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Mostly a Rust hacker

Interests: Reversible programming, HTTP Live Streaming and derivatives, FreeBSD

Homepage: https://erk.dev
GitHub: https://github.com/Erk-
@skade Recently a friend of mine got a android phone booting aarch64 BE Linux which the kernel also supports, though I am really not sure who actually uses Big Endian Arm. I assume the chip just supports it because they don't want to remove it for some reason.
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So to my office, and there made my monthly accounts, and find myself worth in money about 686l. 19s. 2½d., for which God be praised.

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In June, we announced HarfRust, a fully safe port of to Rust. At that time, HarfRust was 2x to 4x slower than HarfBuzz for a variety of benchmarks, so we have been working on addressing that.

Today, Chad Brokaw and I are pleased to present HarfRust 0.2.0, which is less than 25% slower than HarfBuzz, on both OpenType and AAT shaping benchmarks. We have also addressed all known correctness issues.

Charts:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lyPPZHXIF8gE0Tpx7_IscwhwaZa4KOpdt7vnV0jQT9o/preview

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@luna Another bad one is in video files, especially iPhone, at least last I checked it was not scrubbed by for example Discord.
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luna, friend of eggbug

so i'm reverse engineering the ipod's photo database file, right (y'know how on the old ipods you could sync photos to them if they had a color screen, and then you could browse your albums on the ipod? the internal database it creates for that)

as i've been building a parser for it, i've been nominally parsing things i don't understand yet into u32 fields until i can reason otherwise

anyway, as i'm poring over the parsed data, i see some interesting neighboring values, exactly four u32s, which i don't quite understand and which aren't documented (at least not in the docs on the iPodLinux wiki; they're incomplete and very outdated but they've still been an invaluable starting point)

for some of the photos (and for all album art in the artworkdb, which uses the same database format) these four u32 fields have constant values (i.e. matching between photos) but for other photos they look almost entirely random. perhaps they're hashes or randomized identifiers? but even for the random-looking ones they're kinda similar between photos

and then i think.. are they four floats maybe?

i plug the raw hex values into https://float.exposed (excellent website, highly recommend) but i'm not entirely convinced by the numbers i see

hmm.

the ones with constant values repeat on an 8-byte period, so maybe it's a pair of doubles?

so i tweak my parser to try reading them as such, re-run it, and am immediately filled with a horrible sense of dread as i recognize exactly what the numbers are.

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IT;S FUCKING GEOTAGS AGAIN

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@sophiajt Reading the minutes (March of this year) it seems like it was needed for some specific sources of funding, they did actually post a draft on the Zullip and took some good points of feedback on it before publishing.
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Attention ! We have just published a new version of BORNHACK ADVENTURE, the premier camp text adventure: https://adventure.funhack.dk/

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shit fuck i accidentally installed garfana instead of grafana

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Garfield's worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug)
by Valdemar Erk at RustWeek 2025!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQdedw3a-0

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@brkmnd I have not read F451, I just knew about the endianness story. Maybe I should read it sometime though.
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@brkmnd The quote inside the quote is from Gulliver's Travels, and is interestingly enough the origin of the term Endianness: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Spring_2003/ling538/Lecnotes/ADfn1.htm
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** Speaker announcement **
Catch this talk at RustWeek 2025!

Speaker: Valdemar Erk
Title: Garfields worst nightmare (or how a API difference caused a bad bug)

Info & tickets: https://rustweek.org/talks/valdemar/

See you in Utrecht 13-17 May, 2025!

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Jeg skriver jo normalt på engelsk så alle kan være med, men efter at have overvejet hele formiddagen om jeg overhovedet orker det kommer der her en besked til alle danskerne på fediverset.

Allerede sidste år ville jeg have gået i gang med at lave en Kickstarter med følgende mål:

At lave en forening der kunne tage sig af server og software og hvis medlemmer skulle være foreninger op til 1000 mennesker (arbitrært tal). På den måde ville den store forening stille teknisk support, drift og deslige til rådighed og foreningerne kunne så bestå af folk uden teknisk kunnen. Disse foreninger ville til gengæld sagtens kunne moderere, indkræve kontingent, holde generalforsamlinger og den slags som vi alle kender her i foreningsdanmark.

Min inspiration er mit lokale coop-bredbåndsnet, Parknet.dk, der har andelsforeninger som medlemmer og som, da det ikke er et profitforetagende, giver os billigt internet og TV.

Jeg har jo været på Fediverset i 12 år og har altid synes at alle skulle være her og ikke på Twitter, Facebook, Insta og TikTok. Lige nu føler jeg et stort ansvar for at organisere et eller andet.

Tiden er måske også der hvor den store mainstream kan se hvad det drejer sig om, og pressen vil måske også være mere interesseret nu hvor alle kan se hvad Zuckerberg og de andre egentlig er.

Jeg havde tænkt mig at gøre det alene (som sædvanligt), men det giver jo ingen mening. Er der nogen der kunne tænkes at ville være med, eller bare diskutere hvordan det kunne gøres.

Måske hvis I gider dele det her, så folk kan se det.

#danskertrut #danskertoot #danmark
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describing trains like user agent strings

Stevenson's Rocket (compatible; standard gauge; 320 km/h) Class/374 (Siemens Velaro, like ICE 3M) Eurostar/e320

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@ma3ke The best alternative (which does not really do the same) would probably be Iterator::next_chunk, though that is nightly only. And may blow your stack if it is some big items.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#method.next_chunk
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@troed @rcbo @kagihq They also use the API of the Yandex search engine which is something I am really not a fan of. Even if it is "only" 2% of their ongoing cost.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo/19
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