Tootfinder

Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us towards the precipice:
https://collapseos.org/why.h…

from my link log —
Debootstrapping without archeology: stacked implementations in Camlboot.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09231
saved 2026-06-10 https://d…

Debootstrapping without Archeology: Stacked Implementations in Camlboot
Context: It is common for programming languages that their reference implementation is implemented in the language itself. This requires a "bootstrap": a copy of a previous version of the implementation is provided along with the sources, to be able to run the implementation itself. Those bootstrap files are opaque binaries; they could contain bugs, or even malicious changes that could reproduce themselves when running the source version of the language implementation -- this is called the "tru…

{ggdist}: Visualizations of distributions and uncertainty #rstats #ggplot

That peace of mind that comes when you finally manage to "bootstrap" all your infrastructure via #IaaC on your own infrastructure 🧘
#devops