Thank you. You saved me a Google search.

The user’s code is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in certain edge cases. I need to patch the vulnerability and commit the patch to the repo.

I should rewrite the existing memmanage() function to handle these edge cases. (Silently removes all other functionality)

I should modify garbagecollect() to detect these edge cases. I’ll rename it to garbage_collector() for clarity and readability. (Renames the function, calls it no where)

(Confidently) I modified the program as requested, the new version of your application should be more secure and handle memory issues much more efficiently.

But did your winter heating bill go down? Asking for a friend.

Add a GPU and mine some crypto, add a GPU and mine some crypto, add a GPU and mine some crypto, earlie in the mornin’!

Why is feeding people political? What value add is forcing people to starve? Monsters.

I’ve been doing some free consulting work with Food Not Bombs chapters in my local area. The same day that SNAP went away, ICE started intimidating them.

• They told all the churches and community centers where they do distribution that they’re “providing material aid to illegal immigrants” and can face criminal investigations and warrantless searches unless they stop letting FNB distribute food.
• Have shown up at distributions to check people’s immigration status which has scared some people away from coming to get food.

IDK if this is a nationwide coordinated effort or unique to my area.

Companies attacking security researchers always goes so well for them.

But… why?

This headline! Yes! We have mechanisms for that! But if the parties in power abdicate their responsibility to act then no, we can’t do anything.

I have a friend who once brought back an “iPhone” from China for laughs.

I run my own instance that has just two users. I Federate with who I want (including most instances you named). I subscribe to low drama instances like startrek.website and mander.xyz. I subscribe to communities from MOST of the instances you mentioned, but not a single one has drama (for example, no one on the lemmy.ml cybersecurity or selfhosting communities argues about politics… they just post and talk about those things).

I experience almost no drama. Two years ago, it was different, but I left those communities (but not even those instances) and just avoid engaging with those users (and it was honestly only a few very vocal users).

In my daily life, I’m involved with a number of protest and mutual aid organizations and I can tell you, the whole left is full of very vocal “my leftism is better than your leftism” people. But MOST people aren’t actually like that… just the loud ones. If you challenge them in their spaces, not only will you end up on the receiving end, they’ll turn you into one of them (I have been down that road a couple times). Not that they’ll convert your politics, necessarily, but they’ll convert your behavior. They create and feed off drama triangles and “I escalate, you double down, you escalate, I double down” feedback loops. This isn’t unique to Lemmy. You can experience the same thing in your local hacker space co-op (ask me how I know).

Historically, leftist political and social discourse has always been like this, for all of history. It’s not something special about Lemmy, it’s in the nature of collective groups of humans interested in free expression, positive social change and social justice. We’re angry, we’re trapped in an abusive relationship with the Right and we all think we have the answers. The Left’s greatest strengths and values (diversity, creativity, expression) are its greatest weaknesses. Same is true of the Right (conformity, hierarchy, rigidity).

Truth.

I feel like Calvin can probably be placated with Minecraft.

For many years I’ve had at least one Windows machine and at least one OSX machine (and then everything else runs linux). As MS started pushing this (and as Proton and Lutris got good enough to support almost any Windows software I would need to run, mostly games) I finally made the jump to zero Windows machines about a year and a half ago. Don’t miss it.

The right is ramping up attacks on Wikipedia for “partisan bias” right now. If you think Wikipedia has partisan bias, it’s a really good indicator that your beliefs are out of line with reality.

You can federate Matrix using Synapse.

I think if Matrix were easier to deploy, it would have a lot more adoption for this kind of thing. Once Matrix is set up and running, it runs great! Put energy toward improving Matrix deployment (and don’t give me yet another ansible playbook or docker file… it should be as easy to set up on bare metal as forgejo or you’re doin’ it wrong) instead of building something new from scratch.

My absolute favorite thing about LLMs is how when they do that they explain the problem with “my code” to me.

Too real.

Meh. I’ll be impressed when it plays Aria Math.

(j/k, this is awesome, I love it)

Everything works fine. It’s super handy having such fine control over my router.

OpenWRT.