BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
"You're absolutely right!"
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I mean, maybe, but I think what you're describing is a view so bleak and fatalistic that it amounts to saying the world may as well self-destruct because there's nothing we can do about it.
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I don't think Apple should be compelled to provide security updates. I think Apple should be held accountable for security vulnerabilities in anything they release. You can't evade liability by patching it later.
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Yeah, that's the problem. As soon as it became feasible to push upgrades over the wire, software companies started relying on it. And unfortunately that mentality is viral, because as soon as one thing starts doing that, anything tha
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> Or strictly only software updates that are 100% aligned with your wishes whatever they may be at the time? Um, yes? Constant push-updates are one of the worst tech trends of the last 10-20 years.
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I think we could set the bar substantially higher. Don't even bother with discussion of sideloading. Talk about bounded transactions and device control. What is needed is: Once I have purchased a device, the transaction is over. I t
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That doesn't really have anything to do with the ways in which the US is an unrepresentative democracy.
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> The United States is a democracy, but more specifically, a representative democracy. As your following explanation makes clear, it's actually an unrepresentative democracy.
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Yes, it's crazy. I think a lot of people see it as a question of "how can we give the PSF (or orgs like it) more money" but I see it a bit differently. Basically if something like Python can arise and become so effective an
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It's the right move. DEI has always been a weird thing because half the people supposedly doing it were always just trying to curry favor with people in positions of power who supported it, and now that the winds have shifted they&#x27
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> I think brands were a weak substitute for artisans / bespoke makers who had to personally stand by their work. Another way to say that is "companies are too big". When companies become big enough that they don't ha
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> Legislation is just paper, you have no enforcement mechanism beyond what you already have currently: suing companies on a case by case basis. Well, you can have a better enforcement mechanism then. One that involves things like fines
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A second-order issue there is the pervasive phenomenon of people wanting things cheap which results in hidden costs. When it costs more to make things safer or to test that they are safe, bad actors can succeed by not doing that and findin
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Forgive me if I don't shed a tear because somebody can't live in a giant house anymore.
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"Nazi Creators" sounds like it means people or entities that create Nazis. Which, come to think of it, may be partially true.
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It's interesting to try to find those diamonds in the rough, the games that could be the next chess or go if only people spent the time to plumb their depths.
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Then good riddance.
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> As long as Apple requires they make use of those services for me to install software on the computer I bought, and they prevent others from producing equivalent competing devices via patents (i.e. government granted monopolies), zero.
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> What we don’t want is direct democracy proposing amendments. I think the opposite. That is exactly what we need. A lot of the problem we have come from the fact that the constitution speaks almost entirely in terms of what various go
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I think they will care if their life gets worse, they just don't realize that these things are the cause.
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I think "have players online at any given time" is the tough part there, but it's also the tough part for many non-abstract games. If you look around on Board Game Arena you can see a number of abstract games available, but
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It is pretty weird that it doesn't mention it.
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It's an emacs package. That doesn't suggest "casual user" to me.
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I think all of that is mostly irrelevant. You don't need to pay a huge cost to avoid the small benefit, you don't need every service to be resilient to this, or any of that. You just need multiple different providers so that not
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It's good to see Matrix getting more adoption. I still feel a bit uneasy when so much of it is focused on big institutional deployments, but hopefully that can trickle down to a better experience for average users.
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I feel like this type of "vulnerability" is so obvious it's on them for ever letting it get out.
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Next they'll be inventing a paper clip that tells you what it thinks you're trying to do.
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The question is what is different about equitably distributing the wealth of AI vs. equitably distributing wealth in general. It seems that the main difference is that, with AI wealth specifically, there is a lot of it being generated righ
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> I look at Steam as an example here, where while it has its own shady schemes behind the scenes (which I hope are addressed), it otherwise doesn't engage in the same dark patterns as other monopolies. For now. Google's motto
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Those are important reasons, but there are other reasons as well, such as concentration of market power in a few companies, which allows those companies to erect barriers to entry and shape law in ways that benefit themselves, as well as si

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