New blog post: Converting Legacy C Code To Modern #Fortran degenerateconic.com/cpp-to-f…

In 2014, 23-year-old Ashley Gabrielle Huff was pulled over in Georgia. Police found a spoon with red residue and a field drug test said it was methamphetamine. Ashley swore it was just leftover Spaghettio sauce from lunch. Unable to pay bail, she spent a full month in jail, lost her job at Waffle House and missed her child’s birthday. A month later, the state crime lab finally tested it properly and confirmed it was nothing but tomato sauce.

Decent blog post.. kernel launch overhead never gets the attention it deserves. A few nits: 1) timing w CUDA events isn’t external, really, they use the GPU’s own timing facilities. 2) a MegaKernel can be persistent, perhaps polling a device memory location mapped for the CPU,

this guy gets it

I don't know what technology comes next, but we'll be programming it in Fortran.

Does anyone need a PDF copy of the Bash Reference Manual? justice.gov/epstein/files/Da…

My dad (Richard Feynman) had a side hustle doing industrial consulting. He'd spend a few hours visiting a company, talking to the engineers, looking at stuff, and then maybe have a good suggestion. Sometimes he would bring his son along. I only recall one of his suggestions, but it made the company he was consulting for way better off, so I guess his exorbitant consulting fees were worth it. We could have been wealthier if he had done it systematically, but he didn't want to be organized about looking for jobs, so it just happened when someone asked.

Excited to disclose my research allowing RCE in Kubernetes It allows running arbitrary commands in EVERY pod in a cluster using a commonly granted "read only" RBAC permission. This is not logged and and allows for trivial Pod breakout. Unfortunately, this will NOT be patched.

Cloud-native is a euphemism for over engineered standards-free fragile garbage. Change my mind.

Dear Harvard Students for Palestine, This is South Sudan. It is 248,777 square miles, about the size of Texas. It has 12.3 million. Their National GDP for 2025 is 6.03 billion dollars. How do you feel about the fact that Qatar donated 6.6 billion dollars to Harvard while 92% of the people in Sudan live on less than $2.15 a day? 714,439 children in Sudan suffer from malnutrition, and thousands die of hunger. Why do you think Qatar is donating all that money to your Middle East Studies Departments? Why do so many of your professors talk about Gaza while ignoring the children of Africa?

Today a child was born who would come to change the world and reconcile the human experience with our creator... Happy Sir Isaac Newton's Birthday!

US etiquette question: do you need to tip the guy at the border who reads your last five years of social media history?

Artificial sweeteners, corn syrup, and beet sugar should be banned.

Observing a moment of silence for @soft_fox_lad

I went on a job interview for a Senior SWE role. They asked me about my experience with Kafka. I told them how in “Metamorphosis” someone can lose their worth in others’ eyes the moment they stop being useful. It’s a chilling reminder of how fragile our sense of belonging can be when it relies on productivity instead of humanity. I told them how in “The Trial” he describes the helplessness of confronting institutions that feel arbitrary, unaccountable, and impossible to navigate. The randomness of a giant system can crush your soul. Our brains can’t handle overwhelming inconsistency. I told them how in “The Castle”, we learn that seeking an approval from an unreachable authority is a trap. If you spend your life chasing validation from humans who don’t care, you’ll end up feeling stuck. The pursuit consumes more than the reward it gives. I didn’t get the job. The market is tough.

Recently, there was a clash between the popular @FFmpeg project, a low-level multimedia library found everywhere… and Google. A Google AI agent found a bug in FFmpeg. FFmpeg is a far-ranging library, supporting niche multimedia files, often through reverse-engineering. It is entirely the result of volunteers and a marvellous piece of technology. For people who have never been on the receiving end of ‘security researchers’, it is difficult to understand why there is a pushback against them. Think about the commons. In Quebec, these are pieces of land where farmers send their cows during the summer. It is collectively owned, like FFmpeg. Everyone is responsible to care for the commons if they are using it. If you are not using it, you are supposed to stay away. Now, imagine a rich corporation comes in and sends its well-paid agents into the commons to find issues with it. Maybe a broken barrier or a dangerous hole. So far so good… But instead of fixing the issues, the corporation says “you have a month to fix the issue or else I will report you to the government”. How much love would the big corporation get in this context? Why do the security researchers insist on disclosing the issue without having contributed to fixing it? So that they can get credit for it. That's their entire scheme: find issues, irrespective of whether they affect the use case of their employer... after all, all issues no matter how small can be potentially significant at some point... and then brag about it without doing the hard work of trying to fix it. Let me be clear that no everyone working in security behaves this way. Many are good actors. But there are enough 'security researchers' behaving as parasites that it has become a recognizable pattern. « But Daniel, who should be fixing the bugs then? » If you are paying for commercial support, then get in touch with the folks you are paying. If you are not paying, then it is on you. It says so in the licenses. It is part of the moral code open source. It is part of the legal framework. Let me be clear. You do not get to bite back at Linus Torvalds if a bug in the linux kernel crashes your server. What you do is that you identify the issue, narrow it down and propose a fix. If you cannot do it, then you pay someone to do it. Or you just do not use Linux.