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Implementing proper natural language grep — approach

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GrepAI disappointed me because, how sad, I once again, in the ai hype, did not expect a project with “grep” in the name to be just a source code indexer that has neither:

    1. a straight-to-the-point command line interface
    2. single line matching behavior, only contextualized secondarily
    3. abstraction rather than specialization into source code
    4. one-off actions, like if there has to be indexing then there should be a way to not start a watcher
    5. any composability without deserialization, designed with imperative programs and not LLMs in mind

But their

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Getting TLS1.3 Key Log from Go application with requests by a library, and using it in Wireshark

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Today I wanted to sniff on TLS traffic of hell, a “mastodon client” that seemed to not want to work with things that aren’t Mastodon. The network calls are mostly made from within a library, hellclient-go-mastodon fork of go-mastodon.

SSLKEYLOGFILE turned out to be a standard, now even RFC 9850, for TLS client instrumentation. But Go standard library doesn’t simply write the secrets to a log file in coupling with the obscure environment variable. Not much libraries seem to do it — just programs like major web browsers and curl. (Perhaps bizarrely, this Haskell package adds it coupled with an environment variable — introduced to one’s Haskell code by means of adding nothing more than an import statement.)

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