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by akerl_ 11mo ago
You may want to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip You can’t make a transceiver and chip for this kind of deployment that can only be used by the right people. Either the secrets will leak or the implement
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
That's not for interop, that's for "are you actually doing the crypto you said you'd do". It's designed to prevent broken crypto, not to ensure coordination between parties.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Isn't the law that the federal government can't create a digital database of firearm ownership? Presumably many FFLs hold records digitally tracking their sales/transfers, as do manufacturers. And several states require firea
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Instead of pieces of metal physically on the car, you want all cars to have a radio transceiver attached to a computer with crypto? That doesn't seem like a privacy win.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Is any of FIPS about ensuring interoperability?
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
The connectors are interesting, but I wish there was a way to sort by a column and have the rows be actually linear. Also, worth noting that it looks like this data only covers 2012-2014?
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
It’s interesting that you are trying really really hard to explain away every counter example. C’est la vie, I suppose.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Honestly the most shocking part of this is the typeface choices. Monotype will be in touch.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I think you’re pretty off-base about how web standards work and how much of an “agreement” they constitute. Flash doesn’t have an RFC because it was a commercial design by Adobe, not because it wasn’t a defined spec that was supported by br
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Maybe they can also start a marketplace to buy and sell digital goods, like NFTs.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
There are multiple relevant elements to defamation in the US: https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/defamation-and-first-...
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
What 3rd party was involved here?
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
And yet they managed to get quite a lot of it. It looks like double digit humans spent double digit hours, some of that totally in parallel to each other by accident. In part, that's because all the people who got nerd-sniped by this d
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I'll bite: DNSSEC isn't a massive SPOF but TLS certificates are?
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Where are you seeing that it’s a single website? Mootools is a JavaScript library used by tons of websites. Also, the entire measurement is fundamentally just part of the decision. Removing Flash broke tons of sites, and it was done anyways
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I put this in a parallel thread, but maybe this is a linguistic gap between "servant", a person who does what they are told and has very limited agency within the bounds of their instructions, and "service", where you do
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
It feels like maybe the disconnect here is with what "servant" means, and with this quote: "the servants are the software that provides an entry point to the web (read or publish or both)". The RFC8890 doesn't sugge
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
My argument is that "open source principles" do not suggest anything about how the maintainers have to handle input from users. Open source principles have to do with the source being available and users being able to access/
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I think you're reading way too much into that. For one thing, that's a proposal for Javascript, whose controlling body is TC39. For another, this was a bog standard example of a draft proposal where a bug was discovered, and rollo
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Yes, that's what I mean. In this comment tree, you've said: > google has been the party leading the charge arguing for the removal. and > many here seem to think that was largely driven by google though that's speculati
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about. 1. As we're seeing here, browser developers determine what content the browser will parse and process. This happens in both directions: tons of what is now common JS/CSS shipped fi
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Is it often multi-stakeholder? Debian has bureaucracy and a set group of people with commit permissions. VLC likewise has the VideoLAN organization. LibreOffice has The Document Foundation. It seems like most open source projects either hav
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
So the idea is that some group has been perpetuating a decade or so's worth of ongoing conspiracy to ensure that Mozilla continues to exist but makes decisions that "keep Mozilla itself impotent"? That seems to fail occam&#x2
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
It doesn't seem like much of a charge to be led. The decision appears to have been pretty unanimous.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Most of the protocol specs were written retroactively to match functionality that browsers were already using in the wild.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
I guess? I don't get the sense that when the Opera devs added torrents a couple decades ago, they were necessarily doing it to steal users so much as because the developers thought it was a useful feature. But it doesn't really ma
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
There have been plenty of browsers that were not part of a big company, either for part or all of their history. They don't tend to have massive market share, in part because browsers are amazingly complex and when they break, users ge
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Can you cite where this "servant-oriented" mentality is from? I don't recall a part of the web where browser developers were viewed as not having agency about what code they ship in their software.
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Did you mean country?
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by akerl_ 11mo ago
Which ones have you tried so far?

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