I’m curious.
What happened here?
The one person with the keys to the building went AWOL.
This is one of the things that bugs me about the design of a lot of the internet. Far too much that ultimately comes down to one single person, with zero accountability process. ... I don’t know what the answer is there because it’s hard to have accountability and a stable structure in disjointed borderline anonymous environments, but it has long bothered me.
Part of the answer is m-of-n cryptography (and other crypto), but the tools around it are barely usable for technically inclined people, much less those that aren't. It's a common enough story, unfortunately. Theoretically, the tech is all there to ameliorate these problems. Practically, only people with encyclopedic knowledge of esoteric tooling have access. And typically, there aren't enough of those people to go around.
You know, the thing that always seemed really scary about the OG Nazis is that they were competent, intelligent, put-together people that were just fucking evil. Then you look at the US Nazis and the fucking bozo density is off the charts, but they seem to be succeeding anyway.
Not every fascist and Nazi needed to be competent, intelligent, and put-together. Just enough of them. I suppose we'll find out in real-time if they have amassed sufficient numbers this go 'round.
NoSQL is web-scale.
Mozilla is an ad-tech company now. It's just as untrustworthy as Google.
Hellwig could have been more tactful, but like it or not, arguments against a cross-language codebase have merit. Framing it as a ‘clear confession of sabotage of the r4l project’, attempting to weaponize the CoC, and trying to drum up an army via social media was all out of line.
When a maintainer calls somebody's efforts "cancer" -- "spreading this cancer to core subsystems" -- and that they'll do everything they can to halt those efforts -- "I will do everything I can do to stop this" -- that's as clear an indication of sabotage as you will ever get.
Martin seems to understand that adding a second language to the kernel is not only a technical concern, but a political one as well. Everyone else wants to pretend politics isn't at play and that their objections are "purely technical." They aren't. I definitely understand Martin's frustration here.
for it to be plain sailing adding it to the kernel some of the worlds’ foremost domain experts on operating systems would have to re-learn basically everything.
This is the core problem. It's a social problem, not a technical one.
The CPC really ought to work in tandem with unions to ensure this type of shit doesn't happen.
Billions of folk's keyboards are connected to the internet and the vast majority of them have no idea. It's absolutely ludicrous that we've gotten to this stage with surveillance capitalism. Internet-connected keyboards are malware, plain and simple.
lemmy.world. Yep. Checks out.
Cryptocurrency has forever ruined "crypto" :(
But in any case, m-of-n cryptography (Shamir Secret Sharing) permits "m" keys out of a total "n" keys to unlock a secret, such as the login credentials for a domain registrar. So long as "m" keys are available, the login credentials can be recovered. This avoids having a single point of failure, for example, where only one person knows the login credentials and is AWOL. So long as "m" other folks are still around and active, they can recover the login credentials without the AWOL person.