AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

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Toyota Japan exposed millions of vehicles’ Location Data for a decade

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/12/toyota-japan-exposed-millions-locations-videos/

#Discord Support Agent hacked: "it is possible that your Email Address, the contents of Customer Service Messages and any Attachments sent between you and Discord may have been exposed to a third party"

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-discloses-data-breach-after-support-agent-got-hacked/

@AmpBenzScientist i took a look at the RISC-V ISA docs and, "huh, everything actually makes sense. this is logical."

i posted this little C code riddle earlier. so here's what it does:

1. flip all the bits in the input, so 0 becomes 1 and 1 becomes 0

2. bitwise-AND this with 1, whose binary representation is also 1. this will keep only the last bit of the number and set the rest to 0.

the result can thus only be 0 or 1. if you count in binary:

0 = ...000
1 = ...001
2 = ...010
3 = ...011
4 = ...100
5 = ...101

notice how the last bit keeps flipping for every number?

if the function was just x & 1, this would tell you if the number was odd. but if you flip all the bits before you mask it, it tells you if the number is even.

could also be written as !(x & 1)

@AmpBenzScientist

I love a good pen and now you have me considering a pocket protector... burt I also accepted I am a nerd a long time ago :)

@Pat @TruthSandwich

Relearning C++ after C++11

https://www.infoq.com/articles/relearning-cpp-11/

Researching Android's behavior during Internet shutdowns
“social mesh” and “public mesh”
https://briarproject.org/news/2023-simulating-internet-shutdowns/

This guy is still out there releasing music and touring and that's pretty cool #EddyGrant

Some notes on general filter 'sack' design, if you can imagine the drawing as a sheet of filter media #IAQ

Doing Math in #FPGA (VHDL)

https://www.hackster.io/adam-taylor/doing-math-in-fpga-3aa701

Transmeta Crusoe: Very long instruction word (VLIW)

https://tedium.co/2023/04/26/transmeta-crusoe-processor-history/

"Reddit doesn't have to identify eight anonymous users who wrote comments in Piracy-related threads"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/judge-wont-force-reddit-to-identify-anonymous-users-who-discussed-piracy/

I have a job offer tomorrow, my first ever. I've been looking for a job for 3-4 years, and in that time I've built up pretty much every emotion in the emotion wheel on top of the event of "getting a job". My brain is going a bit haywire.

Years of postponing feelings, worries, and problems to 'when I get a job', always thinking that it was something that was just around the corner, are finally catching up to me.

I can't properly process and believe that it's actually happening until I get all the details tomorrow, so part of me is still going 'ah, what if you're feeling all these things and then you end up not *actually* getting the job.

Anyways, send emotional strength and good luck 😅

@AmpBenzScientist i haven't examined exactly what this chip supports in terms of transferring data that isn't audio to or from the codec, which happens via DMA. the experience of programming this thing feels more like a uC with DSP features than programming a pure DSP that can only do stuff like MAC and pseudo-branch instructions.

"On the gun grip, there is a small Fingerprint Sensor ... On the back is a 3D Facial Recognition Sensor"

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172284298/smart-gun-biofire-biometrics