firmwares

Just ‘firmware’, still. It never gets an S.

1. Containerization is not a security improvement, since it strongly depends on the sandboxing (and the trends are terrible for that)
2. Containerization frustrates validation of the installed state of the system. This means you can’t answer “how do you know” when you need to.
3. Containerization adds a layer of unnecessary tech. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing, just something you don’t need.

I say this as a former OS security guy for Unix and Linux – like, as a job, working for a very well-known global vendor.

Right? That’s noble work.

And, if you’re lucky enough to have had/used/seen the Facebook Portal TV unit in action, you’ll understand the zeal I feel. Truly a wonder during covid.

Linux is his.

He gets to make the rules. We get to decide whether to bail.

I don’t understand confusion or entitlement over this.

I’m non-container - too much time in security - but that’s a wicked workflow. Well done.

Could this one day get us a second life for our echo flex units? They are phenomenal pieces of hardware.

Meta portal TV are also excellent hardware units discarded by its mothership and ripe for reuse. They were so mired by controversy but the TV unit hardware was really great.

You updated f’jo with renovate? Badass.

As useful as nipples on a truck.

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Nb: Appimages are toxic. Ask a security person.

No duality: only suck

I remember when more frequent “little-bang” releases took the place of fewer “big-bang” releases; and why.

I hope their rediscovery of the reasoning behind little-bang goes gently.

Tommy Tutone had a hit in the '80s called 8-6-7-5-3-0-9, “Jenny”.

Any gen-x can sing it with no effort.

I’m not American; just gen-x.

Whoever equated “stable” with “inactive” is a fucking moron.

If your stable release can’t handle proper updates over its stable content, then get a better stable distro. There’s a reason why some distro trees are Enterprise and some are “Enterprise”.

I love how you refer to people who give you things.

I haven’t seen your kernel and OS yet, so let me know when it’s ready.

Don’t worry. You don’t need to use vim.

Vim is mid-late 1900s software with colors added, essentially propped up by momentum and clique ritual, supported by efficiency tropes tired already in the '90s. Its only value is dopamine from the daily coping with its interface and a feeling of belonging to the elitist therapy group of similar survivors. It’s doomer prepper but in editor form.

Been there. Never again.

Not even family. Not even once.

I’ve been mandated to use an LLM - but not too much because token$, but efficiently, and whatever - and I get frustrated often. I will write things like ANSWER MY QUESTION and tell it it has a word budget of 10 words. I know I’m gonna trip some criteria and be locked out.

It’ll be awesome.

You’re gonna get “this is my favourite distro and this is why it should be just fine for any purpose including …what were we talking about again?”

It’s amazing the risk profile of that.