Fun with the kids

git clone https://github.com/akkartik/teliva
cd teliva
make
src/teliva anagrams.tlv

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I rewrote a section of Teliva's Readme today:

https://github.com/akkartik/teliva#who-are-we-trusting-by-trusting-you

Small change in text: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva/commit/b36927e35cd26

But a big step in a huge trajectory of maturing thinking.

2010: Dependencies are moving parts, introduce unreliability.

2015: Well, we have to depend on something. Ok, hardware only.

2021: Firmware, management engines, shit, I'll come again. Depend on a narrow waist. Posix, C, Lua.

2022: There's even more I can't do alone. Sqlite, Redis, etc. Reputation is a useful signal.

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It just occurred to me that I can smush the dependencies of two packages together to visualize them at the same time. Here's libcairo2-dev and libsdl2-dev at once.

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A little Zettelkasten app on Teliva

https://archive.org/details/akkartik-teliva-2022-02-10 (4 minutes)

Showing off:

• Protections against malicious apps.
• Incrementally learning about app internals.
• How avoiding abstractions can make an app easier to secure. Audit a single function, safely ignore its function calls.
• Running on OpenBSD thanks to https://tilde.institute

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Open invitation: I'd be happy to tailor a private copy for your individual needs.

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Starting to use my Zettelkasten app for reals

In this clip:

• Growing cards for more details and shrinking them down to outline view (no collapsing subtrees, though)
• Structured navigation to children/parents/siblings.

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Why everyone needs to know some coding: last-mile sandboxing

My talk at FOSDEM this morning: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2022-01-16-fosdem

Apologies for the low volume of the recording :/ This copy seems slightly louder to me than the version on the official page. However the official page includes (high-quality and audible) Q&A at the end.

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing

Main project page: https://github.com/akkartik/teliva

Many thanks to all the organizers of FOSDEM '22!

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This comment 😂❤️

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30220443#30223181

"Third, FOSS has become a religion for many. All things must be FOSS because it’s a holy conquest, and if just everything were FOSS all would be perfection because reasons."

If FOSS were actually a religion, the holy conquest you describe would be the most adorable and least bloody holy conquest in the history civilization.

If FOSS were actually a religion, then what is stopping you from joining the least bloody and most adorable religion in the history of civilization?

Come.

Join us.

(Patches accepted.)

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Zettelkasten

https://github.com/drcode/zek is a neat program <3 and its demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W_m176PIdU is inspiring me.. to build my own version 🤦

I think people have lost sight of the essence of Zettelkasten.

• never having to name notes
• extremely fine-grained addressing
• lots of nudges to create cross-links

The tension: links tend to require names.

Any interest in collaborating on or use-testing something malleable but text-only in Teliva?

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New data on an old, boring subject from someone without an axe to grind

I just tracked down my umpteenth memory corruption bug in Teliva: https://github.com/antirez/kilo/pull/81

I'm pretty sure this was the one that got me to lose data on several days of Advent of Code 2021.

The number of such bugs found in this tiny codebase (https://github.com/antirez/kilo/search?q=memory is not comprehensive) is a huge case against C. I'm not out of practice, I'm just only able to manage memory reliably in C++, for all that I dislike it.

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There's been some bug going around. I spent the last few days thinking Teliva sucked. This morning I think it's cool again.

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I'm giving a talk at FOSDEM next week: https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lastmilesandboxing

There's Q&A and IM chat after.

I hope you will add it to your calendar! (The times given are in UTC+1. It's 8:40am in PST.)

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