onetrickwolf (u/onetrickwolf)

onetrickwolf commented on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq... · Posted by u/reaperman

brightlancer · 3 years ago

If Amazon and Google and other Big Companies were prevented from deleting accounts, what else would happen? How would the Big Companies game the system? Would that harm smaller companies (as regulation usually does)? Would we even see the benefits that were promised?

Regulation often makes things worse, so we can't just look at the potential benefits without considering the potential (and likely) negative consequences.

That doesn't mean folks are scared of regulation. It means they're _smart_ about it.

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

I used to agree with you but it's getting out of hand these companies have more control than most states and governments over our communication, privacy, money, and general lives but we don't get to vote in who is running them. I'd rather start shooting and ask questions later before we get consumed by these behemoths. We need another Teddy Roosevelt and another antitrust sweep up in my opinion.

onetrickwolf commented on Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] youtube.com/watch?v=Kcohq... · Posted by u/reaperman

DeathArrow · 3 years ago

Of course, it's not cool that Amazon can terminate anyone's account as they please. But I suppose it's their right.

The real problem is Amazon having monopoly. If there were some true competition, I couldn't care less about Amazon closing my account as I could go to a competitor.

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

I don't know if Amazon should have the right to terminate anyone's account to be honest. I feel like people are afraid to regulate anything these days but I mean some people's entire lives are dependent on these corporate accounts. You can't just have me build up a livelihood on Amazon or have my whole house running on Amazon smart products and then just terminate the account.

If there was more competition or these things were based on open standards you could easily switch over I might be more inclined to agree, but I think right now these companies have way way too much power.

The threat of a company deleting an account for many people would be detrimental to their lives. We are way way too dependent on corporations and in kind of tired of people being scared to regulate.

onetrickwolf commented on Flipper Zero Self Destructs an Electricity Smart Meter rtl-sdr.com/flipper-zero-... · Posted by u/kungfudoi

PietdeVries · 3 years ago

Why would a power meter allow an unauthenticated client to turn the thing on and off wireless?!? Sure, if you flip a switch handling a large current often enough, something will break (and I am impressed it's not the AC in this case).

But why does the power meter accept commands from something 'outside', something untrusted?

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

I mean why are power lines not locked up and buried underground secured locked steel cages?

Because some things work better with trust vs convoluted security.

I think this is something a lot of computer nerds don't get (myself included at one point). It's almost like if something can be accessed we are allowed to access it and it's the fault of the person securing it. But a lot of our society works on trust and I think we'd live in a much more difficult world if everything had to be secure enough to resist any attack.

If this thing was connected to the internet I get it, but you already need physical access to the meter why add another layer of security on top of that? If someone has wants to mess up your power and they have physical access there's plenty of ways they can do it without wireless communication.

onetrickwolf commented on OpenAPI v4 (aka Moonwalk) Proposal github.com/OAI/moonwalk... · Posted by u/mooreds

mbell · 3 years ago

I've tried using OpenAPI a few times, it's been...lackluster... I probably won't use it again.

Here are my gripes:

1) For me one of the biggest selling points is client code gen (https://github.com/OpenAPITools/openapi-generator). Basically it sucks, or at least it sucks in enough languages to spoil it. The value prop here is define the API once, code gen the client for Ruby, Python and Scala (or insert your languages here). Often there are a half dozen clients for each language, often they are simply broken (the generated code just straight up doesn't compile). Of the ones that do work, you get random PRs accepted that impose a completely different ideological approach to how the client works. It really seems like any PR is accepted with no overarching guidance.

2) JSONSchema is too limited. We use it for a lot of things, but it just makes some things incredibly hard. This is compounded by the seemingly limitless number of version or drafts of the spec. If your goal is interop, which it probably is if you are using JSON, you have to go our and research what the lower common denominator draft spec JSONSchema support is for the various languages you want to use and limit yourself to that (probably draft 4, or draft 7).

On the pros side:

It does make pretty docs - kinda wish it would just focus on this and in the process not be as strict, I think it would be a better project.

