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Is it? It would be incredible if the government didn’t have specific requirements for critical infrastructure.
Say you’re an energy company and an incident could mean that a big part of the country is without power, or you’re a large bank and you can’t process payroll for millions of workers. They’re ability to recover quickly and completely matters. Just recently in Australia an incident at Optus, a large phone company, prevented thousands of people from making emergency calls for several hours. Several people died including a child.
The people should require these providers behave responsibly. And the way the people do that is with a government.
Companies behave poorly all the time. Red tape isn’t always bad.
hiharryhere commented on I'm leaving Ruby Central gist.github.com/simi/349d... · Posted by u/retrorubies
That sounds like a neat idea. Do you have a proposal for that?
Would it be compatible with specifying urls (such as git repos)?
Bundler already does this.
# From a specific branch
gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', branch: 'development'
# From a specific tag
gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', tag: 'v1.2.3'
# From a specific commit (ref)
gem 'my_gem', git: 'https://github.com/user/my_gem.git', ref: 'a1b2c3d4e5f6g7h8i9j0k1l2m3n4o5p6q7r8s9t0'hiharryhere commented on I'm leaving Ruby Central gist.github.com/simi/349d... · Posted by u/retrorubies
There are arguably larger reputational risk issues in a company with significant financial/payment activities not having adequate control of their technology. I'm not saying that justifies anything here as I don't know nearly enough about, but I'd wager that even a minor incident arising from them not adequately controlling their stack would create infinitely more issues than this move.
If supply chain integrity is the issue specifically for Shopify, couldn’t they run their own private, internally facing gem repository and whitelist everything that goes there? It’s not a requirement to use the public rubygems.
TIL cockatoos are wild in Australia
Wild, abundant and loud
hiharryhere commented on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes nytimes.com/2025/02/21/up... · Posted by u/belter
That's not true in common English usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion
You might want to reread that page.
“1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both American and British English.”
hiharryhere commented on Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets 404media.co/archivists-wo... · Posted by u/johnneville
> It's also way the fuck off base to call this a concentration camp for undesirables with all the insinuations of Nazism that come with that.
Tell me, how many other governments can you list that planned to deport large numbers of people living in their country out to a special island they controlled in order to take advantage of its extraterritorial legal limbo separating it from the source country?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_Plan
If I had a nickel every time that happened, I'd have two nickels, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
Not defending it… but Australia has done this for decades.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Solution
Most famously on Nauru https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauru_Regional_Processing_Ce...
Problem is, a) governments are infiltrated by russian assets and b) governments are known to enforce detrimental IT regulations. Germany especially so.
> power plants, telco infra, traffic infrastructure or hospitals
Their system _will_ get hit by ransomware or APTs. It is not possible to mandate common sense or proper IT practices, no matter how strict the law. See the recent incident in South Korea with burned down data center with no backups.