theherk
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- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 week ago:
Okay but your best masons are. Architects and developers are different.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 1 week ago:
It’s a mixed bag.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
Maybe I came off as dismissive or just stupid, but I really did mean to be helpful. Of course you don’t want users experience bad interactions. I meant if those interactions were for an actual intended reason. So yeah, never mind.
Bummer you’ve had a hard time. I think they and the free software community are trying to put together a good solution.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
What server are you using and with which client most recently? It sounds like your device is unverified so untrusted or the key isn’t present.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 week ago:
I use it all the time. There are many mature clients, and matrix is a protocol, so I don’t know what you mean. Since the sliding sync implementations, I have found it really nice to use.
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 2 weeks ago:
The sandboxes are different. The embeddable Java plugin sandbox was a bit different and susceptible to confused deputy and other attacks. So yeah, I guess you can say it is iterative but they’re kind of worlds apart. You can run thousands of wasm modules in a single process and have them all be completely isolated. Its performance and security gains, portability, and usability are all superb.
I guess I can’t really defend it well, but I think it is interesting and important.
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t interesting for being bytecode. Rather for being the first universal sandboxes runtime for the browser and elsewhere. Being able to write in many language and compile to wasm targets is awesome. Safety guarantees and performance are both great too. And it can run in tiny environments.
- Comment on What Happened To WebAssembly 2 weeks ago:
Great article. I think wasm is one of the more interesting things to happen in the last few decades in computer science, though there are many. I think it’s here to stay for sure, but am always curious where the adoption curve will go.
- Comment on Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal 3 weeks ago:
It also means the people operating them will have a high threshold for consequences and maybe not care so much about the community.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Proton also has mail and password management.
- Comment on YSK how to protect yourself at a protest 3 weeks ago:
That’s dark, hilarious, and horrifying.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 3 weeks ago:
Actually great questions. Yes and no. There are vulnerabilities if the private key leaks, but public keys are just that; perfectly okay public in any hands. You only encrypt data with it.
What makes the Signal protocol so awesome, and other algorithms like it, is that it reduces the threat surface area further by using onetime keys. So even if your key is leaked, it cannot be used to decrypt old or forthcoming messages as the keys have already ratcheted to the next pair.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 3 weeks ago:
They share it with you. Their public key is generated by them. You encrypt a message to them with their public key. They use their private key to decrypt it.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 3 weeks ago:
I’m not following. In the WhatsApp case, yes, because we can’t see how those keys are managed. In the Signal case, we can. So the centralized server has zero impact on the privacy of the message. If we trust the keys are possessed only by the generating device, then how does the encrypted message become compromised?
I’m not talking about anonymity, only message privacy. No different than any of the other proxies or routers along the way. If they don’t have the key, the message is not readable.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 3 weeks ago:
Sorry but you’ll need to hold the L on this one. If I encrypt a message with public key material for which the only private key material that can decrypt the message is in only my possession, it doesn’t matter if the message passes centralized servers.
I’m not trying to be rude, that’s just how it works.
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the book, I usually read at 1.4x or up to 2x if I’ve already read it.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 month ago:
Step 0. It just goes without saying.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
More of a fidget toy at that point. I’m in. I’d go as high as $8.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
Remove the outside screen and all cameras and I’d be slightly more interested.
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 2 months ago:
Those are pretty staggering numbers considering the population has only grown by maybe 12% in that same timeframe.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 2 months ago:
Agreed in all accounts. I do use ublock on my laptop but not on mobile.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 2 months ago:
Not accessible without accepting advertising cookies, like Healthline.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 2 months ago:
I’m not sure you made it in time.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 2 months ago:
Yeah, for sure. I’m not saying it is good at all, just that scraping some proportion of copyrighted material is an improvement over scraping all the copyrighted material.
- Comment on Public AI: Free and Ethical AI models with Social good in mind 2 months ago:
That is at least an improvement over including in its corpus the entire worldwide collection of copyrighted materials.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
Careful. You might burn yourself on that take.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
Suggesting something open to doubt isn’t debatable is just not knowing what the word means. There are dictionaries available to the public.
Suggesting the device is underpowered in all contexts is just silly. If I want a device to play Stardew Valley, Braid or some other game with very different people requirements than Cyberpunk, it may not be underpowered… to me.
I get that you’re one of those people that just can never ever accept they are maybe making an objective statement about a subjective value, but you should introspect a bit. You said it wasn’t debatable. We have debated. I doubt your position. End of story.
If you want to compare this to flat earth, fine. Rest assured, nobody will likely find and follow this thread.
FWIW, I think I probably agree with some of your sentiment. It would be better if more powerful. It is underpowered for many of the modern generation of games, etc. Not for you. No problem. Maybe others will like it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 2 months ago:
You don’t seem to understand that “underpowered” requires context. Nor do you that what we’re having here is a debate, thus making it debatable nevertheless.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 months ago:
Yes I agree, if we can move the goalposts where ever we want, you might have a point for your own narrow view. But there will be people that believe what it delivers to be suitable for playing the games they want to play, in which case it won’t be underpowered. Which means its status as underpowered… is debatable.
- Comment on Steam Hardware Announcement 3 months ago:
No, I meant precisely what I wrote. The point being that if it were $4, “underpowered” would be an absurd way to describe it, because value is a function of cost versus benefit, where benefit is subjective.