[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 17 points 11 months ago

The correct answer to every suggestion that contains the word "blockchain" is "that's a terrible fucking idea."

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Look, I right-clicked $1.2 million.

Chromie Squiggle #1468 - an NFT

(Full disclosure, it took a little more than right-clicking to download that image. OpenSea apparently purposefully makes it hard to download images. Not terribly hard, though. Only took me a couple of minutes to figure out.)

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds

Open Source software is (caveat, qualifier) safer than proprietary software. (And I'll get to the caveats and qualifiers later.)

Software exploits are possible only because of mistakes, oversights, negligence, or mistaken assumptions on the part of the developer of user of the code. More eyes on the code help suss out those mistakes, oversights, negligence, and mistaken assumptions, creating a more secure (and bug-free) piece of software.

Besides that, companies that make proprietary software have incentives to put evil things into said proprietary software that endanger you to enrich them. (For instance, phone apps collecting personal data about you only to sell to advertising companies.) Companies that contribute to open source software also have incentives to put evil things into open source software, but when everyone has access to view the source code, it's a lot harder to get away with that. (Not to say it's never happened that purposeful vulnerabilities have gotten into open source software, but it's a lot easier to catch such vulnerabilities in open source software than proprietary software.)

As others have said, the way algorithms related to security are designed, the security doesn't depend on keeping the algorithm secret. (But rather, keeping a "key" -- a bit of data generated by the algorithm -- secret.)

Now, caveats.

I do believe there is some extent to which open source software is trusted to be safe even when the "chain of custody" is questionable. There are ways to ensure integrity, but there are repositories such as NPM that carry large amounts of open source software that is used by huge numbers of people on a regular basis that don't utilize sufficient integrity checking techniques. As a result, there have been a few cases where malicious code has sneaked into NPM and then into codebases.

There are also cases where governments have gotten malicious code into open source projects. (Though, I'd expect that's more of a problem with proprietary software, not less.)

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 16 points 1 year ago

Mindustry. People compare it to Factorio, but Mindustry (which also has an Android version) is open source.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe the thinking is that whatever that server was raided for may have been federated to other servers, making them also targets for FBI raids.

Edit: Looks like the admin was raided for participating in a protest and the Mastodon instance wasn't the target at all, in which case why did they take that data at all?

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 12 points 1 year ago

Meditation has helped me get through a lot. I like Shinzen Young's methods myself. He's got a lot of content on YouTube that's worth a watch if that's a path you want to try.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 12 points 1 year ago

First the boss throws a hissy fit and starts handing out "verbal writeups" for things that were his fault. Then he imposes 7:30am demos every day to prove we were actually working and not... I guess slacking?

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 10 points 1 year ago

Given the lows to which Reddit has stooped lately, I wouldn't be surprised to see Reddit respond to that by filing a lawsuit against the mod seeking nine figures in damages.

Which makes me hope even more somebody does it.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 11 points 1 year ago

Might I suggest Beanie Babies?

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 13 points 1 year ago

There is no limit to how dumb these conspiracy theories can get. It would not surprise me if Fox News said that the democrats sabotaged the submersible to prevent them from bringing back Hillary's emails that had been hidden on the wreck of the Titanic.

[-] TootSweet@latte.isnot.coffee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Patriot Front staged a protest of pride events in my hometown just in the last day or two. Not the first time that's happened either. Scary stuff.

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