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kitplummer··on Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant
Am I the only one wondering why anyone would keep "sensitive" information on a phone?? Let alone taking that "sensitivity" with you where ever you go? And across a border with out-of-control control?

Or am I the only one who thinks that there is equal risk of someone inserting "sensitive" information into any device - for whatever purpose - without the phone's owner even knowing.

Zero trust peeps. Zero trust.

kitplummer··on Radicle: The Sovereign Forge
I had a few different issues getting the CI broker working the way I wanted to (don't even remember what the issues were, but it had to do with catching patches) so wired up my own way but simply polling via Git - using a thing I built a while back called goa (gitops agent) for another project.

The tricky part was getting the output from what ever do with the code, back into the Radicle patch. But it works.

https://revolveteam.com/blog/goa-radicle-ci/

There are some caveats - mostly security related - given this is potentially executing commands on a host node.

kitplummer··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
I recently, for Rust targets reasons, have decided to punt GitHub Actions AND GitHub. Opted for Radicle. Had to figure out my own CI.

Doc'd it here: https://revolveteam.com/blog/goa-radicle-ci/

kitplummer··on General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust
Curious about FIPS compliance of the crypto modules, any insight?
kitplummer··on An interactive intro to CRDTs
Ditto (https://portal.ditto.live and https://docs.ditto.live) uses them.
kitplummer··on Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again?
The raw point is valid. Sure this a poorly edited article and lacks the best research - can we agree that like almost everything, we've engineered these things to be commercially short in terms of life-span, let alone not super-sustainable in terms of manufacture or maintenance? Aside from the continuously performance-oriented standardization shifts, the specialization of bicycle types is doing a disservice to sustainability. Also, the "electrification" of bicycles is a completely separate argument - from all angles: manufacture, maintenance and longevity; one that is no different that all EVs. TBH, this article reads like a ChatGPT dialog.

Unfortunate that we've missed another opportunity for healthy dialog around the benefits of the bicycle.

kitplummer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
That exists, it is just hidden right now. If my intent was to offer this up and a for-the-public-good I'd turn it back on. But like most of the other comments here, at some point it just doesn't make sense for me to foot the bill to run it. It would be one thing if it was a simple front-end, with a simple back-end. But processing this insight is a little bit resource intensive which creates a cost burden. Academically it wasn't a big deal to run this in a true HPC, the costs have already been covered. Commercially is a different calculus.
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
Funny...I think posting here has generated a few clicks. Am seeing my background worker dying. :)
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
LowEndInsight: https://www.lowendinsight.dev

Basic analysis of open source software's source - for things like "bus factor". Started as a research project, probably going to die as a research project.

kitplummer··on Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir
Right, so the moral of the story centers on the target user of the CLI tool. If you're building something for the Elixir community - game on I suppose, though there is still the complexity of build-env per OS/arch.

I wonder where WASM/container enters the discussion.

kitplummer··on Owl: A toolkit for writing command-line user interfaces in Elixir
Absolutely both.

But...the issue is packaging/distributing a CLI built with Elixir. Comparatively to building a CLI in something like Rust, there is a lot of overhead that comes with a VM-based language and framework. Especially if you want to target multiple OS and processor architectures (or distributions). Not to say that it is impossible, just maybe not as simple. It is one thing to run Mix tasks, or access the Owl API from REPL, it is another to run an Owl-based app on macOS, Linux and Windows and get it there.

kitplummer··on Tell HN: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon is an excellent MacBook replacement
I like my Framework with Ubuntu. Wish it wasn't Ubuntu but everything works.
kitplummer··on RustyHermit – A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel
Is there a Heroku-like service for any of the unikernels yet?
kitplummer··on US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)
Another interesting aspect of the PS3 is it was one of the first OTS device platforms that integrated hardware DRM.
kitplummer··on US Air Force connects 1,760 Playstation 3's to build supercomputer (2010)
I worked on a DARPA project a few years before this - where we were using CBE as the core for a polymorphic processor (one with an FPGA attached to every IO). We were also gutting PS3s to make mission computers for early unmanned systems - running Ubuntu on top. USAF wasn't the only one - not only were there commercial supply challenges with the PS3, various components were being horded by various nation states. We were pretty sure they didn't even no what to do with the parts, but was a basic attempt to prevent projects like this from getting off the ground.
kitplummer··on An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet and Perforce
So long Puppet, have some fond memories. Good luck with the OSS thing at Perforce.
kitplummer··on Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
I loved nb! Until I ran it from a top-level directory and it committed an update to every git repo within that top-level. :D. Definitely operator error, but I learned my lesson and am back to separating notes from todos.
kitplummer··on Show HN: A plain-text file format for todos and check lists
This is awesome! Super appreciate the effort on this.

One challenge I've had is the file-based concept. And it losing "shape" quickly. I taken a few whacks at something different and have settled on a CLI-based kanban-y thing: https://github.com/kitplummer/clikan

But this lacks things like tags - which I appreciate as long as they are searchable in some form.

kitplummer··on What if Git worked with programming languages?
I'm just a bit more "generally" curious. Is `git` being the _only_ DVCS a good thing? Not to say that `hg` or `darcs` don't exist, just that the hub on top of git has pushed us in a singular direction.

I would like to see, at least academically, something more.

kitplummer··on Who's at the Helm?
Like In-Toto? https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=in-toto
kitplummer··on Show HN: Offline-First Personal Kanban
I did something similar, opting for the simplicity of the terminal and CLI with https://github.com/kitplummer/clikan - specifically for personal tracking.
kitplummer··on Shoes
This would pretty much be true. While DHH's claim is to Rails, I wouldn't say he was really a Ruby community guy. Where _why was specifically about Ruby, and non-commercially aspiring.
kitplummer··on GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
As if licenses mean anything. What exactly does forking by you?
kitplummer··on GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
I am starting to feel this way about just git.
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Is Git as the only SCM ecosystem healthy?
So I guess the masses are OK with this.
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Is Git as the only SCM ecosystem healthy?
Indeed: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Is Git as the only SCM ecosystem healthy?
Is fossil the only living comparable?

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...

kitplummer··on Ask HN: Is Git as the only SCM ecosystem healthy?
I have fond memories of Hg/mercurial, and remember Bitbucket dropping support. Just seems strange in today's technolandscape to have anything as a single-sourced option. But clearly git did "win". Now wondering if that will generate a demand for those who don't like the monopoly to push something else. Guess the question is, what does a better version of "git" look like and does it have to be compatible to have a change to get off the ground?
kitplummer··on Ask HN: Is Git as the only SCM ecosystem healthy?
And what happened to the other DVCS contenders?
kitplummer··on Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
Anyone know if this thing has a web-clipper plugin?
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