Rowan
@novafacing.bsky.social
fuzzing enjoyer
@novafacing@haunted.computer
@novafacing@haunted.computer
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Americanos are so good I can't believe I've been missing this
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Americanos are so good I can't believe I've been missing this
So wack that in C++ you dereference a pointer to get a reference instead of &*-ing it. Rust once again most intuitive language
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So wack that in C++ you dereference a pointer to get a reference instead of &*-ing it. Rust once again most intuitive language
Finishing a game I really didn't enjoy and seeing it has a 91 on metacritic makes me feel like a colossal hater lmao
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Finishing a game I really didn't enjoy and seeing it has a 91 on metacritic makes me feel like a colossal hater lmao
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One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed
Tell me why my climbing gym is trying to sell TWELVE DOLLAR smoothies no wonder I never see anyone drinking one
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Tell me why my climbing gym is trying to sell TWELVE DOLLAR smoothies no wonder I never see anyone drinking one
I don't have a horse in the baseball fight but listening to the game on the free radio broadcast rules
November 2, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I don't have a horse in the baseball fight but listening to the game on the free radio broadcast rules
Gotta say this is king shit from the libxml2 folks who know perfectly well it's used in all kinds of external facing mission critical places
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Gotta say this is king shit from the libxml2 folks who know perfectly well it's used in all kinds of external facing mission critical places
Spent the entire new Frankenstein movie scared the monster was going to come out of the screen and start beating me over the head with the moral of the story
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Spent the entire new Frankenstein movie scared the monster was going to come out of the screen and start beating me over the head with the moral of the story
Is the best way to make a bug based fuzzing benchmark really just to go through CVEs and find every issue in the tracker and hope there's a POC 😭
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Is the best way to make a bug based fuzzing benchmark really just to go through CVEs and find every issue in the tracker and hope there's a POC 😭
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Talk Tomorrow: "Scalable Static Analysis and High-Performance Logic Programming" (github.com/kmicinski/mi...)
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Talk Tomorrow: "Scalable Static Analysis and High-Performance Logic Programming" (github.com/kmicinski/mi...)
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me (recently into bouldering):
CI:
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me: ah! good attempt!!
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me: COME ON!!
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CI: ❌
me: ah! good attempt!!
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
me (recently into bouldering):
CI:
me:
CI: ...
me: nice, come on
CI: ...
me: yeah, come on...
CI: ...
me:
CI: ...
me: COME ON!!
CI: ...
CI: ❌
me: ah! good attempt!!
CI:
me:
CI: ...
me: nice, come on
CI: ...
me: yeah, come on...
CI: ...
me:
CI: ...
me: COME ON!!
CI: ...
CI: ❌
me: ah! good attempt!!
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Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump
addisoncrump.info/research/wha...
addisoncrump.info/research/wha...
What the hell are we doing? · Addison Crump
Homepage for Addison Crump
addisoncrump.info
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Must-read for fuzzing folks (read: tooling/algorithms/academia) by Addison Crump
addisoncrump.info/research/wha...
addisoncrump.info/research/wha...
Making my conference slides and formatting code in google slides sucks and the devil on my shoulder is telling me to use beamer but I will NOT
October 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Making my conference slides and formatting code in google slides sucks and the devil on my shoulder is telling me to use beamer but I will NOT
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I'm shocked.. thehackernews.com/2025/10/micr...
Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor
Microsoft restricts IE Mode in Edge after threat actors exploited Chakra engine flaws for remote access.
thehackernews.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I'm shocked.. thehackernews.com/2025/10/micr...
Yeah, you could say I'm a vibe coder (using claude to suggest synonyms of my traits with different first letters so they can all be abbreviated prettily as generic parameters)
October 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yeah, you could say I'm a vibe coder (using claude to suggest synonyms of my traits with different first letters so they can all be abbreviated prettily as generic parameters)
I have a hot take that Result is extremely overused in places where stuff should probably just panic and often ends up obscuring the problem by bubbling up errors too high. Panicking is okay!
October 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I have a hot take that Result is extremely overused in places where stuff should probably just panic and often ends up obscuring the problem by bubbling up errors too high. Panicking is okay!
Never going to be the same now that I can just buy sashimi grade fish as uwajimaya and get 75% of the restaurant sushi experience for 15% of the price
October 8, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Never going to be the same now that I can just buy sashimi grade fish as uwajimaya and get 75% of the restaurant sushi experience for 15% of the price
Oh shit well I'm glad I'm safe from the war over here in Beaverton
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Oh shit well I'm glad I'm safe from the war over here in Beaverton
Drank a caffeinated coffee this morning after months on decaf and spent a 3 hour drive learning about marine diesel engines and saturation diving procedures
September 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Drank a caffeinated coffee this morning after months on decaf and spent a 3 hour drive learning about marine diesel engines and saturation diving procedures
Saw (and unfortunately squished trying to capture) my first giant house spider today, gotta say I am really not a fan of 4" spiders.
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Saw (and unfortunately squished trying to capture) my first giant house spider today, gotta say I am really not a fan of 4" spiders.
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This matches my experience: those of us who spent the pre-LLM years building ML models + GANs see genAI in a different light.
We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough.
#dataBS
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough.
#dataBS
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This matches my experience: those of us who spent the pre-LLM years building ML models + GANs see genAI in a different light.
We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough.
#dataBS
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
We have a clearer view of what is/isn't possible, so we're less likely to throw it at every imaginable task expecting a breakthrough.
#dataBS
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...
Anyone know how to specify the priority of a static in the __init_offsets section in a #[link_section = "__TEXT,__init_offsets"] directive? You can do it on Linux with like .init_array.PRIORITY...
August 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Anyone know how to specify the priority of a static in the __init_offsets section in a #[link_section = "__TEXT,__init_offsets"] directive? You can do it on Linux with like .init_array.PRIORITY...
Just ordered from rock auto for the first time and holy crap we have to go back, this might be the best website still operating today
August 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Just ordered from rock auto for the first time and holy crap we have to go back, this might be the best website still operating today
It hasn't happened much yet because it seems like the people making MCP slop tools are still in the phase where they tell you that's what it is but eventually we'll get to a point where software that looks normal is just incorrect sometimes unexpectedly and I don't know if we're ready for that
August 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
It hasn't happened much yet because it seems like the people making MCP slop tools are still in the phase where they tell you that's what it is but eventually we'll get to a point where software that looks normal is just incorrect sometimes unexpectedly and I don't know if we're ready for that