Alex Zenla 🏳️‍⚧️

21 May

Really enjoyed giving my talk on microVMs and why I have made it my life’s work to make things more secure by default 😊

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In the pursuit of a fast, functional, and embeddable x86_64 emulator with both a JIT and interpreter, I had Claude cook up a GPLv2 emulator in Rust, with a fast and correct branch of QEMU TCG as a reference: github.com/azenla/uemul... My ultimate plan is to try to make an iOS app like iSH :)

It works!

WASM uemulator booting Alpine :3

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23h

Committing now: a UEFI executable that can run on aarch64 that JIT's and emulates an x86_64 Linux distribution live. Spicy

As someone who was obsessed with and wrote IRC bots as a kid, Claude Tag is a huge productivity increase for me.

The vulnerabilities are real, so if you need a reprieve, just know that you can go to Reddit and watch Airbnb hosts crash out over the fact that they can no longer ask people to take out the trash and strip linens.

Airbnb hosts have been bad for quite awhile now (there was a time when it was quite pleasant actually) so I think we deserve to have a laugh.

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Edera

@edera.dev

Replying to @edera.dev

Copy-on-write forking clones a running microVM into isolated copies that share memory until they change a page. Each copy is a zone, created with one hypervisor call. “We can fork thousands of zones very quickly with this design,” says Edera CTO @alex.zenla.io

Today's fun fact I learned: Michael Eisner greenlit the name Pleasure Island at Walt Disney World primarily because Jeffrey Katzenberg hated it and he wanted to send a signal that Katzenberg was on his bad side.

I was not prepared for how weird the Wonka movie is

I didn’t even know it was a musical going in and now Keegan-Michael key is trying to drown Timothée Chalamet in a fountain because he’s trying to compete against other chocolatiers.

@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

I just saw Primetime and it was something else

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Filippo Valsorda

Anthropic found the origin of the NIST elliptic curve seeds: they were generated with drand48()! No one was seriously worried, but this should put some FUD to rest, completing the NIST ECC rehabilitation arc… just in time to be retired in favor of PQ. Also, we raised $36 Ki for ISRG. Yay!

words.filippo.ioThe NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been ClaimedWe now know how the seeds of the NIST elliptic curves were generated: they’re not the hash of some saucy sentence, but the output of drand48() seeded with the time, which was indeed in 1997–98.

At least 10% of my brain power at all times is trying to figure out whether Michael Eisner is at fault (bad) for modern Disney, or at fault (good) for modern Disney.

This largely hinges on whether the The Jim Henson Company would have been better in the three possible scenarios: 1. Jim Henson sold the company to The Walt Disney Company quickly before his death because Eisner didn't demand Sesame Street too. 2. Owned by a German TV company. 3. Run independently.

And yes, my measure of success of the CEO of The Walt Disney Company's tenure *does* largely hinge on the success or lack thereof of The Muppets as a franchise. The current state of which is currently... depressing.

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"Sandbox" has become one of the most overloaded words in Kubernetes, and now it feels like it can mean any of a dozen distinct things. On October 29, we're hosting a live panel on the isolation landscape moderated by @alex.zenla.io. edera.link/vev-1029

Watching the latest Hunger Games movie with a friend, and we just spent 20 mins trying to reason with the theoretical map of the districts. It was at this moment I discovered the Capital is the Rocky Mountains and District 12 is Appalachia.

Apparently Disney Channel livestreams on YouTube, and the YouTube algorithm rightly identified that at one point in my life, I would have been excited to watch Halloweentown again 🤣

Look at her, she’s adorable! She also animates!

One of the requests for Sprout by users is to make it accessible in graphical mode. I'm still not quite sure how to do that, but I think it can be done.

I found a microSD card in my collection that is so old, I think it very well might be one from the era of my original Raspberry Pi (which I think I may have used an adapter for), and it is so slow that a single docker pull took 38 mins.

It's amazing how having a view of the water/city from my desk has made me just background happy. This move was so worth it 😄

The Sprout bootloader is getting a glow-up with a new graphical boot menu (mouse support included :D)

I told Claude "be cute" and this is the result.

I too would like to use Linux 6.12 (cute edition)

lol

Wow they really did an extremely in your face anti-iPad Baby storyline for Toy Story 5 didn't they lol

edera.devSnapshot, Fork & Isolate AI Agents on Your Own KubernetesEdera runs AI agents in isolated microVMs on Kubernetes you already own. Snapshot, fork, and scale agent workloads securely and cost-efficiently.

My featured photo today :3

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Marly Salazar

@secant2.bsky.social

edera.dev/stories/proj... My first project at edera 😊 Working on this with this team has been a breath of fresh air in my jaded corporate soul.

My move is complete-ish. I am now super duper exhausted.

20 Sept

Flying back home now :)

19 Sept

"The container of a navigable navigable is the navigable container whose content navigable is navigable." is now my new mental stemming sentence 🤣

19 Sept

Just saw a post that the first SNL cast member born in the 21st century was hired and I was super excited until I reminded myself I was born in 1999. Now I feel old.

18 Sept

Asking the very important questions to Claude, like “Determine how many abandoned Shoney’s signs there are in the United States”

17 Sept

Okay so Peruvian food is the best food on the planet.

17 Sept

My favorite thing about trying Brightline (Orlando to Miami) is watching the clearly confused travelers who don’t realize you don’t need to line up and board 45 mins for a train.

17 Sept

I get the sense there are a lot of first-time train riders on this route.

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Claude created the ultimate AppleCare One family plan guide for me: gist.github.com/azenla/4c449... TL;DR, you probably shouldn't get it if you have anyone who isn't immediate family on your Family Sharing, and there are a few other caveats.

Genuine observation: public speaking got way easier for me because being trans in public is already baseline so much mental effort that speaking in front of a crowd/on camera now feels comparatively less hard 😄 I think that doing it a lot has helped too, but when I am on stage I actually feel calm

However, I am always anxious beforehand still, but mostly due to “is this content the right content” reasons, and not just having attention on me.

I think it's a bit too late local time for me to be going down a rabbit hole about Mac & Cheese Bar franchises that are marketing via subliminal messaging.

I just opened my only Intel MacBook Pro (2018) that I haven't touched in two years. And wow is it insane how much better things have gotten since then.

13 Sept

Alright, Waffle House food acquired. I am now ready to leave the South for at least another year where I will then return to re-up my Waffle House license.

13 Sept

I showed my Dad Chappell Roan’s album and I was away, “Casual” came on, and he just screamed “My god!”

12 Sept

You may fascinate a woman by giving her a single pack of Delta Airlines Biscoff.

12 Sept

Leaving Montreal to hang out with family + going to Epcot 😁

12 Sept

Also also, I’m finally riding one of the trains I haven’t in the US: Brightline in Florida

11 Sept

I would do anything for them to bring it back.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)