I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

I’m right there with you. I’d love to see the dream of the decentralized media return, but it’s long-dead. The “Normal” user doesn’t give a fuck about the benefits and even the moderate barrier to entry over some centralized platform is enough to keep them away.

Tech-minded people seem to often forget that even the most simplistic choices like “Choose an instance” is a big deal for people. The platform that’s the most familiar, and easiest to use is going to be the one that wins, and, right now, that looks like it’s Bluesky.

It’s cute how you think things will be alive.

A “Library of Congress” for published web content maybe. Some sort of standard that allows / requires websites that publish content on oublic-facing sites to also share a permanent copy with an archive, without having the archive have to scrape it.

Sort of like how book publishers send a copy to the LoC.

I see. It seems like you may be one of the people that try to coerce relational models into nosql stores like Dynamo.

Or course it’s possible. They even trick you into thinking it’s a good pattern by naming things “tables”.

But if you’re using Dynamo to its fullest an ORM is not going to be able to replicate that into a relational store without some fundamental changes.

I am literally in the middle of swapping DynamoDB for a RDBMS.

The idea that you can abstract away such fundamentally different data stores is silly. While I hate doing it now, reworking the code to use relational models properly makes for a better product later.

Thomas Jefferson never added airplane safety regulations to the Constitution ergo, it’s completely unregulated. Also, Justice Alito would like to cite a man with tapestries tied to his arms as he jumped off a cliff in the 9th century saying of course it’s safe.

RFC 1925(11) —

(11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1925

My principle dev asked if we could figure out how to invoke Lambda functions from within postgres trigger functions.

I was like, “Probably. But it’s like putting a diving board at the top of the Empire State building… doable, but a bad plan all around.”

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

The episode that really nailed down what a talented actor Jeri Ryan is was the time she had all those assimilated personalities surface and was switching back and forth rapidly, and the bit where the Doctor “took over” her body when they were in prison.

Both times, it was absolutely believable that someone else was at the wheel, and “Seven” wasn’t there.

Standing up in the face of oppression and bigotry is the point.

“Training data”

Altruism is never going to be the way to get companies to do the right thing. Instead, making the wrong thing a financial liability is.

There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.

I think a better question: Why are they reading YouTube comments?

Preachin to the choir, friend. I’d get worked up about it but I’m paid the same regardless of how upset I get.

I do one, the other senior dev does the other. We fight about it in pull requests.

I admit, this news has made me add a note to re-download firefox on my work machine…

Consumer PCs are almost certainly not covered entities under HIPAA, nor is Microsoft in its role as an OS provider.

Even then, if this whole thing were to result in an inappropriate disclosure by a covered entity, the organization that processes the data would be liable, not Microsoft.

That’s like blaming the building contractor because you left the door unlocked and someone came in and stole your cat.

Fun.

From the article, the linked Swagger docs : https://web.archive.org/web/20240120071238/https://mycscgo.com/api/v1/docs/static/index.html#/

And a little more detailed account : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-security-bug-in-washing-machines-can-help-college-students-in-the-us-do-free-laundry/articleshow/110277923.cms

It looks like these laundry machines are controlled by a mobile app, and requests are routed through The Internet™. The flaw appears to be the web service presumes a user is only able to gain access to their API endpoints via the mobile app, which only exposes certain functions to a user.

Once authorized, though, there’s no further checks like oauth scopes or even user roles, to prevent someone from doing a little bit of lateral movement to admin-style endpoints.

Lazy. The machine makers should be ashamed.