🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

As KV I mostly avoid the political but as a Bronx Baby I couldn’t be prouder of Dr. Fauci. That must have felt great!

staring at the pxe code reminds me that your operating system's lower abstraction layer is just a bunch memory mapped flags in an overcoat

Divide and Conquer: The use and limits of bisection Timing bugs, bugs in distributed systems, and all the difficult problems we face in building increasingly complex software systems can't yet be addressed by simple bisection. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Kode Vicious

While the last piece of assembler I wrote by hand was written 30 years ago, the lessons I learned by interacting directly with the hardware—without even the cushion of C—remain with me to this day, writes Kode Vicious in Communications of the ACM bit.ly/3zFBiKu

🧞‍♂️ "A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want." — Joe Sondow

A 1000 times yes!

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian W. Kernighan

The new FreeBSD Journal also features my regular Letters column, wherein I finally chew out Kode Vicious for throwing me under this particular bus.

@bsdphk FreeBSD Journal Kode Vicious Not at all! He's why this silly thing started. Column 1. freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/upl…

Yes! Review of The Kollected Kode Vicious from the folks at the ACCU accu.org/bookreviews/20…

Kode Vicious: Patent Absurdity: If you run afoul of a patent and it can be shown that you had knowledge of it, your company will incur triple the damages that they would have, had you not had knowledge of the patent. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=… Kode Vicious

.Kode Vicious discusses the virtue and vice of bisection, in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM bit.ly/3AWABxv

A new paper by my colleagues and I on the security risks of “client-side scanning” architectures.

You can bring filled cannolis through TSA, but not cannoli shells plus filling in a bag #securitytheater Also ofc this happened in Boston lmao

“Yes but you glare like brandishing a 9mm.” Best compliment I’ve gotten in a while.

I hear other peoples’ computers are down again. /me makes popcorn

It is a strange world when a reader says they like KV because it reminds them of “Alexander McCall Smith, Sophie Hannah, or Somerset Maugham” but I’ll take all the compliments I can get. I somehow doubt Maugham abused his readers, or the language, as much as I do.

I’ve already got a piece coming out about the Facebook fail but then we had aws and now log4j. All the same problem. Nobody knows what they’re true dependencies are.

An expert in anything was once a beginner... There are 2,596 how-tos, guides, open-source code & more, at the Adafruit Learning System, learn.adafruit.com

#C64 production line Germany. 1980 something