Old school nerd
Knows things about computers that would drive you insane
Hacks on Firefox at Mozilla
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Gabriele Svelto
the best ones are always about imperfect people who are struggling to find happiness together
I didn't want to know how it would feel to live in a world where the majority of political and business leaders are completely delusional. Decision-making is based on a mix of magical thinking, extremist ideologies, conspiracy theories and narcissism.
Gabriele Svelto
Gender: Colleen
I've been working on wiring up Firefox build system with Geany so that it can be used as an IDE for development with integration for Rust, C/C++ and Python language servers. For contributors who want a full-blown IDE it's a much better option than Visual Studio Code which is both a resource hog […]
Gabriele Svelto
Getting a casus belli in 1964: we'll stage an incident in the gulf of Tonkin
Getting a casus belli in 2026: our helicopter was accidentally shot down by a flying moped
can you imagine paying literal tens of thousands of dollars per seat per year to this company just to be blocked from launching your program because your name isn't America enough
When something absolutely needs to be done by humans:
no ifs, no buts and no bots
RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116658062009629445
Modern CPUs are complex. Interactions between userspace software, CPU internals and operating systems can expose some really weird stuff. I just tripped over one of the things I mentioned in this post (unaligned accesses straddling two […]
Today I found myself looking at an odd crash report. It appeared like a buffer overflow as the crash address sat neatly after the end of a mapped memory page. However there was something about the crash that confused our crash analysis logic: the memory access that caused the crash was at a […]
Bell Labs Aeronautics
#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #plan9 #ai #space #glenda
Gabriele Svelto
So, uh, yeah...
I am leaving mozilla
It was the best place I ever worked, along with some of the smartest, kindest people who I will miss dearly, but there comes a time when you have to leave.
