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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-
From one of the authors most known for stories with a rather positive outlook on technology Jules Verne's "Paris in the 20th century" is a interesting book, though rather bleak which was probably the reason it was not published before 1994.
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@AnachronistJohn @chainq @kornel It should be noted that there are people using Rust on SuperH: Specifically for the dreamcast: https://dreamcast.rs/
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Hello users:

Release 8.0 is here:

https://varnish-cache.org/

And it even comes with bonus project news!

Next release will be march 15 but with a little twist...

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@fasterthanlime @soqb Heh knew it, I did the exact same error with another library (eos) and did a talk about it at RustWeek: https://erk.dev/2025/05/14/baddates
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@fasterthanlime @soqb Did you use `Span::get_days` instead of `Span::total`?
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@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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