Readit NewsHave you watched the Chinese original series on Prime? It’s a slog though at 30 episodes and that’s still only book one, but I thought they did a great job with it all-in-all.
Yeah, loved the Chinese series! It was very true to the book and exceeded my expectations!
iofiiiiiiiii commented on General Availability of the AWS SDK for Rust aws.amazon.com/blogs/deve... · Posted by u/CathalMullan
Hello! Me and some other folks who work on the Rust SDK will be around today answering questions in the comments.
What are the differences in the design principles of the AWS Rust SDK compared to AWS SDKs of other languages? In what ways is it special to work best with the Rust ecosystem?
TFA is about more than just WEI, but it does address it directly:
> We’ve heard your feedback, and the Web Environment Integrity proposal is no longer being considered by the Chrome team. In contrast, the Android WebView Media Integrity API is narrowly scoped, and only targets WebViews embedded in apps. It simply extends existing functionality on Android devices that have Google Mobile Services (GMS) and there are no plans to offer it beyond embedded media, such as streaming video and audio, or beyond Android WebViews.
This is really great to hear, thank you Chrome team!
Is there a risk that this is one of those "shelve it for 6 months and we'll try again later" playbooks, and that already having the implementation will make it just "an expansion" of existing tech rather than "new" tech, which will make the pill easier for most people to swallow even though it gets to the same end result?
What does your heart tell you? Palladium[1] came and went and then suddenly most laptops and mobile devices have a built-in TPM today. No doubt history will repeat.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next-Generation_Secure_Computi...
iofiiiiiiiii commented on United Airlines plans to board passengers with window seats first cbsnews.com/news/united-a... · Posted by u/lxm
Do people even follow the boarding order? Sometimes I can't hear what they say and I just get in line anyway, and I've never had an issue. Obviously people mostly follow it, and it wouldn't work if nobody listened to it, but I'm not sure that the gate attendants care if a few people queue at the wrong time.
Also, queuing order is only about who goes first. If you're in an early section, but show up late, you can still get in line. So in this proposed system you can still have window seaters showing up late and defeating the whole point of having them board first.
I recently saw people get rejected at the gate when they tried to board ahead of time in Frankfurt, so it sounds like they are starting to enforce it.
Can it set-up /boot volume encryption and using of TPM for unattended reboots? Thats the deal breaker feature.
I once asked the developers about this and they did not seem to understand what the point of a TPM even is, unfortunately.
iofiiiiiiiii commented on OpenTelemetry in 2023 bit.kevinslin.com/p/opent... · Posted by u/kevinslin
I'm hugely disappointed with OpenTelemetry. In my experience, its an over-engineered mess and the out-of-the-box experience is super user hostile. What it purports to be is so far away from what it actually is. Otel markets itself as a universal tracing/metrics/logs format and set of plug and play libraries that has adapters for everything you need. It's actually a bunch of half/poorly implemented libraries with a ton of leaky internals, bad adapters, and actually not a lot of functionality.
Agreed, I find myself having to think orthogonally to common sense whenever I try to use one of its SDKs. Nothing works the way you expect it to, everything has 3 layers of unnecessary abstraction and needs to be approached via the back door. Many features have caveats about when it works, where it works, how much it works, during what phase of the moon it works and how long your strings can be when Jupiter is visible in the sky.
That said, if we disregard the leaky SDK APIs and half-implemented everything, it does somewhat deliver on the pluggability promise. Before OTel, you had bespoke stacks for everything. Now there is some commonality - you can plug in different logging backends to one standard SDK and expect it to more or less work. Yes, it works less well than a vertically integrated stack but this is still something. It enables competition and evolution piece by piece, without having to replace an observability stack outright (never going to be a convincing proposition).
So while the developer experience is pretty unpleasant and I am also disappointed with the actual daily usage, from an architectural perspective it opens up new opportunities that did not exist before. It is at least a partial win.
Good. I hope it stays this way forever.
I’m honestly sick of being told I can’t say “Thank You” at the end of my post or other dumb crap these mods waste my time with.
While some of the SO practices can feel dumb, I wonder what is the tradeoff we are making here? Could it be that for whatever reason (e.g. personality) we might benefit from accepting these "dumb" choices because it also brings with it unrelated benefits? For example, might it be that if they were forced to accept "frivolous" statements such as "thank you" (from the example you gave), might it cause moderators to not moderate, and thereby allow in spam & other nasty bits?
It is worth bearing in mind that if we, "good people", complain about moderation, we only see the parts of it that touch our "good posting". There might be plenty of good that moderators are also doing, which only the bad guys see.
Moved to wordpress.com since that. No more worry about keeping things working, I can focus on the content. Admittedly, the horrible load times of wordpress.com sites are causing me to look at alternatives - waiting 5 seconds for the homepage to show up is not really acceptable.
I wish someone made a hosted version of a static site generator - they maintain the compatibility between individual components, provide some online editor for content, but the output is just a bunch of static files generated from this. Have not found one so far but if you know one, please drop a line!