Notices by Marsh Ray (marshray@infosec.exchange)

@dalias @etsyy So since you seem to be ok expressing strong opinions, can I ask:
Do you think it was the right thing for government, scientists, and media to conspire to suppress consideration of the lab-leak hypothesis of origin of covid19?
(or reject the premise, something else, etc)

@etsyy @dalias @luckytran Agree 💯%.

But to be fair, it’s extremely rare that anyone becomes convinced they were wrong. Especially so for people susceptible to conspiracy beliefs.

The Brave “browser” on iOS aggressively wants me to know that its developers have added support for the least efficient medium of exchange ever devised.

@karlykingsley.bsky.social If a country of 340M people has literally only “thousands” of records with missing birthdays, that sounds like ridiculously good management.

@dalias @gregly @rootfake @GavinChait @cwebber If you’re that kind of bigot you might as well stick just with the original term.

@gregly @rootfake @GavinChait @dalias @cwebber The term “faith-based” is already in widespread use.

@slotos @rootfake @GavinChait @dalias @cwebber Remember that the “cargo cult” of the metaphor were mostly operating rationally based on the information that they had available. They were simply missing key fundamentals of the theory, so their efforts couldn’t be more than superficial mimicry.

I think we can all sympathize with that.

@cwebber That was a great read.

I wish I could think of a good replacement metaphor for “imitation without true understanding that sometimes worked before”.

@cr1901 @gsuberland There were IP stacks for plain DOS too.
The driver system for DOS had gotten pretty mature by Windows 3.0.

@ryanc (F) Installer left the spreadsheet with all their customers’ email addresses and password(s) open on the web and your HP was banned for sending spam and ddosing

@ryanc @marshray @Natanox Yeah.
Having used many source code control systems over decades, that just deeply feels like a merge mistake.
Imagine some invisible whitespace change introduced by different tooling. A tab character or line terminator is automatically “normalized” before checkin.
Then the merge UI presents the developer with three lines in a row that all say “goto fail;”, each line a different color.
The developer must click the circle, the triangle, or the square, or an icon with all three, to resolve the conflict.
What’ll it be: “yours”, or “theirs”, “merged”, or “both”?

@ryanc Oh yeah, I remember that one.
Fantastic.