Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected]

Golang teacher at Author of french Golang book. From Drupal with love, core contributor since 2005. Unrepentant bass player.

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

I wonder if the @drupal Security Team got something ? Drupal itself is not in the OSS Fuzz corpus, but PHP is.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities—including some in every major operating system and web browser.

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Call for Proposals for GoLab 2026 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! about auditing Go code bases https://t.co/wRrqDNFqns

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

In these days of agentic programming, I can't help but think everyone should reread Ken Thompson't talk about Dennis Ritchie's immortal exploit https://t.co/TI2nQhkmaJ

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

I just put up a @mintlify doc site for my Go containers package https://t.co/LA2GGIumno . It's visible at https://t.co/1TStQh9JLq - What do you think of it ?

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

When Opus 4.5 came out, it was a one-way door to a new way of engineering. Agents now do most of our coding.

Knowing the inherent flaws and over-confidence of LLMs, we sent a clear message to our teams. Vibing and mission-critical infrastructure don’t go together.

We’re sharing some of our early internal guidance in how we’re “agenting responsibly”, prioritizing security, durability, and availability at all times.
https://t.co/b36GiE76Ue

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Solved this coding interview question! https://t.co/wKAbsEq9RP via @interviewcake

[Samuel Berthe @SamuelBerthe]

In 2027, Brazil and California will require age verification + KYC at the OS level. Including Linux.

30 years ago, when hackers (GNU, FSF...) built the internet and fought for digital freedom, this would have sparked a global rebellion.

What the f*** is going on ??

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@nalinrajput23 The one built in the Télémécanique MPES OS https://t.co/vtbwLbIusa

[Alex @AlexanderTw33ts]

This is INSANE

My website https://t.co/Gkvozloi40 just hit +10k users in under 48 hours

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@golang tip of the day (or I never noticed it in stdlib yet): "go test" runs flag.Parse() during https://t.co/orIYlpa3Sf(), enabling you to defined package-level flags in your test files as global options. Used e.g. to update golden files. See https://t.co/5MlAPhHCuu for details.

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@rasmalai Ada, B, D, Dylan, Erlang, Forth, Fortran, Go, Haskell, Modula, Rust, Shell, Simula, Zig. And a ton of others.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams, who foretold Trump’s rise and diagnosed America’s political sickness, dead at 68 | Joel Pollak, New York Post

Cartoonist, author, and political commentator Scott Adams died Tuesday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 68.

His ex-wife and caregiver, Shelly, made the announcement on Adams’ livestream Tuesday morning.

“Unfortunately, this isn’t good news,” Shelly said. “Of course, he waited ’til just before the show started, but he’s not with us anymore.”

Shelly read aloud a “final message” that Adams “wanted to say” on the livestream.

“If you’re reading this, things did not go well for me,” the message began. “I have a few things to say before I go. My body fell before my brain. I am of sound mind as i write this January 1, 2026.”

After speaking about Christianity, Adams’ message said, “For the first part of my life, I was focused on making myself a worthy husband and parent as a way to find meaning. That worked — but marriages don’t always last forever, and mine ended in a highly amicable way. I’m grateful for those years and the people I came to call my family.”

Adams announced he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer in May 2025.

He said he had been dealing with his condition privately for some time before his public announcement, but noted that the cancer had progressed to Stage 4 and spread to his bones.

“I talked to my radiologist yesterday, and it’s all bad news — the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” Adams said during his “Real Coffee with Scott Adams” podcast on Jan. 1. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.

“So there’s no chance that I’ll get my feeling back in my legs, and I’ve got some ongoing heart failure, which is making it difficult to breathe sometimes during the day,” the iconic artist continued. “However, you should prepare yourself that January will probably be a month of transition, one way or another.”

On Monday, Shelly confirmed Adams was in hospice at his home in Northern California and had only a few days left to live.

Adams became famous through “Dilbert,” the comic strip that poked fun at corporate culture with keen insight into the absurdity, cruelty and incompetence of management inside large organizations.

In his last decade and a half, however, Adams achieved wide influence through his business advice and political analysis.

His 2013 bestseller, “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big,” is one of the most influential and entertaining business books of recent years.

In it, Adams introduced the concept of using systems, rather than goals, to achieve success in life. He also advised readers to accumulate skills — a “talent stack” — rather than traditional credentials.

In 2015, Adams began commenting on politics after observing the first Republican presidential primary debate. When then-candidate Donald Trump responded to a moderator’s question that accused him of mistreating women by interjecting, “Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Adams took notice.

