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by __MatrixMan__ 17d ago
This is a fundamental flaw in the web. Since we treat a server's name as authoritative, anybody maintaining a replica needs to repeatedly hit that server to know if their remote version is up to date. If we trusted digital signatures o
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by __MatrixMan__ 18d ago
I feel cursed with the opposite of this. I can't seem to go 12 hours without finding a bug in software which it's not my job to test. It's all so awful. I waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to report these bugs,
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by __MatrixMan__ 18d ago
I usually camp where I can get some distance from the noise, which means I hang out with the burner parents and their kids. It's really great to see all of the ways that burners adapt their art so that kids can participate, and the ki
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by __MatrixMan__ 18d ago
Regional burns are a thing, and they're pretty awesome.
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by __MatrixMan__ 18d ago
"This works for me, but I need help understanding why, because maybe it would help others" is a legitimate position to be in--has been since long before LLMs. I think we miss out on something when we ignore that position. I'
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by __MatrixMan__ 18d ago
Really, no way out? We'll be practicing capitalism until we go extinct?
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by __MatrixMan__ 19d ago
Well, a fast broadcast at least. Of you're willing to wait for a pocket switched network to spread the signal, you can hide the source pretty well.
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by __MatrixMan__ 19d ago
And how would you fix it from the outside? Besides, it's only capitalism of you take on investors. You can charge money to solve a problem without summoning the demon.
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by __MatrixMan__ 20d ago
Then come the floods because the roots were holding all the soil in place and the soil was managing water movement. What used to be an all year trickle becomes an occasional deatructive deluge.
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by __MatrixMan__ 20d ago
Or do come and start something new. Something meaningful. Show us how to build things that don't hurt each other, because we appear to have forgotten.
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by __MatrixMan__ 20d ago
These people are easy to find. Listen for people who are acting like a hero because they boycott Amazon or some other with-your-wallet kind of activism, and suggest nonviolent sabotage. They clutch their pearls so hard, each becomes a tiny
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by __MatrixMan__ 21d ago
If human-led companies started consistently losing to AI led companies... would it say more about the intelligence of AI, or about how thoroughly power corrupts humans?
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by __MatrixMan__ 21d ago
If you want to see that idea extrapolated to an impressive extent, check out Accelerando by Charles Stross. If Stross was right we're in for a bumpy ride.
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by __MatrixMan__ 21d ago
Sympathy negated by their 2026 Pwnie award: "Lamest Vendor" https://this.weekinsecurity.com/microsoft-wins-lamest-vendor...
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
A particle is a region of space where it's probable that a certain kind of interaction will happen. I don't see any reason why they can't overlap infinitely and then squeeze to the Dirac delta function: certain to be here, no
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
I'd recommend flashing the cloth with open source firmware first. Otherwise it might check a signature in the glass, find that it's non-Apple, and become scratchy.
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
Is FTP really worse HTTP? If you try to enumerate directories over HTTP alarms start going off because you look like an attacker.
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
I took a bioinformatics class, students were emailing large files around via the university's email portal. The files were frequently corrupted somewhere along the way. I had to show them how to check hashes and then they would just
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
Microsoft comes to mind, with their anti-open-source era, their bullying of security researchers, and several other infractions. Plus I suspect they're gearing up for some shenanigans re: their auth portal.
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by __MatrixMan__ 22d ago
We can do it ourselves. Simple custom tools are so much more effective than a conglomeration of general purpose ones. I've been ripping out SaaS offerings left and right, it's great.
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
Adoption by too narrow an audience can totally poison a protocol for the rest of us. Bit torrent is a superior way to move data around (as compared with http downloads). But its early associations appear to have forever tainted it against w
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
They're pretty bad, but yes I think so.
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
In a zero sum game, resources are neither created or destroyed, just fought over by competing parties or converted losslessly from one type into another. So far, this industry is negative sum by a long shot. Maybe one day AI will make a con
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
Sure, it can go either way, and so which version to use is a decision to be made by the user, not on their behalf by a vendor. Consider the CrowdStrike debacle. It wouldn't have been a big deal if they could just boot to yesterday&#x2
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
When I look at the state of software engineering, "fine" is not the word that comes to mind https://xkcd.com/2030/ . If we're going to be the last generation that understands code at this level, we need l
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
This seems largely to be about security by obscurity. I was hoping it was gonna be about how our modern practices are making things less secure. For instance, we claim we need to be able to rapidly update clients so that we can patch securi
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
I think this how modern CPUs work also.
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by __MatrixMan__ 23d ago
Good points, but I think we can expect the AI space to be more tumultuous. What most people want from mobile technology is for it to work, not too expensively, and for it to get out of their way. What most people want out of AI is for no le
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by __MatrixMan__ 24d ago
Hmm, that makes sense. I'm not sure if understanding this thing I hate will make me hate it any less, but thanks for the explanation!
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by __MatrixMan__ 24d ago
Huh, I figured there had to be AC in there somewhere because otherwise where is the frequency coming from? Or is there a conversion to AC somewhere in the middle of a DC-DC conversion? I had assumed you could achieve it with just resistor

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