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issetugid() sadness.

https://gist.github.com/nicowilliams/4daf74a3a0c86848d3cbd9d0cdb5e26e

saved 2026-07-28 https://dotat.at/:/IPQIT.html

irritated to find out that the acm has unpublished the algol bulletin archive https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1060935.1060936 it’s now secret instead of open access

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A floating point bit twiddling toy.

http://evanw.github.io/float-toy/

saved 2020-01-23 https://dotat.at/:/G639G.html

amused by ed zitron’s turns of phrase

« all it takes is one bad apple to go pear shaped »

« terms that would make a mafioso loan shark pause and say “hold on, that’s a bit harsh.” »

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Rust for Morello ARM CHERI: always-on memory safety, even in unsafe code.

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol263-ecoop2023/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39.pdf

saved 2026-07-21 https://dotat.at/:/9MIM0.html

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What science can tell us about C and C++'s security.

https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/

saved 2020-05-28 https://dotat.at/:/R7YLW.html

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Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing complete.

https://seriot.ch/computation/uts35/

saved 2026-07-08 https://dotat.at/:/BR7XQ.html

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Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x

saved 2019-09-28 https://dotat.at/:/N86CN.html

huh, i thought we had wasps invading our garage, but the pest control bod says they are ivy bees (there is ivy on the side of the garage) which are not aggressive or stinging - ivy bees are notably smaller and darker than wasps

and he said it’s too early in the year for wasps to be making a nuisance of themselves