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Are we falling behind Lemmy.World again?
(reddthat.com)
The problem with that analogy is that eggs are what they are. Chickens and farmers aren't choosing to make eggs with certain levels of protein, fat, and cholesterol.
Meanwhile social media is what the various companies make of it. Social media itself isn't necessarily the problem, it's that the companies that wield it have malicious intent (read: capitalism), and humanity in general is clearly too stupid to control itself such that we can consume it in a healthy way.
The punishment shouldn't fall upon the consumers, it should fall upon the manufacturers who have both the power to make a positive change and the knowledge that their current actions are detrimental.
I'm not sure I fully agree with you, partly because she's not talking about OSS alone. Let's look at a recent but important example.
Yubikeys manufactured before firmware version 5.7 (before May 2024), are vulnerable to a specific type of attack that is not novel, due to a faulty IC via its code. It's something that should have been caught during QA. Who is to blame?
Yubikey didn't make the faulty IC, so obviously the IC maker should bear at least a good chunk of it, but I think it's Yubikey's responsibility to verify their work, especially since they're the ones making the ultimate promise of cryptographic suitability that businesses and governments rely upon.
I don't know if it's right to call companies like this "villains," but I think "lazy or lax" might be appropriate. Additionally, I like the idea of calling cybercrime groups funny names.
Even if you could verify it yourself, it is prudent to have someone else audit the encryption and how it's implemented. As well-intentioned and thorough as devs may try to be, there's a reason companies have separate QA teams.
There is something wrong with your tech if you need your own nuclear plant to run it.
I mean, it's better than coal, but still.
Also, I feel like they kinda deserve it for being global vexatious litigants and squashing free fan projects at every opportunity.
There's a lot at stake in this election. I hope we can manage not just to survive but lay the foundation to thrive.
It happens. Appreciate the effort! I noticed a marked uptick in the lemmit bot mirroring Reddit, so I wonder if it was a coincidence or a sibling effort.
One of those [Trump-aligned] members, Janelle King, suggested that accuracy was more important than timing.
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“As a voter, I would rather wait another hour...
An hour‽ We're talking between thousands and hundreds of thousands of ballots. You absolute troglodyte, you think humans will do a better job than machines?
...to ensure that the that the [sic] count is accurate...
If only we had historical data points to see if humans do a better or worse job at counting accurately...
...than to get a count or get a number within that hour, and then to find out at the close of an election, after certifications” already taken place “that we have people suing because the count was not accurate.”
Which will happen anyway, because y'all can't seem to accept the reality that most of us don't like your demigod.
Even if this gets overturned eventually, the goal is to throw sand in the gears for this election.
We live in some stupid times, and if Democrats get majorities in Congress, I hope they don't forget this time when the GOP cashed in on authoritarianism.
Eat shit, Nintendo. I hope you lose and experience the Streisand effect.
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Queer students look for alternatives after Texas A&M ends transgender health care services
(www.texastribune.org)
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Telorand
joined 1 year ago
No /s needed. This is a sacrifice Texas politicians were willing to make.