sam_lowry_'s comments

On: AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

[sam_lowry_]

prose

[JMiao → sam_lowry_]

prosé

[devin → JMiao]

rosé

On: Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists

[sam_lowry_]

I hope to be the next Rothshild, give me a trillion!

On: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

[sam_lowry_]

European eIDs are knows to disallow encryption, only signature. If software like OpenSSL will starts to ignore intent... Good for us, the citizens.

On: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

[sam_lowry_]

AFAIU Let's Encrypt (ISRG) gets most of its money from Google, both directly and indirectly via Mozilla.

They do what Google says.

On: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

[sam_lowry_]

I believe the explanation. The collateral damage is huge, but Google couldn't care less.

On: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

[sam_lowry_]

> non-web-PKI reduces security

How exactly?

On: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators

[sam_lowry_]

No. These are just certificates that happen to be used predominantly in HTTPS context and Google tries to tie them exclusively to the HTTPS context.

On: Another GitHub outage in the same day

[sam_lowry_]

Self-hosted git is absolutely worth it.

On: Art of Roads in Games

[sam_lowry_]

At some point I Google Maps was using Bézier curves for roads, but then they started approximating even roundabouts with polylines, and this looks unbelievably clunky.

Some manager at Google should have gotten an appraisal for removing proper curves from Maps, because... who cares, they do not need them on US streets.

On: European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams

[sam_lowry_]

It's good to start somewhere, but as a reminder, it's the same European Commission that:

1. runs on Microsoft software that it buys from Fujitsu UK that HN crowd knows from the UK Post scandal

2. Has multi-billion euro digital initiatives and a puny single-instance public Gitlab with a handful of shamefully incomplete "projects".

3. Tells everyone that they have their own AI helpers while actually renting LLMs from Azure.

[jacquesm → sam_lowry_]

They also sometimes forget to clean their shoes after walking in from the street.

But at least this thing they will hopefully get right and maybe in the longer term they'll be able to break the lock-in on those other things as well.

[dreamteam1 → jacquesm]

Don’t hold your breath.

[jacquesm → dreamteam1]

Agreed. Hope sets you up for disappointment and all that but still, better than nothing at all.