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k8svet commented on They make USB-C cables with displays now ounapuu.ee/posts/2024/06/... · Posted by u/transpute

metaphor · 2 years ago

The USB-IF publishes a list of member companies[1]; purchase products from these qualified manufacturers, and perhaps more importantly, from authorized distributors.

This is a good enough "policy control" for the average consumer.

[1] https://www.usb.org/members

k8svet · 2 years ago

Erm. I fail to see how this moves the needle unless usb-if is doing extreme firmware level source analysis and deterministic compiles and checking them against shipped firmware. Which I doubt is happening, with every atom in my body.

k8svet commented on I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos mastodon.social/@kornel/1... · Posted by u/robin_reala

corytheboyd · 2 years ago

How crazy would it be to have a package repository that also builds the artifacts it distributes? You’d need a high barrier to entry to save on costs and time sifting through garbage. Perhaps it’s this high barrier that would prevent such a repository from taking off though. Perhaps this is just a really dumb step on a path leading back to simple checksum validations… though with those, you’re only validating that whatever was uploaded is what you downloaded, it doesn’t ensure that it was built from a known set of source files… hard problems.

k8svet · 2 years ago

Bruh. I mean this as a genuine ask. Have you heard of Nix and is there a reason it didn't land on your radar or was rejected?

Because what you want exists and has a thriving community, and a package set that outclasses, well, statistically every other package manager in existence.

I swear, it's a daily occurrence for me to see software engineering challenges posited here as damn near impossible that Nix has been solving for over a decade.

What if you could run a single command and have exact insight to the source you're using for every single package on your system with the context of the dependency graph it exists in.

I cannot wait for this wave to crash and for people to realize how much engineering effort is reduced by using Nix. And that all of these things they know they want for years, already exists. But hey, the syntax takes time to get used to and how do you compare that against the countless blog posts and hours and institutional knowledge you need to actually use docker properly. And then later on some Go-based SBOM tool made by a VC-backed startup that fundamentally still does an inferior job to Nix. Sigh.

Well anyway I guess nix will keep being used by hedge funds, algorithmic traders, "advanced defensive capabilities" companies, literal (launched, in space) satellites, wallet manufacturers, etc, while everyone else listens to the syntax decriers.

k8svet commented on I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos mastodon.social/@kornel/1... · Posted by u/robin_reala

xpe · 2 years ago

> Deterministic compilation is the best way to let people validate what they are downloading from repositories is what is in the codebases.

"the best way"? Please make the argument for why. To do it properly, you must steel-man the alternatives (not shoot down straw-men)

k8svet · 2 years ago

It means we can build the same thing and check the output hashes. In terms of deriving a method for trusting build infra, it's basically the end all-be-all. I almost don't know how to answer it.

k8svet commented on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men wsj.com/tech/young-influe... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

ngruhn · 2 years ago

I agree. Next question: Can they consent to gender reassignment surgery?

k8svet · 2 years ago

I'm sure you've heard this before, and I'm sure you don't give a slim shit, but like 3 minors a year undergo gender reassignment surgery. After countless consultations with physicians, therapists, parents, etc. And hormone blockers aren't given out trivially either. But I have no doubt that you know this.

So, really, pretty laughably not comparable. And to directly answer your question, the answer is duh, no.

I'm sure you're equally upset about young kids being put in beauty pageants or the countless (Republican) states that have recently defended child marriage. Right? Right?

k8svet commented on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men wsj.com/tech/young-influe... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

patrulek · 2 years ago

> While Meta bans children under the age of 13 from independently opening social-media accounts, the company allows what it calls adult-run minor accounts, managed by parents.

This is the problem. This woman just "sold" her daughter for money.

k8svet · 2 years ago

You know, someone had previously written that Meta should be held accountable. Which I guess I didn't consider too strongly.

I'm sorry, but Meta knows why "adult-run minor accounts" make them revenue. Fucking disgusting. I'd love to see some discovery on their internal metrics and how they build out that feature to drive up engagement from these horny creeps.

k8svet commented on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men wsj.com/tech/young-influe... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

jiggawatts · 2 years ago

The counterpoint to this is that Americans are too sensitive about sex relative to other things, such as violence, with or without guns. Three year old little boys get to run around with toy weapons that shoot foam darts, and apparently that's perfectly fine. Meanwhile you're saying that a teenager apparently can't be trusted to make decisions about whom they show their own body to. That teenager might be old enough to have had sex already, and in times gone by might have been eligible for marriage. But if someone gets to see them -- with clothes on and at a safe distance -- let's call the Puritan Police and have them shamed publicly for their transgressions against good moral behaviour!

In the USA the Overton window for these two aspects of life have very little overlap with the rest of the world. In only a very small number of other places do you see fathers teaching their teenager daughters how to handle guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIR1vcj4lcE

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/26/madonna-critic...

k8svet · 2 years ago

Its pretty simple. The parents almost surely would've been more cautious about their daughter getting married. But turning her into a marketing content mill on the internet was done with next to no consideration of the consequences.

And yeah, I guess if you don't care about tens of thousands of men perving on your daughter every day, upload away! Good thing men are never incredibly harassing or anything.

There's videos online of me doing stuff that would probably end my father's heartbeat in about 10 seconds. I'm not a prude. I'm someone that wishes people would think instead of playing this surprise Pikachu face constantly.

This general ignorance of long-term consequences, and this behavior of men... Neither are limited to Americans. I mean, I wish, it'd be an easy solution for me to avoid both, but alas.

k8svet commented on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men wsj.com/tech/young-influe... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

k8svet · 2 years ago

But have we weighed the social impact of teens not publishing themselves online to pervs? /s

This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far.

Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. Internet. I'd say "don't put unwitting strangers on the internet" too, but it's less targeted unless you're stalking a stranger, and I suspect too many HNers are Instagram users for that to be popular.

Also this is your too-often reminder that child beauty pageants are still popular in many places. Anyone taking attendance at those? Seriously, the status quo and what people are accustomed to biases people's norms in extreme ways and we just never seem to put that in context.

My point being, we have fucking pageants for children to get dolled up and pranced about for adults to watch, and here we are, off to the next horror-porn-horror travesty we all know is likely going to continue slowly getting more and more wack, as the norms shift.

I hate how 99% of the planet has no ability to consider long-term reprocussions of decisions, or worse, are incentivized to self-deluded about them. "Let's appeal to things that work in marketing and put our teenage daughter on the internet". Sounds like a god damn comedy sketch.

k8svet commented on Perplexity AI is lying about their user agent rknight.me/blog/perplexit... · Posted by u/cdme

k8svet · 2 years ago

I am not sure I will ever stop being weirded out, annoyed at, confused by, something... people asking these sorts of questions of an LLM. What, you want an apology out of the LLM?