rsnor

I’m having trouble understanding what you’re saying.

You’d think we’d be better off even with the higher attention, were it to exist, because the level of attention going into making FIDO2 as secure as possible would scale with its userbase. Same with any other security solution being implemented.

Very cool. I remember seeing a similar tool called Yewno that Stanford had access to that had a semantic web of topics linked by a graph, and wanting to find or make an open source alternative. I can see a lot of possible uses for this in the future.

I hate OS-level ads the same if not more than any other HN reader, but that's like saying we shouldn't be glancing out of the window for half a second because it would scale up to losing ~100,000 hours of productivity every day. It's a fraction of a ten-thousandth of a workday - anyone concerned with that level of optimization shouldn't be using humans to begin with.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

I’m fairly new to this site, but it’s been eye-opening as a student to learn from professionals and other tech enthusiasts. Hope everyone on HN has had a great decade.

I had the thought a day or so ago that a system could be created to tie images to their respective cameras with a private key stored inside of a chip that self-destructs when you attempt to read the key from outside of it, along with a trust hierarchy of certs from various camera manufacturers. A little like hardware auth tokens mixed with PKI.

Does that sound like something that would be feasible to produce/practical in the real world?

Searx (https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances) is exactly what you described.

> You aren’t special and no-one really cares.

Come on now.

If someone uses the same username in multiple places, and another site has a user with the same name, it’s easy to assume they are the same person. If there is a risk of impersonation or confusion with another account, it’s fair to try to protect your reputation by registering an account in that name and not posting, especially if you are well-known in some internet circles.

It seems that a lot of problems regarding email involve a lack of transferability between providers, and I don’t think that having a government-run mail provider would adequately solve that.

Instead, maybe an extension of existing mail protocols to allow for updating address information would be better - for instance, mailing a deactivated address would give a special response announcing the change in address, so that information stored about addresses can be updated without user intervention.

Any thoughts on this?

Your analogy doesn’t work, because the general consensus is that there is no better alternative to taxation. It is a necessary evil - unlike Stallman, who, regardless of personal opinion, has others who are qualified to replace him.

Is it fair to say that because there will always be more specialized skills to be learned, that none should be learned?

Everyone may not need to know how to repair their car, but to perform basic, routine maintenance on it and to learn driving technique as intended is something that, when neglected, can cause major inefficiencies.

Not exactly.

Developers ultimately have judgement over which projects they contribute to, and if they feel that more harm is coming out of their work than good, then they have every right to cease development.

Open source, compared to other development models, suffers the least from this problem in that there is no single developer that has jurisdiction over how the product is used. FOSS projects can always be forked, if need be.