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ktemkin

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Performance art piece written live by a collective of hardware hackers & low-level engineers. We make tools to help you do cool things, hack HW, and make educational materials. šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆāš¢.

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ktemkin, to NixOS
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nix users: what bothers you most about nix (ux-wise or otherwise)? what seems the most mysterious to you?

ktemkin,
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(seems like as good a point as any to make some educational materials, and this is one of the Areas of Interest)

ktemkin,
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@raito wait raito you have opinions regarding nix~?

ktemkin,
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@raito ah, the diplomatic stance =P

ktemkin,
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@erincandescent thereā€˜s exactly one feature thatā€˜s really valuable in their current implementation, in our humble opinion ā€” and thatā€™s the ability to have ā€œlockableā€ sources; rather than requiring inline hash updates for things you expect to update periodically

the rest of flakes around that makes it difficult to use, though

(okay, if weā€™re being fair, thereā€™s also the fact that we approve of anything that gets rid of any behaviors that depend on NIX_PATH)

ktemkin, to random
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wearing poorly-glued fake mustache

hello, yes, I have heard about all of your recent xz troubles! I am real m4 auditor; just let me in to PR your repos and I will fix, for you, your m4! very non-suspiciously priced, mhm!

ktemkin,
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this would be the perfect scam for the moment; if only anyone actually understood m4 macros enough to pull it off

ktemkin, to random
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also in general if your advice to the average server owner is ā€œaudit every piece of every piece of code youā€™ll ever runā€ then it seems very possible youā€™ve lost your sense of scale and perspective

ktemkin,
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@JoeUchill itā€™s important because you never know what chemicals the government is putting in your electrons

ktemkin,
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@Pashhur ah, yes --- applied statistics* never** lie*** ^_^

ktemkin,
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@Pashhur (honestly can't be sure if a bayesian of frequentialist joke would be funnier here)

ktemkin, to random
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for everyone waxing poetic about the xz backdoor: please, please, please remember that risk acceptance is as important to threat modeling as risk reduction / abatement

youā€™re not going to come up with a single, all-encompassing piece of security advice that works for everyone ā€” security always is a balancing act between capability, risk, and potential outcomes

sometimes you legitimately have to accept that these kinds of things are possible and move on*

ktemkin,
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*to either coming up with a defense-in-depth strategy that assumes layers will be compromised and protects what you specifically care about

or, equally reasonably, to something else thatā€™s more immediate and important to your project (like more commonly exploited vectors, incident recovery strategies, or just generally improving your product!)

ktemkin, to random
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LB: we really should have seen it coming when the source had BACKDOOR nestled between its 1s and 0s

thatā€™s just sloppy reviewing

ktemkin, to random
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you know, as fun as it is to be mysterious on this account, we should spend more effort to be publicily and visibly plural

ktemkin, to random
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so, are you the "let binding hoisted to an akward place" kind of girl or the "unnecessarily recursive attrset" kind of girl

ktemkin, to random
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hot take: english needs the essen/fressen distinction because it is just so useful

ktemkin,
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@fzimper @xahteiwi @amsomniac yeah, thatā€™s a rough equivalent, but it just doesnā€™t have the same punch

ktemkin,
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@jason specifically we use it to describe our catā€™s two modes of eating; so itā€™s kind of the opposite in this case ā€” ascribing human qualities to nonhumans

ktemkin,
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we actually use this with our cat; if sheā€™s eating normally/daintily she gets the human essen; but she gets fressen when sheā€™s gone absolutely wild for something

ktemkin,
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@elbosso oh, we have a bunch of phrases that work in this place, but none that have the right Feel

ktemkin, to random
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can we just mention: girls

ktemkin,
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(itā€™s so hard to get up and go to work when there could be a morning of cuddles >..>)

ktemkin, to random
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amazon i do not think you know what "peace of mind" is

18+ ktemkin, to random
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mi wile jo e jan pona mute. taso mi jo e pilin monsuta tan jan >.>

mi alasa kama sona e ni: mi jo ala e pilin mosuta tan jan. taso mi sona ala e ni: mi pali e ni tan seme?

ktemkin,
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jan mute li pona tawa mi a! taso jan pi mute ala li ike suli. :(

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