I’d be curious to hear about your experience not having cell coverage in the modern world. What’s it like?
What’s it like?
Blissfully tranquil.
Readit Newsoctoberfranklin commented on Price of a bot army revealed across online platforms cam.ac.uk/stories/price-b... · Posted by u/teleforce
If I want to reprogram my own FIDO2 token, I should be allowed to.
If I get your FIDO2 token and reprogram it without somehow also wiping the data on it, your problem is that I got your FIDO2 token, not that I could reprogram it without erasing it (which theoretically could perhaps be true right now)
your problem is that I got your FIDO2 token
For this exact reason, I store my cryptographic keys in a ring which I never remove from my finger.
What about a pacemaker? Or a car?
Cars were user-reprogrammable for a long time and the sky never fell.
Requiring that the pacemaker be outside a human body in order to reprogram it seems like a very sensible solution.
I would not buy a FIDO2 token if it allowed anybody to reprogram it, including me. If you managed to make selling me such a device illegal, then may a pox descend on your house.
You're free to choose not to reprogram it, so the pox is actually upon your house.
Also, you should probably spend more time reading about cryptography and less time reading FIDO Alliance propaganda.
octoberfranklin commented on Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business investors.micron.com/news... · Posted by u/simlevesque
We can prevent this from happening by enforcing 100-year-old antitrust laws.
Antitrust laws don't work because they're subjective and are enforced by political appointees.
The simpler solution is a tax on scale -- a graduated corporate revenue tax, aggregated across any group of entities which meet the common control [1] criteria. Then it's just a tax, and you simply have to collect it. Very little wiggle room.
If splitting your company in half wouldn't impair any of its lines of business, the CEO has a powerful financial incentive (lower tax rates on the two halves) to do so.
octoberfranklin commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
> They shouldn't be allowed to trade stocks.
I'd be okay letting them invest in S&P500 and that's about it.
This is called the PELOSI Act:
https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-advances-pelosi-act-to-...
octoberfranklin commented on “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill nber.org/papers/w34524... · Posted by u/mhb
Although this sounds like a sensible idea, I think it's impossible to prevent insider trading - if you introduce a rule like this, politicians will just find a middle man or work around it in some other way - the corruption schemes getting more elaborate is the last thing you want.
Yeah, unfortunately.
This is pervasive in China; the politicians kid is the middleman. One child policy, so there's at most one kid -- makes it easy to know who to give the stock tips to.
I'm looking forward to buying my own slightly used 5 million square ft data centre in Texas for $1
Equinix certainly is.
Reminds me of all the dark fiber laid in the 1990s before DWDM made much of the laid fiber redundant.
If there is an AI bust, we will have a glut of surplus hardware.
The dark fiber glut wasn't caused by DWDM suddenly appearing out of nowhere.
The telcos saw DWDM coming -- they funded a lot of the research that created it. The breakthrough that made DWDM possible was patented in 1991, long before the start of the dotcom mania:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5159601
They believed it because people kept showing them hockey-stick charts.
Happy to answer questions about all things bcachefs or what-have-you.
just please no more questions about whether or not bcachefs will be in the kernel, I've been asked that enough :)
Has it been considered to have an official (but not exposed to userspace) "btree device" interface?
The idea being that you could write composable wrappers for btree devices the way you can write composable wrappers for block devices (dmsetup, etc). And have a common interface for these kinds of devices -- the kernel has at least two large and well-developed btree-on-a-block-device implementations (bcache/bcachefs and btrfs). Both of these implementations have been criticized as being quite monolithic and not as unixy ("many small sharp tools") as LVM/dmsetup are.