Notices by Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io), page 15

@SuperDicq @Suiseiseki also, satellites are a relatively bad way to get internet, unless you live in the wilderness (or in a warzone).

@nihl tfw your motorcycle has 3x the horspower and probably like 1/4 the mass of my car

@SuperDicq i wish I could eliminate my ISP from the "3rd parties you rely on" list.

@cell the gutter is on the outside of the corner :(

@cell *hooks wheel into gutter*

@lxo ok but should we prevemt those who make it as a gift from trying to voluntarily uphold a high bar of reliability?

I've seen a lot of advocacy that programmers should be responsible for their programs similar to how civil engineers are responsible for their bridges.

So that would mean you shouldn't eg. as a kernel maintainer, merge a new filesystem until you're certain it won't destroy user data.

But that's a very high bar - it takes a lot of time, effort, and skill to make a filesystem like that. And many contributors may get discouraged before they get there.

Isn't that gatekeeping?

@freqchance @ireneista
Now, how do we create a more secure system for delivering software updates?

- author releases source code only
- many people independently read the source
- many different people build binaries from the source
- the builds are reproducible, so they should get identical binaries, and everyone can check that
- binary and source releases are published in sth similar to CT log, to prevent one person getting a different version than everyone else

@freqchance @ireneista
Imagine if Apple, instead of just being able to sign its own iOS releases, is now required to allow every police department in the USA to prepare its own custom version of iOS and get it signed by Apple.

That's a lot of people with access to those keys. And they're spread around different locations, different organizations, with different security practices - chances one of them fucks up are much higher.

@Hyolobrika @ignaloidas
by native apps you mean webapps bundled with Electron?

damn, there are so many laptops with 16GB soldered LPDDR5x... made within last 1.5 years. Why would anyone keep making laptops like that?

LPCAMM2 can't come soon enough...

@ignaloidas no I mean, why would you make a 16GB RAM laptop in 2023?

@ignaloidas my work laptop has 16GB and with 1 slack tab, 1 youtube tab, and a bunch of github and google drive tabs, I'm easily filling all my RAM, but...

we've already talked about this before lol

@ignaloidas in this case my point is, considering the rate at which webapps' RAM requirements increase, if you buy a 16GB RAM laptop now, it will likely stop being sufficient in a year or two. Who would buy a laptop with such a short timeframe in mind?

@bash

@icedquinn
It's Kessler syndrome, not Kepler syndrome.

And AFAIK it hasn't triggered yet, and there is work being done to develop ways of safely removing debris from the orbit. Also, there are launch vehicles which do not leave anything in orbit other than the payload.

I'm not saying the solution is gonna happen any time soon, but being like "nope, flying to space should be illegal" is just defeatism.

When people are like "billionaires shouldn't be allowed to launch rockets into space" I think that's dream-crushing.

Yes, it is unfair that billionaires get to do that and you don't.

But I think a reasonable reaction to that is "everyone should be able to launch rockets into space".

And figuring out how to make it affordable, and how to regulate it such that allowing general public to launch things into space won't cause any issues.

tfw. accidentally found a 3 year old file with a list of hostname ideas, sorted by anime which they're from...

@pj @asie
there are projects which are getting only several commits a year, and yet they're working fine. They've decided on a scope, implemented all the features that fit in it, rejected any features outside of it, and now only need a bugfix every now and then.

This is what Drew DeVault calls "maintenance mode", and IIRC he has a few projects that reached that stage, though don't remember off the top of my head which ones.

@pj @asie
I don't think every FOSS project needs / benefits from more contributors. Unless the project has an infinite scope...