
I'm a Software Engineer in the US. Love to hack, game, and just about everything else. Opinions are my own. My N&B account is here: @nandbstudios
Texas, USA
Joined December 2010
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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.
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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.
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2 years and 8 months since LUNARK came out. Hard to believe.
I spent 4+ years mostly solo on this project - rotoscoping, coding, composing the OST - and your support made the difference! Thank you for playing my little cinematic-platformer tribute 🥰
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Suspicions Raised As Wormtongue's X Account Reveals He's Based In Isengard buff.ly/dQLKERJ
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The existence of infinite zoom cellular automata troubles me deeply.
Many go about their lives without knowing about this.























