smaudet

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by smaudet 11mo ago
> I can give young people a pass Or just anyone non-technical. They barely understand these things, if someone makes a claim, they kinda have to take it at face value. What FAANG all are doing is massively irresponsible...
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by smaudet 11mo ago
The danger is that the people most likely to try to use it, are the people most likely to misunderstand/anthropomorphize it, and not have a requisite technical background. I.e. this is just not safe, period. "I stuck it outside th
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by smaudet 11mo ago
Would have been helpful to state what this was, I had to go look it up...
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> The bones he's picking are with the entire field of cryptography Isn't that how you advance a field, though? It has been a couple hundred years, but we used to think that disease was primarily caused by "bad humors"
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by smaudet 11mo ago
If you mean operating system code, that is generally opaque, and not quite what the article is talking about (you don't use a dependency manager to install code that you have reviewed to perform operating system updates - you can, and
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> also drops by virtue of less eyeballs I don't think the people automatically updating and getting hit with the supply chain attack are also scanning the code, I don't think this will impact them much. If instead, updates are
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> zero day is going to bite you in the ass Maybe your codebase is truly filled with code that is that riddled with flaws, but: 1) If so, updating will not save you from zero days, only from whatever bugs the developers have found. 2) Mos
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by smaudet 11mo ago
Hmm. You don't reply (to my queries), only like to insult. Well, ok, whatever. This is a fairly trivial thing to discuss...
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by smaudet 11mo ago
Sorry, I'm not sure if there is a language barrier, or you are not arguing in good faith. > that could have just been referenced directly in `XDG_CONFIG_HOME`? It is referenced directly though... > That's nonsense What exact
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> Programs will have to know where this "virtual" path Not at all. You can read `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` to know where the config path actually is. Or, if you're lazy, just hard code to `.config`. I think maybe you are unfamiliar
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by smaudet 11mo ago
(hard) links to the rescue. I like environment variables, but developers/operating systems have trouble using them well. I could almost see XDG_CONFIG_HOME being a setting read by a driver that provides access to a "virtual"
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> inconvenient, it is not a security risk Mmm...not exactly. When security is difficult, the default fix is to turn it off, workaround, etc. Security should be relatively simple. Increasing the difficulty of correctly configuring additio
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by smaudet 11mo ago
> Have you considered that a widespread outage is a feature It's a "feature" right up there with planned obsolescence and garbage culture (the culture of throw-away). The real problem is not having a fail-over provider. Mo
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by smaudet 1y ago
some governments, especially autocratic or authoritarian. Even govts that may be in some political climates authoritarian can and will want exceptions to this. There is no world that I see where decisions being made by Google are a good o
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by smaudet 1y ago
Eh, I disagree. You can never catch all "bad actors". Sure, you can make a best effort, but govts are not efficient/usually work better at doing one thing, not 100 - they should be regulating the common platform not all actor
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Why do we have to beg Google to keep Android open? Seriously. Because the market has failed, and we have a duopoly. There are many reasons for that, but, this is the exact sort of time a govt must step in - when something becomes a uti
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Feel free to complain, but don't forget you can make choices. Except, this not really a choice or a reasonable work around. Phones are still somewhat expensive, not to mention a time-sink to maintain. Try explaining to your paren
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by smaudet 1y ago
Yeah, just because the US has 300 billionaires that does not make the median salary anywhere near six figures. In fact it's quite low, somehow people are expected to survive on several thousand a year, after the rent, utilities, transp
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Having all those APIs in a sandbox that mostly just work on billion devices is pretty powerful and a potential succesor to HTML would have to beat that, to be adopted. I think the giant major downside, is that they've written a ro
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by smaudet 1y ago
I don't think the Internet should be run by being on special lists (other than like, a globally run registry of domain names)... I get that SPAM, etc., are an issue, but, like f* google-chrome, I want to browse the web, not some carefu
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by smaudet 1y ago
If you take into account the "the web" vs "the internet" as others have mentioned. Yes the Internet has stayed stable. The Web, as defined by a bunch of servers running complex software, probably much less so. Just the f
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by smaudet 1y ago
Don't forget stuff like natural disasters and power failures...or just a very adventurous squirrel. AWS (over-)reliance is insane...
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by smaudet 1y ago
> Meanwhile for the US, I need to fill in 2555, 1040, and other forms. These aren't "5 minutes", they're slow, and more importantly error-prone, as they get you to add up different numbers rather than just asking for
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by smaudet 1y ago
A 1040 form, while intimidating looking, is trivial to fill out. Once you've done it a couple times, it takes about 5 minutes. The only arcane bit is the law. The tax prep software knows which forms to use for which financial detail. I
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by smaudet 1y ago
It's a combination of diet and education. If you want to understand the first, take McDonalds - you probably have one and don't think it's that bad? Imagine everything on the menu is either 10 times sweeter (sickening), or ma
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by smaudet 1y ago
Most poor people don't read* They should. Of course, this is not to say they always are stupid or illiterate, it's again usually just another form of exploitation, they don't have (or feel they don't) time to read it. Wh
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by smaudet 1y ago
Maybe some of these 2-brain cell executives should consider that their "buybacks" will be worthless when US throughput starts to be equally worthless compared to the rest of the world... Of course, I'm being a bit pejorative,
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by smaudet 1y ago
Don't forget the surface area of contact... Rubber likely grips much better than metal, however three wheels have massively lower surface area than the body of the plane, or even a small section of it like the head. Of course we don&#x
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by smaudet 1y ago
> but I still feel the policies must do something That has been the problem with Apple, a lot of feeling inspired by nice UI design, and a lot of screw-you-over in the background (draconian dev policies, nonsense security requirements th
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by smaudet 1y ago
I don't think things being libraries (modular) is at odds with a standard library. If you have a well vetted base library, that is frequently reviewed, under goes regular security and quality checks, then you should be minimally conc

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