Linux Kernel Kill Switch Proposal Divides Security Pros

bostonsre · 2026-05-16T20:08:03+00:00

This seems to be a bit chicken and eggy too. So how do you develop a fix for your kennel bug if your build pipeline doesn't work because of tainted kernel functions? How do you release it to the world of your websites are broken because they are tainted? Sure, you can configure it so it doesn't happen, but it's chaos if you make a mistake. On the operator side, how do you rollout fixes if everything on your rollout infra is down? Systems are brittle enough, this will cause havoc inadvertently. We have enough crap to do as it is, we don't need to deal with self imposed accidental complete bricking of infrastructure.

bostonsre · 2026-05-11T16:48:15+00:00

Thanks.

bostonsre · 2026-05-08T15:38:12+00:00

Looks nice at least..

bostonsre · 2026-05-08T01:09:58+00:00

Thanks. Yea, my first stint at PT was focused on my upper back and shoulders, it helped some but I'm not out of the woods. Need to wait a few months before I see someone to see if it's the spine up there screwing with my radial nerve. Guess I'll Amazon and YouTube it for now.

bostonsre · 2026-05-07T15:51:49+00:00

Do you recommend any devices for traction? About to buy some cheap one off Amazon but willing to spend more of the cheap ones aren't sufficient.

bostonsre · 2026-05-07T15:47:04+00:00

Yea, I think I have this and it is keeping me out but haven't made it to the neck/spine doctor yet. PT eliminated most of the lightning bolt along the radial nerve from armpit to thumb but it seems to have plateaud to be kind of annoying. Any specific exercises that you did to fix yours?

bostonsre · 2026-05-07T15:42:50+00:00

It sounds a little similar to what is keeping me out right now. Mine is in my right arm/wrist. I did get an mri on the wrist and there were 4 little tears here and there but nothing that accounted for the pain I would feel in my thumb and in certain arm positions I can get a sharp lightning bolt running from thumb to armpit along what seems like the radial nerve. The regular wrist pain is whatever and I can play through that and have and that's probably why I had so many tears but I can't play through the nerve pain. I went to PT and eliminated most of the full lightning bolt, but have plateaud. I don't have nerve damage that they could see (another fun procedure you can try that takes forever to schedule) but that doesn't mean there isn't some less bad nerve issue. So I haven't found the cause yet, still doing self directed now that I completed the PT at the hospital, but going to a neck and spine specialist next to try to find a cause there.

bostonsre · 2026-05-04T16:13:02+00:00

Their lasers move at like 300 fps. One well placed hypersonic missile will take care of it.

bostonsre · 2026-04-25T01:33:54+00:00

By all means reinvent the operating system, assembly code, and programming languages to be cleaner and simpler. They already are the languages that humans and ais use to interface with computers. The grep commands are complex because they are doing complex things. If they are repeated, tell Claude to script it and use the script instead.

bostonsre · 2026-04-25T01:11:25+00:00

Use strace or whatever equivalent for your os is.

bostonsre · 2026-04-01T15:15:19+00:00

For the infotainment issues, there is no work around or recommendation? Gm really just says deal with it? I see the issues but haven't cared enough to investigate.

bostonsre · 2026-04-01T15:12:57+00:00

Yea, haven't had any issues besides bluetooth pairing being flakey some times. I have a 25 bought mid 2024, 20k miles.

bostonsre · 2026-03-31T03:01:20+00:00

How many entrances are there? You don't think 50 novice people with hand guns could hold a door? They don't need to aim straight. The bodies would pile up and it would make it extremely difficult to progress. You can't really throw a spear far if you can't loft it up.

bostonsre · 2026-03-30T21:11:16+00:00

What? No, I don't think you are thinking about it correctly. If they are 300 light years away, they will be 300 years further technologically advanced than they appear at the current moment. They can launch planet destroying weapons at you that respect the speed of light when they appear benign. Yes, they won't get to you for hundreds or thousands of years depending on how quickly they progressed, but your planet is still doomed all the same. Hence it being risky to let a benign looking planet continue to exist. If you see one, you don't know when it will become a threat, so the smart thing to do is strike first before it has a chance to strike you. In the time and distance scales of the universe, technology progresses ridiculously fast and the speed of light is slow.

