throwawaybutwhy

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. All in all, bad optics and fishy offerings. TOTP is definitely OK.

A thousand times this. Immutability, reproducibility, traceability.

What irks one the most is the arbitrary discrimination between 'critical' and 'non-critical' maintainers. Use TOTP for everybody and be done with it.

Not a storm in a teacup. Being forced to accept unvetted electronic devices from a 'Foundation' instead of using TOTP rings a whole lot of alarm bells.

* How do we know that these ain't fitted with GPS trackers?

* Why are maintainers forced to give up their snail mail addresses?

* How will the keys be re-issued? Who's going to pay for this?

* Oh, and there's still the silly geo-fencing issue: 'Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States'

Some redditors use Reddit Enhancement Suite.

> - How many engaging conversations have you had on HN in the last year?

- None that I remember, thank goodness. One man's conversations are another man's flame wars.

> - How many people do you know on HN?

- At the very least, knowing HN users' affiliations and posting tendencies is key to quickly blocking unwanted ideological noise, whether it concerns international politics or programming languages.

This is a Ph.D. thesis written by one Brian H. May after a thirty-seven-year hiatus.

Then this effort is doomed from the start, and the strategy is in fact an empty shell.

The first red hat^W flag one gets from the foundation's site is total lack of governance information (as in: who's in charge) and financial data.

Maybe I'm reading their site upside down, but this doesn't bode well for the foundation.

Ask a lawyer.

As for 'all innovations conceived...', folk tales are replete with such contract clauses. Usually it ends with a firstborn child being part of the bargain [0].

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheNixInTh...

Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen. Mark 16:14

Apps would get user's IP address and device details. Definitely bad for privacy-obsessed folks.

Although I don't do Rust, your tool might be an order-of-magnitude improvement in UX. Thanks for posting.

A certain philosopher named Occam would suggest that the simplest explanation for nobody finding out so far is that it is three-letter agencies who might be the ultimate funders and data buyers.

Required reading:

https://zenodo.org/record/6412487/files/Report%20on%20the%20...

S**t-as-a-Service?

  Language models trained on such data encode the hegemonic viewpoint; Jo and Gebru, 2021 detail issues and solutions around this topic in-depth. Enhancing the diversity of our training data is a top priority as we continue to iterate our data collection process.

(Source: https://docs.cohere.ai/data-statement#source-demographics)

Hegemonic viewpoint?? Maybe I'm late for my mutual criticism session.

Hilarious and gross at the same time. Big Brother^W^W the 'community' (which community?) is watching you, lest you embrace the wrongthink.

Next step: 'please reconsider your position on issues A B and C, as there are reasonable indications that your physical address may be leaked to those you disagree with'.

Please note there's been some uptick in the intensity of discussion on generics lately [0].

Generics are necessary to bring performant data structures to Fortran, and yet they are nowhere near Go's generics.

For the usual naysayers doubting Fortran's place in a modern world: whenever you are reading or watching a weather forecast, that's decades of Fortran staring at you. Whenever you drive past a nuclear power plant, or an airbase with 'igloos', remember that nuclear safety codes run on Fortran.

[0] https://github.com/j3-fortran/generics

Saving you a click and a bunch of tranquilizer pills.

It's (1986), and the direct link is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlS4f-mS27k

Krebs is a sleazy underhanded journo, too fond of doxxing his targets without any notion of 'due process' and buying leaks on the black market. I was tricked into reading his scoops and it took a couple of years for the truth to trickle down into my coffee-addled brain.

...which is working as intended. This situation has all the hallmarks of a silent coup in the making.

Retrocomputing can be dubbed 'xenocomputing studies'. So many foreign concepts, languages, utilities that may as well have been made by aliens. And people are fascinated by aliens or those legendary heroes of ages past that lived in Atlantis, built cyclopic computers ranging in size from a simple dolmen to the mighty Stonehenge, and managed to design H-bombs and continental air defense systems.

I trust Mr. Brown Moses a bit more than Ms Doubovikova.

The thing is, this (and craftworks.at or whatever) is still not a fully polished technology.

It probably can be optimized in a bunch of ways:

* Less drastic transitions between accentuated text and the rest

* An ML algorithm to select quantifiably better patterns (with distillation if necessary)

* Enrolling visually- and cognitively-impaired persons (e.g.dyslexics) into the study to avoid undercutting accessibility

We've been doing printing and written/illuminated books for many centuries, and statistical readability studies for the last 80 years or so. If a variation of this technique is better than the existing 'flat' type (even with ligatures), NASA/DARPA/NIH would be investigating it shortly.

'...that will require further investigation, maybe the videos in this thread can be geolocated?'

...which is a reply to the following thread:

    Ukrainian soldiers shoot Russian prisoners of war in the legs and afterwards give them a severe beating. At the beginning of the video, there are Russian POWs lying on the ground with bullet wounds in their legs, some of them have got leg bones broken.

    It might give the impression that the Russian military were captured after having been wounded. But that's not the case. At the end of the video, we can see Ukrainian soldiers shooting all the newly arrived prisoners through their legs.

    Many of them are dying from shock due to the pain right on camera. And all of this is being filmed by Ukrainian soldiers themselves.

His name is Eric Ciaramella. Can you see what I did here?

The Big Brother^W Tech has already been weaponized, first in an internal American setting, now in a total (hopefully not thermonuclear) war. This won't stop until tactics on both sides are more or less indistinguishable.

Umberto Eco was one of the writers/thinkers whose 'profound truths' later surprisingly turned into quite revolting revelations. One of those whom I cannot trust at all.

Bonkers. Scientific American hits the floor and easily goes under. It is math that a/ weeds out idiots and b/ instills engineering rigor.

The evel of copy-writing is epic.

TL;DR - Brandon Nozaki Miller (Director of Front End Technology and Javascript Engineering @ Ocra) committed obfuscated code in the node-ipc package that runs geolocation and with probability 0.25 erases files at client computers if they have Russian or Byeeelorussian IPs.

Quite funny.

Heh, the midterms are coming, and words are cheap. Yet Big Tech is essential for politicians, and the era of trustbusters is gone.

Sorry for your loss, but you have to suck it up. This is hybrid warfare, and your country is at a kinda sorta war with the US. The 'good news' is your tech blog is going to be canceled anyway once the readers find out you're Russian.

As a side note, it looks like Russian 'below-the-threshold' invasion of 2014 significantly altered American strategy and made it more versatile. We'll just have to wait and see if it changes the end game, though.

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Nope, thank you for spying on your users.