A trained hypnotist, Adams predicted that Trump, then a huge underdog, would win the nomination — and the presidency.

Adams drew ridicule for his bold claim. But he looked increasingly prescient as Trump dispensed with his opponents, the Republican establishment, and — eventually — Hillary Clinton.

Adams used what he called the “persuasion filter”: Rather than judging whether political rhetoric was true or false, he simply evaluated it based on whether it was persuasive.

What began as a simple blog post became a daily live video stream — first on the now-defunct Periscope platform, then on a variety of outlets, including anti-cancel-culture Rumble (in which he had invested).

Adams began each show by brewing fresh coffee; he eventually called his livestream “Coffee with Scott Adams,” and it became required viewing, or listening, for millions of fans, who poured their own mugs and tuned in at 10 a.m. ET for the “simultaneous sip.”

While he excelled at explaining Trump’s tactics to a growing audience of Trump-supporting fans, Adams was also interested in explaining how Democrats, and the left-leaning media, interpreted events.

He explained that the country was often watching “two movies on one screen,” and argued — with great empathy for his opponents — that voters who felt genuinely frightened by Trump’s ascent had been led into an emotional cul-de-sac by cynical leaders.

Adams emphasized that he was not a Republican: “I’m further left than Bernie Sanders,” he reminded viewers. He even endorsed Clinton in 2016 — for his own safety, he said. But he drew a conservative audience that soon included Trump’s own advisers.

In 2017, Adams published “Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter,” in which he extrapolated the lessons of Trump’s unlikely victory. He followed that with “Loserthink,” using his critiques of stale thinking in the media to teach positive mental habits.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Adams added an evening “swaddle,” in which he wrapped himself in a flannel blanket, and offered advice for surviving lockdowns. One of his ideas was a concept he called “the user interface for reality.” Given that we can only see reality through our own individual filters, he explained, we can choose which filter to use.

The “Dilbert” filter, for example, predicted incompetence; the Trump filter anticipated victory. By adopting filters that guide us toward success, Adams argued, we not only convince ourselves that success is possible, but bend reality toward that outcome.

While generally pro-Trump, Adams was critical of the president on occasion, and also took unexpected political stances. When then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began “taking a knee” for the national anthem in support of the fledgling Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Adams supported him, and admired the persuasive success of his protest. He even offered advice to leaders within BLM, notably New York’s Hawk Newsome.

In 2023, he was accused of racism when he commented on a Rasmussen poll in which only 53% of black respondents agreed with the statement: “It’s OK to be white.”

Adams quipped that it would be good to move away from people who felt that degree of hostility. He immediately found himself “canceled” — his comic strip dropped, his publishing contracts terminated.

He began self-publishing his books, including “Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success.” He relaunched an edgier version of “Dilbert” on the independent Locals platform, and felt liberated to express his more controversial political views — such as that the 2020 election had likely been “rigged,” given the increasingly evident corruption of nearly every other government system.

In the last weeks of his life, he posted on X, asking readers to share personal stories about how they had been affected by his teachings and podcasts. Adams shared intimate, and often painful, details of his life — losing a stepson to a fentanyl overdose in 2018, suffering through a second divorce in 2022, and fighting cancer.

He also embraced Christianity in his final days. While he would not divulge details about his faith, he confirmed his conversion in a final message that Shelly read on Tuesday’s livestream.

He reframed death, as he had reframed life: Just one more filter — and not one to fear.

https://t.co/Bp4LZJm5jD

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@Cipher_twt COBOL, FORTRAN, APL, PL/16, Prolog. Only one of those keeps haunting me with regrets. Can you guess which one ?

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@akramcodez APL:
'Hello world'

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Cette semaine à #OSXP2025 #Paris dans la séquence "Cybersécurité & chaîne de production logicielle", je présente la validation formelle avec @tlaplus pour produire des programmes plus fiables.

Rendez-vous mercredi 10 14:25.

Deux invitations disponibles VIP dispo en MP.

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Hey @interviewcaske About https://t.co/RdDJefeUtm could you drop hints about the bonus ? Aren't there some untold assumptions being made ?

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

@getpy @asmah2107 That's really the sweet spot for it, I'd say.

[Ankur Gupta @getpy]

@asmah2107 GraphQL

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Fantastic production code return on experience from the Google Online Security Blog: @rustlang in Android: move fast AND FIX THINGS https://t.co/ApyclcFQlb via @google

[Frédéric G. MARAND | @[email protected] @OSInet]

Neat @golang trick of the day, from https://t.co/6ZQVazawDa : how to compare Go types without using reflection, just using generics https://t.co/HgPDJRWSK1