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Takeaway: With Drupal 7’s end-of-life date set for January 5, 2025, public sector institutions face critical decisions about their web infrastructure. While migration to Drupal 10 offers clear advantages, organizations unable to migrate immediately need robust security measures to protect their sites.

Rails 8 has introduced a generator for adding basic authentication code to Rails apps. I took it for a spin and found out it doesn’t generate a registration page! Read more about my impressions of the Rails authentication generator and notes on adding a registrations endpoint.

Version 0.104
of Game of Trees
has been released (and the port
updated).

* got 0.104; 2024-10-22
  see git repository history for per-change authorship information
- gotd.conf: document the macro syntax
- tog: prevent a segfault upon unexpected object type in ref list view
- fix pack file creation in the presence of tagged tag objects
- plugged some memory leaks
- fix a crash when unstaging a file which has been removed from disk
- gotwebd: fix out of bounds access while handling the configuration

BOSTON (October 22, 2024) — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today that it is working on a statement of criteria for free machine learning applications, which will require the software, as well as the raw training data and associated scripts, to grant users the four freedoms.

The processor in the Game Boy Advance, the ARM7TDMI, has a weird characteristic where the carry flag is set to a “meaningless value” after a multiplication operation. What this means is that software cannot and should not rely on the value of the carry flag after multiplication executes. It can be set to anything. Any value. 0, 1, a horse, whatever. This has been a source of memes in the emulator development community for a few years – people would frequently joke about how the implementation of the carry flag may as well be cpu.flags.c = rand() & 1;. And they had a point – the carry flag seemed to defy all patterns; nobody understood why it behaves the way it does. But the one thing we did know, was that the carry flag seemed to be deterministic. That is, under the same set of inputs to a multiply instruction, the flag would be set to the same value. This was big news, because it meant that understanding the carry flag could give us key insight into how this CPU performs multiplication. And just to get this out of the way, the carry flag’s behavior after multiplication isn’t an important detail to emulate at all. Software doesn’t rely on it. And if software did rely on it, then screw the developers who wrote that software. But the carry flag is a meme, and it’s a really tough puzzle, and that was motivation enough for me to give it a go. Little did I know it’d take 3 years of on and off work. ↫ bean machine Please don’t make me understand any of this.