Hackers' Pub

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`"` 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`

Mark Gritter @markgritter@mathstodon.xyz

3/4/2026, 11:32:41 PM

Public

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116171755938331430

It is amazing that computers work at all.

One of my favorite research papers along these lines is "When the CRC and TCP checksum disagree": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/347059.347561

By looking at cases where the Ethernet CRC indicated no error, but the TCP checksum was invalid, the authors found a whole host of bugs in networking hardware, such as faulty DMA engines and buggy router memory.

Hardware data corruption is everywhere!

(There are no doubt newer studies, I'm just personally acquainted with one of the authors.)

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