I cautiously agree with this sentiment, in particular the need for any corporation to have trust as its foundation. Without trust, only scammers will leverage the corp’s product or service. Trust is vital to attracting any kind of legitimate and long-term client, from individual consumers to large and slow-moving behemoths of business.
And AI cannot generate trust. It is incapable of doing so.
Its wild hallucinations and overconfident falsehoods rub me the wrong way.
I am cautiously optimistic about AI, but not only does it cheapen the dev experience and suck all my enjoyment out of coding, but it also is far too unreliable at this point. It’s a swarm of ADHD juniors with goldfish memories and hopped up on acid and magic mushrooms. It takes more energy and effort for me to get it to produce minimally acceptable output than the energy and effort I need to produce superior output entirely on my own. And my objective is not slop at high speed. It’s quality work at lower effort. That’s something that is beyond the capabilities of AI at this point.
I still prefer the bitwise complexity score that KeePass provides. While the guides here are helpful, a similar overall score can help simplify things for people who don’t want to be overwhelmed by the details.
IMHO the best ones from DC were the first two Bale Batman movies and the first Cavill Superman movie. The rest had… issues. The problem was trying to pack in too much and making them too complicated. The “everything and the kitchen sink” problem diluted the movies until they became galloping messes. Even the Bale Batman movies should have had two more after the second to raise the stakes with Batman’s physical decline; a multi-year gap with no backstory was too cheap of a shortcut. If anything, two more could have ratcheted up the stakes, with ever more dire circumstances to really highlight Bane’s eventual entrance against Bruce’s desperation.
Marvel got things (mostly) right with their MCU, letting each character have one or more movies that adequately fleshed them out and gave them nuance and complexity with the screen time needed to make the character development “land” well.
Right. Preferably in the password system, so that other actors could cause the drive to self-destruct for you.
Something with an innocent-looking trigger, like the password with one character being a confusable, especially in most fonts. Such as a capital O where one actually expects it, whereas the real password has a zero in that spot. Or, if you memorize the Unicode methods for all three platforms, you use a Unicode confusable in the real password that looks like an ASCII character that someone would use in the trigger password.
That way, if you are “convinced” to hand over the password (https://xkcd.com/538/), you can write it out and let the other person trip the self-destruct on their own.
Back when jailbreaking iOS was really popular, there was even a jailbreak app that did exactly this to the entire phone - put in the wrong unlock code, and the phone rebooted and wiped itself. Great for people who worked against fascist governments.
Browsers have been able to do this, but clear note: a single browser displaying many web pages in tabs.
Think of how most any modern computer would grind to a halt if every tab was its own full-fat web browser.
And THAT is the problem with Electron.
It’s not one installed framework providing the foundation for whatever number of apps you want to use, it’s a single electron framework for each and every app.
And that shit adds up, fast.
Electron isn’t like the JVM, which exists only once per computer and which can run dozens of different apps from a singular foundation. Electron is a completely self-contained system that will exist once for every app that is built on top of it. You have twelve Electron apps up and running, you have twelve obscenely bloated instances of Electron causing your computer to run out of physical RAM and thrashing the paging file to hell and back.
RAM doesn’t grow on trees. Prices are set to spike another 40-60% before the end of the year, above and beyond their already insane valuations. Anyone looking to use Electron in a greenfield project in this current environment is totally ignoring the current RAM crunch, and is spitting gratuitously in the faces of their users. And IMHO, doing so is moronic. There is no other way to spin that under current RAM conditions.
Somehow I don’t think sucking up 300+Mb of RAM to display 15Kb of text is anywhere within the realm of “performant”, especially when a native app can do the same in 1/30,000 as much RAM.
And with RAM prices to spike another 60-80% before the end of the year, Electron apps are a downright moronic and utterly brain-dead choice, to say nothing about failing to read not only the entire room, but an entire stadium filled to capacity. People are desperate to stretch RAM as far as they can, and Electron is the worst possible choice for that.
I would eagerly categorize any greenfield project using Electron as being absolutely retarded. The mentally incapacitated definition. Because that’s what any such decision-makers are.
I mean, if you truly want a write-once, work everywhere platform without any kind of a required runtime, there is DotNet.
> it doesn’t have the same modern security tech stack reddit.com has so we need to tighten security on old reddit to keep it viable.
This is how you justify it to anyone who doesn’t know web dev.
For those who do, it’s an idiotic statement. The only difference between new Reddit and old Reddit is the visual styling and how content is presented. Both have all the same security.
The crux is that only exceedingly large orgs - such as governments - can provide reliable and definitive identity services.
But when one of the largest democracies on the planet descends into authoritarian fascism, nerfs and outright destroys most of its democratic and independent pillars of government, and is two shakes away from a full-blown dictatorship (especially if it finds a way to delay or disable the midterm elections), any attempt by said government to implement surveillance techniques (age verification, flock, verified identity, etc.) should be met with extreme and even violent pushback.
Because nonviolent protest only works when opponents have a conscience. When they have none - and pretty much the entire Republican edifice is absolutely bereft of a conscience - non-violent protest is like digging your own grave and asking for a revolver to finish the job.
Will there be releases, considering the likelihood of false positives from antivirus? I can see that alone putting off most nontechnical people. Something that just has to be shoved into position, even if it has no installer, would significantly lower the barrier to adoption.
The solution to your noise and electricity costs are the ARM-based Macs.
Not only are they whisper-quiet, they also sip the electricity. I just had an unplanned power outage two days ago, and my Dell Precision 7920 (44c/88t, 256Gb RAM) had about 20 minutes of UPS power vs the 148 minutes of my much more powerful Mac Studio M4 Max (16c, 128Gb RAM). Both were idling at the time.
Even the first-gen ARM Mac Mini’s are something like ⅓ the power draw of the 2018 versions (the last of the Intel CPUs), and under load it can be as little as ¼ the power draw.
In every jurisdiction that has implemented a wealth tax, the wealthy did one thing nearly 100% of the time: *they stayed.*
Why? Because for the vast majority of them, their wealth came from private property, from revenue-generating capital. Only those industries which are 100% virtual and online - a purely electronic venture, with zero physical real-world assets - can just pack up and leave at virtually no cost.
And as any business owner knows, moving a brick-and-mortar business down the street is fiendishly expensive, and you are still keeping all your current employees. Moving it out of the region is exponentially more expensive because you need to train up an entire new work force and deal with depressed efficiencies and possibly negative revenue until they become experienced, which can easily take years.
So the vast majority of wealthy people will look at the math and realize that it costs far less to just pay the fucking tax.
Plus, what is the revenue difference between having no wealth tax and making someone leave because of a wealth tax? Simple! It’s $0. There is no downside from implementing a wealth tax, because anyone who leaves will have zero negative impact to that wealth tax. If they abandon their revenue-generating capital just to escape said tax, they open up a niche for another entrepreneur to step in and leverage that opportunity. Nothing of value was lost, and everything was gained.
And best of all: only the Parasite Class is taxed, on wealth that is almost 100% un-earned and parasitized off of working class labour. A good wealth tax will encourage them to reduce the taxes payable, and a great wealth tax will encourage them to leave the working class with more of the wealth that they produce, raising wages and enriching the entire community.
And AI cannot generate trust. It is incapable of doing so.