Craig Brozefsky

@craigbro@infosec.exchange
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I like to build simple, secure and resilient information systems to empower and connect people. I believe that this is best done with Free Software, open data standards, open protocols, and restrained craftsmanship.

I am happiest when I get to do this work with those fighting fascism, ethnic-cleaning, genocide and protecting our environment.

To make a living, I provide consulting and coaching services for software, data, and security engineering.

#guix #nix #nixos #scheme #lisp #commonlisp #clojure #emacs #orgmode #privacy

Consultinghttps://www.taconic.systems
Free Softwarehttps://codeberg.org/craigbro
emailcraig@red-bean.com
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/craigbrozefsky/
Craig Brozefsky4h ago

Google ai at top of search is increasingly just slightly laundered text from what would be the top organic hit. Seen it reproduce several blog posts and published docs for packages.

Regardless of use case, its actual value is IP laundering.

Show threadCraig Brozefsky3d ago
@dthompson know who you rm at every age
Craig Brozefsky3d ago
Jan Wildeboer 😷3d ago

Residents in Nijmegen, a Dutch city, gathered to read out loud all known victims of the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. It took them 1.5 hours to read out the names of all Israeli victims. It took them more than 100 hours to read out the names of the Palestinian victims.

https://www.news.com.au/world/residents-in-dutch-town-reads-names-of-gazas-victims/video/a456711e17f2dd5c34a7dd29a55b74d4

Craig Brozefsky5d ago

One downside of using LSPs and formatters external to your editor, is that you now have an exponential explosion in language runtimes and dependencies. I love it when using #HelixEditor on my #nix or other managed, modern workstation, but it becomes a liability when working on tiny machines like my new #orangePiRv2

I went to install marksman, a markdown LSP and discovered it was written in #fsharp -- a language I work in and enjoy, but whose runtime is not ported to risc-v

Now, before turning this into a rant about the sorry state of software, I want to recognize that we all make choices about what dependencies and capabilities we want, and we have many places we can settle on that continuum between 'nostdlib' and node on nix.

If there is a large-scale, or long-term phiiosophical insight from this experience, it is that learning to use the features in helix for selection and alignment allowed me to edit markdown tables very quickly. That was the reason I wanted marksman in the first place.

Working on the basics of typing, and editing, memorization, consistent naming, and simplicity will pay off every time.

Show threadCraig Brozefsky5d ago
@galdor Perhaps the proliferation of matchers and config languages and such, many of which are poorly designed and difficult to use because the parser is bespoke -- is the real cost we pay for Unix and the self-induced implosion of the Lisp Machines?
Craig Brozefsky6d ago
Ludovic Courtès6d ago

#Forgejo Runner’s in #Guix System 👇
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Continuous-Integration.html#Forgejo-Runner

(Thanks to @dthompson for the initial version of this service!)

Continuous Integration (GNU Guix Reference Manual)

Continuous Integration (GNU Guix Reference Manual)

Show threadCraig BrozefskyJun 30
@TomsITCafe can confirm
Show threadCraig BrozefskyJun 30
@zachleat for sure, years of trauma, and feeling like you are building on quicksand, even more so for those who do systems administration of dozens of hosts.
Craig BrozefskyJun 28
Jeremy HerveJun 28

This banned Pride march is looking great 🙂!

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

#Budapest #Pride

Craig BrozefskyJun 28

In search of some change, some excitement, and new ideas, I have set down some of the tools I have grown to love over the last three decades as a software engineer. I don't have some big critique of them, or their communities, but simply seek novelty to invigorate my relationship with my work. Perhaps I will pick some of them back up, with fresh insights.

The #HelixEditor is perhaps my favorite new tool. I have wanted to deeply learn a modal text editor for years, and with the proliferation of tree-sitter and lsp tooling for so many languages, changing editors became much easier. Of course, #emacs is not an editor, as much as a text focused lisp desktop environment, but there was space and time to try out the new tool.