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Stories by kel

My FOSS Story (blog.burntsushi.net)
Advice for a Junior Developer
I've been on Lobsters for a while now. My profile says "3 years". Wow, holy shit. If I could list off all the ways I've grown since then, I'd need quite a lot of time to do it. A sizeable portion of it could probably be attributed to this website. People that come around here. Random individuals on ...
Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto (pivot-to-ai.com)
Lenovo laptops shipping with BIOS-level rootkit (arstechnica.com)
Fallout's Memory Model (youtube.com)
Announcing Rust 1.12.1 - The Rust Programming Language Blog (blog.rust-lang.org)
The adblock arms race has began. (adblockplus.org)
Oh, a UNIX shell built around Scheme (github.com)
Amethyst 0.9: Rendering 100,000 sprites at 60fps (amethyst.rs)
Windows 11 also vulnerable to “aCropalypse” image data leakage (nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP (youtube.com)
Abusing Floating Point Casts To Beat A SM64 Level In Half An "A" Press (youtube.com)
Summary: - Mario moves a NPC to a specific spot to build extra elevation at end of level - Open door to create special position where Mario won't slide into water - Mario slides backwards into barrier for 12 hours to build (uncapped) speed - Speed is then utilized to move out of bounds - When...
What are you working on this week?
/u/caius hasn't posted this thread yet this week, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to post it up ? This is the weekly thread to discuss what you have done recently and are working on this week. Be descriptive, and don’t hesitate to ask for help!
Developer tablets?
In the spirit of the [laptops thread](https://lobste.rs/s/i3yo2s/developer_laptop_thats_not_macbook), have any of you found a tablet that works well to boot *nixes and you could recommend as an on-the-go rig?
.Net's new Span<T> memory abstraction (github.com)
Amethyst 0.11 Released (amethyst.rs)
Features rewrite of renderer utilizing the [Gfx-rs](https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx) "Hardware Abstraction Layer" for Vulkan Portability and Render Graph via the [Rendy](https://github.com/amethyst/rendy) Vulkan meta-framework library.
US Executive Order Banning Computer Equipment & Services From "Foreign Adversaries" (whitehouse.gov)
NTP Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered; In All Releases Before 4.2.8 (support.ntp.org)
[Cached version](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jMcfipOGXXwJ:support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#Buffer_overflow_in_ctl_putdata) since ntp's webserver can be a little unreliable.
Proofsweeper: Play Minesweeper by formally proving your moves in Idris (github.com)
HTTP/2: In-depth analysis of the top four flaws of the next generation web protocol (imperva.com)
The Voodoo of Elevation Gain and Strava (and How I Get Around It) (2015) (regex.info)
Vulnerability in Microsoft Font Driver Could Allow Remote Code Execution (technet.microsoft.com)
Worker's enquiry in the cynical mode: the unrevolutionary working life of the web developer (2010) (endnotes.org.uk)
Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard (blog.paralleluniverse.co)
Design patterns are from hell^2 (realtimecollisiondetection.net)
Transforming Data with ClojureScript (langintro.com)
An interactive book for beginning programmers
Five CVE's patched in March 11th Chrome stable release (googlechromereleases.blogspot.com)
cjdrs – cjdns implementation in Rust (github.com)
Pebble, a Kernel Language for Modules and Abstract Data Types (1988) (research.microsoft.com)
Amethyst Legion ECS Evolution RFC (github.com)