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lsofzz

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I keep the in-extinguishable fire under bay.

Been there done that - SRE/DevOps/SecEng/SysEng/SoftEng

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lsofzz··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
tl;dr but i <3 it. upvoted this shit.
lsofzz··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Hah. Yeah, I agree. It's one of those things I admit is `lost in translation` for sure.
lsofzz··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
I read this the other day - definitely think it is the right direction Nvidia is taking.

Thank you NVIDIA - for once (not twice though - you've given us nothing but despair for Linux+GPU).

lsofzz··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
like for example, c*nt?
lsofzz··on Small programming tricks
A small side note I want to raise:

Folks need to be sufficiently motivated to learn it. All hell break loose when `RTFM` becomes taken offensively; What do I know - I am just a weird guy with a beard.

And folks always wanted to type the commands without RTFM'ing - now we have two problems instead of one.

Also, these were hard learned tricks YOLO'ing until 3.30AM debugging a failed DNS clusters or why the HSM suddenly decided to trip up at 5AM! Nobody even cares about the things we learn these days - Google and then your AI agent already does 98% of what I know already. So, let them blow up the clusters and the racks - your pal AI agent knows. Go ask them instead.

lsofzz··on Small programming tricks
Good one.

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lsofzz··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
I hear ya. However, that ship has sailed a long time ago and succumbing to this very idea is exactly why puritans in any form will not survive the next 50 years.
lsofzz··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
Please read past the LLM-ness of any given post.

The message of the post is what _should_ hopefully matter to a reader.

And, not the fact that it was written by an LLM.

I am a technical guy at heart; also an introverted extrovert. I hate writing docs that are to be written to satisfy someone else's metrics. For it to be a tickbox'ed item.

I delegate that to an LLM. I want to spend my time solving interesting challenges instead.

So, Mr. Cantrill, you got a problem with that? So be it.

lsofzz··on A note on subscription prices from LWN
Agreed!
lsofzz··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
> NVIDIA is one of the most open labs.

Dude, where's the src for GPU drivers and the firmware blobs?

Sorry, you can't say it is one of the most open labs without qualifying a proper response to the question above.

lsofzz··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Awesome. Fuck these CEOs and their `yatchs`!

Let's replace these motherfuckers.

lsofzz··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
> [ ... ] if you're clueless.

Done it. Therefore, I flex. I was talking about clueless folks like yourself.

> Again everything you've said does not really apply here or is impractical.

YMMV. Always.

lsofzz··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
wtf are you allowing plex to initiate outbound connections to begin with?

and why is plex not in it's own VLAN with a egress FW rules to second with?

lastly, why aren't you running snort/suricata to inspect the packets originating at plex?

let me solve this problem for you - it probably doesn't bother you at all.

otherwise, you'd scratched your itch a long time ago.

> Clueless lol.

It's ok to be clueless. And, it's ok to be working for a FAANG and be clueless too.

lsofzz··on A few CPU hardware bugs
> Rockchip calendars

>.< haha i remember this

lsofzz··on HTTP Cats
Haha made my day
lsofzz··on Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat
MM is basically up-selling his _Signal_ trust score. Granted, Signal/RedPhone predecessor upped the game but calling this E2E encrypted AI chat is a bit of a stretch..
lsofzz··on Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat
Go read a book on basic cryptography. Please.
lsofzz··on I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
> I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?

TL;DidntRead

Precisely. Take the `TL` title out the door. Take the `ego` out the door.

Then, step in the door - as a friend, with empathy, proactive listening and support the engineers.

Round-table `discussions`. Not Waterfall.

My 2 cents.

lsofzz··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
> The people configuring WAF rules at CDNs tend to do a poor job understanding sites and services that discuss technical content. It's not just Cloudflare, Akamai has the same problem.

I agree. There is a business opportunity here. Right in the middle of your sentences.

Hint: Context-Aware WAF.

Many platforms have emerged in the last decade - some called it smart WAF, some called it nextgen WAF.. All vaporware garbage that consumes tons and tons of system resource and still manages to do a shit job of _actually_ WAF'ing web requests.

To be truly context-aware, you need to compute a priori about the situation - the user, the page, the interactions etc.

lsofzz··on Rules for writing software tutorials
Thank you.
lsofzz··on Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
<3
lsofzz··on Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance
<3
lsofzz··on GitOpper: GitOps Without Kubernetes
> Bottom line is: GitOps means the source of truth is Git and automation makes sure to avoid drifts. You still have to have a rollout strategy and schedule that makes sense for your usecase.

THIS.

lsofzz··on A Linux kernel syscall implementation tracker
Thanks! This is great. If you ever need extra housing for this, I would be glad to provide it.
lsofzz··on I'm 38 Web Developer and close to burnout
I couldn't have written it better than Phil. I think it is important to take some time out for yourself.
lsofzz··on I'm 38 Web Developer and close to burnout
I feel for you.

What do you truly truly enjoy?

It's easy for me to ask you question.

Often times, the answer lies within.

PS: Please enjoy the time with your child; It doesn't come often in a life time :)

lsofzz··on Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
beep! Official GUI client missing for Linux.
lsofzz··on I'm a Programmer and I'm Stupid
> This post feels especially jaded and anti-intellectual. Writing simple code isn’t stupid, why be so harsh on yourself?

The reason I think self-critique takes a rather extreme turn is because of anxiety. If we analyse the root cause, there may be more than _just_ anxiety at play but I do feel it plays a significant role(IANAD though; just an observer).

Every programmer first and foremost are humans. And as humans, we are bounded by the highs and lows of the software we develop. Some of the low self-esteem can come because _life_; some might be because they hold their bar too high to achieve dramatically; some because, they might think of engineering software as an easy-peasy task but find that it can _sometime_ come with unseen/unheard baggages; all or partial part of the aforementioned causes could lead further to be in said state of mind.

To some extent, we(as in software people) need to be brave, hold our self beliefs/values, try to elevate our self-esteem and recommend our friends/family/colleagues to do the same. It's this collective esteem that will carry us together in this journey. It's not easy to overcome fear, anxiety, depression or any other state of mind(IANAD though; just an observer). I am cognisant of the fact that it is definitely easier said than done but do note that humans are capable of achieving marvelous things both intellectually and viscerally.

Perhaps, try to be social, go out and about, have hobbies, meditation, hiking, exercise - just to name a few that helped others I have met.

Last but not the least, I cannot let myself buy the argument that someone thinks of themselves as dumb. It's extremely more likely that one has not had the opportunity to have the __foundational__ understanding and the shift required to think laterally in those terms. To acquire those, perhaps try to read more books and experiment more. These are more valuable use of time IMHO than to be harsh on oneself. But, to re-iterate, we are all humans at the end of the day.

https://bluehackers.org/

lsofzz··on Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
https://github.com/microsoft/QuantumKatas (this one can be run locally for learning purposes using Jupter notebooks)
lsofzz··on Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?
Whilst being Microsoft platform, still the katas are great https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/experience/quantum-katas

If you want go deep, you will need to refresh/learn few key mathematical foundations that form the basis of QC. They are definitely not hard IMHO. If so, then read Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang excellent book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quantu...

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