Oliver Gould

Oliver Gould

@olix0r.net

Production systems. System productions.

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i'd guess this is also a major problem for docker and brew and anything that pull from OCI repos

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

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After the firefighting is done (and a nap) we'll need to have a long, serious conversation about the state of non-browser non-platform X.509 verifiers. The Linux status quo is "a pile of PEM files behind a dumpster" and that's not an acceptable excuse for a root store in 2026.

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If you’re using rustls, upgrade to rustls-webpki 0.103.16 and/or webpki-roots or webpki-root-certs 1.0.10.

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

Update everything that verifies certificates against public roots.

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Update everything that verifies certificates against public roots.

Go@golang.org

👩🏽‍🔬 Go 1.27.3 and 1.26.10 are released! 🔐 Security: Includes 1 security fixes to the standard library. 🗣 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/66pojueaQek/m/tmWX2Pq9AgAJ 📦 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.27.3 #golang

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good proxy for growth of vibe coding

patak@patak.cat

vite downloads 4x in the last 6 months the npm world has gone completely bananas

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Oh, this is cool! New rust-analyzer command. "rust-analyzer: Evaluate Predicate" Then type in the type and bound and it'll tell you whether it holds. So, you don't have to go through source code anymore. #rustlang

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Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.

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2026 isn't even half way done, and so far we've received over double the security reports from the entire previous year (which already was more than normal).

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I don't believe that ideas are permanently contaminated by their source. But since "no technical solution to social problems" is substantively a dubious claim, it seems worth remembering that its initial application was incorrect.

rain 🌦️@sunshowers.io

Spoiler

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A very well reasoned article. I believe I am still in the center, leaning optimistic. I started using AI coding agents in July. They worked for tedious, but mechanical refactors. The tech has improved significantly since. I use coding agents for ~80% of Toasty work now: github.com/tokio-rs/toa...

github.comGitHub - tokio-rs/toasty: An async ORM for RustAn async ORM for Rust. Contribute to tokio-rs/toasty development by creating an account on GitHub.
Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at

After the AI Engineer conference, which was full of useful criticism, I remembered that the most confident takes on AI often came from the least exposure. Rejection is easy, trial and error is expensive. I wrote about it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/th...

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"sort of a drunk Sisyphus situation [...] Orthogonality Thesis [..] superintelligence with a randomly generated utility function [...] Yudkowsky [...] If the übermenschen align the AI, who aligns the übermenschen?" tldr AI doom is wrong www.verysane.ai/p/counting-a...

verysane.aiCounting Arguments and AIA “counting argument” is a style of argument common among creationists, who argue that the theory of evolution cannot be true and therefore humans (and usually animals too) were made in basically their present form by God.

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Yeah so my takeaway from this is that any software written in C or C++ is just doomed and will need to be replaced ASAP. People may soon be incentivized to make radical switches that would otherwise have zero momentum. e.g. Niche formally proven OSes.

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me

Talk by a security researcher at Anthropic He shows that you can trivially get Opus 4.5/4.6 to find very difficult to find bugs in established code bases, like the Linux kernel He also seems very worried about “the next few months” m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

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So after running this a while, I can confidently say that Modal is def. not going to break the bank. I am using it all the time (from mobile, laptop, claude code cloud, claude dot ai chat) and I'm averaging about $0.10/day (plus about $0.02/day on Qwen3 embeddings). fast, cheap, globally reachable

jake@yetanotheruseless.com

So since everyone and their grunkle is publishing their stateful agent setup, I might as well publish mine. Meet Yaucca (pronounced like it looks): Yet Another Useless Claude Code Agent: github.com/jakemannix/y... [1/n]

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Speaking of introspection, and the leadership value thereof, and how many great people have in fact wrestled with it since long before 1920...

Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social

"Many leaders interpret self-doubt as evidence they’re failing. They assume that if they were truly good at this job, they wouldn’t feel so uncertain, so conflicted, or so aware of their blind spots. But Lincoln’s example suggests something different."

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sent this to the team today everything great comes from being able to delay gratification for as long as possible and it feels like we're collectively losing our ability to do that

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with all the deskilling and gell-manning (etc) we're gonna get from automated thinking machines, now is the time for the 'tools for thought' crowd to make tools that help you think things through for yourself. tools to do *more* hard thinking. it should feel effortful. cherish that feeling.

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Replying to @yetanotheruseless.com

That last one is a killer: you have a need, and would pay good money! Once product exists, a dozen copies come out, each charging 10% less, race to the bottom for pricing why build it? (answers: fun, oss ideology, altruism, or: build it for yourself and don’t tell anyone about it: comp advantage!)

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It's funny how FOSS ended up feeding a few new megacorps that own everything when the whole point of FOSS was to prevent that from happening.

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NEW: Around 60 services tied to Amazon Web Services are down in the region, affecting web traffic in the UAE and Bahrain. The outage comes following Iranian attacks on the UAE as retaliation for US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

404media.coAmazon Data Centers on Fire After Iranian Missile Strikes on DubaiSome AWS services are down in the Middle East. Recovery is unclear as it requires 'careful assessment to ensure the safety of our operators,' according to Amazon.