For those using SOPS: what's the security boundary around the encrypted secrets file? Is it something that can be kept in a public repository, or is it something that should be kept private due to post-quantum speculations?

Well, a segfault in `sshpass`. Really secure tech I gotta use here...

Well, done a bunch of releases at @getlaminas I wonder if there's a way to improve visibility of those, but iteration speed is more important...

The UK got everything figured out: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/444342

It makes me rationally angry to open a merge request / pull request, and seeing "changed X" commits and description, without the explanation of why it is being done.

OH: #sloptoberfest

New Tales of Alethrion 👀 https://youtu.be/nYFcU_IrB28

Did someone at the Milan MIX trip on a fiber backbone? Internet in Italy is almost unusable today...

Well, it's time for one of my turkeys to go cold turkey 😬 Not something I really enjoy doing.

#bmw sucks. #homeassistant Ref: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/152646 Ref: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/149750

I look at my schedule, and I can only hope to do some meaningful OSS sometime in December 😭

Companies and organizations die, but their XSDs live on.

Compliance training courses to be listened to in German language sound like a word salad.

The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface. #uspolitics

#perugia #freepalestine

Finally finished #noita: what a fantastic game. took me upwards of 150 attermpts to figure out that the way isn't brute-forcing it :|

When the TV that exists for the sole purpose of displaying its HDMI inputs has the nerve to paint “WiFi not connected” over the signal

Was looking for a currency conversion API, but then I remember that I pay my government (and therefore the EU) for it, and they provide it via RSS: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html

In the last year, I reviewed the entire codebase of ~30 companies. Some real diamonds out there, but the vast majority feels like stepping in a pile of "whoops, I did it again".

How do I already have 400 emails today?!

In phpc.chat Discord today, @derickr shared this method for listing human-friendly time zone regions for any country. Want to prompt your users to choose their time zone? Use this approach. https://3v4l.org/66Wvt #php

Okay, this is CRAZY. You can use a mastodon toot to automatically create a comment section on your website. This is great for many different reasons: - Anyone in the Fediverse can join the conversation. - It works on static websites - No need to […] [Original post on mastodon.gamedev.place]

I miss Kvass in Kiev: Ukraine is a splendid place, I should get back there...

Why use a URL shortener when you can use a phishy URL extender? https://phishyurl.com/ Keep your security people alert and awake, generate phishing-looking redirecting link #infosec

Holy fuck #hackers was rad.

the security industry is a machine that turns `THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND` into `YOU ARE PART OF A SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACK, SHAME ON YOU`

I sit down in a random street corner for 2 minutes, to rest after 2.5h of driving, and Jehovah's witnesses show up and ask me to join their bigotry sect?! "Get absolutely lost" worked fine, since I don't look like an Italian.

Wait, did Nepal just pick an interim prime minister via Discord? 😮

Oh no! Anyway....

🇪🇺The EU Commission seriously claims: "There is no such thing as #chatcontrol.” Their fantasy: A magic, 100% perfect algorithm that only finds CSAM. The reality: To find anything, you must scan everything. Stop the mass surveillance lie! #StopScanningMe

LLMs suggesting "0.0.0.0/0" security groups, yay...

I'm gonna have to start a project to run non-Android Linux on one of my phones, aren't I? All this constant AI assistant intrusion in daily business is becoming absurd...

I just realized that StackOverflow has sidebars: what are those for? :O

AI slop propagated to physical books: yikes.

Uh-oh: can't use microsoft authenticator because their tracking system is blocked by my network firewall... Don't know if that's good or bad.

Well shit, upgrading to Android 15 bricked my phone...

Watching #nixcon while being Noita'd 🥵

Fun distributed systems failure mode: how to do a persistence rollback on a system that has already emitted events (to third-parties) with surrogate identifiers that it owns, and that it will generate again?

Synology, why can't I have SSH for normal users? Why?! My next NAS is probably going to be self-built/managed 😭 I really don't want to build RAID stuff myself, but these OEM providers have completely arbitrary limitations such as these, all for the sake of "ease of use".

I hate how my brain understands concepts I learned 10y ago, only when I'm doing completely unrelated now. No apparent correlation, just very lazy worker scheduling.

OH: derprecation

SQL migrations should be written in plain DML, without any SQL abstraction layer. You will thank me when you'll have to figure out a migration gone sideways in-flight, and won't end up debugging the SQL abstraction.

Had to link the Zalgo StackOverflow issue today: we keep repeating the same parsing mistakes... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454

Save Luigi! #Dragoncon2025

Spent 5 hours trying to get Monado+SteamVR to work: no luck 🙄 Time to try switching to Nixos Stable?

Software developers that skip testing because "the code is trivial" probably haven't lived through enough "trivial" regressions

Basic #sql programming question. I have an SQL tree of: `INSERT INTO category(id, parent_id) VALUES ...` `INSERT` and `UPDATE` operations are occurring in a random order, so I cannot have foreign keys on them. Is there a way to generate a closure (materialized) table that uses SQL triggers […]

I was looking at how to upgrade my Unifi network devices to **reduce** power drain, but apparently, at each product iteration, power consumption only grows!?