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taladar,

It is not quite a shipping container but there are cargo bikes large enough for the stuff named in the post, e.g. cargocycle.de

taladar,

the info required was there already, just you needed to put effort in

Not really. This is mostly what this is all about. The companies are insisting that open source projects should do analysis of security impacts in addition to fixing the bugs whenever some “security researcher” runs some low effort fuzzing or static analysis thing that produces large numbers of bug reports and assigns CVEs to them without the consent of the project. The problem is that such an impact analysis is significant effort (often orders of magnitude more than the fix itself) by people with deep knowledge about the code bases and only really useful to the customers of those companies who want to selectively update instead of just applying all the latest fixes.

taladar,

People who see it as an immature way to communicate won’t use the words at all. People who are actually immature despite growing up will use the word and think it makes a difference if they put an asterisk in there instead of spelling it out.

taladar,

I am not judging people for using profanity, I am judging people for thinking fuck vs f*ck makes a difference.

taladar,

While true essentially forking the latest stable version of the kernel to make an LTS branch or a vendor version only multiplies the problem, it also does not contribute to solving it.

taladar,

Federation doesn’t really solve the issue that self-hosting takes effort away from working on the actual project.

taladar,

I can understand the argument against GitHub in two contexts, one is when people build features into their software that assume GitHub, e.g. when a programming language assumes it can just prepend github.com/ to your repo to find it and the other is the argument that losing GitHub would be a huge blow because so many projects are there and only there so a lot of things would have to be done at once if that ever happened.

taladar,

Can you name an open platform that actually does distribute PRs and issues? I know there were a few that tried but I mean one that actually succeeded and is usable by people who just want to report a bug?

Also, your issues and pull requests are much more likely to be lost in your self-hosted one project instance than on GitHub if anything happens to you.

taladar,

Forgefed seems to be ActivityPub based which, judging by Lemmy, doesn’t solve the redundancy issue at all, it just allows you to interact with the content hosted in a single place from your own single place, giving you two single points of failure and two points where you can be tracked instead of one. This is not really the same kind of distributed as git repositories.

taladar,

The term “single point of failure” means that only that point has to fail for the entire system to become unusable. You can easily have more than one of those in a system though.

taladar,

I could be up and running in like 10 minutes to install Forgejo or Gitea

You could maybe do that but only because you already know how unlike most developers and you completely dismiss any active maintenance like updates, moderation, debugging performance issues, resizing storage,…

taladar,

Yeah, the whole commenting won’t work if the server where the repo is hosted fails or the server where the person has an account. There is no redundancy.

taladar,

Talking about PRs being broken and then bringing up email, just about the most broken technology still in wide-spread use, is sort of ironic.

taladar,

There is also the stroad that is basically what you describe only with entrances to and exits from business parking lots every couple of car lengths.

taladar,

I wonder how representative that is of actual software used. I would imagine hardware probes are run from installers and live systems quite frequently. I would certainly not expect several percentage points of “neither” in practical settings.

taladar,

Yeah, but when was the last time you decided to upload hardware device data for a root server to some hardware survey? That is something almost exclusively done by the kind of people who want to show off their system in some way.

taladar,

Any of those 2,034 people can push malware to Fedora

Maybe, but that is still a significantly higher bar than allowing everyone to publish a package the way most language specific package repositories work (or just use any random github repo even like some others).

taladar,

that even the thousands of developers who wrote most of that code don’t understand how their own code works anymore?

The bugs I have fixed that were written by that idiot “me from a few weeks/months/years ago”…

taladar,

The worst thing is when it happens in this way and you can’t remember even though it was your own question xkcd.com/979/

What are the most private social media platforms?

I’ve been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....

taladar,

You could argue that content (as opposed to person) focused forums or message boards that allow anonymous posts are probably the closest to private social media.

taladar,

I don’t think deleting old posts or comments can really be relied on to hide your data. Once it is out there it ends up in search indices, web archives,… so while it is a good additional safety mechanism it shouldn’t mean that you should freely post personal stuff.

taladar,

Well, I was thinking more of the kind of anonymous comments you get on message boards like some of the *chan ones.

taladar,

Not only that but that is also true for all the other management positions in between CEO and the team and project managers down at the level where the actual work is done. They are all too focused on their on personal gain and career advancement.

taladar,

I know this is a privacy community but you don’t have to keep the details of your use case and your reasons for not wanting WiFi quite this private if you want useful responses.

taladar,

Let me put it another way. You are much more likely to get responses that fit your use case if you put in more than half a sentence worth of effort into describing what you need.

taladar,

There are so many people who think sid is a distro when really, as far as the Debian project is concerned, it is a staging ground.

taladar,

“you’re using it wrong” seems more like the official motto of Wayland whenever anything that isn’t working on it is brought up.

EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO (www.tomshardware.com)

EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed the company is considering putting ads in traditional AAA games — titles that players purchase up-front for around $70 apiece. In the Q&A part of EA’s latest earnings call, Eric Sheridan from Goldman Sachs asked Wilson about dynamic ad insertion in traditional AAA games. Wilson said,...

taladar,

It has all the impact, the problem is basically low voter turnout, not the method itself.

taladar,

All those same marketing techniques are also employed with actual elections.

My point was that “voting with your wallet” works, it is not a flaw in the method, it is a flaw in the low number of people employing it that it achieves so little. It is inherently no worse than all the other things you could do that you can’t convince anyone else to join you in when protesting company’s behavior. In fact I would go so far as to say that convincing yourself that you did something and then still buying their product is actually just giving in to those very same dark patterns you mention.

taladar,

Also to advocate for a specific tab size while also advocating for hard tabs is nonsense. The one flimsy claim to usefulness tabs have is that different people can use different tab sizes and all at the low, low cost of everyone having five times more work to use tabs for indentations and spaces for alignment and thus having to use visual whitespace of some kind.

taladar,

I would go so far as to say that languages that allow you to leave off the braces and have macros that look like functions that can generate multiple statements at the same time are just plain badly designed.

taladar,

Say what you will about Sony and Nintendo but they have output and they care about gaming because they have to, it’s the only way they make money.

You are aware that Sony makes lots of other things besides games too?

taladar,

Maybe you should take your own advice, according to statista.com/…/sony-sales-worldwide-by-business-s… for the latest available year there (2022) the business segment “Game and network services” is only around 26 billion out of 88 billion total.

taladar,

So it doesn’t run at a wastefully high FPS for a text editor? Is that supposed to be a selling point for Zed that it renders many, many more frames than a text editor needs?

taladar,

Agreed, anything below 5 FPS is probably a bit slow for a text editor.

taladar,

That “vulnerability” seems more like a case of “people who use hostile networks have not considered which features that work as designed should be disabled in their use case”.

taladar,

It does matter if people now advocate to routinely disable useful features by default because they are a problem for their particular use case.

taladar,

The ability to set static routes via DHCP server or for that matter the ability to remote boot systems via DHCP server which has similar problems if you can’t trust the DHCP server.

taladar,

Not sure about the down arrow in particular but I have seen objects (e.g. a corner of a book) accidentally lie on a key at the edge of a keyboard before.

taladar,

VR will always stay a niche technology just because of the limited circumstances where people can use it (e.g. not on the move, not while watching kids,…).

taladar,

In either case communication is the limiting factor and that scales with quadratic complexity with larger groups (everyone has to be on the same page with everyone else).

taladar,

I will never understand how limited someone’s imagination has to be to require first person and photorealism to be immersed.

SSH login without user name? (docs.gitlab.com)

I was reading GitLab’s documentation (see link) on how to write to a repository from within the CI pipeline and noticed something: The described Docker executor is able to authenticate e.g. against the Git repository with only a private SSH key, being told absolutely nothing about the user’s name it is associated with....

taladar,

The public key contains a user name/email address string

No it does not. That is just a comment field.

taladar,

The ones warning of backlash are often QA, and often don’t get listened to. Then when the backlash inevitably happens it’s all “we are sorry, we couldn’t have known, all the feedback was positive”.

I wouldn’t say that it is a problem with the games industry but managers, sales & marketing people everywhere when they make bad decisions. Those kinds of jobs just attract very egocentric and self-serving people who don’t know how to listen and try to shed blame whenever possible.

taladar,

And more importantly, while the stupid change itself might have been caught it usually doesn’t translate into a lesson not to listen to the person with the stupid idea next time.

taladar,

That sounds like the kind of thing that would happen if you don’t integrate with Steam properly because you expect to use PSN instead.

taladar,

You mean you prefer store-bought rootkits to downloaded ones?

taladar,

Governments won’t scan all your pictures to figure out who you are, they are just going to ask (read: legally force) the website/hoster where you posted that picture for your IP address and/or payment info and then do the same with your ISP/payment provider to convert that into your RL info to figure out who you are.

And you might not be worried about your RL friends or coworkers but what about people you meet online? Everyone able to see your post on some social media site?

Nobody is going to scan all the pictures you post for some information that is going to be valid for a long time after it is discovered once. Governments and corporations have had the means to discover who you are once for a long time.

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