I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.

My what?

I’ve always wondered about Unicode normalization and passwords. I don’t know a ton about it, but I think it’s that things like ö and be represented as one character for the whole thing or two, one for the umlaut and another for o. That means that there are at least two sequences of code points that make the same… Glyph? I forget the word. The thing you see on the screen.

Anyway, what if you have that ö in your password and one browser/keyboard/os/lovecraftian nightmare makes the mark one way and the other does it the other way? They aren’t the same bytes. So they won’t hash the same and you just can’t tell why. Without digging super deep.

There are standard ways to normalize the Unicode but I don’t imagine most password systems use them. Maybe it’s some intermediate layer. But I kind of doubt it. Those are complex, evolving standards.

Oh. And that “evolving” thing might make trouble for password systems. Are these standards backwards compatible in the way they’d need to be for a normalization upgrade not to break any passwords?

Oh God, what nightmare have I found?

I was in Vegas a couple weeks back. Same problem.

Brandt said he enjoyed being a meme, and he did frequently use the catchphrase, although he did say that his high school English teacher would not have approved of his usage of “ain’t”.[6][20]

I imagine it emulates all the system calls. It sure would have been easier to copy bits from Linux for that. But you don’t have to. Wine sure didn’t.

I probably should go read the code and not guess.

I turn off biters and play on 100x research because it’s calming.

I worked on a project that was open source and then not and now is. The commhnity is gone. Maybe it’s just because we’re older.

Take the win.

I mostly just use GitHub for work. I don’t think the social media bits matter.

Except stars. I’ve been told investors use stars as a proxy for interest lately. I see how bots these make a lot of sense.

All this bots stuff reminds me of an off hand part of Anathem. They had this historical arms race of garbage spread on their internet. There’s these monk folks who have been fighting it for generations. I thought it was sill years ago. Feels sane now.

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I follow two people. I have no idea why I did that either.

Same as lemmy username

147 people follow me. I have no idea why. I’m boring.

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And yet Haymarket was in Chicago.

That was fun. Well done. Thanks!

A government stipend to make public art or open source software or literature or whatever sounds pretty great. It’s hard to see how we get there from here. But it’d be great.

France has something like it for artists I think.

I’m the other way. I always thought “picture an apple” was a metaphor.

I tell myself Stardust turned out this way. It sure doesn’t start that way. And it’s Neil Gaiman which… Feh. I want to remember it as a movie where everyone respects everyone else in the end.