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sergeyb bonked 12 Sep 2025 06:38 +0300
original: bagder@mastodon.social

I'd like a #GitHub feature that extracts/offers the text from images/screenshots (so that we can replace the images) to improve issues and bug reports where people ANNOYINGLY insist on using images for text.

sergeyb bonked 10 Sep 2025 20:46 +0300
original: tedu@inks.tedunangst.com

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort, spanning half a decade, that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our advanced operating system security to provide industry-first, always-on memory safety protection across our devices — without compromising our best-in-class device performance.

#cpu #defense #iphone #malloc #security #systems

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement/

sergeyb honked 10 Sep 2025 20:08 +0300

Нашел рейтинг самых популярных аккаунтов в #fedi. Для себя ничего нового не нашел, считаю самый лучший способ это ходить по спискам своих подписчиков и там искать интерфсные профили.

https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/

sergeyb honked 09 Sep 2025 13:37 +0300

Прочитал "Защиту Лужина" и где-то в рекомендациях вылезла повесть "Миттельшпиль" Пелевина. Ну да, тоже ведь про шахматы (нет).

sergeyb bonked 08 Sep 2025 13:07 +0300
original: aldragon@hoots.aldragon.net

УСПЕХ! Частное затмение Луны самолетом.

Комментаторы подсказывают, что есть такой орнитологический метод ночного учёта сезонных миграций птиц — подсчёт пролётов и опознание силуэтов на фоне лунного диска.

(У самолета вроде виден намёк на здоровенные винглеты, так что, видимо, мигрирует 𝐴𝑖𝑟𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝟹𝟸𝟶).

sergeyb bonked 08 Sep 2025 13:05 +0300
original: kernellogger@hachyderm.io

Dmitry Brant: Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

https://dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/07/using-claude-code-to-modernize-a-25-year-old-kernel-driver

"[…] one of my hobbies is helping people recover data from old tape cartridges, such as QIC-80 tapes, which were a rather popular backup medium in the 1990s among individuals […]

Whenever I receive a QIC-80 tape for recovery, I power up one of my older PC workstations which has the appropriate tape drive attached to it, and boot into a very old version of #Linux (namely CentOS 3.5), because this is the only way to use the ftape driver, which is the #kernel driver necessary for communicating with this tape drive, allowing the user to dump the binary contents of the tape. […]

The trouble is, the ftape driver hasn’t been supported since roughly the year 2000, and was soon removed from the #LinuxKernel for this reason. This is why I’ve needed to run a painfully old version of Linux anytime I have to work with one of these drives. It would be great if ftape worked on a modern distro, with all the benefits and affordances that would provide.

So a couple of weeks ago, it occurred to me to make a simple request to Claude Code: […]"

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