Egregoros

So I'm going to reach out to the original bug filer (q66, who's here on fediverse) to see if we can figure out how to PROPERLY fix it so we don't just disable hardware crypto handling on big endian platforms.

This btw is how a platform dies the death of a thousand cuts - laziness.

(also note the bug 100% fired in QEMU, so "I don't have hardware" isn't a good enough reason. You can run the test suite in a QEMU VM!)

@glyph @whitequark wait a sec, has .. ircv3 gone anywhere?!

@wollman 35 year old code risks a different problem though - I've got plenty of 15+ year old firmware that requires an old version of gcc/binutils and /those/ don't compile on modern compilers.

I'd like modern written C code with modern C features, but many less dependencies. Many.

(And use make, not cmake. Cmake is nice until you have to build it, and it took a week to build on my SGI O2.)

Hey!

If I were to write a more err, interestingly/informative newsletter about tech and open source and wanted to offer paid subscriptions, what do people suggest? something that isn't medium/substack?