I wonder if the actual issues with this rice are similar to the miracle rice programs of the '70s where western aid programs introduced commercial strains of rice to traditional farmers in Indonesia and other SE Asian countries. These strains promised higher yield but at the cost of buying in commercial fertilisers and herbicides. The side effect of higher rice yield was disappearance of fish and companion/accidental crops that would typically grow in the rice paddies, along with poisoning of rivers downstream due to excess nutrients from fertilised rice paddies.
Readit Newsmanicdee commented on Transgenic Golden Rice, once hailed as a dietary breakthrough science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/Metacelsus
The comments on this post are interesting:
1. Some insist that the source code be made public.
2. Some insist that there be no in-app purchases.
3. Some insist that there be no analytics whatsoever.
Each of the above has some legitimate reason. However, do privacy-focused apps need to play by different set of rules?
If so, what special monetization models would make sense to folks on here? #AskingForAFriend
- Patreon if what you're doing lends itself to regular updates
- PayPal or other payment processor if your project could use donations
- Subscription based Server As A Service for things that need data syncing between multiple platforms (eg: the public/client parts can be Free Software, the server part just exposes an API, and you make it clear what data is transmitted to the server remaining solely on the user's device)
- Consultancy to assist with installation/training if your product is complex
> The good news for these internal interruptions is that it should be much easier to control them
Just get good sleep, great nutrition, enough exercise, and remove all stressors from your life. How hard can it be!?
Yes really that’s the source/cause of most internal distractions.
Ha ha yeah. Let me just remove all that childhood trauma and PTSD, then we'll get this train of thought right back on track. Why didn't I think of that sooner?
manicdee commented on Passkeys: A shattered dream fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/... · Posted by u/nmjenkins
If they control the information flow can't they simply steal the passkey too?
The attacker could pretend to be the service the user is trying to authenticate to, issue a bogus challenge signed with the user's public key. That will allow intercepting the user's interactions but by this time the attacker has control over the target system so why not just take what is inside rather than go to the effort of interacting with the user?
I generally consider myself very politically liberal but the idea of the government controlling all internet infrastructure is truly bone-chilling. At least with many ISPs owning the lines we have some semblance of possibility that government tampering with information would be noticed. If all traffic passed through a single entity’s control, we’re only a slippery slope away from the Great Firewall of USA. Probably justified by either preventing terrorism or CSAM.
There's no reason to believe that commercial entities would be any less likely to spy on you than a government entity. The government can just pass security regulations that require access to infrastructure with gag orders in place so the infrastructure owner isn't allowed to talk about government access requests or actions.
The trick is simply to ensure you pick a government that isn't going to pass that kind of invasive legislation, or will remove it and retrospectively revoke all access granted under the legislation that they're repealing.
As for Great Firewall of USA, what makes you think it doesn't exist already?
I'm not going to read that. Unless you're the opinion columnist for USA today? Cause I asked you about your opinion.
You asked about why they have that opinion. They provided a link which covers the reasons they have the opinion they have.
manicdee commented on Major Louisiana DMV Hack gov.louisiana.gov/index.c... · Posted by u/jurynulifcation
At least this wasn't the "who has registered with porn sites" database.
One somewhat-related bit on the topic of moderators: does it bother anyone else that the stewards of some of these communities are effectively 100% anonymous? Are we actually okay with these spaces that shape significant discussion/sentiment being guided by people who lack accountability?
I want to be clear that I'm not saying we should be doxxing mods or anything, but if there is a significant changeover of moderators at Reddit, it would be interesting if this discussion was more of a sticking point. I have to wonder if there's not a world where Reddit shouldn't implement a policy of:
> Look, you moderate a community above N size, we/your members need to know who you are
I'm not entirely sure where my opinion on it even stands but figured it might make for interesting discussion. It does get tricky in the face of subreddits that deal in protest/whistleblower/etc matter though. I don't want to lose the anonymous aspect of the internet, especially when it's been effectively under assault for years - but at the same time, something that powerful and/or manipulate-able seems like it shouldn't get a free pass.
Interested to hear what others think.
(I am also fully open to being wrong on e.g Reddit themselves not knowing who mods are, and invite someone to correct me if I am - but I've not seen anything to date that suggests otherwise)
A lot of moderators hide the moderator list because they get far too much abuse for decisions they make. It's dead simple: make a moderation decision based on the rules of the subreddit -> person affected by decision whines to the moderator and clogs up their inbox. Need to make more decisions per day -> inbox filled with more and more whining.
People need to start thinking of politically-impactful truths in terms of probability distributions and outcome possibility spaces, rather than absolutely.
If it were a lab leak, there are probably a handful of eyewitnesses.
Any information (not leak; was leak) would have serious ramifications to the political systems of the two largest economies in the world (the US and China).
What are the chances that we'll ever hear the true story?
Which isn't a suggestion that "They're covering {specific thing} up." It's a suggestion that we will never hear evidence of any of the possible outcomes.
And beyond that, what would "the truth" in this case change?
>> Said Metzl, “Had US government officials including Dr. Fauci stated from day one that a COVID-19 research-related origin was a very real possibility, and made clear that we had little idea what viruses were being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, what work was being done there, and who was doing that work, our national and global conversations would have been dramatically different. The time has come for a full accounting.”
Yes, the national and global conversations would have been substantially worse and less effective.
Once the cat's out of the bag with a global pandemic, any breath blaming its origin is wasted.
Can you imagine how many scarce resources would have been mispent if SARS-CoV-2 had begun with worldwide knowledge that China was responsible?
> If it were a lab leak, there are probably a handful of eyewitnesses.
Not at all. The chances are that if it was a lab leak the people involved had no idea the leak happened at all. That's how lab leaks work: people make mistakes and inadvertently leak stuff from the lab. eg: Karen Wetterhahn vs lead
What you're talking about is a deliberate release from a lab, which would have eyewitnesses because they know what is happening and see it happening and can corroborate the reports of other witnesses. eg: Thomas Midgley Jr vs lead
manicdee commented on The “smolnet”, build for friends and friends of friends communitywiki.org/wiki/Sm... · Posted by u/rglullis
I like this. Speaks to my own goal of creating "micro" communities. https://micro.mu. We limit groups to 20 people. I think that's an ideal number for real connections. Need more, it's likely for a different type of communication.
Dunbar's number is 150, which seems about right for the number of people to be involved for the group to end up devolving into two macro communities. The micro-communities still hover round the 2 to 5 mark where everyone gets to feel like they're participating and appreciated.