Yikes

Impact: Remote Code Execution
Max Severity: Critical
Weakness: CWE-191: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)

> An unauthenticated attacker could repeatedly send IPv6 packets, that include specially crafted packets, to a Windows machine which could enable remote code execution.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063 #Windows #Security

Mastodon apps on Android tablets seem to be a sorry state of affairs. None seem actually designed for this form factor.

Fantastic post by Tristan Hume on a myriad of tracing and performance tools and tips for using them:

All my favorite tracing tools: eBPF, QEMU, Perfetto, new ones I built and more - https://thume.ca/2023/12/02/tracing-methods/

Oh I love this! The website for https://software.inc/ (a company by the folks that made the Shortcuts app that Apple acquired and baked into iOS) launches Mac OS 8.0 in an emulator and the content of the site is a classic Mac OS application. #VintageMac #RetroComputing /via @daringfireball

Ahh yes timeframes in software: N, N-2, 6mo, 1y, …Debian 😅

from https://github.com/epage/rfcs/blob/msrv/text/3537-msrv-resolver.md

Oh nice the Rust project is in the process of setting up its own Mastodon instance https://github.com/rust-lang/infra-team/issues/75 #rust

Why are we regressing on user interface usability instead of getting better?

Here is the first run setup wizard on a @Raspberry_Pi 400. There is a select box to choose your country. It has pre-selected the United States (for some reason). I want to choose Australia. Typing 'a' to jump to the top does nothing, I have to scroll-scroll-scroll to get there. 1/2 #ux

Some unfortunate lack of kerning. #kerning #keming

I just discovered this excellent animated cursor in Disk Copy

#VintageMac #RetroComputing #macos