Looks like the work sponsored by #Valve on #ArchLinux is, indeed, oriented towards making Steam OS compatible with remote attestation (as an alternative to a kernel-mode anti-cheat hypervisor).
Update on Valve sponsored work in Q3 2026#ArchLinux #BuildBTW #Linux #Report #RustLang #Signstar #SoftwareDevelopment #Steam #Valve #ValveCorporation
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On the day that Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the Moon, died at 90, it's worth noting why computer programming became so dominated by men.
It wasn't remotely because men were better than women at programming. It was because, as soon as men realized how important programming was, they bullied and intimidated women out of the profession. And then smiled smugly and said: "Women can't program".
bbc.com/news/articles/cx5yn46j41zpo
Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Claire Keenan (BBC News)
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We know what you're up to Brian.
Can't throw us off the track with your fake "confession".
Dave.
MI5.
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Of all the cuntish things you can do as a web developer (and believe me, there are too many to count), putting your fucking cookie notice under what appears to be an “Accessibility Settings” popup has to take the cake.
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Not sure if sexism or plain hubris, but this particular incident from the recently deceased #MargaretHamilton is still so prone to repeat itself in many tech environments:
She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened
news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Hubris is the reason why misogyny exists
It is a part of misogyny.
There's the answer to your question.
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La propiedad se niega a negociar, la policía llega antes de la hora establecida y ejecuta el desalojo pese a la concentración del Sindicat d'Habitatge de Mataró.Diario Socialista
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En Castrillo de los Polvazares, localidad de Astorga (León) que operó como municipio independiente hasta 1975, unos cien habitantes, hay una calle en pleno...Isra Fdez
Caso al punto: ya la derecha está tratando de echarle la culpa al gobierno y al izquierdismo por el fallecimiento de doña #Maricarmen Abascal. elplural.com/politica/espana/vox-derecha-radical-culpan-izquierda-muerte-maricarmen-enhorabuena-acam…
"Veamos qué sandeces han salido en 𝕏™, The Everything App™"(Un bulo insistiendo que Pedro Sánchez mandó a matar a #Maricarmen Abascal para galvanizar al izquierdismo)
"Quién me tiene metiéndome a 𝕏™, The Everything App™"
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"Veamos qué sandeces han salido en 𝕏™, The Everything App™"
(Un bulo insistiendo que Pedro Sánchez mandó a matar a #Maricarmen Abascal para galvanizar al izquierdismo)
"Quién me tiene metiéndome a 𝕏™, The Everything App™"
La octogenaria fue desahuciada de su piso del Retiro el pasado 23 de septiembre y ha fallecido en el hospital Gregorio Marañón de Madrid, donde permanecía ingresada desde entoncesMartí Abad (La Vanguardia)
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#MariCarmen has died due her eviction. Is not a dead, is an assassination. As well as that of Olga, Javier and all those who died or took their own lives because of rentierism.
She sparked our collective empathy, our collective anger, our collective hope, and now it is up to us, as a collective, to grieve.
She said we should keep fighting, and that’s what we’ll do
bbc.com/news/articles/c6e3x21ev9wwo
#AcampadaMaricarmen #DecretoMaricarmen #26S
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.BBC News
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in reply to Carlos Solís • • •not really. Foremost, we are interested in automating and centralizing our package build workflow and to lower the attack surface of this process.
(it's also a prerequisite to building for other architectures with less effort)
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in reply to David Runge • •David Runge
in reply to Carlos Solís • • •I'm not sure where you get the remote attestation topic from? It's not mentioned in that mail or the related projects.
Both projects are worked on by members of the Arch Linux community to enable the central automation of packaging on the distribution and is sponsored by Valve.
What Valve does or does not do beyond that has nothing to do with those projects or Arch Linux and is your speculation (so please don't try to put words into my mouth 👍).
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