@vathpela @robhague commodore power ✊

@jwz And also it is my new and better LinkedIn. I've scored couple of relevant work interviews for the future through this forum "without even trying" just doing my thing and logging it here, and not trying to form any kind of "professional image".

@jwz I like use this platofrm as my devlog, make short writeups, snippets and such and so forth. Then I bookmark the most relevant ones, and later on I use them as source material for longer writeups, presentations and other stuff. Mastodon is sort of like "better Github Gists" for my needs.

Submitted some ideas to rust-vmm/vm-memory how it should be extended to work for confidential (#SGX, #SNP and #TDX) payloads to make it scale for the needs of #Enarx:

https://github.com/rust-vmm/vm-memory/issues/291

#linux #kvm #rust #rustlang

@janantos Yeah, still I'd expect more rigid implementation from vending machine tbh. I.e. not saying that PowerShell would be somehow worse than any other scripting language.

I’ve been wondering over the years when being at #Airport check-ins how come these #PowerShell scripts can possibly ever work.

I know this because I’ve seen numerous times over the years crashed check-in machines. Latest one was late Spring when I visited #Ethprague at #Prague Airport.

I miss the “OS/2” and “Guru Meditation” times of my late 90s and early 00’s in vending machines etc. ;-)

Your local airport is actually airport.bat!

#CrowdStrike

Wrote a pretty good Windows emulator in {fmt}:

#include <fmt/color.h>

int main() {
fmt::print(bg(fmt::color::blue),
"{:1600}", "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart.");
}

#crowdstrike

Things that Mastodon spam accounts following me have put in their profiles today:

• "Passionate crypto trader, let's vibe"
• "Full Stack Digital Marketer Consultant"

What a world.

@jwz I'm considering adding "let's vibe" to my own resume after reading this ;-) Hilarious, love it. Totally late 90s kitsch.

`mmap` struggles with #Rust: https://github.com/enarx/enarx/issues/2580

#enarx #rustlang

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/crowdstrike.png

So if anyone who as any responsibility causing the bug reads this: don't feel too bad of yourself, not throwing the first rock! This scenario should have been projected beforehand.

I'm assuming they have a staging environment already for new patches, and not referring to that.

In addition it would probably save some money to have some well-crafted rollback for patches that have went from staging to live outside the CrowdStrike's internal environments.

I mean it is exactly kind of bug where a single hour loss in rollback probably costs some unimaginable sum of money, so thus I think it'd be a business-smart "local maximum" to optimize ;-)

In #CrowdStrike outage biggest surprise is not the bug but instead how unprepared they were for rollback.

Lessons learned IMHO from the whole thing is that companies running these platforms should have a test suite, and exercised rollback process for faulty patches.

I.e. I'd focus to the only thing that can be fixed permanently, i.e. the rollback process at scale. Faulty patches come and go.

#infosec

@pinkforest In the scope of features address book called khard and calendar tool called khal are pretty good reference models in this area. I think the interface could be just smoother.

@pinkforest Like for instance, use something like https://github.com/kawasin73/prsqlite and create sqlite db and Rust traits for importing and exporting different contact formats including vCards and abook, could be one robust and ubiquitous approach.

@pinkforest Well I used mutt 1999-22, and email workflow is the most critical thing in my life almost ;-) But I can still try it out and comment if I have anything to say.

What made me try out aerc in the first place was this blog post: http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2019/08/14/patch-workflow-with-mutt-2019/, i.e. if aerc made any sense to Greg K-H, it might make sense to me, as Greg is a long-time mutt user :-)

IMHO, one place where there is a lot of room for improvement, and I don’t really have a fixed choice per se, is command-line / TUI address book with vCard support, which would integrate smoothly with these popular clients:

1. Aerc
2. Alpine
3. Mutt

ATM, I’m using https://github.com/lucc/khard but I do not love it particularly.

Courtesy of https://blog.sergeantbiggs.net/posts/aerc-a-well-crafted-tui-for-email/

#Microsoft #Crowdstrike #egg 🤣

https://bsky.app/profile/liaofthebay.bsky.social/post/3kxmu7gmxxc2h