The Weekly Weird - 2022-07-22

Skorgu

2022-07-22 14:00

If, like me, you find yourself unnecessarily using cat(1), at least make it as fast as possible.
Are black hole starships possible?
If your computer has a wire, it has an antenna.
Machine learning is...actually OK at predicting crime.
From the are-we-the-advanced-aliens department: "this tunnel was excavated by some advanced method that didn't leave tool marks" and "the machine bled as if it had veins".
The case for bad coffee.
How do {payment systems,online fraud,DNS} work, anyway?
Jean Paul Sartre for Dodge Dartre. (h/t Thomas)
There's a GW-M5610 on my wrist right now so I am the target audience for an F-91W with a Cortex M3 and an OLED screen.
LEGO powered submarine, including tuning the PID loop for automatic depth control.
You can pay for DALL-E now.
Learn all about how the steam engine was almost invented centuries before it actually was: Part 1 and 2.

The Weekly Weird - 2022-07-15

Skorgu

2022-07-15 14:00

What do executives do, anyway?
It has been [0] days since the last bleed.
"[T]he operation 'split a word into letters' does not make sense in general, but 'split a word into letters for showing cursors to the user' or 'split a word into letters for taking the first letter out for making acronyms' or 'split a word into letters for backspace to work' do make more sense (and are different operations!)".
There's an urban legend/apocrypha of a must-not-fail 5ESS failing because purchasing hard drives from different manufacturers and batches was deeemd too expensive. Well, add install time to the surprise failure mode list: 2^57 nanoseconds.
Sure, AI can build a better silicon adder than me and explain code better than me (h/t John) and write regexes better than me but can it, uh. Uhhh.
Your config files should probably not be written by humans.
Does your car's manufacturer have a vulnerability reporting process?
I like the defense meme of codenames in series (bent spear -> broken arrow) and brilliant pebbles -> genius sand is one of the more adorable incarnations.
I phrase this as "you can't pay people to care" but "giving a shit as a service" is pretty great, too.
Run rust on ESP32.
A rust implementation of AMQP 1.0 protocol.
Arbitrary precision integers for rust that use the normal operators.
RISC-V: The Laptop.

The Weekly Weird - 2022-07-08

Skorgu

2022-07-08 14:00

"PaSh aims at the correct and automated parallelization of POSIX shell scripts". (h/t Mike)
Everyone Knows the problem with systmd is that it's written in C. Finally, a civilized replacement. (h/t Rasputin)
DO NOT WRITE YOUR OWN CRYPTO
Sometimes, the sucker you're taking money from knows something you don't. Most of the time, though, it's pretty obvious.
Speaking of latency arbitrage...
It turns out that half the size outweighs 'raw C pointers'
Dacquiri turns authorization vulnerabilities into compile-time errors.
Tiny-actor is a minimal actor framework for Rust.
"Existing anonymous credential schemes incorrectly assume that the local department of motor vehicles will issue sophisticated cryptographic tokens to show users are over 18".
I love the idea of one binary being a cross-platform CLI as well as a web service.
At least your kids will understand how the shoggoths work.
[Hurricane] Bonnie has tracked 1/4 of the Earth's circumference.
"The terrifying realization was that if the bots could execute [one] command they could also execute all the other [...] commands".
Live-patching security vulnerabilities inside the Linux kernel with eBPF Linux Security Module
Final Fantasy 14 players form human blockade to prevent access to infamous role-play server
Continuous cuffless monitoring of arterial blood pressure via graphene bioimpedance tattoos.

The Weekly Weird - 2022-06-24

Skorgu

2022-06-24 14:00

oh, good, more bleed.
Build your own quantum computer for pennies, sort of.
It's more than a little ironic that the first really interesting non-financial blockchain concept comes to my attention just as the rest of the industry is having shall we say a bad time.
Microsoft published a causal inference library a while ago and I somehow missed it?
Oh, you're still putting your headers at the beginning?
Not all water is blue.
Want to learn to use a mainframe?
I had never thought of thinking of mutexes as a graph to avoid deadlocks but apparently it's quite well known
Only the purest zipfiles served here.
HAL, eat your heart out.
Linux 5.20 To Support Async Buffered Writes For XFS + IO_uring, Rust(?!).
Searching for planets by occultation, Pluto edition. Is our solar system unique?
Detect radiation with only your smartphone.
"Progress in each of these domains is at or near the human clinical-trial stage, bringing the audacious goal of vision restoration within sight."
Please check out my new comic book, Cyborg Insect Cancer Scanner.
SQLite is great but did you know it can do a lot of wild one-liners on CSV files?
I wonder who the main consumers of a lower-latency path from Europe to Asia will be.
pew pew
Really loving what oxide is building.
Has that thing you're worried about ever happened, even once, to anyone?

The Weekly Weird - 2022-06-10

Skorgu

2022-06-10 14:00

We've all been expecting/hoping that the economic drive for space manufacturing was going to be fiber optics or lab-grown organs or microchips. What if it's salads and beer?
As a card-carrying member of the intentionally-drive-mosquitos-extinct club, I salute this killbot but why can't I just buy one?! (h/t rasputin)
Absolutely nobody should be surprised that point-and-deepfake is here already.
My inner 9yo has never been more excited.
What does it really mean to compress something?
I'll believe it when I see it but folks are trying, all over the place.
We mapped the supply chain. All of it..
Posting the criminal will be harshly punished.
Your honor, you're not going to believe this..
Long live the new flesh.
I propose a new metric: Mean Time To NSFW. (h/t Anthony)
Admission control your kubernetes with wasm. Somehow, not parody. (h/t Mike)
Neat, easily batch your rust async tasks.
Solar panels with teeny tiny batteries bulit in.