Paolo Barbolini

Paolo Barbolini

@paolobarbolini.it

Co-founder & CTO m4ss.net lettre.rs, deps.rs, rust-postgres and others when I can.

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Matt Kane
@mk.gg

Replying to @brgrpclypsfuntime.bsky.social

This bug was introduced in PHP 5.4, which was released in 2012. So no, it wasn't caused by AI coding.

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Scott Helme
@scotthelme.bsky.social

Damn, this is really bad. Mainstream browsers will probably be fine, but there is a long tail of other stuff that will be affected by this: scotthelme.co.uk/eight-bits-o...

scotthelme.co.ukEight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in millisecondsOne of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and…
Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

The more I play with NixOS, the more I want to throw away everything else. In the past days LLMs patched my kernel to fix bluetooth, patched OBS to properly deal with NVIDIA drivers. Meanwhile I've had an issue with Podman in Debian and the only fix is to build and deploy my own netavark 🙄

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

If you're intending to use Podman on Debian stable with BBR, don't. The ancient netavark that they deploy (and for which they don't provide a backport) improperly deals with MTU, so everything runs like shit, even on container-to-host transfers.

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

The more I play with NixOS, the more I want to throw away everything else. In the past days LLMs patched my kernel to fix bluetooth, patched OBS to properly deal with NVIDIA drivers. Meanwhile I've had an issue with Podman in Debian and the only fix is to build and deploy my own netavark 🙄

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

My personal server runs uutils-*, hickory-dns, ntpd-rs, haproxy with aws-lc, curl with rustls, will run oxish one day, ZFS root (XFS on my work DaVinci Resolve disk), hardened kernel without having to wait for any upstream dictator to make that available to me and no convoluted 1990s script hacks

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

Published the yearly maintenance work on img-parts github.com/paolobarboli...

github.comComparing 0a68c691f9cc32ae138191c4b7997ce02f5c600f...e3aebd3451a11eb25a399de4356af0433fa045ce · paolobarbolini/img-partsLow level crate for reading and writing Jpeg, Png and RIFF image containers - Comparing 0a68c691f9cc32ae138191c4b7997ce02f5c600f...e3aebd3451a11eb25a399de4356af0433fa045ce · paolobarbolini/img-parts
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Claude spent all day fixing a project and now I have 40 fix commits to review 🙄

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Phoronix
@phoronix-poster.bsky.social

Linus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More Bugs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Assoc-Array

phoronix.comLinus Torvalds "Did What I Preach", Used AI To Make Code Decipherable & Uncovered More BugsAfter using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits. Beyond generating initial patches and a test program for that noted I/O enhancement, he separately talked up using AI/LLMs for making patches more decipherable to understand in the process the AI noted more long-standing bugs within the Linux kernel...
Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

My colleague installed Eclipse to see what programming in Java is like, and then used Claude to figure out which files he needed to delete to cleanup the pile of stuff it installed. Claude found this:

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

6 years after releasing rusty-s3, downloads keep growing. Of all of the stuff going on this year, I'm happy to see it continue to be adopted with little effort on my side. Happy that this small little crate is slowly finding it's own niche of users that dislike bloated autogenerated API bindings.

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

6 years after releasing rusty-s3, downloads keep growing. Of all of the stuff going on this year, I'm happy to see it continue to be adopted with little effort on my side. Happy that this small little crate is slowly finding it's own niche of users that dislike bloated autogenerated API bindings.

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

If you haven't tried it yet, we support RustCrypto, aws-lc and graviola as crypto backends. Also, and I didn't expect to see this, we are the biggest dependent on instant-xml on crates.io 🤯

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

After this "gift", I expect more PRs sent to open source projects. Huge sloppy descriptions, the author using the PR review feature to talk to it's own clanker. 🙄 Maybe I should give Qwen it's own GitHub account so that clankers talk to each other and I don't have to even think about this mess /s

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Christian Bernieri - DPO
@garantepiracy.it

Revolut: ne parlano tutti ma non ho letto una sola riga concretamente utile... Quando arriveranno, se arriveranno, le indicazioni su COME PROTEGGERSI saranno tardive, generiche e utili quanto un asciugamano sul Titanic. Ci provo io, non sarà piacevole, ma devi sapere cosa ti sta accadendo.

garantepiracy.itPrima lezione di nuoto nella merda: bisogna galleggiare! - GarantePiracy - Christian Bernieri (fucking good) DPO.L'immane data breach che ha coinvolto le PEC governative e le banche mette a rischio tutti noi. Breve guida ai rischi all'orizzonte e come proteggersi.

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Phoronix
@phoronix-poster.bsky.social

Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Binder-C-Goodbye

phoronix.comGoogle's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of RustGoogle's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...
Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

Migration almost complete. I'm starting to appreciate the GitHub Actions-style CI, despite the flaws, after my years long love-hate relationship with Gitlab CI. The UX in general is amazing and snappy. Maybe I'll move some of my smaller projects to Codeberg, who knows...

Paolo Barbolini@paolobarbolini.it

Finally got around to trying Forgejo. Performance is better, except some endpoints where for some reason it takes 150ms to list commits in a tiny repo, which still feels like too much. Anyway, if I stop complaining about GitLab you now know why.

Paolo Barbolini
@paolobarbolini.it

lettre and rust-postgres are not fully mine, and it's not up to me to make this decision on my own, but for projects like rusty-s3, libraw-rs, warb and img-parts maybe... I love consolidation.