I started with FreeBSD then Redhat back in the day. Ive used fedora, centos, rocky. Preferred debian based so did ubuntu for servers and mint for desktops. Played with Arch and Gentoo (but ain't nobody got time for that). Switched to debian because cut out the middle man, but idk, its been iffy.
I updated my debian box. Updating it broke my kerberos / NFS / automount setup. Things have gotten so complex there is no way to be sure updates won't break things.
At the same time, exploits for vulns come out instantly so you have to update immediately. This is a very bad situation.
Ive spent a considerable amount of time building a binary analysis system for ELF, PE, MachO, etc. I intended that my use interface be a web console. Today it dawned on me I could just point my local LLM agents at the code base and tell it to use it, and improve as it goes, filling in gaps or fixing bugs. I took myself out of the loop.
how I feel using my local AI model to orchestrate sub agents running all the tools I've built over the last year to do static and dynamic analysis and vuln triage on a real target and getting actual results:
Microsoft isn't bad because they were mean to security researchers (thats bad but relatively minor in the grand scheme of things). Microsoft is bad because of spying / horrible privacy, poor quality code, massive hacks, stealing other's tech, monopolistic practices, horrible customer support, and being founded by a close personal friend of Epstein.