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gchamonlive

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Check out my projects at <gitlab.com/users/gabriel.chamon/projects>

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gchamonlive··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
If it were 5 years ago I'd have the same reaction, but today it's fairly simple to setup a single node deployment with minikube or k3s, and LLM makes it very easy to maintain deployments.
gchamonlive··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Maybe good devs attain success with agents because they are wary of it, keeps them on their toes while maintaining a productivity boost.
gchamonlive··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Yes, you look at stars, issues and activity to infer trust, but there is no accountability, the licenses are clear about that that software is distributed as is
gchamonlive··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
What's even good these days? Toyota, VW, Audi, what else?
gchamonlive··on I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy
I see these comments a about future repairability and I wonder if Americans had the same general wary feeling when adopting Tesla cars.
gchamonlive··on Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
How does opensource software work when nobody is accountable when I run software from GitHub?

This is the exact mentality behind corporate software and why nobody gets fired for using IBM, Oracle, Azure...

Accountability is a poor proxy for quality because there are so many ways to frame an incident never those responsible really get accountable.

Software works because developers care about the product. If something goes wrong the entire team is accountable, so they work together on something as one.

gchamonlive··on Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
We can port doom to qwen already
gchamonlive··on Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)
It's specially interesting that the article goes through lengths to criticize this legal deforestation while not mentioning the progress in fighting illegal deforestation. Seems like the current admin doesn't do much when in fact it is successfully reverting the damages done in the previous admin by Bolsonaro:

The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01368-x)

Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o)

gchamonlive··on Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit (2025)
Yes there were many contradictions in the COP summit, but this is exactly what it's for so the world can understand the actual challenges other countries go through which takes the backseat when these meetings are held in rich countries.
gchamonlive··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
Aren't orbiting stations and satellites part of planet earth's space?
gchamonlive··on Ten days later, Git on macOS still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
It makes no sense to imagine this hypothetical scenario and compare it to reality, you have to imagine a similar world with a OS authority, but it only gets updated every 6 months. Which is worse in the worse case? I'd say the one with the lower blast radius.

But this abstract exercise is only to highlight the importance of Apple getting its shit together, because such a scenario exists with Windows and the culture of downloading exes and msis and it's honestly way worse than having a central but responsible authority.

gchamonlive··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
In turn the centralized OS authority needs proper maintenance otherwise it's just as bad if not worse, because of the larger blast radius
gchamonlive··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Ok, "neocolonialism" where there's no alternative but to take the deal. Nobody's forced but with consequences set the right way there's no need to.
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
That's not how risk management works, you don't disregard one because another is higher, because risk compose. At the end of the day you'll be in a car accident coming from a surgery you didn't need.
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

  It was a carcinoma, and surgery removed it. If ChatGPT had existed back then, this carcinoma would have been removed several years earlier.
My point is against this technical positivism.
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
As opposed to what OP said?
gchamonlive··on Lula Wins a Record Fourth Term in Brazil in a Surprise Comeback
We didn't turn
gchamonlive··on [dead]
Totally, and still Lula won
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I still maintain my point that it isn't harmless to blindly address benign anomalies. Every medical procedure carries risk.
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Even if addressing each false positive would carrying low but real risk of death or complications?
gchamonlive··on A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
Maybe if chatgpt existed back then you'd have had your carcinoma extracted along with 10 other benign anomalies.

Automation doesn't make up for carelessness.

gchamonlive··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Yep, totally, it's part of the so called political project. I refuse to play 20 questions with people who refuse to see reason so I measure words.
gchamonlive··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
If you understand what vaza-jato is about you know these convictions were part of a political project then. Fast forward almost ten years and we have the Master scandal which mensalão pales in comparison, all architected and executed by the far right parties.
gchamonlive··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
I'd suggest you watch his campaign for reelection and the vaza-jato, you'd see he's neither of those things.
gchamonlive··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
By which frame of comparison do you say they were ever "damned even though they didn't"?
gchamonlive··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
How do they call it, it's the "business risk"? Who am I to question it. Let's just take care nobody loses an eye in the process.
gchamonlive··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
My standard is not having a single full-time employee without the proper resources to maintain the technology. If the community would find the resources, all is well, but better than to run it on fumes would be to give everyone time to move on.
gchamonlive··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
This only happens on poorly thought pipelines and GitHub actions model or Jenkins high level directives won't make up for it. Eventually it'll break.

In Gitlab you can use the main file for describing high level stage pathways (tests, builds, deployments...) and offload individual control of jobs to granular files. Tests can be self contained child pipelines. Templates make them easy to replicate and components give them more flexibility.

You can do a lot more than GitHub actions with a lot less complexity than Jenkins.

gchamonlive··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
But Wikipedia their main product is the webpage, for PHP, people visit it and their docs occasionally, that sure wouldn't have the same impact.

Better than running on fumes would be to honourably phase out and give people time to move on.

gchamonlive··on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says
The mythical engineer-hour, has this ever worked? Maybe for an already stabilished dev team...

And asking harder? How does harder look like in comparison to regular asking?

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