Yes, yes, I know all that. I meant that all this conversation is rather useless because when actually compelled to do something, most people ignore principles.

While pedophile hunters seem barbaric to me, I don’t have kids.

I do have a dog, and dog hunter hunters, as in “people hunting dog hunters”, seem all right for me.

Cowards really like to inflict pain on creatures not well enough protected by the law. So hunting them is maybe good for the society.

So deontology and principles and morals only matter when they are challenged by one’s own impulses. Innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

That happens. Even if said new programmer had seen before that IRL the important part of that codebase consists of specific domain area quirks, scarcely documented and understood. They have an advantage in doing something good for the specific stage of that system’s evolution, but a huge disadvantage in knowing what the hell it really does.

Just that I haven’t heard of it being as praised as Signal, and since it appears to be intended for chat rooms more than for privacy, there’s natural suspicion that something is missed there.

Yes.

You think she did what she did with a guy 3 times her age because he was charismatic? It’s because he was the president.

Generally you would be right, but it seems Clinton really did have the kind of charisma to attract women almost unnaturally, long before he became the guy 3 times her age and a president.

I feel like I’m rambling but there’s so many obvious ways this was problematic, and you’re still just fucking ok with it?

No, just everything is relative, and some bad things are solved at the expense of other bad things.

But the big deal was Bill lying under oath to Congress about it, and Dem politicians and voters closed ranks and said it didn’t matter.

That’s what I said.

There’s not really an excuse to not learn about it now, political literacy literally saves lives. We need more informed voters.

LOL, I live in a country where most of the populace doesn’t understand what was wrong with mass repressions. They think some bad rich people were the majority of victims, and not typical Ukrainian and Siberian farmers. And of course they don’t understand that the government is not the property of its employees and politicians in power.

You have a long way to fall to reach that. But all those idiots were sufficiently informed. They chose to believe something worse.

but describe what you see as specifically wrong with Matrix, please.

Federated with huge load on servers. I’d prefer something like old Skype with auth servers part interacting via activitypub or something like that.

OK, humans err. And also make mistakes, like being so confident on something they don’t know for sure.

If it’s specifically disallowed, then some people should be locked up.

a president lying about sexually taking advantage of interns in the oval office

I think the intern was willing and the problem was with lies.

Anyway, sometimes you have to release the steam even in the oval office.

Clinton is an unpleasant person (being best buddies with the current president before the latter’s brain rot due to neurosyphilis became irreversible, for example), but why the hell fscking someone there is a bigger deal than, for example, just ordering murders overseas or legally starting this whole mass surveillance thing?

There’s been a few articles recently about Session authors starting with Signal protocol, and then continuing without clear understanding what they do, thus that Session shouldn’t be used.

Matrix is a compromise, it’s not as much about security as it is about just modern FOSS chat.

They accidentally added a random guy to a Signal group. Not quite the same as classified documents on a self-hosted email server. I’ve heard US military uses Signal quite officially.

This should, of course, raise concerns that if they like Signal - they might want to self-host it, the client and the server are FOSS. They might even consider paying Signal the company to help them.

There should be a porn movie with that headline

Not solving any of the stated goals at the same time.

It’s a diversion. Its purpose is to divert resources and attention from any real progress in computing.

Dunno, the part about generative music (not like LLMs) I’ve tried, I think if I spent a few more years of weekly migraines on that, I’d become better.

In any case this (the pic) is the dumb ape “A is bad, so I replace it with something by B, B is my friend, B won’t poison it” thought. For whatever reason stupid people always think it’s better to look at social context of something and not the actual thing.

That’s the reason a lot of dumb bastards use Telegram for things that would have already gotten them in jail if law enforcement in their countries cared enough. They “trust” Telegram because of different roots than American\European corporate. By the way, due to these different roots probably some of more high-ranking dumb bastards who’ve been using Telegram are under control of some intelligence services via blackmail, or whatever.

There are layers of defense and sane expectations of anything’s security. If you are afraid of US corporations and state, then using any downstream of a big FOSS project is not normal unless it’s done by some Chinese project with a lot of very qualified hands. Scratch anything based on Chromium and Firefox.

If someone still remembers Cryptonomicon the book, and the rest of smart things Neal Stephenson wrote, people in these never trust tech they use. Neither do people doing secure things in real life. In the beginning of Cryptonomicon they are trying to create some electronic currency mapped to a real-life currency backed by a lot of gold yet to be found, in the end they blow up that gold with no conclusion, which may or may not symbolize exactly what I’m saying.

That’s because it’s nonsense, someone else made magic paper to protect your letters and you just trust it? It’s really sad Rowling didn’t develop the idea enough in HP, not with Riddle’s diary, but with Snape’s spells (or any spells). I mean, she did in the fifth book, but that was a special connection, should have been something like recipes.

By the way, it’s strange people rarely bring up HP as a book about computers. It really is. That’s the reason electronics don’t work in Hogwarts, world-building wise. There’s the usual outrage about terfs, bad emotional patterns, relationship between fate and logic, negative stereotypes of minorities manifested in characters, - but that’s not all those books are.

And LOTR is usually brought up by wrong people, so is The Napoleon of Notting Hill (I often call my dad a stupid man, but without him I would never have read it), while they are relevant for any new mechanism, and when new tools arise, people sometimes make new mechanisms where they could do with old ones, for the lack of understanding of applying the old mechanisms with the new tools.

That was a rant.

There are solutions. I’ve just read (diagonally) a paper on attacks on Kademlia. The solutions would be similar to what’s recommended there. The problems are in appearances different, but stem from no admission control for the network.

All this tomfoolery about “oh horror, how do we solve this” is because bot farms and recommendation systems and ad networks have proven very convenient and profitable, nobody wants to scratch that ecosystem in favor of f2f services. So they want to remove one side of the coin, but leave the other.

Same, except they don’t just disagree, they are extremely pissed. For whatever reason idiots tend to assume superior status to me in particular.

I won’t read the article now, but

arguing that true productivity lies in team performance, not individual brilliance

this is bullshit, a categorical statement.

There are good processes and there are bad processes. Good processes are usually functional for people of (sensibly) different mindsets and mental conditions. Bad processes are usually “one size fits all” in one way or another.

There are things a team can’t have, and there are things a talented individual can’t have.

There’s also experience that covers holes one can’t plan for, yep.