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<oriansj>fossy: how goes the progress?
<fossy>oriansj: slowly
<fossy>because I have a lot to do atm
<fossy>I will have m2-planet tests today or tomorrow
<oriansj>fossy: good to hear
<NieDzejkob>Hi there, a long time ago I read a software horror story about bootstrapping. I am trying to find it again but I came up with nothing, and I guess folk here might've been likely to read it too. It involved an assembly level backdoor generated with some kind of fuzzer/constraint solver/AI, as to be incomprehensible. It was spreading itself like the Thompson trusting trust attack, and subverted all tools to be undetectible. The story was written
<NieDzejkob>from the perspective of two programmers whose code got broken by it by accident.
<NieDzejkob>ah, fuck, found it. It was right on the front page of bootstrappable wiki
<NieDzejkob>as luck would have it, I happened to check on my phone and I subconsciously decided to not expand the "welcome" section, since there couldn't possibly be any helpful links there if there's a separate section of helpful links below
<NieDzejkob>anyway, I can really recommend it if for some reason you *haven't* read it yet: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/
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