TootSweet

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The kiosk, but only if it's new and hasn't been handled by the greasy-fingered hordes for years already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure latte.isnot.coffe admins are also tankies. Should've done my research before I signed up. Maybe some day account migration will be a thing. ('Cuz I'd like to keep my post history if I were to jump to a different instance.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

How did you get it to play sound when my phone is muted? How!?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Mindustry is amazing. The kind of game you can waste a ridiculous number of hours on. Every time I pick it up, I know I'm not going to be doing anything constructive for a few days until I've finished that planet.

I've only ever played it on an Android smartphone. (And I've only ever played the version that's available on F-Droid.) I'm a little scared to install it on my desktop machine for fear I may never be heard from again.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus the iceberg lettuce. I'm not saying it's unhealthy (unless it's covered in pesticides.) It's just nutritionally vacuous. Just as healthy with as without.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I think she's ripping the still-beating heart out of the cameraman with her telekinesis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I believe in "to each according to need," (or to put it into the language of a "right," the right to fulfillment of your needs.) but I don't trust "countries" to do that. There's a long history of governments saying they're doing that while perpetuating the worst atrocities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I interpreted it the same way devexxis did, but on rereading, I think you're right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wow. I couldn't possibly be any more your opposite in this regard. I try very hard not to run proprietary software. For safety reasons. And when I do run proprietary software, I do my best to sandbox it. I don't let my Nintendo Switch talk to my home network often. I hacked my robotic vacuum cleaner not to phone home. I do my (U.S.) taxes on stupid paper because there aren't pure-FOSS options for filing electronically.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Linus Torvalds

Open Source software is (caveat, qualifier) safer than proprietary software. (And I'll get to the caveats and qualifiers later.)

Software exploits are possible only because of mistakes, oversights, negligence, or mistaken assumptions on the part of the developer of user of the code. More eyes on the code help suss out those mistakes, oversights, negligence, and mistaken assumptions, creating a more secure (and bug-free) piece of software.

Besides that, companies that make proprietary software have incentives to put evil things into said proprietary software that endanger you to enrich them. (For instance, phone apps collecting personal data about you only to sell to advertising companies.) Companies that contribute to open source software also have incentives to put evil things into open source software, but when everyone has access to view the source code, it's a lot harder to get away with that. (Not to say it's never happened that purposeful vulnerabilities have gotten into open source software, but it's a lot easier to catch such vulnerabilities in open source software than proprietary software.)

As others have said, the way algorithms related to security are designed, the security doesn't depend on keeping the algorithm secret. (But rather, keeping a "key" -- a bit of data generated by the algorithm -- secret.)

Now, caveats.

I do believe there is some extent to which open source software is trusted to be safe even when the "chain of custody" is questionable. There are ways to ensure integrity, but there are repositories such as NPM that carry large amounts of open source software that is used by huge numbers of people on a regular basis that don't utilize sufficient integrity checking techniques. As a result, there have been a few cases where malicious code has sneaked into NPM and then into codebases.

There are also cases where governments have gotten malicious code into open source projects. (Though, I'd expect that's more of a problem with proprietary software, not less.)

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Actually, the answer turns out to be pretty interesting.

The short version is that what colors are considered "distinct" are heavily influenced by culture and Newton, from whom we get ROYGBIV, came from a culture which valued the dye called "indego."

Edit: It also seems Newton thought the number 7 had cosmic significance and thought there ought to be 7 colors.

More info in this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf7WT6TLy8s

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