[Updated 20250408]RISC-V explainer

Info Updates on 20250408: Fixed a bug in parsing memory operand. Improved error message displaying. I happen to have to learn (just a bit of) RISC-V assembly, so I made a simple risc-v instructions explainer so that I don’t have to do multiple google searches whenever I have troubles in reading some risc-v instructions. It can fully run in the browser, feel free to try it out at https://katsuragicsl.github.io/riscv-explainer/.

March 31, 2025 · updated April 8, 2025 · 1 min ·  misc

[Updated 20250331]Centrality: how we actually perceive the severity of a bug

Info Updates: After giving a second thought on the topic and reorganizing the materials, I had a sharing session with my teammates and decided to update this article accordingly. Updates include more suitable examples and graphics. Info Updates 2: It is revised again and published as a preprint. Now you can see it at https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17813 or https://katsuragicsl.github.io/papers/connectedness/ An empty business lingo or a good quantification? We hope to, and probably need to, quantify the severity of security bugs....

February 23, 2025 · updated March 31, 2025 · 7 min ·  security

Picking grammatical mistakes in an insightful article

After the huge attention gained by deepseek R1, I have seen a good amount of people immediately went to looking for censorships (which are expected to exist), laughed at it, and looked down on it. They totally missed the points and these behaviors made them look like slaves of their very own defense mechanism1. Deepseek did make some techonological breakthroughs. Indeed the censorship is a defect of such a great product....

January 31, 2025 · updated January 31, 2025 · 2 min ·  thoughts

Added tikzjax support

Just added support for tikzjax since I received some feedback about my hand-drawn diagrams are hard to read…now I can use nice graphs like these: source: https://tikzjax.com/ source: https://tikzjax.com/ source: https://tikz.net/ source: https://tikz.net/

January 25, 2025 · updated January 26, 2025 · 1 min ·  meta

Our legal (and moral) system flavors the jerks

Disclaimer: The author’s knowledge about the legal system by no means applies to anywhere outside of his homeland. But what is legal or illegal should be similar enough for the discussion below - at least for first world countries, I guess. That said, the author is not a lawyer and does not have accurate knowledge of any concrete laws. But one does not need to know (too many of) them for this article....

January 3, 2025 · updated January 5, 2025 · 8 min ·  thoughts