Understanding Memory Management, Part 1: C

[Edited to change the title and subtitle -- 2024-12-28]. Two children under a trenchcoat. Image from ChatGPT. My long-time collaborator Richard Barnes[1] used to say that "in security, trust is a four letter word", and yet the dominant experience of using any software-based system—which is, you know, pretty much anything electronic—is trusting...

Image by Kate Hudson with help from Photoshop AI I recently learned that Southwest has a policy of giving passengers who don't fit in a single seat a free second seat. This isn't an issue for me personally, but I was curious how it worked and that lead me to Southwest's page on how to book a second seat: Southwest's passenger entry field Here are...

My "A" races for 2024 were Sean O'Brien 100K at the end of January and Tushars 100K at the end of July. 6 months is a long training block and so I decided to break it up with something in between. I've been leaning towards mountainous races with a lot of vert lately (SOB notwithstanding) and after doing a bunch of searching on UltraSignup I...

Generated by Midjourney. Prompt "Man waiting for EV to charge, bored expression, EV charging station, photorealistic --ar 4:3" I spent some time reading this HN thread in response to Wired's article on how many EV charging stations we need and I'm dumber than when I started (isn't that usually the way it is on the orange site?). On one side, we...

As mentioned in previous posts, the IETF has decided not to add support for post-quantum (PQ) encryption algorithms to TLS 1.2. In fact, the TLS WG is taking a rather stronger position, namely that it's going to stop enhancing TLS 1.2 more or less entirely, including support for PQ algorithms: While the industry is waiting for NIST to finish...