There is something so fun about in-lining functions. Yeah it's harder to debug depending on the compiler, but cmon it's cool watching a bunch of checks, branches, casts, and arguments get optimized into like 1/10 of the original code. #devstr

This is why vnlib is made up of 60+ libraries and takes so much of my time. I maintain 58 of them XD ALL vnlib and noscrypt upstream code changes can be seen in a single signed squash commit or tag. Also, sign your commits and your artifacts plz :) View quoted note →

Can't confirm this myself with a 3rd party client in the US, but it's only a matter of time. View quoted note →

When you hear me drone on about the big boot of the law, this is what I mean. Now imagine being in the lobby of your local auto repair shop waiting to pay for your repair when their doors get kicked in, two dozen men with badges burst in and point handguns at your chest. They scream at you to get on your knees. You get zip-tied and thrown on the floor for 10 hours. They take your smartphone, clone it and put on the table in front of you. It rings from your wife's calls worried where you've been all evening. You get marshaled to the bathroom and an agent has to unzip your pants for you while you take a leak and they watch you. The man in charge tells the shop keep this investigation is the reason he has not seen his wife and kids in 6 months. It's their fault. They order 40 pizzas with the shop owners credit card and eat it in front of you without allowing you to eat or drink anything. They kick their feet up and laugh while they trash the place. They eventually cut you free and hand your phone back. They keep your car because it was in the lot with other cars under investigation for possible tampering. You might never get it back. After seizing tens of thousands of dollars in all electronic devices, electronic repair equipment, and searching cars, they find no direct evidence of the shop owners tampering with emissions equipment. The EPA still suspicious, keeps the owners in custody, seize their personal and business finances, raids their homes, seizes their firearms, personal records and threaten their families and pets. They bring the owners up on conspiracy felony charges, which a politically motivated federal judge sentences about 2 years, 1 year in federal prison, another on house arrest (maximum 10 years). Memes shared by the owners on Facebook are used as evidence of character. They seize footage from their cloud-enabled security cameras, and permission from Google for their drive account to use it in court. After a few weeks the business is left sitting, "allowed" to operate, but likely to be financially drained even if their bank funds were released. The owners never get their freedom back, they never get their financial funds back, they never get to defend themselves with a firearm again, their business is destroyed and the family still on the hook for the debt owed, and so on... This happens in the US every day. If I told this story as if it were the mob or mafia people would be agitated, but you tell them the men in this story had badges - "rah rah, bring justice to those dirty criminals they probably deserved it" View quoted note →

Me resting my bad ankle for the past week XD View quoted note →