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New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:24:15 +0000

I think you're mixing up the NULL pointer and the NULL (sometimes NUL) character.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:20:52 +0000

Struct foo has various members, including a bar*. But a foo may or may not be associated with a bar. If there's no associated bar, the bar* pointer is NULL. Seen and done this all the time

New comment by none_to_remain in "Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches"

none_to_remain — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:14:05 +0000

The size overhead of that is 2*sizeof(int) while the overhead of null termination is sizeof(char). If I remember the standard right, the former is worse by at least sizeof(char), and usually more in practice. This used to matter, sometimes still does.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

none_to_remain — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:41:46 +0000

I got similar from ChatGPT - I took the wording to imply it knew exactly who I was but was going to keep quiet as I am not a "public figure".

New comment by none_to_remain in "Protestware for coding agents"

none_to_remain — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:08:53 +0000

Hypothetically, no LLMs involved anywhere, let's say I found some tool had a bug where I could prepend some obscure sequence of bytes to a shell command string and get that executed. So I do that to get my victims to `sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /` or whatever. Should the tool have the vulnerability? No. But I still made malware.

New comment by none_to_remain in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

none_to_remain — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:31 +0000

According to the "Sources" popup, creator can't even excuse the slop as AI slop:

> The prose

> Hand-written · Template-based, not generative

> Every sentence on this page was written by Matt. The code selects among prose templates based on what your browser returned. No language model writes or rewrites anything at runtime. If a condition is not covered by hand-written prose, the page stays quiet about it — we'd rather say less than say something false.

New comment by none_to_remain in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

none_to_remain — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:59:50 +0000

Information still wants to be free

New comment by none_to_remain in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

none_to_remain — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:01:37 +0000

I simply no longer consider myself morally bound by any contract I'm not seriously expected to read

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:21:40 +0000

Those silly words only come up in discussions like this. I have never heard them uttered in real life. I don't think my experience is bizarre here - actual usage is what matters in my book.

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:10:45 +0000

Of course! I was being silly and just thinking of "k" for the smaller one and "K" for the bigger one.

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:58:16 +0000

KiB is a an abbreviation for "kilobyte" which emphasizes that it means 1024.

New comment by none_to_remain in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

none_to_remain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:56:20 +0000

I like how the GNU coreutils seem to have done. They use real, 1024-byte kilobytes by default, but print only the abbreviation of the prefix so it's just 10K or 200M and people can pretend it stands for some other silly word if they want.

You can use `--si` for fake, 1000-byte kilobytes - trying it it seems weird that these are reported with a lowercase 'k' but 'M' and so on remain uppercase.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

none_to_remain — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:14:20 +0000

They had Amazon Go by Grand Central Terminal and it was great to grab a snack and drink on the way to the train, with no worry about being delayed by the checkout line. I figured they had people in India verifying things but saw no reason to care as a customer.

New comment by none_to_remain in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

none_to_remain — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:09:34 +0000

I perceive "guidelines" or "rules" having a very different connotation compared to a "code of conduct."

See for, example, the SQLite team adopting the Rule of St. Benedict as their "Code of Conduct," getting criticized for it, and changing it to a "Code of Ethics" in accordance with the Rule about seeking accommodation with your adversaries.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

none_to_remain — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:47:28 +0000

The user's name is Tim Cook and it's very rude to use his computer in ways he wouldn't like

New comment by none_to_remain in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"

none_to_remain — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:55:09 +0000

It certainly doesn't look intentional to me- it looks like at some point someone added "-r" as a valid option, but until this surfaced as a bug, no one actually implemented anything for it (and the logic happens to fall through to using the current date).

New comment by none_to_remain in "Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25.10 automatic updates"

none_to_remain — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:56:51 +0000

There were no buffer overflows, though!

New comment by none_to_remain in "I hacked Monster Energy"

none_to_remain — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:44:34 +0000

I have seen this in practice for vulnerabilities that affect many users of some software. If some Hackermann finds that Microsoft Windows version X or Oracle Database server version Y has a security flaw then disclosure is virtuous so that people using those can take measures. That reasoning doesn't seem to apply here.

New comment by none_to_remain in "Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law"

none_to_remain — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:28:42 +0000

You could very well read that as praise for Mississippi

New comment by none_to_remain in "Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law"

none_to_remain — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:01:12 +0000

Their wording had me imagining technological schemes that blind BlueSky from knowing but reading again I think what's going on is:

Mississippi: They track "underage" and "adult" UK: They track "unknown [treated as underage]" and "adult"