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New comment by whopdrizzard in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

whopdrizzard — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:15:25 +0000

zizmor (https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor) and actionlint (runs shellcheck on run: | blocks) provide some bandaid. zizmor detects quite a few typical injection patterns like branch names and shellcheck enforces quoeting rules in the shell snippets

New comment by whopdrizzard in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

whopdrizzard — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:55:41 +0000

eventually yes, this is supposed to remove the perf tax of nested virtualization (less world/context switches on vm_exits) and unlocks some new use cases (pass through hardware from your VM to the sibling-guest).

New comment by whopdrizzard in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

whopdrizzard — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:35:19 +0000

Azure has recently announced "direct virtualization", which is a sort of logical nesting, in which users can sub-partition their L1 VMs into virtual L2 VMs that are technically siblings.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurecompute/scalin...

(I work there)

New comment by whopdrizzard in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

whopdrizzard — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:01:03 +0000

fantastic news, congrats on launching! it's a great mission statement a fanstastic ensemble for the job

Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich, MSFT Ignite 2025 [video]

whopdrizzard — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:20:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/inside-azure-innovations-with-mark-russinovich-microsoft-ignite-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137977

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OpenHCL: Microsoft's Linux-Based Paravisor

whopdrizzard — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-blog/openhcl-evolving-azure-s-virtualization-model/ba-p/4248345

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41667768

Points: 1

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Mkosi: Build Bespoke OS Images

whopdrizzard — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 07:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/systemd/mkosi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37808547

Points: 2

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New comment by whopdrizzard in "Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS"

whopdrizzard — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:37:14 +0000

I've been working a few years in various SW-related roles in the broader MB ecosystem. It helps to understand those german car manufacturers are not monolithic entities, there is a confusing system of subsidiaries dealing with software, often overlapping in scope and competing over projects. Hence, a MB software engineer would often work at DFS, DMS, MBition, FreeNow or one of those shops. By design those do not adhere to corporate standards and they emulate start-ups, i.e. k8s, aws, slack, table tennis, bro culture, beer.

It's a curious setup because most of those subsidiaries ("corporate startups") are huge money sinks and produce little of value. Salary is decent/good, the offices are lavish, and the tech can be interesting. The downside: you cannot shake the feeling of being on a large playground with rich, generous but eventually indifferent parents. I'd say in germany, it's a good place for juniors to pick up some technologies and skills, quite a few former colleagues ended up at prestigious tech companies later.

Core technology like autonomous driving, Engines, CAN, etc... is developed in-house with more rigor, compliance and process, and the disregard for "software engineering" is also due to those agile software subsidiaries producing sloppy 2nd tier, unsuccessful auxiliary technology like apps, services or entertainment stuff. Unlike maybe Tesla, MB or BMW could not afford the reputational damage for selling half-broken autonomous driving.