End qualified immunity.

It strikes me tonight that a world where people have the leisure to argue about websockets or operating systems, programming languages and politics, music and money, is a pretty fucking awesome world. We’d be out hoping we killed the mammoth before getting trampled not that long ago.

Sad but true.

I love this.

Looks like the Crowdstrike incident was caused by a null pointer. They use C++, and of course now the Rust cultists are having a wonderful day chanting “rewrite it in Rust!” which I’m not sure, but I think saying that violates that freakshow’s trademark rules. 🤣 Nice explainer here:

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Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac) on X

Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language. Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this sta...

It should be unsurprising when a project started on ideological grounds attracts a bunch of ideologues.

Theo does a pretty good job explaining passkeys here, with a nice primer on asymmetrical encryption (public key/private key) If you’re a tech newbie, it might be an interesting view.