Kate Temkin

Hardware hacker(s) & low-level engineer(s). Goals: tools to help you do cool things, hack HW, and make educational materials. 🏳️‍🌈⚢.

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npub1rp2htwusqkgmusgxlwqxkw0ts6uu0xs6hq28jdal4pt9wpa564cs4gvera

NIP-05 Address

ktemkin_at_chaos.social@mostr.pub

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relay.mostr.pub

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2024-05-09 20:25:03

apparently there are rumors of lix being “lesbian nix”* and I can only say that were this the case, I would expect the project to be entirely coated in queer iconography down to a bright pink color scheme
checkmate, atheists

2024-05-06 03:51:21

Thanks so much to everyone who hung in this week as we’ve all worked to fix the state of the Nix community. It’s been a ride; but I think things are going to get better.
Here’s the last major piece of the puzzle — the product of several months of work from an absolutely incredible team. It’s not ready for a full announcement, but we’ve opened our beta so people who are fleeing the core Nix community have a place to go.
https://lix.systems
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/112/392/030/426/952/111/original/f7528fa58583694d.png

2024-05-05 03:52:13

OH: “the purpose of a system is who it does”

2024-05-05 03:23:49

someone> hey kate, is this your main dev machine? it has 256GiB of ram!
me, trying to keep up with discord, signal, mattermost, matrix, another matrix client, slack, zulip, and google chat channels> what? this is the one I do office stuff on

2024-04-30 20:35:44

some good news: solutions to the nix stuff are coming; so if you’re thinking of mass evacuating the ecosystem please hold off a little to see what’s coming this week

2024-04-22 00:01:50

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you know LLMs are fully saturated into silicon valley when the same folks can say that AI is going to change everything in one sentence
and then in the next, claim that any position they don’t like is the work of an AI

2024-04-21 23:59:24

amazing seeing people personally write out things for days on end, and then seeing their detractors look at the length and go “stop having chatgpt write for you”

2024-04-21 18:04:28

just signed: https://save-nix-together.org/
if you're one of the people who have recently told us you'd felt ostracized by the Nix community, it may be of interest

2024-04-08 20:59:30

I don't know who "kenneth temkin" is but he typo'd his e-mail as `ktemkin@<common provider>` at one point and now every once in a while I just get a reciept showing me his various charitable donations to animal shelters
it's like a tiny window into a single positive aspect of someone else's life

2024-04-06 19:35:11

correlation doesn't imply causation, but the link between "actively participates in the NixOS community" and "is legitimately a masochist" _does_ make you think~

2024-04-03 03:16:51

perks of the name “kate” — you get to know every time another matrix user talks about KDE’s text editor

2024-04-01 14:46:15

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@npub10sm…hjqm wait raito you have opinions regarding nix~?

2024-04-01 14:44:17

nix users: what bothers you most about nix (ux-wise or otherwise)? what seems the most mysterious to you?
#nix #nixos

2024-03-30 12:33:51

*wearing poorly-glued fake mustache*
hello, yes, I have heard about all of your recent xz troubles! I am real m4 auditor; just let me in to PR your repos and I will fix, for you, your m4! very non-suspiciously priced, mhm!

2024-03-30 00:21:08

also in general if your advice to the average server owner is “audit every piece of every piece of code you’ll ever run” then it seems very possible you’ve lost your sense of scale and perspective

2024-03-30 00:17:36

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*to either coming up with a defense-in-depth strategy that assumes layers will be compromised and protects what you specifically care about
or, equally reasonably, to something else that’s more immediate and important to your project (like more commonly exploited vectors, incident recovery strategies, or just generally improving your product!)

2024-03-30 00:17:36

for everyone waxing poetic about the xz backdoor: please, please, _please_ remember that risk acceptance is as important to threat modeling as risk reduction / abatement
you’re not going to come up with a single, all-encompassing piece of security advice that works for everyone — security always is a balancing act between capability, risk, and potential outcomes
sometimes you legitimately have to accept that these kinds of things are possible and move on*

2024-03-22 05:55:57

amazon i do not think you know what "peace of mind" is
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/112/137/790/321/313/835/original/8ed287b73f8a762e.png

2024-03-16 16:04:58

important life lessons: a multimillion dollar company can, in years, *almost* approach the output of a ragtag group of lesbians working for two weeks

2024-03-05 10:48:26

hey, just a reminder: if you have software you like, archive it locally! self host it, if that’s appropriate! send a copy to the internet archive! burn it onto archival media and bury it in a time capsule in your backyard, if that’s your thing!
don’t let it die when some megacorp manages to bully a small group until they can’t afford legal defenses