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@cadey it’s possible to write C safely like it’s possible for observable size objects to quantum tunnel (teleport spontaneously): the math allows for it, but the likelihood is insanely low and gets lower the larger the thing is.

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Current, unpaid-for projects I want to work on:
A tool to strip out nondeterminism from RPMs
A tool to run only CTest executables affected by a list of changed files
CMake scripting to automatically add all the necessary subpackages as dependencies of the `devel` subpackage
My headcanon version of `git-grep`
A requirements tracker website à la UCF, but free; or OpenSSF badge app, but customizable and can be self-hosted
Terminal classification banner
Virtual console classification banner

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I guess we’ll start here with a statement of values.
Abortion should be not just legal, but free.
Trans rights are human rights.
Gay rights are human rights.
Black Lives Matter.

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Alright. My work laptop has been re-imaged every week for three weeks running. Here’s hoping I don’t have to do that again for a while.
One was unavoidable: I was splash damage in an incident. Two was due to a firmware incompatibility between the laptop and the new SSD that let it install and reboot a time or two at work, but then croaked as soon as I went home (others were impacted by that one too). Three was because they handed me the machine without the configuration management software loaded and couldn’t figure out how to install it after the fact.

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Looking at the Java code reminded me that Java considers absolutely everything an Object and it just felt silly to have a Signature and Signer object. Oh, and the padding on the signature is some form that the Python cryptography module says should only be used for legacy protocols (which fits with earlier criticisms of the whole signatures thing anyway).

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Also, why does thing have an intrusive RSA signature with a distinct root of trust? Maybe this made sense when the project didn’t host the plugins over https, but it’s pointless now. Also, the update-center.json file has to be named that and Jenkins core assumes the presence of files in a metadata for next to that despite the whole file being metadata about plugins and specifying whole URLs for everything…

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And, quit. I can update the json file, but there are a bunch of other assumptions built-in that make it difficult. Plus, my boss said that we already know how to load a bunch of plugins and so it’s just easier to grab them all from storage, dump them in the Jenkins plugin for and then tell people downstream that they’re not supposed to touch them.

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I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.

nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/univ

Cases of vandalism, including one at the University of Pennsylvania, have led some universities to search student homes and seize their devices.
The New York Times · How Colleges Are Surveilling Students NowBy Isabelle Taft
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Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️

Trump getting the White House Correspondents Association to fire Amber Ruffin should end NerdProm.

They told her to target both sides, but she told the Daily Beast podcast that the administration is “kind of a bunch of murderers” and both sidesing “makes them feel like human beings, but they shouldn’t get to feel that way, cause they’re not." And that got her fired from the gig.
thedailybeast.com/wh-correspon

Amber Ruffin.
The Daily Beast · White House Correspondents Fire Comedian For ‘Insulting’ MAGA on Beast PodcastBy Liam Archacki
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Meanwhile. JD Vance and his wife spent only three hours in Greenland during a visit—entirely on a U.S. military base. Protests and a full business boycott forced them to leave, as locals refused to serve or admit them anywhere.

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Ericka Simone

Full quote, for those who want to FAFO:

“Dr. King's policy was nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That's very good. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. White people have no conscience. They have absolutely none.”

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