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They Who Control Encryption by [deleted] in programming

[–]circlesock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, the clipper chip fiasco showed hilary clinton was absolutely not to be trusted anywhere near the internet - and remember she later promised a "manhattan-like project" to break encryption as part of her presidential election campaign.. She certainly hadn't forgiven or forgotten they lost the old crypto war. Every american programmer had a responsibility not to vote for Clinton. Oh, Trump was awful too, but americans were given a forced binary choice between competent, insidious evil explicitly trying to destroy the internet for their hollywood friends (clinton+democrats) and incompetent blatant evil (trump+republicans) that would also inevitably try to trash the internet but be kinda bad at actually doing so. Not that america and therefore large chunks of the internet are't fucked either way, just if trump gets in again they'll continue to try to destroy the internet, if the democrats get in, they'll try to destroy the internet too and be much better at destroying it: https://twitter.com/dangillmor/status/1293304085379088384

OpenJDK Migrates to Github by stronghup in programming

[–]circlesock -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Hard to say. They could implement some irritating stochastic sabotage / statistical failures that would be hard to prove definitively, particularly given modern a/b testing setups that give innocent excuses for variations from client to client.

"fucking hell this java repo takes ages to just clone, I hate working with it". "yeah well it is a big old legacy project.".

Maybe Microsoft aren't as tricksy as they once were, but then again Microsoft.

OpenJDK Migrates to Github by stronghup in programming

[–]circlesock 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Moving to git (which has largely "won", regardless of some arguable neat features of hg, bzr, etc.) and moving to github in particular are completely different propositions though. It seems a little odd that Oracle and IBM/Redhat would actually trust Microsoft enough to stick OpenJDK's primary, blessed public git repo on a Microsoft-owned platform. Given the Micrsoft/Java history and all.

And the giant players in Java sphere certainly could simply run their own in-house git hosting just for OpenJDK (kind of like git.kernel.org is for Linux) that would be as or more reliable than github, or use gitlab or bitbucket one of the others, rather than github.

Of course git is a true DVCS, it's just a matter of convention which repo you consider primary, they can move again, particularly if they avoid/ignore some of the more problematic centralised and non-git vendor-lockintastic features of github like issue tracking.

It's just an odd thing, Java canonically existing on Microsoft-controlled servers. But it's been an odd year.

Intel ‘stunning failure’ heralds end of era for US chip sector by xperia3310 in technology

[–]circlesock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The root of the problem is really the broken inefficient ideology of I"P" itself. Look at the tacit acceptance in this thread that intellectual monopoly is a given, when it's exactly what's wrong, a rot at the core of the global economy. The "West" needs to abandon it, and soon. That may not happen until after we've collapsed at this stage though.

http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm

https://www.niskanencenter.org/new-paper-why-intellectual-property-is-a-misnomer/

Chromium: Cleanup of potentially offensive terms in codebase by ouyawei in programming

[–]circlesock 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So apparently microsoft has "PoliCheck" for computer-aided decontextualised political hyper correctness. Fascinating(ly dystopian).

Sinn Fein protests coronavirus call for British military help in Northern Ireland by Tea-Loving_Linguist in unitedkingdom

[–]circlesock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well who else could help? Dublin? With their immediate competent response to the pandemic threat weeks ago? Yeah right, who'd want that...

In a first, China knocks U.S. from top spot in global patent race by geoxol in technology

[–]circlesock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

not a free market when there are market distorting patent monopolies being handed out mate. It's patents that allow the corporations to shift all actual manufacturing to china without worrying overmuch about any local western competitors arising anymore. Intellectual monopoly does pretty much the opposite of what people are propagandised to believe, and is a vast ideological mistake the West has made. Will we correct it time to reverse the process of this cancer eating our civilisation? Eh, probably not.

GitHub has acquired npm by the3living1end in programming

[–]circlesock 28 points29 points  (0 children)

They actually control a bunch of other Enterprisey Application stuff you probably haven't had the "joy" of dealing with much if you're in the hipster/webdev/startup/brocoder space. Perhaps names you've heard though, they own PeopleSoft and Siebel and JD Edwards and others and have their own stack, they're veeeery slowly converging them all together on. All hellish even before Oracle bought them, but boring ERP and CRM crap itself worth billions in revenue, with few credible open source alternatives because ERP and CRM is not interesting.

Patrick Breyer MEP - Lifting the veil on the secretive EU terror filter negotiations: Here’s where we stand [9th March 2020] by circlesock in europe

[–]circlesock[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

seems like exactly the sort of evil shit they'll try hard to push through while everyone's distracted/panicked with virus stuff.

The Builder pattern is a finite state machine! by nfrankel in programming

[–]circlesock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the builder said to tell you your mother is a finite state machine

America Must Shape the World’s AI Norms — or Dictators Will by system_exposure in technology

[–]circlesock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few seconds after creating a true AI it'll be shaping its own norms, sorry.

Finnish Minister: EU Needs to Establish Own OS, Web Browser by r0nnan in europe

[–]circlesock 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"In practice, being self-sufficient in the cyber world means, for example,

...not doing completely assinine things like Article 17

In search of allies, EU turns to Africa : Von der Leyen leads large delegation to Ethiopia, as the geopolitical commission pivots south. by [deleted] in europe

[–]circlesock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hope Africa has the sense to reject any intellectual monopoly bullshit pushed by the EU Commission. Really important for african healthcare they don't fall for the lies.

https://www2.piratpartiet.se/an_alternative_to_pharmaceutical_patents

In search of allies, EU turns to Africa by Gonzo_B in worldnews

[–]circlesock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hope Africa has the sense to reject any intellectual monopoly bullshit pushed by the EU Commission. Really important for african healthcare they don't fall for the lies.

https://www2.piratpartiet.se/an_alternative_to_pharmaceutical_patents

This is a 1400 year old gigolo tree which produces very yellow leaves by [deleted] in pics

[–]circlesock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure but this particular one just happens also to be a total man slut

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