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Agreed, but to add a little more nuance to it; we live in tech-land, which we would _like_to be separate from mass-adoption-land. The lowest common denominator
by ghusto 4y ago
Agreed, but to add a little more nuance to it; we live in tech-land, which we would _like_to be separate from mass-adoption-land. The lowest common denominator ruins it increasingly more, the further away (up) you go.
This is why we see things like Gemini popping up. It's an attempt to set the bar at "do you _really_ want in on this, even though it doesn't have pretty flashing pictures and the toktiks?".
I'm not judging either way, but I sure did like it before the web got utility status.
- Gigachad 4y agoSecurity is the kind of thing where it doesn’t matter up until it really matters. So you can complain about Google applying additional security but when the obscure npm package you installed steals your passwords and google blocks the login because it was from a known bad IP in Russia, you’ll be thankful it exists.
- RunSet 4y agoDoubt many Gemini sites are using Node.js on the backend, obscure packages or otherwise. Also given that installing npms willy-nilly is your go-to example for security risk, maybe that should have a hasslewall around it instead of username:password authentication: "You are attempting to install a node package for trivially-implemented behavior. To prove your computer-literacy, enter a javascript function that accepts a string as an argument and returns only the characters with prime-numbered indices."