Hacking on networking and operating system code for fun and profit.

Joined October 2011
#C64 production line Germany. 1980 something
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An expert in anything was once a beginner... There are 2,596 how-tos, guides, open-source code & more, at the Adafruit Learning System, learn.adafruit.com
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I’ve already got a piece coming out about the Facebook fail but then we had aws and now log4j. All the same problem. Nobody knows what they’re true dependencies are.
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It is a strange world when a reader says they like KV because it reminds them of “Alexander McCall Smith, Sophie Hannah, or Somerset Maugham” but I’ll take all the compliments I can get. I somehow doubt Maugham abused his readers, or the language, as much as I do.
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I hear other peoples’ computers are down again. /me makes popcorn
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“Yes but you glare like brandishing a 9mm.” Best compliment I’ve gotten in a while.
You can bring filled cannolis through TSA, but not cannoli shells plus filling in a bag #securitytheater Also ofc this happened in Boston lmao
Good evening from Logan Airport.
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Kode Vicious retweeted
A new paper by my colleagues and I on the security risks of “client-side scanning” architectures.
A new white paper on the risks of client-side scanning, by Hal Abelson, @rossjanderson, Josh Benaloh, @mattblaze, @joncallas, Whit Diffie, Susan Landau, Peter Neumann, Ron Rivest, Jeff Schiller, @schneierblog, @VTeagueAus, and @carmelatroncoso, and myself: cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/…
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.@kode_vicious discusses the virtue and vice of bisection, in the latest issue of @CACMmag bit.ly/3AWABxv
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Kode Vicious retweeted
Kode Vicious: Patent Absurdity: If you run afoul of a patent and it can be shown that you had knowledge of it, your company will incur triple the damages that they would have, had you not had knowledge of the patent. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… @kode_vicious
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Not at all! He's why this silly thing started. Column 1. freebsdfoundation.org/wp-con…
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The new @freebsdjournal also features my regular Letters column, wherein I finally chew out @kode_vicious for throwing me under this particular bus.
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"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian W. Kernighan
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A 1000 times yes!
A picture is worth a thousand words. An architectural diagram is worth ten meetings.
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🧞‍♂️ "A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want." — Joe Sondow
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While the last piece of assembler I wrote by hand was written 30 years ago, the lessons I learned by interacting directly with the hardware—without even the cushion of C—remain with me to this day, writes @kode_vicious in @CACMmag bit.ly/3zFBiKu
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Kode Vicious retweeted
Divide and Conquer: The use and limits of bisection Timing bugs, bugs in distributed systems, and all the difficult problems we face in building increasingly complex software systems can't yet be addressed by simple bisection. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… @kode_vicious
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Kode Vicious retweeted
staring at the pxe code reminds me that your operating system's lower abstraction layer is just a bunch memory mapped flags in an overcoat
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As KV I mostly avoid the political but as a Bronx Baby I couldn’t be prouder of Dr. Fauci. That must have felt great!
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