dpiponi

(** User Mathematica initialization file **)

(** See https://reference.wolfram.com/language/tutorial/ConfigurationFiles.html for info on instaling this file **)

(** Display graphics inline in iTerm2. I don't know an easy way to test if we're running in iTerm2 without looking at the process table. **)

imgcat[image_Graphics]:=(
  WriteString[$Output, "\033]1337;File=inline=1:"<>ExportString[ExportString[image,"PNG"],"Base64"]<>"\007"];
  Null
)

0xabad1dea

Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot

0xabad1dea, July 2021

this is a rough draft and may be updated with more examples

GitHub was kind enough to grant me swift access to the Copilot test phase despite me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE. I would like to examine it not in terms of productivity, but security. How risky is it to allow an AI to write some or all of your code?

Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing." However, Copilot is a tool, and workers need their tools to be reliable. A carpenter doesn't have to

pervognsen

A traditional table-based DFA implementation looks like this:

uint8_t table[NUM_STATES][256]

uint8_t run(const uint8_t *start, const uint8_t *end, uint8_t state) {
    for (const uint8_t *s = start; s != end; s++)
        state = table[state][*s];
    return state;
}

bradfitz

// homerunner is Brad's shitty Docker wrapper after he got tired of running 
// HA nine-VM Kubernetes clusters. Earlier versions of this tried to use podman
// and fancy cloud-init and CNI stuff but then I decided to go to the other
// extreme and write something super specific to what I need and super dumb:
// run my containers from gcr.io, and use my home Ceph cluster for mounts/state.
//
// This primarily runs Home Assistant, HomeSeer, an MQTT server, and some cameras.
// And some omitted misc stuff.
package main

jackrusher

Twitter abuses all media file uploads, each type in its own way. If we want to upload a good looking animation loop from some low-color, high-detail generative art, we have to game their system's mechanisms.

• don't upload a video file, they will re-encode it into absolute 💩

• create a GIF, which they will auto-convert into a video file 😱

• The frames of the GIF will be resized to an even-sized width using an extremely naive algorithm. Your GIF should be an even size (1000, 2000,

bradfitz

$ sqlite3
sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .import brad-2016-2020.csv items
sqlite> .import brad-2021-ytd.csv items
sqlite> .mode column
sqlite> .width 40
sqlite> .header on
sqlite> CREATE VIEW money_cat AS select Category, sum(Cast(Ltrim("Item Total", "$") as decimal)) as "Sum", count(*) from items group by Category;
sqlite> select category, round(100 * sum / (select sum(sum) from money_cat), 2) as "percent", "count(*)" from money_cat order by 2 desc limit 50;
Category                                  percent     count(*)  

ctsrc

Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration (Hypervisor.framework)

This guide was adapted from https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278#running-ubuntu-server-for-arm64

Running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64

1. Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on your Mac running on Apple Silicon.

dougallj

# IDA (disassembler) and Hex-Rays (decompiler) plugin for Apple AMX
#
# WIP research. (This was edited to add more info after someone posted it to
# Hacker News. Click "Revisions" to see full changes.)
#
# Copyright (c) 2020 dougallj


# Based on Python port of VMX intrinsics plugin:
# Copyright (c) 2019 w4kfu - Synacktiv

Myndex

Where's The Luv?

An Examination of the CIELAB and CIELUV colorspaces.

It is exciting to see so many new color features for the CSS Color Module. There are nevertheless a couple items that resulted in a "raised eyebrow response". This Gist is mainly going to focus on one: the use of the LAB version of LCh instead of LUV LCh, which may be better suited for the task but appears to have been dismissed as if irrellevant.

I DISAGREE. Luv is in common use and very relevant, and LuvLCh or one of the several LuvLCh variants has distinct advantages over LabLCh for use cases such as choosing color for web content for displays.

Myth Destruction

imbushuo

// simplevm.c: demonstrates Hypervisor.Framework usage in Apple Silicon
// Based on the work by @zhuowei
// @imbushuo - Nov 2020

// To build:
// Prepare the entitlement with BOTH com.apple.security.hypervisor and com.apple.vm.networking WHEN SIP IS OFF
// Prepare the entitlement com.apple.security.hypervisor and NO com.apple.vm.networking WHEN SIP IS ON
// ^ Per @never_released, tested on 11.0.1, idk why
// clang -o simplevm -O2 -framework Hypervisor -mmacosx-version-min=11.0 simplevm.c
// codesign --entitlements simplevm.entitlements --force -s - simplevm