. A thread depending on the operating system and settings needs about 1 MiB of user stack space meaning 1,024 threads needs 1 GiB of for just user stack space. In addition there's the cost of kernel stack space, book-keeping and scheduling of threads. This drives cost of VM/hardwa

mattiasgustavsson

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <windows.h>
#pragma comment( lib, "user32.lib" )
#pragma comment( lib, "gdi32.lib" )

#define SCRW 640
#define SCRH 480

andrequeiroz

#The MIT License (MIT)
#
#Copyright (c) 2015 Andre Queiroz
#
#Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
#of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
#in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
#to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
#copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
#furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

mrange

Install shader

1. Save happy.hlsl to disk, note the path for later.
2. Open Windows terminal settings
3. Open settings as JSON
4. Add a custom shader to the default profile, see excerpt below.

{
 "profiles": {

mrange

F# Advent 2020, Dec 6 - Church Encoded Lists

Introduction

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise

Edsger W. Dijkstra

This is my contribution to F# Advent Calendar in English. Thanks to Sergey Tihon for making sure this happens every year.

mrange

F# Advent 2021 Dec 08 - Fast data pipelines with F#6

Thanks to Sergey Tihon for running F# Weekly and F# Advent.

Thanks to manofstick for trying out the code and coming with invaluable feedback. Cistern.ValueLinq is very impressive.

TLDR; F#6 enables data pipelines with up to 15x less overhead than LINQ

There were many interesting improvements in F#6 but one in particular caught my eye, the attribute InlineIfLambda.

mrange

On the topic of tail calls in .NET

Let's say you have implemented a small data pipeline library to replace LINQ.

module TrivialStream =
  type Receiver<'T> = 'T            -> unit
  type Stream<'T>   = Receiver<'T>  -> unit

  module Details =