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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 15/10/2026
Wow github.com/rust-lang/ru...
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miscompilation via engineered StableSourceFileId hash collisions · Issue #164348 · rust-lang/rust
rustc uses the Path hash code to identify files, and the Path hash implementation is particularly weak because it ignores separators. As of PR #127297, it tries to compensate by mixing the componen...
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 14/10/2026
Jarvis find me the window blasting music
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 13/10/2026
Wait, is this like compiler hints? If so, that's actually quite cool!
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 07/10/2026
fuck adobe 🤝 copyright (not necessarily endorsing this but lolol)
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 25/09/2026
Christian Bateman behaviour
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Craig Hughes @craig.rungie.com · 24/09/2026
TypeSafe updated their terms. The thing Tim flagged is fixed. Everything I flagged is still there. And they added some new stuff that's worse. 🧵
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 23/09/2026
ooo lucky!
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Kernel Recipes @kernelrecipes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's new in Sashiko ? Sill a new project, contributions and feedbacks apreciated! #kr2026
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 23/09/2026
They started selling in India?
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 23/09/2026
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Andrew Yourtchenko @ayourtch.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They got entangled.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 26/06/2026
Yes, it is insane. One runs out of disk space before doing anything serious. github.com/actions/runn...
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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 25/06/2026
"the SBOM is basically a tool to answer 'how fucked are we?'"
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 16/06/2026
self defence from deterministic chaos
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Kiran @kirancodes.me · 10/06/2026
evergreen
New: malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to their spyware.

Goal? to trigger LLM safety refusals.... so that their spyware couldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 09/06/2026
Since months, in Google Chrome and definitely a few weeks since it has been in Firefox. It breaks my muscle memory and is hell.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 09/06/2026
Can't wait for ipv64 to finally address all issues, once and for all.
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Ron Efroni @refroni.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#NixOS community bat signal 🦇 ❄️ @awscloud.bsky.social has sponsored the Nix S3 Cache for 3 years, and we’re working on what comes next. DM/comment if your company runs Nix/NixOS on AWS, or if Nix is used inside Amazon/AWS. Every example helps show the real Nix footprint. ❤️
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 09/06/2026
T2 drivers be holding me back on my 2018 MBP :(
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 21/04/2026
`git add -p` is more awesome than the commit split!
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 12/04/2026
Snix
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 12/04/2026
Tell me you have OCD without telling me you have OCD
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 04/04/2026
Nix (more specifically: NixOS) literally fixes this. /etc/ is immutable and is just set to a symlink into a /nix/store path, so anything that breaks /etc is completely reversible
4. During the boot process, relevant changes from the new OS image are deployed to /etc, which is not immutable

A fairly serious bug in systemd’s newly-released version 260 made step 1 fail silently while step 2 succeeded. Thus, the boot manager would let you try to boot into a non-existent OS image, which would fail. Eek.

But no problem, right? Just roll back to the previous OS image!

Well, here’s where a bug in step 4 broke that. Our custom system for deploying changes to /etc was not hardened against the case where the OS image was missing but the boot manager let you try to boot into it anyway; doing so would erase much of the content in /etc and prevent booting into a known-good OS image. Oops.
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Dea @tohkie.com · 05/04/2026
nvim-treesitter is archived now i guess pls dont be dicks to open source devs :/
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 01/04/2026
add custom syscalls... crash your whole system... corrupt your filesystem... the possibilities are endless! github.com/DavidBuchana...
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GitHub - DavidBuchanan314/kernel-livepatch-skill: agent skill to facilitate runtime linux kernel patching
agent skill to facilitate runtime linux kernel patching - DavidBuchanan314/kernel-livepatch-skill
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Lobsters [Unofficial] @lobste.rs.web.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
riseproject.dev
Free, native RISC-V (RV64GC) CI on GitHub
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 27/03/2026
Calling Nix inside a derivation
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 15/03/2026
learn it?
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 05/03/2026
Anthropic uses Nix?
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 03/03/2026
CISOs when you fail the phishing email test

Please commit seppuku by sunset tomorrow.
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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Prometheus says “hot take” and Greek gods respond “no give that back.”
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 20/02/2026
sed -i @$NIXPKGS_CHKOUT/pkgs@pkgs@
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 20/02/2026
So I did a `git -C $NIXPKGS_CHKOUT log --oneline -- $NIXPKGS_CHKOUT/pkgs | grep 'bazel.* -> 5.4.0'` and it gave me commit `c8bc2f2c0d`. And now I can get it with a simple `nix shell github:nixos/nixpkgs?rev=c8bc2f2c0d#bazel_5`. That's so fucking cool man (2/2)
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 20/02/2026
When I say I love Nix for reproducibility, I mean real reproducibility, none of that "we ship a tarball of dependencies and run in a cgroup and call it a day" BS. At work, I needed bazel 5.4.0 and I couldn't find a way to get it on my Fedora 43 work-provided workstation. (1/2)
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 20/02/2026
babel
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...
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I’m Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive
RAM, flash memory, and HDDs are unaffordable because of a bunch of greedy idiots that do not love the computer.
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 14/02/2026
it kills me that people try to pretend that python is even remotely a good software development ecosystem python is fucking. BULLSHIT they don't even have a central documentation platform or framework or even useful types. it's just fuckin a few examples and that's all you get. not worth a damn
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 13/02/2026
what if I need to turn off the remote itself?
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Kernel Recipes @kernelrecipes.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Since we’re not superstitious, the 13th edition of KR will take place September 21–23, 2026 (black cats strictly forbidden during this edition — even on a leash… 😄). We hope to see loads of you there!
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Sponsor | Kernel Recipes
Kernel Recipes is single-track: all talks take place in one room. That means:
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 04/02/2026
moshi moshi
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 04/02/2026
Generating code was never the goal. The goal was to solve problems. I tried my best to avoid writing code by leveraging existing solutions or reframing the problem. Writing code was always a last resort and a liability. If I was going to write code, then I was going to do it right.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 21/01/2026
Hooman likey squigly lines
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 19/01/2026
USB SUPERSPEED!!!
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 18/01/2026
RAM: you're too touchy
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 27/12/2025
damn this bleach anime is something else huh
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Paul Chaignon @pchaigno.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
At #LinuxPlumbers, @breakawaybilly.bsky.social presented what the eBPF Foundation is doing, where its funds are going, and asked the attendees what should be next. Recording: www.youtube.com/live/ZLRngpd... Slides: lpc.events/event/19/con...
Slide showing the $225k grant received by the eBPF Foundation from the Alpha-Omega project and what it will be used for. The slide mentions enabling KASAN, security reviews of the main JIT compilers, checking the verifier-to-JIT integrity, and an assessment of unprivileged surfaces.
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Proton @proton.me · 11/12/2025
The Proton Pass CLI, which was recently released as a beta, is now officially launched! Enable faster workflows, reduce context switching, and implement secure automation across local development, servers, and CI/CD environments with this new and secure Command Line Interface.
Proton Pass' CLI in operation, a terminal window sits on a gradient background.
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Pratham Patel @thefossguy.com · 12/12/2025
The users are people who couldn't satisfy their OCD with Arch Linux (me). Nix being always reproducible is the big feature for me. Hermatic builds with flakes are another level of upgrade.
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