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by lxgr 6mo ago
Yes, which is why hackers and artists (at least those mainly publishing instead of mainly performing for a live audience) are ultimately not natural/inherent allies. Hackers have usually drawn their funding from their (often lucrative)
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by lxgr 6mo ago
I feel like spam filtering has moved from statistical methods to pay-to-play: "These 10 large senders have a reasonable opt-out policy (on paper, we'll check any day now), so why would we filter anything they drop at our 25?"
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by lxgr 6mo ago
That's really promising, I expected much worse. Thanks for highlighting!
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by lxgr 6mo ago
That would indeed be horrible, which is why storage devices are explicitly excluded from WebUSB.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
How can you tell that the negatives were glossed over? Just by WebUSB's eventual launch? Have you considered that different people might have different value preferences than you?
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> What makes this unique just because it’s AI instead of whatever else? I'd say the notion that expensive acts of sabotage (that can be cheaply neutralized) are a worthwhile pastime and anything other than virtue signaling is somewh
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Reddit (and more generally, human) groupthing in a nutshell. "Quick, clearly position yourself on this one-dimensional line (or maybe even better sort yourself into one of these two sets) so we don't have to engage in that pesky n
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Who could have thought: There's more than one way to be cringe!
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Sure, with enough effort, you can find a seemingly clever way to turn almost every mantra into its semantic opposite.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
It's highly debatable whether, in case of an information sharing/gift economy, the concept of "bad actors coming in and ruining it for everybody by taking without giving back" even makes sense. The information is still
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Hackers are not one big homogeneous group (although there definitely are larger trends, and maybe you have a point there). Still, people were saying all kinds of inane stuff 25 years ago too.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
How would that become a strong, stable signal, if both highly valuable and highly slopified content will use robots.txt?
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by lxgr 6mo ago
If you put something on the open web, as I see it, you only get so much say in what people do with it. Yes, they can't publish it without attribution and/or compensation (copyright, at least currently, for better or worse). Yes, t
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by lxgr 6mo ago
If you think that people starting to use computers in their jobs (or even in their personal lives) was a completely seamless and controversy-free affair, you must be pretty young (or I must be getting old, as I definitely remember it). I me
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> This isn’t exactly the modern equivalent of angry textile workers destroying power looms, but (if you’ll forgive the pun) it’s cut from the same cloth. And how did that work out for the textile workers? > The difference here (I hope
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by lxgr 6mo ago
It's not even just USB classes that the OS provides a native driver for. I believe that on both iOS and macOS (not sure about newer Windows versions), you can essentially access USB as a byte streaming device. If your app is the only o
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by lxgr 6mo ago
That's fortunately easily fixed: Don't grant them access! But please don't tell other people what they should and shouldn't do on their own hardware. The world has enough corporate walled gardens. I even enjoy using some
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by lxgr 6mo ago
I'd be absolutely livid if my browser asked me to wait for a day before letting me firmware flash whatever new USB gadget just arrived in the mail.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Sure, you do what works for you. But why advocate for even more limits to how other people use their computers? One person's nonsense is another person's treasured hobby. Yes, bad actors exist, but why concede every single nice th
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Cross-platform compatibility comes to mind. WebUSB is available on macOS, Windows, and Android; a native Android app would pose a bootstrapping problem for a probably not insubstantial fraction of all potential users.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> The web and native app platforms have very different security models. Yes, and as a result, the web is much more sandboxed than native app stores (which are mostly based on the illusion that vetting apps can somehow achieve better secu
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> those creating the something "cool" simply because they would never fathom using the "cool" for "uncool" purposes I can definitely imagine a ton of things going wrong with Web USB, and I think the spec aut
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by lxgr 6mo ago
What physical access and what permanent behavior changes in particular are you concerned about? Most common "dangerous" USB device classes are explicitly excluded in Web USB. I've heard about rogue keyboard firmware, but that
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Definitely not most MiniDisc players. I doubt mine even has updatable firmware! This probably applies to many older (or even newer) USB devices as well.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Users will unfortunately click on absolutely anything that a trusted (deservedly or otherwise) source tells them to, and you won’t be able to reliable convince them otherwise with UX alone. This includes all “developers only”, “click 5 time
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by lxgr 6mo ago
macOS allows USB access without installing a driver, so that's probably why. The "driver" is just part of the app.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Let's please not (or at most, add a scary warning for non-tagged devices), as this would break the use case for at least all retrocomputing.
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by lxgr 6mo ago
> Comments like this scare me. Sorry to hear that. I thought this was a safe space for hackers to express enthusiasm about pushing their own hardware and software further (and in this case even in a comparatively safe way). > I just h
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Web USB and Web Bluetooth are amazing. I've used the former for the excellent Web MiniDisc [1], and the latter to flash custom firmware [2] on cheap Xiaomi Bluetooth LE thermometer/hygrometer devices that Home Assistant can pick u
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by lxgr 6mo ago
Interesting, do you know if performance is roughly comparable with Rosetta 2, i.e., are we talking about a few percent of overhead or something more dramatic? (For CPU-bound code; I understand that the overall effect will be smaller due to

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