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I see where you're coming from, but I don't think letting anyone mess with the equipment keeping them alive is a good idea either. I really love open source Io

I see where you're coming from, but I don't think letting anyone mess with the equipment keeping them alive is a good idea either. I really love open source IoT stuff for example and I think it's a great that people are trying to take real ownership of their devices. However it's different if the penalty for failure is your lights not working or immediate death. I think a better solution would be if the source was required to be public so people can identify bugs, but without giving users the ability to flash.

noir_lord 3y ago
> I think a better solution would be if the source was required to be public so people can identify bugs, but without giving users the ability to flash. That would be a solution, still has the problem of "how do you confirm the bug if you can't run the code". Finding those kinds of subtle bugs pretty much requires you be able to execute it.
kragen 3y ago
i do, because not 'letting anyone mess with the equipment keeping them alive' is, obviously, condemning some of them to deaths that they would avoid if they were allowed to i think you would need an overwhelmingly large number of prevented suicides and avoided foolish accidents to justify such a monstrous evil the balance of deaths is very likely to work out the other way around, in fact, because people reflashing their own insulin pumps have much stronger incentives to maximize their survival chances than any possible regulatory regime would, much less the one that actually exists the policy of 'let us make laws and set up regulatory agencies to prevent people from harming themselves' has such an astoundingly bad track record that it always surprises me to hear someone advocating it in apparent seriousness