Really? There are many new cars that don’t have internet connections? And software quality in most automobiles is appreciably better? Care to cite a source?

https://www.wired.com/brandlab/2016/02/how-connectivity-is-driving-the-future-of-the-car/

You gotta look carefully, though. Even low-end stuff might have tracking they dont advertise. At least they’re not remote-controlled, death machines.

The next frontier will be active, emination attacks on the computers trying to glitch them. Police in one area had something like that mounted on a helicopter. Low-cost, RF boards combined with high-output components will make those attacks cheaper. Might need TEMPEST sheilding for car computers even on older cars if expecting targetted attack.

Also, an older, common car will be cheap to fix due to being simpler (usually), part availability, commodity parts, and technician familiarity. There’s even junkyards out here like U-Pull-It that let you get parts out of wrecked or dead cars dirt cheap. Many parts are still fine even in a totalled vehicle.

It is kind of a garbage source. friendlysock is doing people a favor by pointing that out, and I wish I’d read his comment before I read the thread.

I agree with you in general, but this specific “article” is just garbage. (As far as I’m concerned, Twitter in general should be blacklisted from lobste.rs. Anything there is either content-free or so inconvenient to read as to be inaccessible.)

“The medium is the message” ;)

I have to admit though that seeing a medium link is generally a negative signal for me. Still click on many of them.

No.

I cannot trust them anymore, because when the project joined Conservancy, I explicitly asked them how my copyright was going to change and Karen Sandler replied that it was not going to change.

One year later I discovered that my name was completely removed by the sources.

According to the GPLv2 this violation causes a definitive termination of the project’s rights to use or modify the software.

Now, I informed Sandler about that mess (before the rebase) and never listen her back after, despite several of my contributions got “accidentally squashed” during the rebase.

That’s why I cannot trust them anymore.

Because they are still supporting a project that purposedly violated the GPLv2 (causing its definitive termination) and despite the fact that I gave them the possibility to fix this, they didn’t… and tried to remove all evidences of this violation and of the license termination with a rebase… (that still squashed some of my commits).

As a bargain with society, your authorial rights should be given smaller weight than the rights of your users.

Is this a principle that you believe should be only applied to software?

Because if not, one could argue that a person’s special skills (say, as a doctor) are so valuable to society that that person should work for free to assure that the greatest number of people have access to their skill.

If the principle is restricted to expression, a photograph I take of a person could be freely used by a political party that I despise to further their cause through propaganda. I am only one person, and they are many. My pretty picture can help them more than it helps me. So according to the principle above (as I read it) they should have unrestricted access to my work.

I believe that the current regime of IP legislation is weighted too much towards copyright holders, but to argue that a creator should have no rights to decide how their work is used is going too far.

Poetic.

And this one looks like one of those quotes that become historical, but almost no one that uses it knows what it means:

“Any reasonable number of resources can be specified in a way I can never hope to depict.”

hath it not been for the singular taste of old Unix, “new Unix” would not exist.

Truth.

I don’t think that’s entirely reasonable. It’s converting a complaint about principle (“don’t do binary logs”) into a complaint about practice, and that makes a big difference. If journald is a bad implementation of an ok idea, that requires very different steps to fix than if it’s a fundamentally bad idea.

What you’re describing makes sense for people on the systemd project to say (“woah, people hate our binary logs, maybe we should work on them”[0]), but not for the rest of us trying to understand things.

[0] I fear they’re not saying that, as they seem somewhat impervious to feedback

Okay, so can we just assume all complaints about “binary logs” are just about these binary logs and get on with things?

As soon as the complaints start to be about journald and not “binary logs”, and the distinction is made explicit, yeah, we can. It’s been four years, so I’m not going to hold my breath.

and these tools evidently suck

For a lot of use cases, they do not suck. For many, they are a vast improvement over text logs.

what’s the plan to get anything better?

Stop logging unstructured text to syslog or stdout, and either log to files or to a database directly. Pretty much what you’ve been (or should have been) doing the past few decades, because both syslog and stdout are terrible interfaces for logs.

Use the cached link for Medium articles. It doesn’t have the popup. Just the content.

I started running uMatrix and added rules to block all 1st party JS by default. It does take a while to white list things, yes, but it’s amazing when you start to see how many sites use Javascript for stupid shit. Imgur requires Javascript to view images! So do all Square Space sites (it’s for those fancy hover-over zoom boxes).

As a nice side effect, I rarely ever get paywall modals. If the article doesn’t show, I typically plug it into archive.is rather than enable javascript when I shouldn’t have to.

How timely! Someone at the office just shared this with me today: http://makemediumreadable.com

From what I can see, the popup is just a begging bowl, there’s actually no paywall or regwall involved.

I just click the little X in the top right corner of the popup.

But I do think that anyone who likes to blog more than a couple of times a year should just get a domain, a VPS and some blog software. It helps decentralization.

And I find that I can’t scroll down.

I run an SKS keyserver, have some patches in the codebase, wrote the operations documents in the wiki, etc.

Each keyserver is run by volunteers, peering with each other to exchange keys. The design was based around “protection against government attempts to censor keys”, dating from the first crypto wars. They’re immutable append-only logs, and the design approach is probably about dead. Each keyserver operator has their own policies.

I am a US citizen, living in the USA, with a keyserver hosted in the USA. My server’s privacy statement is at https://sks.spodhuis.org/#privacy but that does not cover anyone else running keyservers. [update: I’ve taken my keyserver down, copy/paste of former privacy policy at: https://gist.github.com/philpennock/0635864d34a323aa366b0c30c7360972 ]

You don’t know who is running keyservers. It’s “highly likely” that at least one nation has some acronym agency running one, at some kind of arms-length distance: it’s an easy and cheap way to get metadata about who wants to communicate privately with whom, where you get the logs because folks choose to send traffic to you as a service operator. I went into a little more depth on this over at http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/12/10/1

I’m thinking of setting up a blog platform, like Medium, but totally free of bullshit for both the readers and the writers. Though the authors pay a small fee to host their blog (it’s a personal website/blog engine, as opposed to Medium which is much more public and community-like).

If that could be something that interests you, let me know and I’ll let you know :)

lmao you don’t even get paid when someone has to pay for your article?

hey @pushcx, is there a feature where we can prune a comment branch and graft it on to another branch? asking for a friend. Certainly not a high priority feature.

And I know licensing is an interesting, complex topic that’s fun to armchair lawyer, so if folks want to pick up this topic please start by linking to and building your comment on the 20+ years of previous discussion, and avoid moralizing/shaming others’ licensing choices.

I wouldn’t necessarily qualify many of djb’s works as “license free”. He has explicitly put many of them into the public domain. See some of the license related notations on https://cr.yp.to/distributors.html as well.

Thanks for the link, it’s certainly an interesting perspective.

You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

Is complicated code that solves complicated problems immune from breaking?

It’s more that some problem cannot be solved with simple code, because you can’t capture the whole complexity of the problem without writing a lot of code to capture it.

Consider tax code. Accurately following tax law is going to be messy because tax law itself is messy.

Definitely not. If you have simple but wrong, it’s no good by definition. You can “not have” fast, but essentially, you still need “fast enough”. If you can accomplish the task, and you can do so simply and correctly, but can’t work it quick enough for real-life workloads, then in those cases you might as well call it broken.

I am put in mind of the quote:

You can make simple software with obviously no defects, or complicated software with no obvious defects.

I don’t even think “correct” software is required–for many lucrative things, you have a human being interpreting the results, and oftentimes incorrect or wrong output can still be of commercial value.

That’s why we have customer support folks. :)