polyglot, generalist, tech enthusiast, gamedev. exploring language, ethics, creative problem-solving, my inbox is open some posts are satire

Canada
Joined October 2011
please read up on "ip assignment clauses" and "prior invention clauses" if you're planning to go work for a corporation. they're null/void in certain jurisdictions, but you should learn about them. in short, if you don't get pre-approval for side projects, you risk losing them.
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no you don't get it, as soon as you turn on the model from an inference server, it's the inference server that should be the harness. see when it's on, it should already be able to make tool calls on the same system. what, you don't trust the model? pfft, you're soo far behind /s
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waveform retweeted
I'm tired boss
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gn, please keep the internet safe
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can't wait for my android phone to receive daily security updates, no, i can't wait for my android phone to receive 9 security updates every day in the coming cyberwar.
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waveform retweeted
it’s been an honor using the computer with you all
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evening dev snack: banana and portafilter-choking ash dust $5.44/lb espresso plus water on the side haven't had speciality coffee in months recs welcome
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it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes
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meteor shower tonight, skies permitting 3-5 am eastern standard time 15-20/hour (once every few min)
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average wednesday done updating nixos
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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>junior dev at a mid startup >wednesday morning >just want to push a minor bugfix to our php app today >open laptop, check slack >company group chat is an absolute warzone >CTO typing in all caps about php2shell >fucking php >whatever, server hasn't blown up yet, I just need to get my code in >open gitlab to merge the PR >forced emergency logout because of a critical gitlab security patch release >fucking gitlab >pipeline fails because of some weird regex compiler bug >spend 40 minutes fighting CI/CD >i can just use AI to help debug >fire up opencode >api keys nuked because they were breached >fucking opencode >i’ll just get fresh LLM api keys from our corp proxy, LiteLLM >it won’t connect? It’s down? >look up LiteLLM news: supply chain compromise >fucking litellm >cold sweat forming >slack alert: db connection error >check our database connection >we host on TiDB Cloud >they just announced a security breach, unauthorized access via stolen service account credentials, data copied >fucking tidb cloud >full panic attack incoming >figure fuck it, just ship the container to Railway and go home >open Railway dashboard >bright red banner: "Security Disclosure: Rotate all environment variables immediately. All builds paused." >fucking railway >try to open the app URL in browser to see if anything is even working ⁠>NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID⁠ >eMudhra intermediate certificates compromised >4 >instantly untrusted by every major browser >fucking emudhra >stare blankly at mac screen for 10min >random pop-up >restarting in 10min to fix a critical vulnerability >fucking macos >close laptop >leave office >never come back
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compiling rust crates compiling rust crates compiling rust crates compiling rust crates
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nothing scares a NixOS beginner more than a rebuild that is larger than 30 gb that might require hrs of compilation straight to failure because default Calamares boot was setup to 512 mb to then gc store + sudo sh -c 'rm -rf /boot/kernels/*' -> nixos rebuild system + boot again
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i forgot to mention to actually install the bootloader sudo nixos-rebuild --install-bootloader boot just in case you went nuclear and deleted /boot <3
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liveblogging maintenance day just gc'd 40.4 GiB out of nix store
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given how many vulnerabilities are out in the open these days several times per day i really need to work on a scanner for nixpkgs that de-duplicates results and checks for false positives and be more diligent with updating
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good thing it's nixos so if you went to sleep and fucked up and suddenly you cannot boot, fixing ts from the livecd is really easy, your config is still there so you can just rebuild your config after mounting your root
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waveform retweeted
hard to beat october in vancouver
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