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forgotaccount3 commented on Discord Alternatives, Ranked taggart-tech.com/discord-... · Posted by u/pseudalopex

BowBun · 4 hours ago

They have >200 million DAUs and guesses say they have >10K servers with >10K users. Assumptions from a tech crowd who were used to IRC should be taken with a grain of salt.

Now if we're just looking for alternatives for ourselves, cool. But I think the reality is that most normal users do fully lean into the social aspects of Discord. A server like Marvel Rivals has literally millions of users. Players join that discord to socialize with all of those players and build a community around the game.

forgotaccount3 · an hour ago

> A server like Marvel Rivals has literally millions of users. Players join that discord to socialize with all of those players and build a community around the game.

Going back to something you said earlier:

> Rocket chat is a Slack alternative for people wanting to host a server for a community. It's not a platform, you need to register and login to each server manually.

So the primary thing is that there is no SSO for each server? No centralized auth system? Because everyone I know that uses discord 'found' the discord via some official means of those million person discord's like the official Marvel Rivals one. If the only purpose of the centralized system is not requiring a new login for every server, then a centralized auth system could be implemented by relying on people's other social media accounts. Login with Google/Facebook/Apple etc.

forgotaccount3 commented on AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/redman25

maltalex · a day ago

The problem isn't the back door. Every telecom company in every country provides access for "lawful intercept". Phone taps have been a thing for decades and as far as I know, require a warrant.

The problem is that telecoms are very large, very complex environments, often with poor security controls. Investing in better controls is hard, time-consuming and expensive, and many telecoms are reluctant to do it. That's not great great since telcos are prime targets for nation state hackers as Salt Typhoon shows.

Hacking the lawful intercept systems is very brazen, but even if the hackers didn't don't go as far, and "only" gained control of normal telco stuff like call routing, numbering, billing, etc. it still would have been incredibly dangerous.

forgotaccount3 · a day ago

> many telecoms are reluctant to do it.

This really buries the lede. Telecoms are reluctant to do it because 'doing' it isn't aligned with their priorities.

Why would a telecom risk bankruptcy by investing heavily into a system that their competitors aren't?

If you want a back-door to exist (questionable) then the government either needs to have strong regulatory compliance where poor implementations receive a heavy fine such that telecoms who don't invest into a secure implementation get fined in excess of the investment cost or the government needs to fund the implementation itself.

forgotaccount3 commented on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe nytimes.com/2026/02/06/bu... · Posted by u/thm

wackget · 4 days ago

You are not acknowledging the fact that the companies producing these addictive apps are very much doing it intentionally. They are specifically making it as engaging as possible because that's how they make money. And they have billions of dollars to sink into making their products as irresistable as possible.

The average person has zero chance against all-pervasive, ultra-manipulative, highly-engineered systems like that.

It is, quite simply, not a fair fight.

forgotaccount3 · 4 days ago

> They are specifically making it as engaging as possible because that's [how they make money.] ... what people want.

Fixed that for you.

Your argument is basically the same as saying that Banana Ball should be banned because they are intentionally making the experience as fun as possible, because that's how they make money.

forgotaccount3 commented on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled 404media.co/fbi-couldnt-g... · Posted by u/robin_reala

bawolff · 6 days ago

So in america, they can force you to use a biometric but they can't compel you to reveal your password?

I mean, i agree with you, but its a really weird line in the sand to draw

forgotaccount3 · 6 days ago

One is knowledge the user has, and the other is a physical key they own.

Providing your 'finger' to unlock a device is no different than providing your 'key' to unlock something. So you can be compelled to provide those biometrics.

Compelling you to reveal a password is not some *thing* you have but knowledge you contain. Being compelled to provide that knowledge is no different than being compelled to reveal where you were or what you were doing at some place or time.

forgotaccount3 commented on SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned haveibeenpwned.com/Breach... · Posted by u/gnabgib

djee · 14 days ago

"The data involved consisted only of email addresses and information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles".

So they've scraped public data. Why care?

forgotaccount3 · 14 days ago

Maybe the two public data points weren't connected before?

I don't use SoundCloud, but if profiles didn't have contact information like Email Address on them then it could be meaningful to now connect those two dots.

Like, 'Hey look, Person A, who is known to use email address X, kept Lost Prophets as one of their liked artists even after 2013!'

forgotaccount3 commented on Designing an IPv6-native P2P transport – lessons from building I6P theushen.medium.com/desig... · Posted by u/TheusHen

ninkendo · a month ago

> But it's often disabled for the same reason as having router-level firewalls in the first place.

Yeah, anything that allows hosts to signal that they want to accept connections, is likely the first thing a typical admin would want to turn off.

It’s interesting because nowadays it’s egress that is the real worry. The first thing malware does is phone home to its CNC address and that connection is used to actually control nodes in a bot net. Ingress being disabled doesn’t really net you all that much nowadays when it comes to restricting malware.

In an ideal world we’d have IPv6 in the 90’s and it would have been “normal” for firewalls to be things you have on your local machine, and not at the router level, and allowing ports is something the OS can prompt the user to do (similar to how Windows does it today with “do you want to allow this application to listen for connections” prompt.) But even if that were the case I’m sure we would have still added “block all ingress” as a best practice for firewalls along the way regardless.

forgotaccount3 · a month ago

> Ingress being disabled doesn’t really net you all that much nowadays when it comes to restricting malware.

