Cool! Looking forward to the next post. I'd love to learn about how the kernel and initramfs work together though. For now the magic seems to be in how qemu strings things together.

In addition to cypherpunk's reply: blake3 is definitely designed with side channel resistance in mind.

Belgium is building a precedent for what is looking like an explicit proxy war between Russia and Europe.

This seems to be mostly about Russian money that's being held at Euroclear by or in Belgium. Europe wants to loan it to Ukraine, and Russia doesn't want us to clear it.