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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm swapped out. I'm OOM. Low battery. ECC error retrieving thoughts.

@mattblaze@federate.social I know nothing about this mode specifically but thanks for the nerditry re ancient arts of communication. Very low bandwidth compared to your usual two tone content.

@cvvhrn@sfba.social @stacey_campbell@aus.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Exactly. Only ever interested to travel for the natural beauty of the country. That does generally include the anthropological aspect - and that, in the US, looks too ugly from the other side of the planet to want to experience it close up. Then this re the places that should be free from the ugly human influence. I hope it gets better.

@VeroniqueB99 very understandable why the matriarch is in charge. Who's going to argue with 5000kg plus, with big teeth and a deceptively friendly looking smile?

@kallisti @silhouette @malwaretech Hmm.. If my data is adrift (not clearly in transit) do I have to pay salvage to whoever recovers it (before the pirates, state sponsored or not, get it)? The right of free passage is one thing. The right to just bob about in the ocean as though it's some sort of "the floor is lava" defence is not so well established. In fact it's established that a vessel is subject to the laws of the country who's flag it flies. Hence flags of convenience and all that but it's not "stateless".

@goatcheese@eldritch.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange @pixx@merveilles.town Oh absolutely it can't invent. But 1) rust compile errors prevent some versions of Frankenstein's compiler from even lurching off the table, so Frankenstein has to try again with different body parts (feedback loop) 2) a train of borrowed fragments of rust, that pass that fitness test, and that fit together probabilistically, from a sample of rust code that works (as well as compiles) is more likely to stay on the rails than the same in C. It is interesting that "correct" but it's a memory hog (no ownership conflicts but lifetime management issues?) is evident from the comparison of gcc vs ccc execution. I'm not suggesting any sort of magical properties from rust - just that it removes some degrees of freedom.

@goatcheese@eldritch.cafe @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange This is a very good point. The "yay the compiler runs without crashing" part would be far less likely achieved were it writing the compiler in C.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I saw the hype around this and couldn't think of anything constructive to say. It's unfortunate that it didn't plagiarize a few thousand lines tiny C bootstrap compiler rather than spewing out a low quality copy of a monster. It's not hard to write a tiny C compiler. I'd trust the output from said tiny C compiler to be correct before I'd trust this thing. But most importantly, of all the things that a pattern replicating machine should be able to replicate, its a tedious repeated pattern set of code (lexers, recursive descent parsers, codegen from AST..) to process a regular language. It doesn't seem to demonstrate any surprising capability, nor any real utility. I'd be more interested (and terrified) to see results from ML learning how to emit machine code that makes the generated code pass the programs unit tests while also getting best benchmark scores... I like horror movies...

@mattblaze Nice black and white alt text imagery too.

@campuscodi@mastodon.social here in Australia we have a famous boat race on a river with no water (it's in a desert). We also like to prank tourists with BS. Consider this part of the True Aussie Experience.

@malwaretech so many any interesting things. The fact captchas have trained people to follow instructions to do arbitrary things.. The immutability of blockchain to keep a malicious resource around "forever". What a combination. There is one ray of hope in this - using google as an oracle for reversing truncated keccak hashes shows it still returns at least some unsponsored results.

@mattblaze@federate.social normally I'm happy to pay the relevant national or state authority fee anywhere in the world, to counter the harm my being there does to the very environment I'm visiting / to support preservation of natural environments. In the US case, under this administration, I am immediately concerned to know how this payment will be used. I actively do not want to contribute funds to vote buying or turning wilderness into Trump branded theme parks...