l'empathie mécanique @dpwiz@qoto.org

I wish people stopped using AI generated images in their articles and presentations. I get the temptation to break up the text, but it’s pointless to break up the text with images that don’t tell a relevant story - so regardless of what you think of genai it just adds no value at best.

If you want the text to be easier to digest and don’t have and can’t produce any sketches or screenshots, maybe add cat photos instead?

tired: C with classes
wired: C with structs

(yes it's just C)

New thing from the Zstd (and LZ4/xxhash) crowd: OpenZL. A dozen or so building blocks (shufflers, transposers, filters, compressors) that can be chained together. Can automatically build "best" config based on sample data; same decompressor can decompress any config. Nice! https://openzl.org/ (and whitepaper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203) #compression #openzl

@aras C++ proudly holds the crown of fastest-to-crash-language indeed.

@glyph I can cite precisely one NIST standard from memory, and this is it: “According to NIST SP 800-63b, section 5.1.1.2, we shouldn’t rotate passwords unless we expect they’ve been compromised.”

I busted that out on a call once and it stopped an entire argument. My CTO was also on the call and I saw him looking over at me, mouth agape.