Notices by Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117175365480100998

Your regular reminder that DNS sucks for identity.

RE: https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/116993599228138467

Sometimes I complain about how LLMs are destroying software quality, then I remember the entire Node ecosystem and I'm like "fuck it, let the world burn."

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116965058098416838

The more I think about it, this really is the only framing: OpenAI builds shit containment system, gives their tool dangerous permissions, faces no consequences, in fact gets all sorts of "omg it's so alive!" press for their incompetence.

@gsuberland whaaaaa? I'm on Ring, yeah, I wanna migrate away, but it's like $10/mo or $100/yr for cloud video storage for "unlimited" devices (I haven't pushed the definition of that, we have 5 cameras).

The replacements I'm looking at will have on-site storage (which I hope doesn't get burgled), but the server for that will cost well over its lifetime in subscription fees (part of why I haven't jumped yet).

Cc @dalias

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116443575607421807

Bright spot in this thread that reinforces my feeling that that LLM hype stems from the fact that so much of our tooling suuuuuuucks.

@soatok ugh.

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116296432842909909

Sorry, that was me.

Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?

I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.

I'm not getting a lot of solace from the headlines these days, but the news that the rumored Nvidia plan to dump $100B into OpenAI is collapsing brightens my day.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidias-plan-invest-100-billion-235951874.html

@chrisjrn I mean, so far it's just been me... And this last year not even that 'cause I was shuttling people.

cc @skinnylatte

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who works in an administrative capacity for a shipping port? Trying to do some due diligence for someone, pretty sure I know the answer, but an exchange with someone actually in the business would be helpful.

@dalias ugh. Although presumably they don't notice because each generation of device has more storage.

Thinking a lot right now about my 80+ year old friend who's dying of prostate cancer who just upgraded devices, but not because they actually gave him any more capabilities that he'd use...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115770593211651726

Perverse incentive: Apple has no reason to fix this, because it drives less technical users to upgrade...

@dalias @groxx do you remember the "NASCAR Badge" stage of OpenID?

And, I suspect like you, I have no problem with the mental model of the Fediverse, but I have a ton of friends on Bluesky because they couldn't figure out the "tell me the domain of your home server" aspects of interacting.

@dalias @groxx I get it, I'm the cranky old guy who's saying "yeah, that didn't work. And that didn't work".

I agree with your utopia, hell, I'm kinda feeling uncomfortable with the growing feeling that the Fediverse is a monoculture (though if I'm gonna make my blog participate in it, I may just pay someone to run Mastodon for my domain) but if I'm gonna put coding effort into my blog, I wanna see a path that doesn't just try what's already failed, only harder.

@dalias @groxx and I think it's great if your identity provider lets you edit the preferences you want to share; I *like* having different identities on different platforms.

But the OpenID flow required enough additional steps vs having my browser suggest a password that nobody I knew who was less into the "why"s of netwoork computing than I wanted to use it.

@dalias I mean, I hear ya, but until we have some sort of platform that normal people can run at home, or that they have a strong reason to pay a few bucks a month to a provider for (and there's a reason for diversity of providers), I believe that we'd see the same consolidation of providers that we've already seen. Whether that was Verisign (which was half-heartedly trying to be) or Google is a toss-up.

And re-auth is a matter of letting autofill happen and clicking go...

@dalias I mean... I love the sentiment, but how?

I suspect that bitrot has removed the ability of my blog to be a LID relying party, or to use my own URL as a LID identifier, but if there's a movement out there of people who are using their URLs as identifiers that passes a screen name, I'd consider resurrecting those capabilities. But my blog is also down from ~1,500 daily readers to ~15 these days.

And forums are kinda over and bloggers are just installing Wordpress and carrying on...

@dalias yeah, but without passing through a screen name, it was less convenient to use than passwords.

LID (which preceded OpenID) had all of that and more, but that data got dropped in a byzantine standards process that destroyed the necessary functionality to make it convenient.

Which is why I implemented LID on my blog, and a YADIS (part of OpenID) reference (for Verisign), but when OpenID came around I said "meh, not gonna bother".

@dalias I don't think Google destroyed OpenID, I think it was destroyed by its own standards process that elevated all sorts of wackiness over "what is the actual problem that this is supposed to solve?".

But we also all should have seen that identifiers that the end user controls the access to was never going to be acceptable to relying parties that needed complex standards for the security of that identifier.