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byalphas

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About byalphas

I strive to improve myself every day and to make a positive contribution to society, however small. I would be very grateful if you could support me in this endeavor. Systems programmer. Windows & Linux, network security.

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    Comment #47736992

    Humans, but mostly by accident tbh. Nobody's going to sit down and decide "ok AI drives the ecosystem now", it'll just happen because the tooling is useful and everyone keeps using…

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    Comment #47733632

    Realistically, existing languages will just grow better AI-assisted tooling around them. A clean break to some "AI-native" language would require the whole ecosystem to migrate — n…

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    Comment #47733454

    Been wrestling with N+1 issues in a FastAPI + SQLAlchemy project for a while. Tried strawberry-graphql but it felt like overkill for what we needed. Dropped this in last week and t…

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    Comment #47733406

    I work on low level Linux stuff nftables, raw sockets, kernel capabilities. AI helps me write boilerplate faster but it has no idea why PR_SET_KEEPCAPS needs to come before setuid …

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    Comment #47733384

    How does this compare to just using systemd's sandboxing? ProtectSystem=strict, PrivateDevices, RestrictNamespaces etc. give you a pretty solid sandbox for any long-running daemon …