But how much of this is because ingress is typically disabled so ingress attacks are less valuable relative to exploiting humans in the loop to install something that ends up using egress as part of it's function.

forgotaccount3 commented on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far burkeholland.github.io/po... · Posted by u/tbassetto

weitendorf · a month ago

How many 1+ hour videos of someone building with AI tools have you sought out and watched? Those definitely exist, it sounds like you didn't go seeking them out or watch them because even with 7 less hours you'd better understand where they add value enough to believe they can help with challenging projects.

So why should anybody produce an 8 hour video for you when you wouldn't watch it? Let's be real. You would not watch that video.

In my opinion most of the people who refuse to believe AI can help them while work with software are just incurious/archetypical late adopters.

If you've ever interacted with these kinds of users, even though they might ask for specs/more resources/more demos and case studies or maturity or whatever, you know that really they are just change-resistant and will probably continue to be as as long as they can get away with it being framed as skepticism rather than simply being out of touch.

I don't mean that in a moralizing sense btw - I think it is a natural part of aging and gaining experience, shifting priorities, being burned too many times. A lot of business owners 30 years ago probably truly didn't need to "learn that email thing", because learning it would have required more of a time investment than it would yield, due to being later in their career with less time for it to payoff, and having already built skills/habits/processes around physical mail that would become obsolete with virtual mail. But a lot of them did end up learning that email thing 5, 10, whatever years later when the benefits were more obvious and the rest of the world had already reoriented itself around email. Even if they still didn't want to, they'd risk looking like a fossil/"too old" to adapt to changes in the workplace if they didn't just do it.

That's why you're seeing so many directors/middle managers doing all these though leader posts about AI recently. Lots of these guys 1-2 years ago were either saying AI is spicy autocomplete or "our OKR this quarter is to Do AI Things". Now they can't get away with phoning it in anymore and need to prove to their boss that they are capable of understanding and using AI, the same way they had to prove that they understood cloud by writing about kubernetes or microservices or whatever 5-10 years ago.

forgotaccount3 · a month ago

> In my opinion most of the people who refuse to believe AI can help them while work with software are just incurious/archetypical late adopters.

The biggest blocker I see to having AI help us be more productive is that it transforms how the day to day operations work.

Right now there is some balance in the pipeline of receiving change requests/enhancements, documenting them, estimating implementation time, analyzing cost and benefits, breaking out the feature into discrete stories, having the teams review the stories and 'vote' on a point sizing, planning on when each feature should be completed given the teams current capacity and committing to the releases (PI Planning), and then actually implementing the changes being requested.

However if I can take a code base and enter in a high level feature request from the stakeholders and then hold hands with Kiro to produce a functioning implementation in a day, then the majority of those steps above are just wasting time. Spending a few hundred man-hours to prepare for work that takes a few hundred man-hours might be reasonable, but doing that same prep work for a task that takes 8 man-hours isn't.

And we can't shift to that faster workflow without significant changes to entire software pipeline. The entire PMO team dedicated to reporting when things will be done shifts if that 'thing' is done before the report to the PMO lead is finished being created. Or we need significantly more resources dedicated to planning enhancements so that we could have an actual backlog of work for the developers. But my company appears to neither be interested in shrinking the PMO team nor in expanding the intake staff.

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newsoftheday · a month ago

I see the article is still on the front page, I'd ignored it yesterday so I took a quick read. I find, being older, trying to read the tiny fonts on a phone to be difficult after a few minutes, otherwise cool idea.

Or, I thought it was cool until this passage reminded me, "coded a prototype in my downtime" that down time is supposed to be down time.

forgotaccount3 · a month ago

> down time is supposed to be down time.

Life doesn't have down time. Should we avoid learning new things because no one is paying us to learn?

One of my favorite uses of AI is to quickly make some simple 'hello world' level application that I can run using a given technology.

Don't know what an MCP server is? Boot up Kiro and tell it you want to make a sample MCP server and ask it for suggestions on what the MCP server should do. A relatively short while later, with a lot of that time being spent letting AI do it's thing, and you can have an MCP server running on your computer. You have an AI waiting for you to ask questions about why the MCP server does x y or z or how can you get the server to do a, b or c etc

As someone who learns a lot better from doing or seeing vs reading specs, this has been monumentally more efficient than searching the web for a good blog post explaining the concept.

And when I'm doing these learning exercises, I naturally lean towards the domain my company is in because it's easier to visualize how a concept could be implemented into a workflow when I understand the current pain points of that workflow.

I'm not going home and pulling in story's from my board and working on them (generally), I'm teaching myself new concepts in a way that also positions be to contribute better to my employer.

forgotaccount3 commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo

edoceo · 2 months ago

AI with hard guidelines? I don't think that will work.

forgotaccount3 · 2 months ago

Not necessarily AI with 'hard guidelines' AI tools that pass output to a filter with 'hard guidelines' is definitely feasible.

Take the input as normal, pass it into Sora 2 and execute it as you would, pass the output through a filtering process that adheres to hard guidelines.

Of course, when talking about images, what is a 'hard guideline' here? Do you take the output and pass it through AI to identify if there's x y or z categorys of content here and then reject it?