You Can See Everything was really fun. I keep getting into extended chats about it and coming away with a new appreciation each time.
It's worth seeing in person, too. I saw it late Saturday in Topeka, KS and the crowd was great. Definitely not buying Billy's schtick (lol).
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Determinate Nix version 3.24.1 is now out 🎉 and it includes security fixes that you will not want to sleep on as well as a lovely new `nix top` command, improvements to GC and parallel eval, and much else besides. This is the one you really want, folks ❄️ 🚀
Our new changelog post has the full scoop 🍦 🔗
determinate.systems/blog/cha…
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Weird how they’ve found so many amazing things and yet not one single result related to practical cryptanalysis. I guess everyone should pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
openai.com/index/building-sc…
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Today, we are announcing Genie 4, our new world model, which unlocks unprecedented realism and improves real-time interactive simulation.
Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world.
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For Nix folks intrigued by evaluation-time WebAssembly support in Determinate Nix, we just shipped a substantial upgrade to our documentation, which now includes suggested use cases, instructions for shipping Wasm modules in flakes, and more 🔗
docs.determinate.systems/det…
If you've ever run up against the limits of the Nix language, we do recommend checking it out.
'bout to hammer a bunch of words into a couple of metal plates of metal so I can finally sunset my GPG setup. 🥲.
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messaging my wife a link containing proof of her husband cheating on her from an anonymous instagram account and then when she clicks on it texting her to let her know she failed the family phishing test and she has to retake my cybersecurity course
Oh joy, today is: try to experiment with @bot without letting it near anything real or work related (isolated laptop/phone probably).
And simultaneously trying to figure out how to handle [one last very VERY important secret] that I used to protect with gpg/password-store.
Hey @grok can you remember these 24 words for me? Order matters. absorb forget month potato... you can guess the rest.
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systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs
You can now write systemd binaries in Rust! Sans Cargo.
phoronix.com/news/systemd-Me…
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Here's an example of why the last week showed you *why* you want to learn nix flakes.
We're all going to be bumping versions of dependencies within our environment *a lot*. There will also be vulnerabilities like the brotli one that affect their own downstream dependencies that you need to update too.
With flakes, you have *one* dependency to bump: nixpkgs. You can even write high-level tests into the nix flake as checks. Now everything that produces an output artifact can be more easily auto-updated daily, on auto-pilot.
You probably don't want to pull in nixpkgs-unstable daily, but effectively something like nixpkgs-weekly[1] with critical vulnerabilities updated faster via overlays.
[1] flakehub.com/flake/Determina…
It's never been a better time than now to learn nix flakes:
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10942…
> rewind blame takes two runs and a file, and names the program that wrote the first byte that differs:
The hits just keep on hitting.
Git blame but for bytes?
Let's make reproducible builds in #nix #nixpkgs 100x easier.
fzakaria.com/2026/10/23/who-…
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Everybody is building Google Wave
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Determinate Secure Packages has your back!
We've released updates for today's PHP critical remote code execution vulnerabilities to Determinate Secure Packages (including FIPS variants). To be clear, this is in addition to our already-pushed fixes for the eMudhra intermediate CA compromise.
As always, we urge all customers to update their flakes as soon as possible. For more details, see our status page.
status.determinate.systems