Something that’s been bothering me for years in the security world: why do researchers demand bug bounties for vulnerabilities in open source projects, when the very contributors maintaining and fixing those issues get nothing, just goodwill?
It feels deeply unfair. The burden falls on unpaid maintainers, yet bounty hunters get rewarded. If you want a paid bounty, maybe help fund the people who actually fix the mess too.
I was not aware. So sorry you had to go through this! And thanks for the courage to speak up.
One overused cliche I see in discussions about “ethical AI” is the idea of making autonomous systems, robots, etc, “three laws compliant”.
While it is obviously a credit to the imagination of Asimov, I find it to be a very clear sign that the people who say that robots need to follow these laws IRL haven’t actually read his novels. You only need to read the first few stories that Asimov wrote to understand “oh, huh, these Three Laws don’t work”.
The Three Laws are a literary device, not a scientific one. Asimov only invented them to explore the conflict between the three laws and to explore the conflict between artificial intelligences and human intelligence. They are deliberately vague and loose to be the vehicle of which Asimov explores his stories through.
They are, in essence, a thought experiment.
Most crucially and most importantly: you can’t apply them to real robots/AI, because unlike Asmiov’s fictional creations, no autonomous system that exists today actually has the ability of foresight or reason in a way that would allow them to come to a conclusion over whether they are following The Three Laws.
Probably has some custom NSS module?
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/nsswitch.conf.5.html
Depending on what the issues with the audio are, cleaning up can be doable and may be surprisingly effective.
I'm still offering, but don't want to pressure you, so if you're uncomfortable sharing the recording, no worries.
I have "some" experience working with video (1). Want me to help clean it up?
(1) https://salsa.debian.org/wouter/SReview -- you might have interacted with it if you were a speaker at FOSDEM 2017 or later...
Thursday, the EU launched a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for Digital Commons. During this launch, EU & national authorities were *crystal clear* on how large our digital autonomy challenges are in the Trump era. I delivered a keynote in which I outlined how dependent we are technically and culturally on US big tech, and I offered some modest advice: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/keynote-opening-digital-commons-edic-eu/
Fair. I don't have that problem (Debian IRC is mostly on OFTC, which never encountered the freenode shitshow), but indeed libera is not as active as freenode once was.
There is libera.chat which is everything freenode was, except "owned by a crazy Bitcoin person who thinks he's the Prince of Korea"
@ariadne @lynn
The Exim version of that is:
- Make sure you have an ACL configured for acl_smtp_data
- In that ACL, add the following:
require message = Gmail confidential emails not accepted here
condition = ${if def:header_x-gm-locker:{no}{yes}}
Three bugs appear.
“Ah, with my senior software developer senses I detect these are in fact not three separate bugs, but a single bug manifesting in different ways. A greener developer would have fallen into this trap and spent all day chasing shadows!”
*7 hours of struggling*
They are three separate bugs.
Because if you're going to insist I must be upset about your other causes, why stop there?
That's why I don't do it, and why I say that the cause of free software, *while related* to other causes, is still not the same.
@violetmadder
In the mean time, while you go off and do all that, I'll sit here making sure you can actually do that without being spied upon, by contributing to an operating system you can trust to do what you want it to do, not what some shitty billionaire halfway across the world wants.
And I'll do it on my terms, which is that anyone can use what I produce for any purpose, because that to me is the most core of all cores to free software. And that includes you using
I'm not apolitical for having different political opinions to you.
I have only so much time in a day to care, so I prioritise. If you go and organise a protest against Google and that manages to make them slightly less evil, more power to you. I might even join (if it's within my means to do so). But it's not something that keeps me up at night. It's not my priority.
I'm not saying your cause is wrong, just that there are other causes that I find more important.
@violetmadder Also, my "I'm not going to comment on that in public" is specifically about the sponsorship for FOSDEM and is related to me being a FOSDEM organizer.
It should not be read as a "I think google is great and everything is fine" with a dog in a burning room.
There's a reason why I use firefox, duckduckgo, and my own mailserver, ffs