On the one hand, one might feel sorry for them for being in this position. Personal bankruptcy is a terrible thing to go through.
On the other hand. Well they brought it on themselves now, didn't they.
Any credential system that makes it impossible to write something down on a piece of paper, take it to a new computer, and login to a website is just a gateway to vendor lock-in.
And don’t tell me that we can “securely transfer” the credential from one vendor to another, because that’s just a lock-in syndicate.
The “something” doesn’t have to be a password! It could be a UUID. It could be Base64. But “you’ll get nothing and like it” is not an acceptable alternative.
It started in the proprietary world: if you find a bug there, the company that sells the right to use the software makes exploitation money from that, so it makes some sense there to hand some of that money out to people who help you exploit more.
Somehow that then got pulled over to open source software...🤷
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}}