march38

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange thanks to LLMs, everyone can now write their own Operating System and entire software stack! Each with a different set of bugs and vulnerabilities. Individually vulnerable but collectively strong thanks to their unique "DNA". Monoculture problem: solved! Software is becoming biological and darwinian; let the best software genes win. Condolences to mathematicians and other theorists 🙂

@simontatham most trackers have a "Wontfix" substate when closing. It shouldn't be a substate. The "Closed" state is ambiguous and should disappear, split in two: "Wontfix" and "Done". I've seen countless, time-consuming debates about this surprisingly simple yet enduring ambiguity. Time management is a little bit about what to do and a lot more about what NOT to do. The latter is the harder part yet most systems focus on the former.

@kees@hachyderm.io LLVM recently switched to Discourse, away from mailing lists. Some people are not happy. Fans of this or that tool and everyone else are all missing the most important point: where is the high-level, _design document_ for "get_maintainer.pl" ? It's a really hard/impossible problem, so there's no such document and no design. The choice of Perl is only the icing on the cake.

@mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @deetwenty@todon.nl when even freedom advocates confuse the abstract crypto and some of its usage, imagine what will happen when they ask technology-illiterate lawmakers to regulate it. The latter would as usual let lobbies guide their hand which would hilariously backfire! Careful what you wish for 🙂

@patrick@retro.social @alex@feed.yopp.me "vendors are lazy" because 1. It's more complexity 2. It does not sell to consumers at all because it's complex and they don't have a clue. The typical tragedy with computer security.

@patrick@retro.social i wasn't referring to Intel, I was referring to PC vendors. Intel knows software just enough to be dangerous, as you described. PC vendors not even. Anyway I think the main issue is: simply no consumer market. It's very much like DRM: the worst thing ever if you trust the interwebs. But in reality pretty much everyone uses DRM without the faintest idea of what it is.

@infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social research and policy are complex and slow moving, that's all. They are rarely newsworthy. Even car crashes are routine. We need less news and less screen time, not "artificially balanced" news.