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The timeline exposed in the article refutes this, it had been happening much earlier.

Yes, code reviews are also useful for sharing knowledge among team members. Also, no all projects can use AI due to fears of copyright strikes

Is there a link that doesn’t use bluesky? It’s been dead for hours to me

Airbnb has a system with hundreds of servers (thousands, probably). They need to understand whether the servers are running OK, or are having strange behaviours, before these become catastrophic.

To track this, the servers take samples every 5 seconds of different measures: CPU used, memory, power consumption, free disk, network throughput, etc etc.

This data is sent from all servers to a system that stores all these samples to be able to alert the operators of the system, who can then take measure to remediate potential issues.

The article talks about how the changed this system from using a custom-made software stack, to using open standards and more shared code.

Let me know if it wasn’t clear enough, I can explain further

This comment smells like AI slop.

The article states clearly that is the Duquesne Incline funicular in Pennsylvania, and it’s very easy to very that is the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duquesne_Incline

And a truckload of FUD on top of that

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/olivierlambert/calrs

it was made as a reaction to cal.com not meeting the needs of the creator, like being selfhood table and being caldav compatible.

Note that I cannot vouch for it since I have not used it.

Indeed. I doubt this will get out of the lab, use of HFCs is being limited in the EU (and I should hope worldwide) for a reason (global warming)

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/hydrofluorocarbon-phase-down-in-europe

The scheme from the Danish government, shared in another comment, avoids the sharing by allowing token to be used only once, and, because the government issues the tokens, it can block people from getting tokens if they detect abuse. This can be done by rate-limiting, geoblocking and all sorts of techniques.

Remember that the function of the anonymous token is to not allow the service provider (like an OS, or a a website) to see your identity. This still allows the government to see which service provider you are using.

Hopefully the service provider can form pools yo block the government from knowing each individual website, but that’s not a given.

As a software engineer that works on virtualization and is interested in software freedom, this law terrifies me because it’s a trojan horse for something much much worse than the already shitty status quo: remote attestation.

And I will tell you this: the operating system is 100% where you want to do age verification

No, it’s the last place you want to do this check. Let me explain: because users control the PCs they buy right now, meaning they can install any OS and programa the so wish to install; governments at some point will decide that they cannot trust the results given by any OS.

The only way for governments will be to actually trust third parties (again) that will check properties in your computer through a module that controls the whole computer and users don’t have access to.

This is called remote attestation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/your-computer-should-say-what-you-tell-it-say-1

With this technology, users don’t decide what programa they can install and run, they can’t even decide what websites can they visit.

It’s a brutal encroachment on the computer freedom you have enjoyed up to now, and the perfect tool for an authoritarian government to enforce what can you watch and in general, can do with your computer.

If this law is approved, I guarantee you it will spread and will have expanded versions requiring remote attestation. (Don’t worry, lobbyists will find a way to sell remote attestation preserves privacy to make it go down easier)

The end result is a nightmare-fueling scenario where someone like Peter Thiel through Persona not only has your information because it needed to verify to create the account in your computer, but Microsoft also has it, and governments through Microsoft may decide to limit which platforms you can access (X or something worse), if also if you’ve been a bad citizen, if you can run programs in any computer that can be legally sold.

All in all, this law is incredibly dangerous in the current political climate where even supposedly democratic governments are pushing for more authoritarian controls to digital life. And I’m surprised organisations like EFF haven’t seen this yet

I understand that in a system with clients and servers having encrypted communications between the server and the clients is not enough to have end-to-end encryption.

Even then I find it strange to cobsider TLS not end-to-end, the whole gist of TLS is enabling confidential communications between 2 network nodes without any of the intermediate nodes participating in the communication being able to decrypt the data.

Actually, scratch that, I think it really started with the non-consensual updates:

At first I ignored it, and carried on as normal. Sure, I’d get mad from time to time and I’d complain.

But hey, nothing beats the convenience of being able to have all of your applications in one place

It really started there for me as well, and where it ended: Windows 10 was hellbent on making me use newer, broken GPU drivers. So it was better to lose the ability to play some games rather than all of them. And I also was able to get all the updates from one place :)

pd: at the time this happened Microsoft still hadn’t released the tool to allow to rollback drivers.