Raymond Burkholder

Software Developer, Open Source enjoyer, BGP AS10388 owner, Debian doer, data center network builder
"Does each side of the story sum to the real story?"

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

@sudoingX @colemurray And then that bad vibe coded code goes back into the learning model to produce even more bad vibe coded code. I hope there is work on a models which re-factor for the purposes of code minimization or optimization for speed or size.

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tech companies on Bill C-22

• Shopify @Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke @tobi warned that Bill C-22 could become a “death blow to Canadian tech viability” and make Canada “essentially unviable for those with choices on where to build.”

• Signal's @signalapp VP of Strategy & Global Affairs Udbhav Tiwari stated, "In its current form, Bill C-22 would convert the everyday tools Canadians rely on into a sprawling, insecure surveillance apparatus."

• Apple @Apple Senior Director of User Privacy & Child Safety Erik Neuenschwander warned that Bill C-22 allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products - “something Apple will never do.”

• Google's @Google Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy Jeanette Patell warned that Bill C-22 “goes well beyond lawful access regimes in other G7 democracies, and risks creating new surveillance infrastructure that would introduce serious security vulnerabilities, undermine user trust and hinder our ability to innovate and offer pro-privacy technologies.”

• Meta @Meta warned that Bill C-22 could require companies to build or maintain capabilities that weaken encryption and that could force providers to "install government spyware directly on their systems."

• Proton VPN @ProtonVPN General Manager David Peterson warned that complying with Bill C-22 could conflict with Swiss and European privacy obligations. He said, “Complying with foreign surveillance orders without Swiss legal process is a criminal offence...We’ll defend our Canadian users and never compromise them.”

• NordVPN @NordVPN stated that “there isn’t a scenario in which we would compromise our no-logs architecture or encryption protections" and that it would consider limiting or removing its Canadian presence.

• ExpressVPN @expressvpn warned, “Legislation that mandates data retention or technical access, however well-intentioned, undermines the security that millions of users rely on."

• DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo stated that "if the bill passes, we will be forced to stop offering our VPN in Canada."

• Windscribe @windscribecom stated, “...they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens."

Privacy protects citizens. It also protects innovation.

Note: These statements were made before Bill C-22 was amended on June 18, 2026. In our view, those amendments did not meaningfully address concerns raised by tech companies, privacy experts, or civil liberties organizations. The companies above are free to tell Canadians whether the amendments have changed their assessment.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

“MTTR is all you need” mentality: “it’s fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can’t do!” We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can’t yet resilient systems entirely.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

@brain_stimulus well, not this one, the shadows fall to the right, meaning the sun is to the left, but solar is on the left pointing to the right. So if that was bungled, what else was bungled. Is it worth it?

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

"You realize that the synergy of deep technical knowledge and plain speaking is essentially what AI claims to be? After you add a layer of obscurity, some hallucinations, and a touch of mental illness, that is." - BOFH

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

1) Train AI to replace human work. This gives you 50% quality for 10% cost. 2) Train AI to assist human workers. This gives you 200% quality for 110% cost.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

labs have raised hundreds of billions on the assumption that they will automate knowledge work, and well, you can’t automate what you don’t understand.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

the "inevitable" Quantumpocalypse, the "inevitable" Martian Invasion, the "inevitable" Machine Uprising, et cetera) - it's a hype-driven case of premature engineering.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

every dollar spent on AI tokens, only 18¢ produces value that reaches users. 44¢ goes to fixing bugs the AI itself introduced. 27¢ to rework. 11¢ to review friction. - https://t.co/fFX2alOdT9

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

Manual state machines require moving all stack states into objects and wrapping logic in a giant case statement. Devs generally loath doing this by hand, and async/await lets developers write sequential-looking code while the compiler does the painful rewrite behind the scenes.

https://t.co/uiLC7ujhgq

- found in an email message

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

Time is the most finite resource in the world, and on an individual level, it is also an unknown. You cannot know how much of it you have been allocated, and you cannot create more of it.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

Kuhnian Paradigm (Paradigm Shift) - Thomas Kuhn talked about scientific revolutions on a grand scale where the social pressure builds from interesting ideas into restructuring ways of doing things.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

Prolog must be alive and active. There were two Hacker News posts yesterday: "Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon" & "Prolog Coding Horror"

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

It isn't ServerSideRendering, it is an HTML API vs a JSON API. It is the browser which performs the rendering in every case. There is a continuum of API usage - a site with predominately an HTML API, or a totally data based JSON API, or shades of gray where the site first presents from an HTML API and fills in the details with a JSON API via WebSocket. https://t.co/U6cJuuggxN

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

RFC 9968
Report from the IAB Workshop on the Next Era of Network Management Operations (NEMOPS) https://t.co/67O2kTZcSt - Some things work, other don't, but they do realize netops iterates faster than standards.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

I may have too many interests. In X pro, how do I slow down Home -> For you. And maybe just see the most recent stuff.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

The gap between technical staff and recruitment is becoming a canyon in this industry. They want a "wizard" but get scared when you show them the wand.

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

https://t.co/5UVL9rLwGP

[cemaxecuter @cemaxecuter]

If meshtastic-sniffer suddenly gets a Wigle wardriving mode.. this will be the inspiration. Thanks @wiglenet

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

Ceph should be run in a dedicated cluster, separate from a Proxmox cluster. Proxmox should probably be run with IOMMU=on to improve security, but Ceph needs to run with IOMMU=off to improve performance. A good intro to IOMMU with io_uring implications at https://t.co/Vxk7yfchaS

[Raymond Burkholder @oneunified]

@HoCStaffer Not just put the gun grab to bed, but close out the OIC's as well. This total gray area is unwieldy.