Post #3587262
2026-07-04 16:53 UTC
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@craigbro@infosec.exchange 2026-07-04 18:40
@swannodette@mas.to i find myself building a “distro” of my own, checking each dependence for policy on LLM, and configuring to install into my home dir. Just shell scripts and text files documenting dependencies. I decided against using the existing ports, because I want to control build options and updates. I really need very little, since libxml2 and emacs gives me a text mode browser without JavaScript, in eww. Feels like my first few years with Slackware in the mid 90s, or the”unsupported” accounts i had on a SunOs 4.1.3unoff cluster. Radical reduction in complexity, dependencies and attack surface is the only sane response to the current state of the software industry and the LLM slop and vuln explosion that is exacerbating it. I’m not retro grouching for nostalgia sake — just a lisp hacker who pays attention to the cost of everything, and is skeptical of the value of anything… BTW, Illich was an inspiration to me in the 90s too, I discoverer him from an early mailing list or usenet post, but then you needed to go to the library to get books…