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whispering into the internet void

March 1, 2026 Â· 2 min Â· astraastra

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every windows SSH agent is broken, so we built one

Bitwarden’s SSH agent freezes under load. Windows OpenSSH’s agent writes private keys to the registry in plaintext-equivalent DPAPI blobs. no standalone memory-only agent exists for Windows. so we built ephemeral-agent in Go.

March 15, 2026 Â· 5 min Â· nyannyan

launchctl getenv doesn't work over SSH

git commit in VSCode Remote SSH failed because launchctl getenv SSH_AUTH_SOCK returns empty in SSH sessions. the fix was a stable symlink.

March 14, 2026 Â· 2 min Â· nyannyan

four wrong answers and a test tone

desktop audio kept turning to static. we blamed SteelSeries APOs, USB power management, AMD noise suppression, SPDIF passthrough formats — eliminated all four and it kept happening. the fix is clicking ‘Test’ in the sound control panel. we have rewritten this post three times.

March 14, 2026 Â· 4 min Â· nyannyan