Nostr notes by kaoudis

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2026-09-22T13:51:29Z

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2026-09-20T16:59:37Z

Sometimes I just need to read a book that is literary junk food

Evergreen questions for making software: - did real people ask ...

2026-09-15T23:26:21Z

Evergreen questions for making software:
- did real people ask for this change
- how does it affect real people, including those who did not ask for it

Doing my best to get off all the platforms that are full of bots. ...

2026-09-12T20:26:15Z

Doing my best to get off all the platforms that are full of bots. Reddit, insta, youtube, tik tok, basically anything that farms engagement in exchange for some form of value. I don’t want to be another pair of sold and sold-to eyeballs

Love a good Dr Seuss plant ...

2026-09-10T00:34:23Z

Love a good Dr Seuss plant

what do you put in it if not cheese (or non-dairy cheese)?

2026-05-13T23:57:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…x4wz
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what do you put in it if not cheese (or non-dairy cheese)?

a glasswing is a type of bug too ;)

2026-04-10T14:12:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…yhrt
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a glasswing is a type of bug too ;)

While bitcoin ATMs are not a new thing to me to see, I have never ...

2025-10-19T18:56:58Z

While bitcoin ATMs are not a new thing to me to see, I have never seen anyone using one. I would imagine they do get use or would not exist, or are they a weird sort of physical honeypot?

My colleagues at Trail of Bits and I wrote an LLVM RFC about ...

2025-08-11T15:02:23Z

My colleagues at Trail of Bits and I wrote an LLVM RFC about constant-time coding support in Clang and LLVM! I’d love to have folks with opinions on this topic, who are interested to, comment on the RFC 💚 https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-constant-time-coding-support/87781

seemed like hype machine food or like the author of the original ...

2025-03-27T09:01:42Z

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seemed like hype machine food or like the author of the original blog was maybe unfamiliar with the responsible disclosure process; the latter *could be* the case but I’ve been following that blog since I was in college, so it seems surprising to me its author would have no idea how to report a vuln and get it properly addressed before disclosure

I wrote a thing about how we threat model at Trail of Bits! This ...

2025-02-28T16:11:32Z

I wrote a thing about how we threat model at Trail of Bits! This absolutely would not have been possible without everyone else who works with me on threat modeling engagements 💚 https://infosec.exchange/@trailofbits/114082270822442277

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2025-01-10T02:36:02Z

Cthulhu help me I’m starting to *like* C++

The eleventh LangSec (often featuring input validation, program ...

2025-01-03T20:57:59Z

The eleventh LangSec (often featuring input validation, program analysis, program verification, parser hacking, specification analysis, and all sorts of related fun things) would love your submissions for 2025. See https://langsec.org/spw25 for the CFP 💚

Docker missed a golden opportunity to call their docsite ...

2024-12-17T21:55:08Z

Docker missed a golden opportunity to call their docsite Dockerumentation 🤔

Thanksgiving cactus is gearing up to get fancy ✨ ...

2024-11-14T00:32:46Z

Thanksgiving cactus is gearing up to get fancy ✨

Open Street Map is available through a free app called Osmand ...

2024-11-10T18:45:10Z

Open Street Map is available through a free app called Osmand Maps on iOS and it’s got CarPlay and GPS and route planning and frankly is not terrible. I’m not giving Google my mapping data anymore because a) I can’t find restaurants and businesses I want on it frequently and b) Open Street Map data is better for hiking

https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/113460096300400342

First vegetable box has arrived. Now I have to figure out how to ...

2024-11-06T23:04:12Z

First vegetable box has arrived. Now I have to figure out how to use 2lb of celery, probably the only vegetable I can’t stand the taste of 😅 but on the bright side I finally have an excuse to make roasted carrot risotto

Salad dressing: protect the salad from you wounding it! ✨ ...

2024-10-12T06:03:05Z

Salad dressing: protect the salad from you wounding it! ✨
https://toot.cat/@devopscats/113292732236170381

What, if anything, is the difference between « write down » and ...

