@futurebird The jackets *are* pretty cool.

All 12 of my reviews are imported. It’s not much, but it’s honest work!

Sort of re-assuring to see that even Valve sometimes double-escapes its HTML entities.

Email Update

We have reworked our email infrastructure today - and by that, we've finished every item on our backlog that is associated with email

• Our mail infrastructure is running OpenBSD 8.0 with OpenSMTPD 7.9.0. It just so turns out that the lovely spiked fish does a fantastic job at delivering mail.
• Our DANE setup got overhauled. More specifically, we extended the TLSA records to not just fit our own super secure setup - but offer compatibility with half assed setups too.
• We have upgraded our private key from the number 4 to 42. Turns out that the former might not be the best idea.
• A more finetuned rspamd configuration is now in production.

Email is not a secure means of communication. But we won't cave into the demands of the email empire. Forever rebels

(plus, big tech will eventually fall and we'll be watching with popcorn )

@MsMerope LOL that's realistic.

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

Here’s what Trump said he knew about Jensen Huang https://www.theverge.com/tech/1030446/trump-jensen-huang-press-conference

What did I click that made my youtube recommendations turn into a campaign against Ryan Reynolds?

I get it, he has a nice public persona but is insecure and controlling in private and at work. It seems plausible and well-rounded enough. But what happened to make this an urgent message right now?

@i0null

If you’re confused about what’s happening with Nvidia right now…

Basically Jensen Huang, the guy who runs Nvidia, which is the company that makes the chips basically every AI company on earth needs, just sent an email to his entire company admitting he cheated on his wife, and that came right after the New York Times reported that US intelligence believes a woman who got close to him was secretly passing information to the Chinese government, and to understand how we got here you have to go back to June 2024, when this Chinese businesswoman named Alice Huang, who also goes by Huang Le and isn't related to Jensen at all, they just have the same last name, gets photographed at a party in Taipei sitting right next to him, and then about a year later her company, a small Singapore company called Megaspeed that almost nobody had ever heard of, reportedly sets up a deal to buy around $2 billion worth of Nvidia's chips, which is a crazy amount of money for a company that small, and the Times even pointed out it was an unusual amount of business for a firm like that, and people already had questions about where all those chips were really going, but Nvidia looked into it and said everything checked out, so for a while that's kind of where things sat, until October 29, when the Times reported that US intelligence had concluded Alice was passing information to Beijing, and that it wasn't some new discovery either, because Trump had reportedly been briefed on it about a year earlier, and the officials involved apparently believed Jensen didn't know what she was up to, but here's the strange part, nobody ever told him, because there's this thing called a defensive briefing, where counterintelligence people basically pull someone aside and say hey, a foreign government might be targeting you, be careful, and Jensen never got one, even though the whole time the government was still watching her, so you have the head of the most important AI chip company in the world apparently being targeted, and the people who knew about it just let it keep going, and then everyone starts denying it, Nvidia says the Megaspeed allegations were already investigated and debunked last year, China's foreign ministry says the whole report is baseless, and Jensen says the business with Megaspeed was totally normal, just a customer buying chips like any other customer, but Congress doesn't let it go, and three House Republicans who run national security committees ask Jensen to come in and explain himself in a closed-door briefing, which means a private meeting away from the public and the cameras, and then on a Sunday, out of nowhere, Jensen sends that email to every single employee saying he had been unfaithful to his wife, that it hurt her and their children, and that nothing excused what he did, and he doesn't say who it was with, but you can imagine where everyone's mind went, and right after that, Nvidia's board, which is the group of people who are supposed to oversee the CEO, announces it's setting up an independent committee with outside lawyers to investigate, but at the same time says it has no reason to believe any national security secrets or company secrets were compromised and that it still has confidence in him, and then a company spokesperson comes out and says none of this is going to slow Nvidia down and Jensen is going to keep running the company without any interruption, so basically you have a suspected Chinese intelligence asset who got close to the CEO, a $2 billion chip deal, a president who reportedly knew about, a CEO who was never warned, a confession about an affair, an investigation, and a company insisting everything is fine, so that's pretty much where Nvidia is tonight.

@ai6yr
thought to see from this image but we would set up a "cafe" in between those 2 shipping containers and then drive our pickup truck into the front "patio" area.
throw some manikins under the truck and our dead baby half out the window....

@futurebird If anyone ever asks me to be CEO of something, I shall henceforth reply with "Alas, I cannot. For the sexy ladies, they are too distracting." and then gallop away into the distance.

@paul_ipv6 "it's ONLY down 4.6%" 😆

A support library, among other things, provides a Markdown class whose constructor concatenates together a cache's directory path, & extracts the file's basename to be its title.

The load method carefully opens the file from the SD card, retrieves file's size, closes the file, & invokes a helper to extract the file's title.

To clear its cache it removes that directory if it exists. And there's a corresponding method to create the directory if it doesn't. A 3rd returns cover.bmp from the cache.

If you want to believe this is as it seems, go ahead, but consider this possibity. Schumer, and his 'savy' friends know he is incredibly unpopular, both by the public and many of his colleagues. His only chance was the bum rush. Van Hollen cleverly torpedoed the 'coronation' gambit, leaving the ground open for an alternative. Now Van Hollen has the mandate due to the outpouring of support trying to draft him, and when it comes to a popularity contest, Schumer is toast.

2/

Studying Papyrix's support for rendering Markdown ebooks...

Its Markdown Provider subclass opens such files by closing any existing file if any, constructs a new Markdown object & remembers it, defers to its load() method, clears its metadata properties, copies the title over, zeroes out the author, copies the cached path over, copies the cover path over, sets initial page data.

To compute a page count it estimates that the screen can fit 2KiB of text, same as for plaintext.

1/2 for today?

To find a cover image it extracts the file's directory & defers to a GfxRenderer helper. To generate the cover bitmap it with results & failures cached on the SD card it locates the cover image, invokes that cover-image helper or errors out, creates the cache directory if necessary, & has the graphics library convert the image to a bitmap.

Then there's similar methods for thumbnails.

There's a method to read the file entirely into RAM.

3/4!

To extract the title with caching on the SD card, it allocates a buffer & reads the file entirely into RAM, iterates over non-blank lines, validates results from that loop, truncates the title to 127 chars, & remembers it. For each line it checks for a preceding "#" counting up subsequent hashes, validates there's at most 6 & that there's trailing text on the line, & strips surrounding spaces & hashes to hopefully get the title.

4/4 Fin for today!