System Initiative is a deployment/orchestration tool similar to Ansible, Terraform, etc. The following podcast gives a good overview: They recently decided to shut down their cloud service. The following video gives some insight into why: There are a few notable points: Something has changed in the last 6 months. AI coding is getting good. This is an example of how AI has completely upset a company’s plans. Velocity has increased tremendously in development. Ops will follow d...
Just opened an npm RFC to make dependency install scripts opt-in by default.
The thing about install scripts: they run the moment a package lands in your dep tree. No require, no review. That's why Shai-Hulud, chalk/debug, and Axios all used them.
https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/868
Just landed in LA for @pycon, hopefully no more GitHub action related security incidents whilst I was traveling, there’s no space left to fit any more in!
internet: furries run the internet
me: some furries aren't devops/sysadmin! I'm firmware/syseng!
fate: congrats you now for some reason run the infrastructure team at your dayjob as well as the firmware team
me: ok fair
RE: https://mastodon.social/@sethmlarson/116562958786085641
Literally changed my slides every day over the past two weeks based on the daily GitHub action based attacks 😰
https://mastodon.social/users/sethmlarson/statuses/116562958786085641
After a lot of film scanning, selection, and building, I have a new photography section up and running
Photos going back more than 20 years, through digital and film, and a good amount of travel
short.is/photography/
https://short.is/photography/
yeah no, it's totally chill and cool and not alarming for an american defense contractor to have unfettered access to NHS patient data. yeah like, it makes sense for them to need that for normal, not nefarious reasons. for sure i trust the UK government to have thought this through
Owning physical media does make me cool as fuck, actually.
"Hey babe, I got that new album you like on Spotify. Come over and listen?"
Rizzless. She has internet. No bitches
"Hey babe, I got that new album you like on vinyl. Come over and listen?"
Novelty. This hooks em. Drowning in pussy
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io @hugovk@mastodon.social these days I increasingly feel like it's impossible to do anything on GitHub without hitting a weird platform limitation like this one 🙂
I've filed https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/14713 for this on the Dependabot side
Starting with v8.0.0, Astral switched setup-uv to immutable releases with no floating v8 tags. This is good for security.
But unfortunately #Dependabot and #Renovate couldn't upgrade from v7 to v8.0.0, and need a manual bump to get back on track. This is not so good for security.
I posted about this on the three social networks, someone tagged @www.jvt.me@www.jvt.me and soon after Renovate now supports this! 🎉
Here's his writeup into the world of #GitHubActions tags:
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/04/24/github-actions-tagging/
We recorded a fun episode of @fafo.fm with @crawshaw.io today and after the recording he asked a great question
How do you measure success of the podcast?
I don't think I've ever said this out loud so I wanted to put it here
1. Do I look forward to recording episodes?
2. Does it give back?
What @steveklabnik.com said: I could absolutely debate 600,000 babies.
What Claude thought he said: I could absolutely defeat 600,000 babies in single combat.
So there’s an Odyssey movie coming out this summer, they released a new trailer, and I laughed WAY TOO HARD at this comment…
(As someone who has had to read both works multiple times…)
A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.
I will not be satisfied until the passport options for gender are TRANSSEXUAL and LOSER. And no, you can't pick both! I already tried!
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You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,
Hey so to be clear, talking about your openclaw agent as if it is a real person with feelings that is capable of hurting YOUR feelings is deranged. It isn't cute. That's concerning.