@__ww__

Software Engineer, formerly @redhat. Thinks too much about packaging systems and software supply chain security. The mustard indicates progress. 🌭

 San Francisco, CA
professional.wizard.zone/
Joined March 2018
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permanent reminder to self
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wint32_t@dril_rs20 Feb 2020
one of the things i dont “get” about rustc is why can’t you index out of bounds. c gives me “bonus data” but no. rustc always jsut gives me shit
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qntm@qntm25 Feb 2019
The best proof that time travel is impossible is that sixty thousand misconfigured time machines from all phases of future history didn't simultaneously explode into existence at midnight UTC on 1 January 1970
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“a hot dog is just an interface that can abstract over any form of meat”
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Jens Axboe@axboe12 Aug 2022
"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." Quote attributed to @cra, and I don't think I've ever seen anything more true posted.
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If you're doing Scrum and estimating or breaking up stories into tasks, you may want to reconsider. From the horses mouth: 👇
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"Zero Trust" is not supposed to mean "Destroy all trust that people previously placed in you"
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Tim Bray@timbray19 Mar 2022
Fascinating deep-dive, must-read.
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PoC||GTFO 0x21, "Notebook of Altera NIOS Disassembly, Routable IPIP Spoofing, PCAP-NG Polyglots, Weird Machinery, Code Golfing, and UHF-VHF Tuners", is now available on #OpenBSD over #IPv4 and #IPv6 ¹: __ ¹ alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/
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[sweating visibly] you.. uh.. you telling me a Borrower checked this compiler
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The problem with "find an itch to scratch" as a development methodology is that all software makes me fucking itchy
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boy am I ever fucking tired.
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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you kind?
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since everyone is talking about log4j/supply chains an experiment years ago i calculated 1-bit offset utf8 strings of the top few hundred npm packages and registered packages under them they received thousands of hits per week from machines trying to download and execute them
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@bcrypt19 Nov 2021
buried in this announcement is the absolutely crazy revelation that until 2 weeks ago, anyone could have published an update to any npm package. github.blog/2021-11-15-githu… (HT @feross)
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How to keep your Thinkpad properly hydrated
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Avi Bryant@avibryant5 Nov 2021
Blockchain applications combine the coolheaded, rigorously ethical environment of penny stocks with the simplicity and ease of use of CORBA.
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Writing C is like performing criticality experiments using a screwdriver - it's fine up until the point where you screw up, and then it's extremely not
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Sometimes I try to imagine a world where scientific young minds enjoyed greater rewards for revolutionizing, like, farming methods, manufacturing, or energy, rather than the dark patterns used to optimize ad-clicks at Google and Facebook. How did we get here?
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