Edd Barrett @ebarrett@mastodon.social
Computer scientist, Programmer, OpenBSD Developer.
The deadline for Benchwork'18 talk proposals is this Friday: https://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop-issta-2018/benchwork-2018-talks
Holy shit, that was a boring ass-vulnerability. Shame on EFF for being scary, and HTML email is Satan. We Told You So(tm)
Landry Breuil committed his pledge(2) work along with the #Firefox 60.0 update to #OpenBSD -current!
Other interesting/noteworthy changes:
• Pocket extension is disabled by default.
• "activity-stream/sponsored content" is no longer displayed by default in new tabs.
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=152606887319078&w=2
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@wingo I see you are a keen gardener! Got any good tips for keeping the slugs off my veg? I've lost several plants this year to the slimy devils. #notcompsci
The t-shirt art for port hackathons at Nantes (#p2k16 and #p2k18) is based on Les Machines de l'île. It is not hard to see why!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machines_of_the_Isle_of_Nantes
Tfw a metro station uses github more than you.
A truly vital #OpenBSD commit. Note the OK line.
from IRC:
<@pushcx> Ruby is what happened when Perl got lonely and Smalltalk got drunk.
An overview of the SpiderMonkey tracing JIT internals: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/SpiderMonkey/Internals/Tracing_JIT
Any programming language VM researchers on mastodon? #compsci #vms #compilers
Today I learned that on Linux a system call may not switch to kernel space: https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/SysCall/syscall-3.html
#rust people. Can I encode a rpath using cargo?
"It is a scandal, and I want repaired processors for free. I don't care if they are 30% slower, as long as they work to spec." -- https://www.itwire.com/security/81338-handling-of-cpu-bug-disclosure-incredibly-bad-openbsd-s-de-raadt.html
The MoreVMs'18 call for papers is up. Please consider contributing: https://2018.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2018
Using C99 bool with the Rust FFI is a pain: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47705093/what-is-the-correct-type-for-returning-a-c99-bool-to-rust-via-the-ffi
Via @laurencetratt on twitter: Today is the last day to register for S-REPLS http://soft-dev.org/events/srepls8/ -- we've got a good crowd already, but there are still a handful of places left. Free and open to all!
Installed the twitter android app a few days ago and it's already driving me crazy with its constant irrelevant notifications.
