WhyJiffie

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

We've seen open-source projects requiring developers to sign up some kind of NDA before being allowed to contribute with code.

you mean the DCOs? those are nothing like NDAs. if not, which ones you mean?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

artisan AI prompts. we are supposed to be paying extra!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

~~I don't think it's possible to write rust code that compiles to the exact same binary as c++. compilers make different optimizations, and make overall a different structure, especially across languages.~~

~~I think they meant the rust library produces the same output from the same input as the c++ library.~~

if llms indeed generate worse rust code than for other languages, that's not that big of a problem because the compiler will catch a lot of mistakes. if it compiles, it will run, and no memory safety bugs unless unsafe is also used. the llm could pick the wrong functions for some uses, but that should be caught relatively easily with testing, which can be automated partly

edit: I was wrong, they indeed say that. this is weird.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

you are totally right! taiwan should just hand over itself so that nobody dies. same with ukraine, greenland, canada. why don't they just do that!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

how does this work? I thought bluetooth is practically invulnerable to DDOS because of its endless frequency hopping

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

if the USSR didn't fell, life would be very different where I live. by the looks of it, not better, that's definite

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 hours ago

Depends on locations but typically in urban areas (which is where most people live now, since the rural flight of the 20th) there are multiple ISPs to chose from.

we have multiple here but there's no competition in this regard. they are competing in speed, prices and also feelings by deceptive ads, but not in privacy. like, I wouldn't install the apps of any of them to my phone, because they are full of data mining code.

but there are also things they just couldn't avoid: law requires them to be keeping logs, and generally they have a stronger obligation for local laws, because the local government can threaten local businesses much more efficiently.

so, most of the cases you can choose from a few options, but regarding privacy.. not much variety. you can't even know before or even after subscribing to them, because how will you check.

VPNs are different because you can choose from thousands (though most are shit), and the claims of better ones will be proven by court.

another point, is that normally your traffic goes unencrypted through ISP equipment of whatever brands. cisco, huawei, ubiquiti, tplink, whatever. what's even worse, personally I wouldn't trust any that is cloud controlled through the manufacturer and there's many brands like that from the USA even.
the ISP bought equipment that they evaluated by whether does it work, not forensically. they probably also inherited a lot of it from another company. a lot of it doesn't receive security patches anymore, because they are old equipment that still work fine, but it doesn't matter because they don't even run the last released patches either.
all the while reputable VPN services are more careful about whos stuff they trust with providing their services.

Most customers are just too lazy to bother picking anything but the most popular choices.

thats right. and they don't even know what should they be looking out for. but honestly me neither, none of the ISPs seem to be good guys, because there's nothing in it for them.

TL;DR: most people can actually chose their ISPs.

most people can also choose a smartphone brand, they can also choose between facebook and twitter. it was not my point.

my point is that VPNs can actually give something more that local ISPs can't, and provide value that way.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

a firewall can be used to filter incoming traffic by its properties. most consumer home routers don't expose the firewall settings

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

that's exactly one of the main reason they use archive sites for citations. but when an archival site does that it becomes useless.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

only thing they are hoping is the surveillance state collapses, and an actual people's republic can be built in its place, and they can consider to return. but of course you can't avoid painting the "traitor" in the worst light.

Nobody is racist. people are just fed up with the mindset of the kind of chinese citizen that is not only angrily parroting chinese political propaganda, but who even want other parts of the world to become like that, because they feel superior. and you know full well I'm not talking about communism here.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

as I understand it does not hide negatively voted comments. these are stats, for to moderators, for helping moderation decisions. It's not automatic.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

they are visible, they do matter, just not that much as on reddit

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
 

lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

 

In today's episode of Kill The Messenger, Matrix co-founder Matthew Hodgson reveals how full of bullshit is the writer of the original article.

The messages were published in the Office of the Matrix.org Foundation room: https://matrix.to/#%2F%21sWpnrYUMmaBrlqfRdn%3Amatrix.org%2F%24XpQe-vmtB7j0Uy1TPCvMVCSCW63Xxw_jwy3fflw7EMQ%3Fvia=matrix.org&via=element.io

https://paper.wf/alexia/matrix-is-cooked is fascinatingly incorrect

Until the 6th of November 2023 when they—in their words—moved to a different repository and to the AGPL license. In reality, the Foundation did not know this was coming, and a huge support net was pulled away under their feet.

fwiw, the Foundation had a front-row seat in the fact that Element (as incorporated by the folks who created Matrix) had donated $$M to the Foundation over the years, but wasn't going to survive if it kept giving all its work away as apache-licensed code - which in turn would have been catastrophic for the Foundation.

Yes, the high expenses for the Matrix.org homeserver are largely because they are still managed by Element, just not as donated work but instead like with any other customer.

nope, Element passes the hardware costs (and a fraction of the people costs) of running the matrix.org server to the Foundation without any overheads or markup at all.

Either way it shows that Element is seemingly cashing in on selling ,Matrix to governments and B2B as a SaaS solution without it going back to the foundation

Element has literally put tens of millions into the foundation, and is continuing to do so - while some of the costs get passed to the Foundation, Element donates a bunch too (e.g. by funding a large chunk of the Matrix conference as the anchor sponsor, and by donating time all over the place to help support trust & safety etc)

At the same time I can't help but think that this could have been prevented. Even Matthew himself recognizes that putting the future on Matrix on the line with VC funding and alike was not the best idea for the health of Matrix.

No, even Matthew knows that Matrix would never have been funded without routing the VC funding from Element into... building Matrix. We tried to fund it originally purely as a non-profit, but failed (just as it's a nightmare to raise non-profit for the Foundation today even now that Matrix exists and is successful!). If you need to raise serious $ for an ambitious project, you either need to get lucky with a billionaire (as Signal did with Brian Acton) or you have to raise on the for-profit side. Perhaps it would have have been best for Matrix to grow organically, but I suspect that if it did, it would have failed miserably - instead, it succeeded because we already had a team of ~12 people who could crack on and jump-start it if they could work on it as their dayjob; the team who subsequently founded Element.

Ultimately, for-profit companies will do what makes them profit, not what's the best option. Unless the best option happens to coincide with making the most profit.

No, Element is not profitable. Nor is it trying to maximise profit. Right now it's trying to survive and get sustainable and profit-neutral (i.e. break-even) - while doing everything it can to help keep Matrix healthy and successful too (given if Matrix fails, Element fails too).

Unfortunately, supporting the foundation through anything more than “in spirit” and a platinum membership is out of their budget, apparently. I think that morally they owe a lot more than that.

wow.

the FUD level is absolutely astonishing, and I really wonder what the genesis of this is

so, absolutely, spectacularly, depressing

this, my friends, is why we can't have nice things.

In response to an other person suggesting that the publisher is also known as a reasonable person on the platform:

Interesting, the matrix handle that seems behind this blog seems always to have been quite a reasonable person

somewhat why i’m wondering what the backstory is, and whether this is an unfortunate example of spicy lies outpacing the boring truth

 

If your post would end up like that in a day, please just refrain from posting it, in any community, or use a throwaway. It is very destructive, especially since all and every comment also becomes unreachable with it.

Sincerely,
With all due respect,
Your Lemmy neighbor


I'm fed up with this shit, and I know it well that it's not just me.

Do not bomb your communities, please.

I promise, I'll end up setting up a public instance that does not obey any deletions because of these madlads. Seriously, where is pushshift for lemmy?

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