Alt account of @Badabinski

Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • For those who (like me) have never heard of this distro:

    aerynOS (“erinOS”) is an independent Linux distribution being built from the ground up with its own tooling. We are developing an atomic operating system which supports both declarative and imperative system management approaches, and offers rollback capabilities that help reduce the risk of system failure from unsuccessful or interrupted updates.

    and here’s part of their blurb about moss:

    moss looks and feels a lot like a regular package manager, however it actually manages the entire operating system via content addressable storage. Every single file from every package is deduplicated via a hash-based addressing scheme in the moss store, allowing us to produce new system roots on the fly.



  • I’ve found that the quality of code produced by my team has dropped significantly since my org pushed everyone to use LLMs. “Let me throw an agent at it” usually means “here’s another headache of a PR for me to review.” Engineers with decades of experience are writing such utter fucking crap now, and it doesn’t matter how many docs I write for their fuckass agents to ingest, the quality doesn’t seem to be getting better. They can make their agent loop on it for functionality/bug and hallucination squashing, but that usually just means I get a bloated fucking mess to review. It’s miserable and it makes me want to go shovel actual hog shit.

    Sincerely,

    a very sad and tired senior dev who used to enjoy his job





  • MITM HTTPS traffic without a key doesn’t really let you do much of anything, especially with stuff like HSTS. You can mess with DNS, but the whole certificate authority thing is meant to make it so you can’t redirect someone’s traffic to a malicious server.

    This leaked private key completely destroys that guarantee, making it extremely scary. ~Plus, saved traffic for any site signed by this key which didn’t use PFS will be subject to post-facto decryption.~

    edit: I don’t know wtf I was thinking, the decryption thing is nonsense.