Wow, sqlite has been compiled with Emscripten to run in the browser! https://github.com/kripken/sql.js (the load time is amazingly quick!)
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One interesting consequence of the rise of LLMs: there's more demand for tools that handle untrusted input.
Arbitrary HTML+JS can be safely run in a browser. Lean can check an arbitrary proof.
These work really well with an LLM that can be wrong, but sometimes gives exactly what you want. Are there other tools in this family?
A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time!
https://lwn.net/Articles/714355/
Today I learnt that the original name for DOS was QDOS, for "Quick and Dirty Operating System"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS#QDOS
(Seems rather unfortunate that they dropped the Q.)