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justincormack··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
There are 30k websites using certs chained to that root
justincormack··on eMudhra intermediate CA compromise
The Go and Rustls upgrades specifically block the intermediate certs because neither of these use the system revocation lists, I believe. Once you upgrade to a trust store without the root cert for the CA this will also solve the issue. Not sure about other ecosystems.
justincormack··on Show HN: KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache
The Apache foundation does not fund projects, nor do other foundations.
justincormack··on Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
No they don't, legal citation needed if you are going to claim this.
justincormack··on Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
Hares were also introduced.
justincormack··on Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models
For some kinds of forecasting it doesn't need to be exactly accurate - eg say you are forecasting traffic for how to scale a load balancer, it can be a bit off it will just cost you a little and you can adjust after - a lot of feedback systems dont need full accuracy. You wouldnt use this to forecast whether to buy shares. It basically replaces various traditional curve fitting tools. If you need a really good forecast yes you are going to build a domain model. At least this is my understanding...
justincormack··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
AI models is much of what they build. A lot of software around that to support it.
justincormack··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
Thats not an AI GPU its a consumer product.
justincormack··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
I dont think it has a video out
justincormack··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
The original book that article is based on is great.
justincormack··on Postgres isn't slow, your storage is
There was a whole bunch of work on GPUs for databases before GPUs became hard to get, which slowed it down a bit. A lot of the columnar database performance gain is from vectorization. Now which direct pcie DMA to GPU from NVMe this is even more attractive. FPGA seems much more work than GPU.
justincormack··on ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux
ptp support in nics is becoming more widespread, nics not yet as far as I can see.
justincormack··on Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict
All the public evidence suggests that museums make less from digital rights than the cost of running the schemes
justincormack··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Its not clear, the IRS will presumably decide if, for example, Zuck gets an R&D tax deduction from his salary because he contributes to code, which no other large tech company has tried to claim.
justincormack··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Because thats a reduced redundancy period, and the longer it takes the more likely another drive will fail during that time.
justincormack··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
TIL that Fifa made a movie that had the worst US box office of an movie ever, taking $918 in its opening weekend.
justincormack··on AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
Some work on this is happening yes, see https://stack72.dev/ai-broke-the-assumptions-behind-ci/ and https://pushgate.dev/
justincormack··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
I would be curious to see comparisons of jev and similar things with problem specific classifiers. I think layla suggested making problem specific versions anyway? There is a lot of demand for magic don't do any work solutions, which is kind of weird in an era where agents can really help you build a customised solution effectively.
justincormack··on AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Depends a lot on your workload. I build large Rust projects so really only one can build and test at a time.
justincormack··on Jemalloc 5.4.0
It does

> Systemd was launched in April 2010; it adopts various ideas from previous init systems and combines them with a uniform configuration and administration interface. Systemd operates as a background service (daemon) and controls important system configuration tasks including hardware initialisation and the starting of server processes. The developers thought that its name is suitably reminiscent of the French term "système D", an expression that relates to "thinking on your feet" and describes high-speed technical problem-solving abilities such as those displayed by TV action hero MacGyver.

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justincormack··on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
The British Library appears to have 7 cafes https://www.bl.uk/visit/eat-drink-shop
justincormack··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
EU signed a free trade agreement with Canada but its never been ratified
justincormack··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
Its not locking, it needs consistent conditional PUT. Minio did have that, Rustfs does, Garage is eventually consistent so explicitly does not support it correctly.
justincormack··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
I wouldnt use Garage for Iceberg, Iceberg relies on conditional PUT working correctly, while Garage is eventually consistent, so they don't provide the correct guarantee.
justincormack··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
The kernel is still GPL
justincormack··on I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years
So how is clickhouse supposed to make money and continue to develop the product if you will only buy from AWS?
justincormack··on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Yes. If they are really open, you can use them as you wish. Some licenses are less open though.
justincormack··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
The price will go up dramatically, that is part of how Bending Spoons works.
justincormack··on .name Termination
uk is one example - they opened up x.uk later, and gave x.co.uk registrations first dibs.
justincormack··on I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Tawny owls make so many different noises. The classic sound is two, one calls and one answers but they are very chatty with different sounds. They live all around, but never seen one.
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