So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?

Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.

.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.

But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

They started from XML. There’s nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.

FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface

Friends don’t let friends use Java 😜

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

Uninterruptible sleep makes this harder than it looks

TCP Selective Ack is very much a thing, but it does take extra memory so lots of TCP stacks exclude it or disable it by default.

TCP was never designed with wifi in mind. TCP retransmission was only ever meant to handle drops due to congestion, not lossy links.

Tmux is a wonderful complement to mosh. Together you get persistence even when your local client loses power (speaking from experience)

I worked with mosh for years to connect to servers on other continents. It was impossible to work otherwise. It only has two small warts: forwarding, and jump hosts.

The second is fixable/ish with an overlay network, but that isn’t always an option if you don’t control the network. I tried to solve this with socat but wasn’t able to configure it correctly - something about the socket reuse flag was very unhappy.

First turned on in 2010.

Git-svn was always the blessed path for converting. GitHub supporting svn was more about getting heterogeneous orgs to buy enterprise subscriptions.

Also that in order to exploit this it requires an active man in the middle. Which requires any of the following:

• Reverse proxy hijack/NAT hijack - from a compromised machine near the server
• BGP hijack - stealing traffic to the real IP
• DNS hijack - stealing traffic to send to a different IP
• Malicious/compromised network transit
• Local network gateway control
• WAP poisoning - wifi roaming is designed really well so this is actually easier than it sounds.

Almost all of those have decent mitigations like 801.x and BGP monitoring. The best mitigation is that you can just change your client config to disable those ciphersuites though.

Technically incorrect headline.

There are still 137 hostages being held in Gaza by various groups - who have not been seen by the ICRC in accordance with international law or the terms of the temporary truce. Among those, there are 12 hostages aged 18 and 19.

They haven’t even released all of the kids - Shiri Bibas and her children: Ariel aged 4 and Kfir aged 10 months old.

From first principles, the goal of imprisonment is threefold:

1. As punishment
2. To protect society from the risk of recidivism
3. To provide them with a stable environment to provide them with assistance aimed towards reducing recidivism.

Terrorists are motivated by ideology and without significant intervention are basically guaranteed to have 100% chance of repeating their acts.

I don’t think keeping them in prison forever is a solution, but neither is sticking them in there for 10 years, clearly.

From Ynet:

The two terrorists who opened fire at the entrance to Jerusalem arrived in the same vehicle, and were neutralized by two soldiers and a civilian who were nearby. They were later identified as two brothers from Sur Baher in East Jerusalem - Ibrahim Nemer, 30, and Murad Nemer, 38. During a police search of the terrorists’ vehicle, cartridges and a lot of ammunition were found.

According to Times of Israel, they were previously jailed for terrorism:

Murad was jailed from 2010 to 2020 for planning terror attacks under the direction of terror elements in the Gaza Strip, according to the Shin Bet.

Ibrahim was jailed in 2014 for undisclosed terror activity, the agency says.