Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

cliffle @cliffle@hachyderm.io

10/22/2025, 12:47:30 AM

Public

This evening I'm on an odd historical sojourn into the history of the tar format (thanks, @thTrammell Hudson, for inadvertently nerd-sniping me).

The problem is, this involves reading old C code, because SeLf DoCuMeNtInG or whatever. And I can't not see ghosts in C code anymore.

Anyway, guess how many things enshrined in later standards (like POSIX) are a product of what appear to be coding mistakes, including buffer overruns and use of uninitialized stack memory, in the V7 Unix tar implementation?

As an industry, we've _never_ been able to hold this tool (C) correctly.

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