smokey_circles

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by smokey_circles 6y ago
> Amazon is blatantly misleading people here I'm not so sure I agree about that, presuming you're talking about the open source comments. If not, you can ignore the rest of the comment (except the last paragraph, pertinent ques
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I don't think their intention is to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but I also think it's a side affect of being such a behemoth with a much better offering. I can't think of a way to offer an OSS product and make money in the &
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I understand the question mark about what it is that Amazon did wrong here, and for the most part I agree that they've done nothing wrong. But I am not Amazon's side here. This is my very subjective take on the matter and by no me
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I disagree, going so far as to call this intentionally obtuse or misinformed. 1. CO2 is not the sole measure of environmental impact. The land usage problem is also pretty serious. Deforestation chief among it. 2. I can't find any lite
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I find the pattern for { select { val := <- someChan doSomething(val) } } for single channel reads very common. I don't like this pattern because you can't close the channel,
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Oh that's easy. The Polish government (like most authoritarian governments) wants sole control over who has censorship authority. [0][1][2] Also: You're conflating "speech they don't like" with "policy violatin
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Freedom of speech is not freedom from social consequence. It doesn't apply to private institutions. Ever. End of discussion. What should be discussed is whether or not Twitter and Facebook have crossed into the "public utility&quo
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I might be, I took the article at it's title to mean "2FA does not protect you from your password being leaked"
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Ah, I did overlook that one. That said: I remain unconvinced that 2FA is a trivial thing to beat. Now we're talking about an active attempt to impersonate you , as opposed to a general catch-all-the-2fa-less-logins Put another way: If
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
No. 2FA is designed to authenticate that this is you logging in. Wrong off the bat. The "they just use your login token" is akin to "they just hacked the CIA's database". Just . I also don't see how the auth
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I don't think that's true, but I'll also admit that the history of the cold war is very muddled and I am no historian. The US's version was written by the white house's journalist. It is not objective and lots has
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
People are people and whether they are maintainer or customer, we can all be ass-hats. How would you prefer that kind of "arbitrary planning" be addressed though? I don't have any luck with my FOSS projects but I am SUPER gra
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Generics are awful. They solve no problem in the domain space, only the developer space. Which then creates the problem of developers who insist on writing infinitely extensible generics with indecipherable bounds. Just repeat code. You&#x2
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
> Living costs don't necessarily correlate with talent levels. As someone who lives in a low cost country: rubbish. There's a reason we're a lower cost. 1. We have a lower standard of education 2. We have a higher cost of
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
This whole argument ignores the massive shifts in infrastructure that happened between dial up, adsl and fibre (and all the things in between). If you will pay for it, someone will build it. I agree there is a practical limitation but 1. We
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
>What happens when we have 4 people per home, all streaming uncompressed 8k VR video streams, and 200 homes in a subdivision? So you're arguing the correct approach is to give everyone pipes that are capable of doing that, but limit
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I don't see this as being a solvable problem. Having a psychographic model is dangerous to social structures, it just makes it far too easy to manipulate those who are easy to manipulate (which, given any topic, is the vast majority of
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Masks are a pointless waste of time when it comes to containing the pandemic. Yes yes, I know. Just let me explain. Masks DO help prevent the range particles can travel when you breathe. I'm not arguing that. The fact is, however, they
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I'm not a huge fan of the thermal throttling comparisons. Apple completely fucked the pooch on the previous gen(s?) when it came to design. They don't get points for fixing an utter fuck up. That should have triggered a recall, im
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
>It also doesn't matter who initiated the bribe. What a silly thing to say. Whether or not you initiated a bribe does not defend your participation in it. True But ignoring the balance of power for, what appears to be, a reason to h
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
This is... Silly. 1) You can look at the 5 eyes alliance's assault on encryption. That's literally forcing their will on the company (and others) 2) The TikTok ban demonstrates not only capacity but an appetite to exert to control
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Good points all round. But what I'm not doing is saying "you should always use stash". I'm providing use cases, for me personally, where stash is the correct approach. "Ah", but you might be inclined to argue,
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Well this blew up and lots of you missed the point > right tool for the right job I'll give you that this is (slightly) ambigious. But here's the gist >you can safely ignore the opinion of anyone who says "never do X&qu
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
>If zoom (the company, not the software client) can get the encryption key, the call is not e2e encrypted Ah, thank you. That was the bit I was missing. Silly question I know but I couldn't wrap my head around the wording
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
I don't understand how the FTC arrived at the conclusion they're not E2E? Or have I missed something? >Despite promising end-to-end encryption, the FTC said that "Zoom maintained the cryptographic keys that could allow Zoo
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
>Never stash Er, no. Right tool for the right job. Whilst I agree that the idea of putting differing lines of work into different branches is great, that's not what stash is for. That's what checkout is for. Stash is used to re
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by smokey_circles 6y ago
Wonderfully written, completely baseless. Not meant as a criticism of Rust, but you will unseat COBOL from the finance sector LONG before you get the gaming houses onto rust. Not impossible, highly improbable though