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

Yeah I had this experience too. I figured at least there'd be static checking that would at least make sure we aren't going off spec but there isn't really. So you just have a spec that slowly becomes out of sync with the code until it's basically useless. Just seems like double work for almost no benefit.

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andersrs · 3 years ago

> The idea was to build something fun that never shows adverts to them or tricks them into sneaky purchases by “accident”.

This part really resonated with me. Google promotes the absolute worst spammy shit these days. I have to browse tech forums to find clean simple games.

Last week I was trying to find a simple memory cards game and the search results were complete dog shit so I started building my own memory cards game. In a couple hours I made https://memorycardsgame.com/. Then browsing a svelte forum I found https://toddler-games.com which is much further ahead of mine but I'd never be able to find stuff like this by searching for it. Of course none of the good games are filled with a bunch of SEO spam which is kind of the point. Since Steve Jobs didn't let his kid use an iPad we've decided the game isn't needed now.

Nice app.

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

Would be nice to have some collection of no ad or non-spammy games and websites in general.

onetrickwolf commented on I just learned about HTML redirects (2020) apitman.com/18/#html-redi... · Posted by u/sc90

mikece · 3 years ago

This reminds me that while I’ve been programming for a paycheck since 1998 my knowledge growth in html stopped at about 2001. Are there any good courses or recommendations for seasoned pros who never stopped to learn HTML5?

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

Web development has trained me to Google (now often ChatGPT) everything even if I already know how to do it because it changes so much haha

It makes me look stupid in code interviews because I commit very little to memory but professionally it's helped me catch a lot of syntactical upgrades.

onetrickwolf commented on Simply explained: How does GPT work? confusedbit.dev/posts/how... · Posted by u/nitnelave

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

I've been using GPT4 to code and these explanations are somewhat unsatisfactory. I have seen it seemingly come up with novel solutions in a way that I can't describe in any other way than it is thinking. It's really difficult for me to imagine how such a seemingly simple predictive algorithm could lead to such complex solutions. I'm not sure even the people building these models really grasp it either.

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onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

We completely privatized payments without realizing it. Credit cards are no longer some extra benefit on top of your bank account, it's how basically almost all commerce is required now. Private companies collect basically a tax on almost all transactions in our economy.

I don't know how we let them get away with this. Facilitating commerce should 100% be a government operation and be free. To accept cash I pay paying the US government a fraction of a percent I'm taxes compared to credit card fees.

The fact that, on top of all this, they are essentially policing what can and cannot be sold and bought should be outrageous to people. It's a complete conflict of interest that companies can shut down payments to and from competitors to their investments.

People can say "oh just don't use or accept visa etc" but good luck staying in business or buying anything online.

We absolutely need some kind of government backed digital payment system in my opinion. Credit card rewards should also be illegal they are nothing but hidden fees passed to you by charging the business more.

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piyh · 3 years ago

Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

If you are just hosting text popular blockchains might be viable.

onetrickwolf commented on Magic the Gathering players lament the loss of 30-year history mtgrocks.com/mtg-players-... · Posted by u/apitman

totetsu · 3 years ago

Its something to reflect on, that those small nonmainstream groups, communities, cultures that you might be a part of everyday are mostly completely empherial. Records of what people did and said are bound to be lost, noone is going to curate or summerise the history. I faced this when yahoo groups was deleted. I found many messgae boards of a the transient 'teaching abroad in japan' local communities from ten or more years earlier, before facebook. it was so strange to think all these people had the same conversations and questions and experiences, but there was no connection between that community at that moment and the one when I was part of it. I suppose the history in the facebook pages will be even more easily lost, and then the discord groups or whatever they're using these days will be lost even after a single year..

onetrickwolf · 3 years ago

I'd like to see something like torrenting for websites. Just a way that if a certain site is important to you, you could seed it yourself and 1. Help with the hosting costs and 2. Preserve it if the original hosts decides to take it down or change it.