technolust @technolust@hackers.town

Mastodon web UI users: if your account started off with the newer "unified" view, with all the timelines combined into a single column, have you since switched to the multi-column "advanced" view?

I have a linux-amd64 binary from some random vendor that probably does some useful stuff but I'd like to convince myself that it doesn't include any glaringly obvious backdoors. The vendor seems like a juicy target for supply chain compromise, so while I think they're probably not malicious I can't say the same about their deliverables.

I figure I should open it up in radare2 and take a look, that way I also get a chance to learn more about a tool that's been on my "should really learn that" list for a long time.

Got a pointer to a tutorial, book, or video that'll walk me through the UX?

Should I be using another UI or tool than radare2?

Boosts welcome!

Source: Los Alamos National Labs

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.29.069054v1

An amazing graph made the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, look up your state:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections

Rename your git branches from "master" to "main" challenge 2020

Sad and ironic that Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib" is essentially inaccessible (out-of-print, existing copies are expensive collectors items and the author refuses to allow it to be distributed electronically) to a generation of programmers who need it most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Lib/Dream_Machines

https://notamonadtutorial.com/sonic-a-minimalist-alternative-to-elasticsearch-written-in-rust-7f3612ecb47b?gi=9f73377e5cf0
#Rust again

Rust is the shiznit! I'm glad people are using Rust. We're all tired of techbros but I don't really care as long as it's free software.

The repo is here: https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic (MPLv2)

The Google+NASA quantum supremacy paper (in early preprint version as leaked from the NTRS server) is available at https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/09/here-is-the-quantum-supremacy-using-a-programmable-superconducting-processor-paper.html

And Scott Aaronson has reasonably balanced blog post about it at https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4317

#quantum #quantumcomputing

RMS has resigned as FSF president and from the board of directors: https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns