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Too unemployed, too uninterested.

Movie studios need to find some method to gauge interest in an idea before they spend tens of millions of dollars on it, not blame the people who never said they wanted it for not wanting it.

This neither centralizes nor decentralizes. It's exactly just as centralized as before (which, as they are one company, is total).

Whether Bluesky issues a checkmark, or whether Bluesky tells someone else that they are trusted (by Bluesky), and thus can also issue them, Bluesky is the one who is in control of checkmarks.

Unless Bsky sets up some kind of decentralized council that they don't control to manage this list, it's just a form of deputization , and deputies are all subordinate to the 'sheriff'.

Grants of revocable authority are not decentralization.

set of trusted authorities

Sounds like centralization to me. Who decides whether to vest authority in this group? Who selects the members of this group?

Unless there is some method for each host/ user to nominate members and it changes dynamically based on total votes at any given time, you've just permanently entrenched centralized authority in your (supposedly moving to) 'decentralized' app.

Takedown resistance is a natural consequence of decentralization, but it's not decentralization itself.

Technical means to evade takedown like you're describing also tend to add complexity which reduces usability, whereas language support reduces complexity for speakers of the supported languages.

I think this scoring system is a little haphazard, and should probably be divided into multiple separate, parallel scores. Takedown resistance needs its own score, based on ability to integrate with anonymization tools, ownership of codebase, accessibility and security of dependencies, etc.

I think this scoring system is missing Language Support as an important aspect of decentralization.

Centralization happens not just through commercial hosting (centralization of ownership), but even through self-hosters being in relatively centralized locations, limited jurisdictions, etc: an app with 300 self-hosted instances all located in one city (or even just all within 5 Eyes countries) is much easier to shut down than an app with those 300 spread across the globe, and language support is important to help facilitate that level of decentralization.

Not that unusual, unfortunately. The infosec community relies on researchers publishing PoC exploits in order for people to determine whether they're affected or not by a given vulnerability, but that trust in PoCs can obviously be exploited.

Not everyone has the time or knowledge to develop their own PoCs, but you should definitely not use one if you can't understand the PoC, which is unfortunately rather common.

Good writeup!

Definitely never good to run PoCs sight unseen; mostly not because of this kind of situation, but even just because different PoCs will have different results, and you need to know what to expect.

Also, if you see any level of obfuscation in PoC code, it's more than likely malicious.

Gentle reminder that actions should not be discussed with strangers, and elevated actions should never be discussed online/ digitally at all.

Inside China, such a network of large-scale AGI [Artificial Generative Intelligence] systems could autonomously improve repression

Wooooow.

AGI stands for Artificial GENERAL Intelligence not generative. Nice attempt to muddy the waters to confuse and scare people, given that much writing on AGI will talk about how dangerous it is.

"The terrorists are in possession of an A-Bomb [Asbestos Bomb]!"

Either this opinion author has no clue, or this is very deliberate misinformation.

Also: This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops So using ML to police citizens is literally already here.

Pretty sure I did nothing of the sort. When did I do that? Quote me.

Sure:

this precise suspicious hyper-criticism of anything in the left that seems to be helping but doesn’t pass some weird purity test (or even, as in this case, maybe doesn’t pass some weird purity test, just based on no knowledge at all) does a lot of damage

So you literally referred to me saying I'd reserve judgement as "hyper-criticism" (when I in fact had at no point offered any criticism of him). If that's not unwavering and unquestioning, I don't know what is.

Why are you comitted to shitting on him preemptively

Pretty sure I did nothing of the sort. Unless you just think that being cautious of someone based on their associations is "shitting on" them, in which case that's a 'you' problem.

… which is a load of puckey. He was elected by the full membership of the Democratic Party.

Yes, the full membership of the Democratic Party that has been doing almost nothing whatsoever to counter Trump, the same full membership of the Democratic Party that kowtowed to Biden deciding he was the best candidate instead of having a primary, and lost us 2024. That same full membership is exactly why I'm cautious. As you said,

I won’t say you’re in any way wrong to be suspicious of anything DNC-related.

Which is obviously not true, seeing as when I was, you then accused me of being "hyper-critic[al]".

At this point, it feels like arguing for the sake of arguing, because my second comment, after you came right out of the gate accusing me of being a right-wing stooge, clearly stated:

If he’s not that, I support him fully!

clarifying that "reserving judgement" meant I was/am perfectly open to him actually being good, and supporting him!

But that was apparently not good enough for you.

So no one is allowed to “pop up” and start to try to make progress. Otherwise, they’re “splintering.” Got it.

You're the one who claimed that a splintering was occurring. I pointed out that there is a unified effort already happening.

Quick question: What is he doing, as the main topic of the article you’re posting under?

He is making claims about his future actions. Nothing less, and nothing more.

Now, I am very interested in why you seem dead-set on immediately and unwaveringly and unquestioningly trusting him, to the point you're framing me saying "let's see if his actions match his words" as an unacceptable attack or evidence of malfeasance, all while repeatedly mischaracterizing what I've said? Because at this point you're starting to look like you're pushing an agenda.

this precise suspicious hyper-criticism of anything in the left that seems to be helping but doesn’t pass some weird purity test... does a lot of damage. It’s a good way to splinter and diffuse progress and put up obstacles to people who are trying to accomplish something.

Right now, Sanders and AOC are making a lot of progress, and they're the ones I trust to be pushing for the changes to the party that we need. If anyone is splintering or diffusing progress, it would be someone other than them popping up and trying to do their own thing. If Sanders or AOC endorse Hogg, I would trust their opinion.

Put it this way: If one mid-level priest said he wanted to do something about pedophilia in the Catholic Church, that would be good.

I'm not sure why you're trying to downplay Hogg's position in the DNC; he's literally the second-highest ranked person. And like I said, if he does push for progressives, that would be good.

I could actually see Boasberg charging Rubio or others with contempt, but I don't think it gets any further than that. Either Trump will just immediately pardon them, or SCOTUS will order an injunction, and rule that official duties are protected from findings of contempt, etc.

If SCOTUS sees that the administration is just ignoring a finding of contempt, they may also put an injunction just to cover up the disregard publicly, so they don't have to address the situation.

You said there is no successful second app store

it isn’t widely used

So, it's not successful, but it could be. So they were in fact correct that it's not successful.

I use fdroid, so I know exactly how badly administered it is compared to Play. There are apps that haven't gotten updated in months or years, despite the app on Play or Github being much newer. There are typo-squatting apps, and apps uploaded by people who do not own or manage those programs. It's a wild west experience, and the average android phone user isn't going to know enough to sort the wheat from the chaff.

Valve would be better off doing their own android offshoot OS.

And kicking the legs out of anyone who might expose their game, as well.

this guy’s left, and you’re anti- him

What part of "reserve judgement" do you not understand?

If he’s not a child molester, then I support him fully too! Isn’t that a weird way to frame things?

It wouldn't be if he was the Vice Chair of an org that had historically been run by child molesters, as the DNC has and is run by Centrist Neolibs.

If he is not a neolib, he would be the exception to a very longstanding precedent of DNC leadership, so I think it's a very fair question to pose, especially right when Sanders and AOC are making news as they are.

The DNC leadership is not going to go down without swinging, and I fully expect them to try to co-opt Progressivism as a label and redefine it rightwards. Like I said, if he's not that, and throws his weight behind established Progressives or better, awesome!

But I will heavily scrutinize anyone that any DNC leader is backing; we don't need any more Fettermans or Sinemas, even if it's just a post-election "conversion" to the Center.

Centrist Dems are half the reason we have Trump. Don't try to frame this as some anti-Left thing, this is about milquetoast, feckless neolibs who have and still do spend enormous effort preventing the party from actually aligning with its voting base.

If he's not that, I support him fully! But until I see that, I'm not going to celebrate just because he's young.

But go off with your ad hominems! They sure worked this past election to cajole support. /s

You mean Vim?

Hopefully the EU will actually do something with this information (obviously the US won't), and it doesn't become another Panama Papers situation.

I will reserve judgement until I see precisely who he intends to replace them with.

His adoption by a lot of centrist Dems, and his absorption and placement as DNC Vice Chair makes me wonder if he's just the Centrist Dems' vehicle to remain the top influence in the party by replacing old Centrists with young Centrists.

Edit: To clarify for anyone else who is confused, I really hope he does what he says he will! We need lots more young progressives.