Having to put this much effort everytime a new technology comes out is so unproductive. How about have standards for elected officials not to abuse their power? Maybe have an ethics comittee or something? In academia, there's not a rule for every situation; ethics comittee handle this
Readit Newstotony commented on Effort to prevent government officials from engaging in prediction markets merkley.senate.gov/merkle... · Posted by u/stopbulying
totony commented on Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory github.com/microsoft/call... · Posted by u/bakigul
Yes. The alternative these days is often a maze of a phone menu. If I can just say my issue in complete sentences and the AI routes it appropriately and otherwise acts on it as I want, that's pretty good.
Then the AI misunderstands you and you end up in a loop of autogenerated responses, or just a "please visit our website for this inquiry."
totony commented on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/mriguy
And I've talked to a few Canadians, despite the Liberal party winning, there is real push for Canada to severely restrict immigration and that is currently happening.
As far as I can tell, the push against immigration in Canada is mainly around unskilled workers (which a lot of TFW are) and asylum seekers, but we will see how this pans out.
The problem with SELinux is it's very fragile and basically broken outside RedHat distros.
As an experiment I installed SELinux on Debian and while I was eventually able to get it stable and working after a lot of trial and error, a disk swap followed by an rsync broke it irreparably. Yes I rescanned the disk or whatever to have SEL relearn/reindex the objects, didn't work. The box was basically unbootable or it would boot and rejected all logins, including root directly to the console, something that should nearly never happen. Documentation is sparse or assumes you have RedHat and it 'just works'. After hours of troubleshooting the only thing that worked was switching it off and saying good riddance.
Most distros use https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy while RHEL uses https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy
It's also my experience that Fedora has better support for it, but Gentoo used to be good enough with hardened gentoo (they use https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/hardened-refpolicy.git/). Redhat and Gentoo are the only ones that officially support it afaik. I think hardened gentoo might have lost popularity since the fall of grsec, but I'm not sure how popular it is currently.
totony commented on EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series ninjalab.io/eucleak/... · Posted by u/GTP
I find discussions of economic desert rarely get anywhere since everyone has a different idea of what is deserved.
I like to talk about incentives. We have a massive under supply of housing across the developed world, in part because so much labor is training for desk jobs rather than construction jobs.
If you want to solve the housing problem, you need to change the incentives for young people to shun construction jobs. That means more money and eventually status for manual laborers and less money and eventually status for desk jockeys.
That's just one example.
Housing crisis is more of a political issue than supply/demand i feel like
totony commented on NixOS just dropped Anduril as a NixCon sponsor twitter.com/nixos_org/sta... · Posted by u/spoon16
They’re not saying the company did anything wrong. Just deciding not to take their sponsorship money. I don’t think you should need to enact a new rule in order to decide not to accept money.
I don't think any non profit should ever refuse money. If they make money from something you disagree with, then taking that money and using it in the scope of your non-profit (which you agree with) is a moral imperative
totony commented on Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands rijksoverheid.nl/onderwer... · Posted by u/janandonly
So maybe we should fix fractional reserve instead of having an issue against cash? I would rather pay $10k with a bank transfer than having to carry that much on me.
What if the bank doesn't allow you to make that transaction? How much delay are you willing to accept? Fees?
totony commented on Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 twitter.com/llanga/status... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
Gotten burned by that. Have a python utility that calls something that's very CPU intensive (GDAL) and I literally have to wrap this python process in java for real concurrency. Not a python expert by any means but I'd love to know what other people do when this happens. I'm assuming it's something revolving around containers and messaging (blech)...
Python works around this by having multithreading through multiprocessing and IPC. its made pretty easy to use with the futures builtin module but is finicky/slow/hard to support.
totony commented on Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan nytimes.com/live/2023/06/... · Posted by u/sarmike31
I think the Loan Forgiveness Plan as planned was just a very expensive stunt that fixed nothing. Instead they should work on reducing education cost (or at least limiting future growth). Otherwise it's just a straight subsidy for schools that will keep raising tuition. Same for health care. The government shouldn't run even bigger deficits to subsidize schools and hospitals without controlling their cost.
Considering these loans are non forgivable because of the governement, I think they are responsible for the exponential growth in cost and should bear the blame