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The pegasus story smells like plausible denialibity for the Echelon group and its captive (whored) corporate arms, such as Apple Inc. It is 'a story'.

Thanks for that, it is interesting.

Is this actually something I want to see in a configuration script? Why not just use a scripting langauge and be done with it? I wonder if the safety features can't be replicated with rigorous testing of say python as config scripts instead of learning yet another programming language?

https://prelude.dhall-lang.org/Text/concatSep.dhall

I think this is the key fulcrum for me: "config is code", sure, but not the same kind of "code".

It -is- compelling to argue for statistically deterministic config code but my practical objection here is 'can we arrive at same safety using testing with a known language?'

Writing this has made consider whether configuration should be conceptually looked at as a database instead of "code". How many people even know how e.g. postgres stores its tables and why would modulo some performance niche would you care anyway?

It seems configuration management is a graph db query and update matter. Standardize on configuration query language (if necessary) and stop worrying how the damn thing is represented by the config management tool.

They force the "associates" to unpack them and file lots of paper work. 30% suffer paper cuts. 20% are reported to CCP for complaining about "cheap Chinese crap" and of these many end up in Chinese gulags making the amazon Dick sign stickers against their will. And 5% must attend "Jeff and Andy"'s seminar on Capitalism with Amazonian Characteristics sessions. 5 individuals last year were hospitalized with PTSD after these sessions which included self-criticism of the workers and enumerating the exceptional leadership characteristics of Amazon's central committee.

Always good to have alternatives. Thanks for your work and good luck.

So cool. An episode of I Dream of Jeannie is on WTTG at 11 AM.

What's even creepier is that parent company also owns Github.