If the telephone replaces errand boys, should it also pay taxes?
Readit Newsgred commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
gred commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
So what is written in Rust so far therein?
> Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death"
> "There is no particular reason to do it in rust, I just wanted to learn rust, and see if it can work in the kernel."
gred commented on The most male and female reasons to end up hospital leobenedictus.substack.co... · Posted by u/speckx
IVF / Fertility services
Women: surgery to extract eggs
Men: wanking into a tube
gred commented on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected helixguard.ai/blog/malici... · Posted by u/mrdosija
Make no mistake, Maven Central does get multiple malware components uploaded each year, though not nearly to the same extent as npm or pypi. Sonatype (my former employer) just doesn't report on these publicly each time it happens. It's not an isolated problem but certainly harder to do with maven.
I assume you're talking about malware uploaded to new artifact coordinates (possibly named so as to try to confuse users), not hijacking of existing artifact coordinates (group ID, artifact ID)?
gred commented on Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected helixguard.ai/blog/malici... · Posted by u/mrdosija
The problem isn't specific to node. NPM is just the most popular repo so the most value for attacks. The same thing could happen on RubyGems, Cargo, or any of the other package managers.
NPM has about 4 million packages, Maven Central has about 3 million packages.
If this were true, wouldn't there have been at least one Maven attack by now, considering the number of NPM attacks that we've seen?
gred commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Interesting point. I know of one home-schooling family—and the wife quit her career to homeschool.
Is this family well off financially? Of course they are. I suspect the data on homeschoolers is going to reflect a generally affluent slant.
Anecdotally, I know of one child who was homeschooled recently. The mother is a single mother, of modest middle-class means. There was a homeschooling group nearby with a few volunteer mothers handling most of the logistics and teaching. This particular mother did not have to give up her job. It does stretch the definition of "homeschooling" a bit when it's a neighbor teaching in a neighbor's home, but they made it work.
gred commented on Homeschooling hits record numbers reason.com/2025/11/19/hom... · Posted by u/bilsbie
I can't say my public school experience was great, I was bullied and didn't really click with the popular kids, but being around a cross section of actual American kids in my age group (my school district mixed middle class with lower class neighborhoods) helped me shape my worldview and learn to deal with people who didn't look or talk like me. I frequently saw fights, so I learned that you just stay away and watch your mouth around specific people. I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.
I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them.
> I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.
Popularity is not an exclusively American concept. Just as public school broadened your horizons, so will traveling (or living) abroad.
it's a trope at this point.
I'm the CEO and I don't really like it when the annoying guy down the hall tells me what to do, so I'm gonna spend $50,000 and have a team come in and interview everybody and then they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it.
> they'll tell me the same thing the annoying guy said, for years, but because they're outside consultants, I'll listen to them when they say it
A tale as old as time:
> Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. [...] Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. He was amazed at their lack of faith. (Mark 6:1-6)
gred commented on Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% electrek.co/2025/09/30/so... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
yes, I live in Spain. Still don't get the cryptic comment, though, are you claiming Spain will get more blackouts because the EU increases solar energy? that the EU will get the blackouts? that solar energy causes blackouts?
See sibling comment. Seguimos siendo un país de gitanos que no se ha adaptado a las necesidades infraestructurales, organizacionales, legales o sociales de las renovables. I'm bullish on solar in the long-term, but I expect further problems here (including outages) in the short- to mid-term. I'd love to be wrong on this, though.
BTW, with a name like "lentil_soup" how could you not live in Spain? ;-)
I think that this is actually the only viable strategy for a hardware product company in the current world.
As soon as your product is successful, it will be cloned by dozens of Chinese companies and dumped on the market everywhere. Any update you make from there on out will immediately be folded into all those products selling for 10% what you do. In a couple years, they'll all be better than yours, and still way cheaper.
So you have to do the Roomba thing or the GoPro thing, where you iterate behind the scenes until your thing is amazing, release it with a big Hollywood launch, get it turned into the noun and verb for your product category and the action that it does.
But then you have to do what those companies didn't do: Fire everybody and rake in as much cash as possible before the inevitable flood of clones drowns you.
I have a few really good hardware ideas, but I don't believe I could ever market them fast enough and far enough to make it worth spending the R&D to make them happen.
Isn't this why patents exist?