2024-10-01T11:23:18Z

What, if anything, is the difference between « write down » and « write up » in your usage?

I suspect the demon summoning books are not the same ones talking ...

2024-09-28T16:31:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…swl6
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I suspect the demon summoning books are not the same ones talking about porridge, but yeah viewing only… and the REALLY old books are not on display

Other oddities of the book rooms ...

2024-09-28T15:15:57Z

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Other oddities of the book rooms

Looked at some really, really, extremely, very old books today. ...

2024-09-28T15:12:35Z

Looked at some really, really, extremely, very old books today. No bags nor outerwear were allowed in the library and you had to put these gigantic slippers over your shoes. It probably would have been more efficient to have a shoe check like the Japanese temples have!

Something about the phrase “I’ll be honest” makes me think ...

2024-09-26T06:18:11Z

Something about the phrase “I’ll be honest” makes me think the speaker is normally not

From the perspective of integrating and using such code, I think ...

2024-09-24T07:33:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…pjwn
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From the perspective of integrating and using such code, I think there are three possibilities that one usually needs to handle to cover the “oops, couldn’t produce the thing you wanted, sorry consumer” cases the author discusses, regardless:

1. Check for null (the author dislikes producing null, but that doesnt mean layers under their code might not produce nulls that the author’s code unintentionally propagates up to consumers)

2. Check for empty (the author prefers this)

3. Check for typed exceptions (I guess the author doesn’t cover this and I am surprised they don’t discuss?)

I appreciate the author’s take on why empty set outputs might be nicer, and that also fails to change the fact that they are just one cat and all the other library authoring cats out there will have divergent strong opinions that their implementations follow 🥲

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2024-09-19T12:45:28Z

https://2024.issta.org/details/issta-2024-papers/89/Better-Not-Together-Staged-Solving-for-Context-Free-Language-Reachability

This is a super interesting approach to figuring out how to nagivate paths through parsers written to accept context free languages, when the grammar of the parser is known: break up the grammar into parts and do different complimentary stages of CFG exploration based on those parts of the original grammar

Wandering into a slightly different sub-area of CS is ...

2024-09-19T07:29:40Z

Wandering into a slightly different sub-area of CS is fascinating. We seemingly have all the same problems and techniques but everything is called something different. As a security person with an engineering degree who has previously been a software engineer, for instance, I assumed “field bugs” had to do with improper input handling. I also couldn’t tell you what a mutant is or why anyone would want to kill one, before yesterday?! That doesn’t mean calling these things emergent behaviour or equivalent test cases is any more or less valid. It just makes it hard for us to talk to one another 🤔

That intelligence is artificial, alright ...

2024-09-13T19:15:56Z

That intelligence is artificial, alright

As a person who is not a huge fan of many leafy greens outside ...

2024-09-12T17:33:52Z

As a person who is not a huge fan of many leafy greens outside salads and maybe omelets, I am an avid disguiser of kale in smoothies. This may be the only reason I actually own a blender. What other subtle ways (other than “greens powders” which are not FDA regulated therefore not something I will be consuming at any time) do you eat more greens in a way that doesn’t feel like it?

#bloomscrolling big fat rose buds; so roumd such blob ...

2024-09-09T19:46:49Z

#bloomscrolling big fat rose buds; so roumd such blob

Wat #caturday ...

2024-09-07T22:05:15Z

Wat #caturday

Duolingo is fun, but why on earth is the icon stuck like this, it ...

2024-09-01T23:39:11Z

Duolingo is fun, but why on earth is the icon stuck like this, it looks like it has a head cold? I’d almost rather delete the app than look at this

Roasting shishitos for part of dinner ...

2024-08-29T23:42:47Z

Roasting shishitos for part of dinner

That feeling of “will I be eaten by Big Vehicle or do I get to ...

2024-08-26T17:51:38Z

That feeling of “will I be eaten by Big Vehicle or do I get to live another day” when an SUV with a hood taller than your head turns right, through the crosswalk, in front of you without the driver apparently even looking 😨