Notices by Demi Marie Obenour (alwayscurious@infosec.exchange)

@dalias @lunareclipse Who is going to change all of the programs that run in that CI? Things like NPM, Cargo, git, curl, and the like.

I like the idea, but implementing it is a massive amount of work, and most of it falls not on the CI provider but on its users.

@dalias @lunareclipse One of the reasons CI does that is that it is so inconvienent to cache things nowadays. CI boxes are stateless by design, and using a network cache requires either an MITM certificate or changing the URLs one uses. Better tooling for this would really help.

@dalias Wouldn’t that mean WWIII? I’m pretty sure that intentionally killing the head of state of a foreign nation is an act of war, and my understanding of the EU’s mutual defense treaties is that this would mean an US vs EU war. France and the US both have nuclear weapons so this would be armageddon.

@dalias Doesn’t that cause Linux to have to page out stuff like executable code instead?

@dalias How does one run that?

@dalias What’s the bullshit?

@whitequark Using a compiler compiled to WebAssembly? WebAssembly runtimes do have vulnerabilities some of the time. Microsoft wrote a research paper about running WebAssembly modules in VMs.

@whitequark @jhwgh1968 which browsers support passkeys on Linux?

@whitequark What makes Ansible harder for you than Nix?

I really like @musl, but compiling code that uses complex Linux kernel features is such a pain. Copying stuff from Linux headers might not be feasible, either for licensing reasons or because the Linux headers are architecture-specific.

@dalias Resistance fighters in WWII might qualify, inasmuch as they are not technically part of any nation-state.

Should people nowadays be judged for the crimes of their ancestors, even if they are not continuing to perpetrate them? Genuine question.

@dalias Do you have any factions in mind that do not fail the third criteria? I was thinking that the Union in the U.S. Civil War post-Emancipation Proclemation ought to be an exception to the second criteria, as abolishing slavery is unquestionably good. However, it fails the third anyway.

@whitequark I 100% support your decision. You have a medical reason to not migrate! Every decent person should respect that.

I haven’t migrated either, and my reason (convenience) isn’t anywhere near as good.

@whitequark @r Or just expose memory-safe wrappers for the ioctls and port Mesa to WebAssembly.

@whitequark @r Or just use a software renderer.

@whitequark @r That just means WASI is missing features.

@whitequark @r Why is it out?

@whitequark @cliffle That's different than lots of nitpicks during code review.

@whitequark @cliffle What meaning do you include in it? I think a lot of the appeal of rustfmt is that it avoids external contributors having to figure out how they should format their code.

@whitequark @cliffle Interesting! Why is that?