Jesse Santangelo

@SpuriousInterrupt
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inspired by a typo

I hate myself for making this

#FPGA

AI generation when writing software is a false economy. You are replacing writing code with code review. Code review is harder and requires you to already have an understanding of the domain which often means that you would’ve even able to write it yourself to begin with. If you code gen something because you don’t know how to write it yourself, you by definition cannot review it without going though an effort equivalent to writing it yourself in the first place.

Unless of course you don’t care about code review and so doom yourself into treating software like magical incantations that break randomly for no perceivable reason; but no good mage would do that, surely.

One factor in this incident was deep, unexpected dependency chains. I wish distributions would start taking a more minimalist approach to the options they enable in the default packages they ship.

What fraction of the sshd userbase actually needs Kerberos or SELinux (which also depends on liblzma) enabled? Put that stuff in an alternate package and reduce the exposure for the rest of your users. Fewer dependencies means less attack surface and less supply-chain risk

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@lzg @igb jorge luis borges is always like "i know a spot" and then takes himself to a park bench where he meets his past and future selves in a simultaneity so ambiguous that it is unclear which one of them narrated the story