jcorgan
Johnathan Corgan

🎶 Older now, but still running against the wind 🎶

Scientist, engineer, consultant, pilot. Slinger of bits and reducer of gradients.

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2026-10-04 06:14:47 UTC

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Don't forget pounds, horsepower, and acres!

2026-10-03 02:46:23 UTC

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If you'd want to contribute a packaging for Slackware, feel free to submit a pull request. FIPS has a lot of moving parts though, so there are a lot of subtle parts to the install that might take some iteration.

2026-10-02 23:29:48 UTC

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We've had some long standing problems with the test-us01 bootstrap node, but thought we'd gotten past those. test-us03 is generally reliable. @nprofile…8d6t

2026-10-01 19:47:22 UTC

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😎

2026-09-30 14:21:32 UTC

GM ☕
I love the smell of freedom packets in the morning!

2026-09-23 00:54:20 UTC

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2026-09-20 05:33:56 UTC

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This is a tough one. I've had clients with top-notch professional devs get on the AI coding assistant path and lose a lot of their cohesion and ability to collaborate.
I think we're all discovering how to do this in real time.

2026-09-18 13:55:41 UTC

GM ☕
A full night's sleep is underrated. But why do I still need coffee?

2026-09-18 13:45:54 UTC

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Native integration/network adapter?

2026-09-17 12:42:07 UTC

GM ☕
The other day I had to send a FAX, play voicemail phone tag, and deal with correspondence by postal mail.
Ah, to be young again 😏

2026-09-15 23:47:32 UTC

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I've used these in the past (DVD format) without a problem so far, but back then you really had to make sure to buy a DVD drive that supported M-Disc writing (for reading any DVD drive will work). Don't know how that's changed more recently. I guess they have Blue-ray format now which is much better in the regard.
One thing to keep in mind is their claims to longevity are based on extrapolating from design and testing in the short term; there's no real way to support their claims without actual experience. So YMMV and take that into account in your planning.

2026-09-15 20:06:37 UTC

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2026-09-15 14:38:05 UTC

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👀

2026-09-12 13:59:16 UTC

GM ☕
It is a thoroughly satisfying feeling seeing the FIPS mesh networking software enable so many different use cases, especially ones I would never have thought of in the first place.
But it's not without a bit of anxiety--real world usage means real world consequences of screwing up. I put a lot of effort into specification, review, adversarial testing, and documentation, but that of course isn't always enough. Your bug reports, feature requests, and code contributions are the kind of "closed loop" feedback needed to keep things on track.
Anyway, thanks to everyone for deploying FIPS and helping make it better.

2026-09-11 21:51:25 UTC

https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips-initramfs/releases/tag/v0.1.1
Bug fix release. Thanks @nprofile…tfpf for the report and testing.

2026-09-11 02:29:36 UTC

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I was supposedly retired from open source but something happened.

2026-09-10 21:03:58 UTC

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Sure it is!

2026-09-10 21:02:42 UTC

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No, there are two totally independent layers of encryption involved.
The first is end-to-end. Each FIPS node when talking to any other FIPS node negotiates and end-to-end authenticated encryption session between them that only each other can read.
The second is hop by hop between peers. Each connected peer has a separate encryption session, and passes along the opaque blobs of data from the above unchanged. So no FIPS node can read any traffic passing through it.

2026-09-10 20:57:11 UTC

Fallacies of distributed computing:
The network is reliable.
Latency is zero.
Bandwidth is infinite.
The network is secure.
Topology doesn't change.
There is one administrator.
Transport cost is zero.
The network is homogeneous.
- L. Peter Deutsch, Sun Microsystems, 1994.

2026-09-10 02:36:38 UTC

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Learning Chinese geography, one distillery at a time.