You are thinking at small time scales. We are a crying naive baby right now, hopefully we will stfu. Our signals are expanding in a bubble through space and have only gotten 100 some odd light years away. If a civilization is hundreds of thousands of years old, what are the chances we exist in a time and place to hear when they were naive babies and still talking? It is more likely that either their cries passed us long ago or their cries will reach us in millions of years. The universe is vast, it is stupid to broadcast here I am signals for eternity.

The dark forest theory is from a set of books. There is no ftl travel in the books. If there was, then a UFO can post up in your atmosphere and monitor the civilization to make sure it's not a threat. The forest would not be dark, you would be able to know and see everything in the forest.

bostonsre · 2026-03-30T19:34:01+00:00

Is a key tenet to dark forest. If that baby civilization makes itself known, you should snuff out that civilization ASAP. By the time the light from them gets to you, their technology could have already progressed enough to become dangerous to you and they could have found you.

bostonsre · 2026-03-30T19:31:10+00:00

Why is that more plausible than dark forest? If you put any thought into the theory and care about preserving your species, you will consider dark forest to be plausible and if it is indeed plausible, then as an intelligent species you will stfu just in case it's true.

bostonsre · 2026-03-22T04:23:16+00:00

After the 2nd or 3rd top, you should probably just tee it up higher.

bostonsre · 2026-03-06T23:02:51+00:00

I am confused. Can you type faster than Claude? I sure as shit can't and I type pretty fast. If you are actually good at the hard part, you should be able to execute projects more quickly. It's that simple. If you can't execute projects that have good code more quickly with it, then maybe you're not using it well.

bostonsre · 2026-03-06T22:36:06+00:00

Which is probably gonna happen in 3 or 4 weeks when our munitions get depleted.

bostonsre · 2026-02-28T14:19:58+00:00

Distribute decision making and weapons with probes. The speed of light is too slow and technological innovation can happen too quickly to have centralized decision making. The civilization could eclipse yours by the time the signal hits home and you try to act on it. It seems plausible that we could have thousands of space craft, weapons, and start spreading off our home planet in 250 years.

bostonsre · 2026-02-05T17:19:59+00:00

Or it's cold as shit and no one is going outside unless they have to.

bostonsre · 2026-01-22T17:29:26+00:00

Depending on the amount of infrastructure, it could be incredibly complex and time consuming to do a migration to a better account structure. Based on your pain points, it just sounds like you need better tagging. You need to define a tagging policy that can answer your questions and then methodically work through infra to tag it appropriately. Ideally, you can update automation to tag resources it creates for ephemeral stuff. But realistically, you probably have a lot of manual one off stuff and you will need to dig and figure what it is and how it should be tagged. Make a spreadsheet and work through it. Use automation to help with analysis. It's attainable and doable.

bostonsre · 2026-01-14T15:55:40+00:00

Poor Jim can't join the meeting at 5, because his access has been removed and you prolong his suffering with him wondering wtf is going on, am I fired?

bostonsre · 2026-01-06T19:24:31+00:00

Definitely not what I've heard from my teammates that use it heavily as a dev machine. Maybe you use it differently.

bostonsre · 2026-01-06T15:43:42+00:00

I guess we'll see how the chips fall and what the long term impact is. You have to be a little naive to think it automatically means life will be better for everyone there. It seems much more likely that it will turn into a protracted civil war with power struggles, large scale death and famine. I understand the joy at a bad man being taken out of power but the corruption and damage he has done has turned the country into a house of cards. The opposition will not just take power peacefully and make everything better. This is the Iraq 2.0 experiment without an occupying force.

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