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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/agartner; my proof: https://keybase.io/agartner/sigs/2r4U0CNtZutA3juG1FZMrJlmKse5R4inmkCcTOjBi8I ]
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agartner··on Grok Build is open source
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468
agartner··on Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus
I'm a big LXD and now Incus fan. But I went with NixOS rather than IncusOS for my latest build because I prefer the LTS linux kernel over the mainline kernel.
agartner··on Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?
> the courts don’t care if the license is “as-is”.

There isn't any case law to show that. Certainly not in the age of AI. On the criminal side, the CFAA requires "intentionally causes damage" and that's entirely impossible to prove in the age of AI. On the civil side, liability waivers and warranty disclaimers generally cannot shield intentional or willful misconduct or gross negligence.

agartner··on GitHub is having issues now
Yeah I think I've finally had enough. I need to start seriously advocating for alternatives since this is starting to impact our business. It's clearly not getting any better.
agartner··on Incident with multple GitHub services
There was another really bad incident today: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1lk7w13cf

> We have resolved a regression present when using merge queue with either squash merges or rebases. If you use merge queue in this configuration, some pull requests may have been merged incorrectly between 2026-04-23 16:05-20:43 UTC.

We had ~8 commits get entirely reverted on our default branch during this time. I've never seen a github incident quite this bad.

agartner··on Just-bash: Bash for Agents
If anyone is looking to make a similar thing in go I suggest https://pkg.go.dev/mvdan.cc/sh/v3/interp

I've been using it to make my own sandbox that is much more configurable than the default claude code sandbox: https://github.com/gartnera/lite-sandbox

agartner··on Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale
Tailscale policy tests are a bit hard to write but help us have confidence in our changes.

https://tailscale.com/kb/1337/policy-syntax#tests

agartner··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
I guess it was only a matter of time...

Part of this is fair since there is a cost to operating the control plane.

One way around this is to go back to using check runs. I imagine a third party could handle webhooks, parse the .github/workflows/example.yml, then execute the action via https://github.com/nektos/act (or similar), then post the result.

agartner··on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
I've been using this for a ~year now and it works very well. Thanks!
agartner··on Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent works well for me
agartner··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
Working on decently cool things with relatively limited bureaucracy.
agartner··on Migrating Away from Bcachefs
Yeah just typical Debian stuff. jwz has been ranting about this for years. It's not worth spending any time on it.

Some suggestions:

- Only "supporting" the latest mainline kernel and latest tools. I prefer to point to CI system configurations to show exactly what it "supported"

- Make this clear via your website and a pinned issue on Github.

- Force users to report the versions they use via an issue template: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/using-templates-to-en.... Immediately close any issues not meeting your version/system requirements without further discussion or thought.

agartner··on Migrating Away from Bcachefs
I've been patiently waiting to convert my ZFS array to bcachefs. I'm very excited about better SSD promotion logic. But I'm not willing to spend any time on an experimental filesystem on my main systems.

> But you can expect to get flamed about running Debian, or perhaps more accurately, not being willing to spearhead Kent's crusade against Debian's Rust packaging policies.

It is quite unfortunate that Kent couldn't have just said "Debian isn't supported, we will revisit this when bcachefs is more stable" and stopped talking after that. Debian and experimental software just don't work well together.

agartner··on GitHub Linux ARM64 hosted runners now available for free in public repositories
Here's a quick example I put together on how to use these runners to accelerate docker builds: https://github.com/gartnera/actions-arm64-native-example
agartner··on RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent
There are attestations that the binaries were built via CI:

https://userdocs.github.io/qbittorrent-nox-static/artifact-a...

Here's a verification of the latest build:

  gh attestation verify x86_64-qbittorrent-nox -o userdocs
  Loaded digest sha256:af9ceace3fea1418ebd98cd7a8a7b6e06c3d8d768f4d9c9ce0d3e9a3256f40d9 for file://x86_64-qbittorrent-nox
  Loaded 1 attestation from GitHub API
   Verification succeeded!

  sha256:af9ceace3fea1418ebd98cd7a8a7b6e06c3d8d768f4d9c9ce0d3e9a3256f40d9 was attested by:
  REPO                             PREDICATE_TYPE                  WORKFLOW
  userdocs/qbittorrent-nox-static  https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1  .github/workflows/matrix_multi_build_and_release_qbt_workflow_files.yml@refs/heads/master
agartner··on A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
Spending all their security time/budget on box checking rather than actual security.

I'd rather see open ended red team pentest reports.

agartner··on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
It seems most if not all google domains are HSTS preloaded so no you can't: https://hstspreload.org/?domain=script.google.com
agartner··on Docker Is Having an Outage
Yep I'm getting 503's. But the status page says nothing is wrong: https://www.dockerstatus.com/

Update: I configured the gcp docker mirror and can pull images again https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/pull-cached-...

agartner··on Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Working well for me on a 7900XT with ROCm 6 and Linux 6.7.5 thanks!
agartner··on The cost of cheap TVs
I personally just blocked all the lg domains in AdGuard. That way I can keep using the apps.

With full internet access the tv takes significantly longer to load and navigate.

agartner··on Show HN: Beesy – Record Google Meets for free, download locally
Yes we exclusively use google meet. It's very nice. I feel pain every time I have to use anything else.
agartner··on More developers use Linux than Mac, according to 2022 StackOverflow survey
Fractional scaling and no screen tearing are the main reasons I chose to adopt Wayland (sway) ~2 years ago.
agartner··on Let's Encrypt issues its 3Bth cert
Using a wildcard domain (*.agartner.com) helps mask the actual subdomain fyi
agartner··on LXC vs. Docker
We blocked the annoying snapd autoupdate behavior by setting a http proxy to a nonexistent server. Whenever we had a maintenance window we would unset the proxy, allow the update, then set the set the nonexistent proxy server again.

Very annoying.

agartner··on Binctr: Static, unprivileged, self-contained containers as executable binaries
singularity does partially support running without suid: https://github.com/sylabs/singularity/issues/1258

charliecloud is designed specifically not to need suid: https://github.com/hpc/charliecloud

docker will hopefully support full unprivileged use soon: https://github.com/moby/moby/pull/38050

agartner··on GuessTor: Brute-forces .onion domains
Scallion (https://github.com/lachesis/scallion) works really good for this. It uses OpenCL to leverage your GPU's to make cracking really fast.
agartner··on Ask HN: I have ssh, they have ssh, how can we chat?
It might not be exactly what you're looking for but you might take a look at https://github.com/DSUOSS/unix-chat.