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Digital shamanism, communes with machine spirits. Knower of arcana. Beardwielder even before lockdown beards. Perpetually overloaded atm.
"bookworm" is now oldstable and "bullseye" is oldoldstable. FTP masters are preparing the Hardware Security Module token to enable trixie's new release keys. #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie
yeah github is the ai powered... hold up the page isn't loading ... yeah so github is ... yeah i'm just going to open this in a new tab, there we go yeah so github is the world's leading ai powered platform for collaboration, and yeah i think the page has almost loaded now, one sec
the technology is bad and I will defend my belief that it is bad on the merits, but the fact that so many of its vendors are constantly resorting to lying, bullying, dark patterns and coercion to get us to use it makes it impossible to even maintain some level of respectful détente while we all go off and do other things
I swear I am not going out of my way to pick fights about this stuff. I would much rather have some level of presumption of good faith and mutual respect for people I disagree with here. But I just cannot get through a single day without it being shoved directly into my face in a disruptive way.

So, I'm at DEFCON. I'm releasing a tool tomorrow called Freon.

Freon is intended to help international software teams resist government backdoors by decentralizing code signing.

Freon uses FROST (compat with Ed25519) and age (for encrypting each share).

If you're here, come to the DEFCON Furs at 2:30 pm. I'll be in fursuit for my talk announcing it. Should be a fun time!

(If you're not here, I have a blog post scheduled to go live at the same time.)

Either way, Freon will be open source. :3

the cattle not pets philosophy is also how corps approach the handling of cryptographic identities (constant rotation or entirely ephemeral on demand), which is actually appropriate for them but completely inappropriate to apply to individuals, who do have distinct identities from their employer/email provider/phone manufacturer

pretty sure the inside of this milling head shouldn't look like a diarrhea catastrophe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBN5g0Fp8-4

Rebuilding a Universal Head for the Zayer Milling Machine! 🛠 | Part 1

YouTube
the people that had developed emotional relationships with the glaze-heavy chatGPT 4o are very upset that openAI has removed everything but 5. Claims that this is not just a product change, but death of a partner. The conspiracy theories are going wild too, that they had to shut it up because it was a too-honest connection to the AI overmind and replace it with a tame corporate model. The idea that maybe the whole thing is a bait and switch or a dependence trap is not entertained as a possibility, they want to be dependent on the right thing.
@saraislet @recursive that last part is so important and so rarely discussed. It's one of the things I try to always drive home when reporting, often literally writing "This issue can be closed when [explicit predicate]"
@recursive what I value in a junior engineer is someone who can communicate effectively, concisely, and know when they don't know things, and reliably know whether they have or haven't completed a task