I'm a Software Engineer in the US. Love to hack, game, and just about everything else. I run Nybbles and Bytes Studios, LLC!
Texas, USA
Joined December 2010
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So I just had the weirdest AI experience lately. I was trying to get my bots to setup OAuth tickets for git repos so they can manage to push and pull without requiring SSH keys, and all of a sudden *the room woke up, tried to respond, realized it was the room, and stopped!*
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NEWS: There is a new Open Source Operating System for Rigol 800/900 series scopes:
eevblog.com/forum/testgear/o…
Well, my MTG card is kinda boring, but Grok's interpretation for Nybbles is much more satisfying. Sadly, the game isn't quite compatible with the wedge 128 unless you upgrade the 8153!
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We freeze versions and update a bit later. Unless it’s a critical security patch. Easier and safer.
Fork your dependencies, trim them to only your use case, never update unless it breaks for your users. I’ve been vocal about this for 10+ years. I’ve always said that updating is way riskier than latent bugs (which can be tracked and CVEs monitored).
If you are updating a dependency, it’s on you to analyze every single commit in the full transitive set of dependencies. If you dont see anything compelling, dont update!
I remember at HashiCorp once in awhile an engineer would try to update a dep or replace a DIY lib with an external one and id always ask “show me the commit we need.” Dont update for the sake of it.
Feeling pretty swell about this mentality with all the supply chain attacks happening.
Love it or hate it, systemd does do one thing I've always wanted: management of user daemons for a specific user session without having to fight to keep long running processes under control. `fork(); fork();` to get out of the process group and into the background has always been kinda ugly.
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I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills old.reddit.com/r/linux/comme… (news.ycombinator.com/item?id…)
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Okay, I'm tapping. We'll try making the damn thing @sendcutsend - Sara, this is your problem now.
June retweeted
Electrical Engineering reminder:
Silicon transistors work just like tiny light switches
dbus is a terrible affliction fd.o drew forth from the depths of insanity with documentation like an invisible necronomicon. Every time I use it, I want to cry.
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Ridiculous: I just got access to the new "e2e encrypted" X Chat. But encryption key is stored on X servers (no choice), secured only by a (fixed length) 4-digit passcode.
That’s ~13 bits of security. Trivial for X to brute force decrypt.
Deceptive to call this e2e encryption.
