Ville Laitila

NewType works great 2/2

Better quality Python code? Type hints help. But don't use anymore direct type aliases. Type checking is bad. Prefer using typing.NewType. #python #codequality 1/2

No one asked him in 1942 @WhiteHouse to say thank you. No one told him that he had no cards. No one made fun of his outfit. Back then, everyone knew we were on the side of freedom and against tyranny. Today, those lines tragically are blurred.

Something is cooking up in the dev team... #cybersecurity #analysis #deprecations #vulnerabilities

Waking up as a Linux user today #Crowdstrike

The Microsoft / CrowdStrike outage has taken down most airports in India. I got my first hand-written boarding pass today 😅

Today’s Comic: Then and Now…

* wife flies to DC for the week * Expectation: "Tons of free time. Gonna catch up on some reading. Gonna catch up on some TV 🚀" Reality:

Curreent state of my desk.

@davidfowl How about path equality checks, file systems may be different on how they tolerate letter case differences. Could that be handled also together with the type?

Path should be a first-class type in every programming language.

The xz backdoor is, well, setting a fire under the entire Linux ecosystem... but I'm also so impressed with how it was set up: 2-yr maintainership, oss-fuzz, etc. ...and who knows how long it would've stayed undetected if the injected sshd code ran faster (<600ms) Highlights:

@ChShersh Compatibility is hard. I value grep highly.

I learned Grafana and Prometheus at one of my tech jobs and used it for years. Then I haven't used it for years. Then I needed to use it again. And then I had to learn everything from scratch 🫠 This is the most annoying thing in Software Engineering. That's why I prefer investing in transferrable skills.

@sandeepssrin I think we should first dump Cobol. Btw, does C++ have anything similar to Log4J?

Whoa! Has anyone sen this? The White House puts out an official declaration to stop using memory unsafe languages. RIP C++ whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-…

@timpoiko Se varmasti olisi turvallinen prosessi jos järjestelmät on turvalliseksi tehty.

@villeez Pohdiskelin tuossa, että firmojen turvapoliitikassa pitäisi oletusarvoisesti olla systeemi, että mikään maksatus ei tapahtuisi minkään suullisen käskyn tai pyynnön kautta. Kaikki määräykset pomolta taloushallinnolle vain autentikoitujen järjestelmien läpi.

Any estimates what is the year when voice changer gets integrated to iPhone telephony application to protect against voice cloning (when call is coming from an unknown number)? #iphone #security #voice #ai #scams

@coderabbitai Nice to see more innovation around code review automations. Nice work. Check also @SoftagramLtd

AI-first pull request reviewer with context-aware feedback, line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat.

@timpoiko Nope. It was just a single weird situation. The only way to get past that was to hold power button for 15 sec.

@villeez The problem still persists?

What is happening on this PC? #ubuntu #linux #dell #xps. Not shutting down… last line is my input

Collecting ideas on how to secure a publicly exposed LLM agent. community.openai.com/t/any-guides-o…

@timpoiko I haven’t had that version for ages. I am using 6.2.0.36…

@villeez "Update your kernel. There is a known issue with the 6.2.0-26-generic kernel that can cause problems with power management. You can update your kernel to the latest version by running the following command in a terminal:-sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade"