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  Waking up to find that 1) PHP will drop a huge RCE today so I have to switch off @nextcloud for the day and 2) A CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY USED THE NUMBER 4 AS THEIR PRIVATE KEY so SSL is broken globally is certainly an experience #security #nextcloud #php

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  Runtime checking design, in case an ISO language needs it: * Build modes: debug, release, release_unchecked * New functions: std::check(bool) (runs in release and debug), std::dcheck(bool) (runs in debug only) * If check/dcheck is passed false, it throws std::contract_violation (which does not inherit from std::exception because it's not an exception) There you go, better asserts. Does not solve ODR problems but assert() doesn't either. Feel free to add to C++27 #cpp #cplusplus...

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  I hate how complicated it is to set which drive an embedded system "boots from". There's the drive the firmware loads u-boot from, there's the drive u-boot loads the kernel and devicetree from, and there's the drive the kernel mounts as the rootfs. These do not all necessarily align, and the default is usually that if you have an SD card *and* eMMC, installed, Linux gets loaded from the SD card and then mounts its rootfs from eMMC! #linux #embedded #op...

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  I wrote a blog post about various annoyances I have with SQLite's defaults, and a suggestion about how it could be fixed: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ TL;DR: SQLite should have a Rust-style edition system which lets us set a whole suite of more sensible defaults with a single 'PRAGMA edition = 2026'. #sqlite #databases #rdbms #embedded