Chuckellania for October 14th, 2021
The anti-cheat arms race in PC gaming has reached… kernel modules.
Chuckellania for October 12th, 2021
This is not a new insight, but it bears repeating: when implementing cryptography yourself, it is rather easy to make a mistake you won't notice, potentially reducing the security.
Chuckellania for October 11th, 2021
The iOS Simulator now does video recording, including exporting to animated GIFs.
Chuckellania for October 10th, 2021
California is phasing out gas-powered lawnmowers and leaf blowers.
Chuckellania for October 9th, 2021
Microsoft is going to disable Excel 4.0 macros. These are apparently completely separate from Excel 5.0's VBA-based macros, and look a lot more like a bunch of Excel functions one after another, rather than Visual Basic, e.g.:
Chuckellania for October 8th, 2021
There's been an ongoing kerfuffle over the .NET Foundation these past few days, and if this is the first time you've heard of the .NET Foundation in a while, or at all, you're not alone. I think that's precisely part of the problem: it hasn't made a great case for itself on what it's good for.
Chuckellania for October 7th, 2021
Twitch had a major data breach, including some (all?) of the source code. One design flaw which may help explain the breach is that, while they've been migrating their user account password hashes from SHA-1 to bcrypt since 2015, you can still log in to an account using SHA-1, even if it has already been migrated, due to a logic error.
Chuckellania for October 6th, 2021
There are surprising etymologies for bork, including a politician by that name, who was a little borked up.