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fsmv··on The Day the Telnet Died
Your cookie banner is very inconvenient and made me leave your website and not read the article
fsmv··on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder
It would be nice to give them some kind of attribution in the readme or something since you know which projects you referenced
fsmv··on The most dangerous code: Validating SSL certs in non-browser software (2012) [pdf]
A good reason to actually test that you reject man in the middle certs if you rely on TLS in your application
fsmv··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
I don't understand, yay updates itself. I've never once had this problem.
fsmv··on Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go
There was a short thread about this on mastodon involving Rob Pike the other day https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/115896334649905170
fsmv··on The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
The go standard library has an implementation of ed25519 although I did not find ed448 it also has some NIST curves. There are a few libraries that do ed448 like one from cloudflare.
fsmv··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
I think what you're doing is really cool.

Your instructions to comment on your blog are incredible, come talk to you face to face. If I didn't live on the other side of the country it would be meaningful to tell you what it meant to me in person.

fsmv··on “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
Skilled humans must understand the problem and write the theorem statement.
fsmv··on Go away Python
I think I was just trying to minimize accidentally matching the wrong thing. Both do work though and it is kinda nice to be more readable.

If I remember right I think ? Is exactly one character only, or maybe it does non greedy .

fsmv··on FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)
Best feature of freebsd. I have really messed up the system and successfully restored a boot environment snapshot and everything is fine after.

It happens by default with freebsd-update (I hope the new pkg replacement still does it too)

fsmv··on Go away Python
I made one of these too! I decided not to use // because I use gofmt auto formatting in my editor and it puts a space between the // and the usr. This one isn't changed by gofmt:

    /*?sr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit $? #*/
fsmv··on They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
It's really not as bad as it sounds from the contract. It's easy to get the committee to give you a release for your project.

The real rule as always is do not get in a legal fight with your employer

fsmv··on Some Junk Theorems in Lean
It seems to me that junk theorems are fundamentally a manifestation of leaky abstractions. It happens when you can see the implementation details from inside the abstraction.
fsmv··on Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL
A book won't fit in the URL anyway even with compression
fsmv··on I doubt that anything resembling genuine AGI is within reach of current AI tools
My guess is they believe in the Penrose idea that consciousness has something to do with quantum mechanics
fsmv··on Go Proposal: Secret Mode
Yeah the standard library crypto package is really good and so is the tls package. There's also golang.org/x/crypto which is.seprate because it doesn't fall under the go compatibility guarantee. You can do all kinds of hashes and generate certs and check signatures and do aes encryption all built in and accessible. There's even lower level constant time compare functions and everything.

I'm a big fan of the go standard library + /x/ packages.

fsmv··on Go Proposal: Secret Mode
One thing that makes me unsure about this proposal is the silent downgrading on unsupported platforms. People might think they're safe when they're not.

Go has the best support for cryptography of any language

fsmv··on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
Supermicro boards have it via the IPMI Ethernet port. Doesn't require any sign up.
fsmv··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
I want something with a simpler backend than immich. I don't really want to host it because it needs lots of stuff to run. I would love one that can do sqlite and is a single binary go (or rust) program.
fsmv··on Self-hosting my photos with Immich
It auto uploads all your photos to the cloud and you can delete them locally and still have them. The biggest feature is the AI search, you can type anything and it will find your pictures without you doing any work categorizing them. It can do objects or backgrounds or colors and it can even do faces so you can search by people's name. That and there's share links to albums and multiplayer albums.

It keeps the originals locally when it uploads forever unless you delete them. There's a one click "free up space on this device" button to delete the local files. It's actually somewhat annoying to export in bulk, you pretty much have to use takeout.

fsmv··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
What a disgusting article. It's abliest to say that disabled students won't be able to make it Stanford. The only weird part is calling anxiety and depression a disability.

Saying that people who are using accommodations are cheating is morally repugnant.

Instead of saying that we need to clamp down on people claiming disabilities, we should open up the accommodations to everyone.

fsmv··on Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?
It's not quite that they cannot do anything not in the training data. They can also interpolate the training data. They're just fairly bad at extrapolating.
fsmv··on Boom, bubble, bust, boom. Why should AI be different?
Physics is obviously incomplete and yet nobody can solve quantum gravity. Being obviously flawed doesn't mean the solution is obvious. That's the whole problem.
fsmv··on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
I'm hosting from my home with a static ipv4 right now. It's been running for years without a single problem. I just put in a basic pf config. Everything is fine. It's not that scary.
fsmv··on FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter
I await your blog post about how it only appeared to work at first and then had major problems when you actually dug in.
fsmv··on Google Antigravity
You are being rescued. Do not resist.
fsmv··on Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)
I don't think that's true. You'll just look like someone who already has it cached.
fsmv··on Switching from GPG to Age
That's the whole point of age. That pgp is too complex and overloaded with features. By focusing on encryption only he can really get it right.
fsmv··on A brief look at FreeBSD
I recently did an arch with zfs root setup. You have to make a custom install ISO that has the zfs module to do it. After it's installed the main annoyance is the zfs module only works with certain kernel versions and often arch has updated the kernel to a version not supported. There's a repo with pinned kernel versions or you can just use the lts kernel.

FreeBSD is much easier but I needed better Linux compatibility for this machine

fsmv··on Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?
People can fork my code all they want but to anyone actually paying attention it's obvious mine is the real one. If theirs is actually better and they actually put in more work then so be it.

But in reality the original is often the best updated and the forks will fall behind because they have to merge your changes and you don't have to do that.

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