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unless it doesn’t matter if it’s evesdropped

Traffic could be tampered as well.

Sometimes that doesn't matter either. That is the valid use case of a plain-text protocol like telnet: doesn't matter.

Sure. But, contrary to what some people seem to think, "it's nothing secret" is not a sufficient justification to use an unencrypted plain-text protocol.

It literally is. I do not give a fuck if someone reads or fakes the wind speed from the sensor on my roof.

I still say that mixing CI/CD with code/version control hosting is a mistake.

At it's absolute best, everything just works silently, and you now have vendor lock-in with whichever proprietary system you chose.

Switching git hosting providers should be as easy as changing your remotes and pushing. Though now a days that requires finding solutions for the MR/PR process, and the wiki, and all the extra things your team might have grown to rely on. As always, the bundle is a trap.


I don't think any of this was a mistake ;) Lock-in was by design.

I mean, not necessarily proprietary right? There are OSS solutions like forgejo that make it pretty simple, at least as simple as running a git system and a standalone CI system

i mean that is certainly better, but I still don’t like having them coupled. Webhooks were a great idea, and everyone seems to have forgotten about them.

This is really interesting, is there a way to provide downloadable caches for websites where that would be legal? I could Imagine just pre-downloading wikipedia, stack overflow, all kinds of documentation, etc. In a compressed and preorganized format instead of scraping it every time.

The cache is pure and straight files-in-folders. This makes it trivial to browse the cache by hand:

cd .cache/offpunk/https/news.ycombinator.com/item cat "id=46943752"

So it could be trivially shared.

The "netcache" tool gives you the cached content or, with --path, returns the path were to find the contentd.

The only point is to preserve the file-modification attribute, which serves to know the age of a cached ressource.


Kiwix basically provides this. You can use kiwix-serve to serve the downloaded zim files locally.

I tried to add kiwix support to Offpunk in the early days but kiwix do not support incremental update of the wikipedia database, which makes it a huge pain point.

Yeah, that’s the biggest disadvantage of kiwix. It probably makes their hosting bill enormous as well. Zimdiff/zimpatch was implemented a decade ago so I’m not sure what the holdup is.

I just can't stand using a build system tied to the code host. And that is really because I have an aversion to vendor lock-in.

webhooks to an external system was such a better way to do it, and somehow we got away from that, because they don't want us to leave.

webhooks are to podcasts as github actions are to the things that spotify calls podcasts.


It's akin to anti-union arguments where everyone "buying" into the cloud AI circus thinks they're going to strike gold and completely ignores the fact that very few will and if they really wanted a better world and more control, they'd unionize and limit their illusions of grandeur.

Most Anti-Union arguments I have heard have been about them charging too much in dues, union leadership cozying up to management, and them acting like organized crime doing things like smashing windows of non-union jobs. I have never heard anyone be against unions because they thought they would make it rich on their own.


Every time something like this happens I assume it is a covert marketing campaign.

If the government wants to get in they’re going to get in. They can also hold you in contempt until you do.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good thing that law enforcement cant easily access this on their own. Just feels like the government is working with Apple here to help move some phones.


Better to be held in contempt than to give up constitutional rights under pressure - most functioning democracies have and defend the right to free press, protecting said press sources, and can't make you incriminate yourself.

Anyway, it's a good thing to be skeptical about claims that iphones can't be hacked by government agencies, as long as it doesn't mean you're driven to dodgier parties (as those are guaranteed honeypots).


"Government propaganda to help one of the richest companies in the history of the world sell 0.000000001% more phones this quarter" is quite frankly just idiotic.

You only said half the sentence anyway. The full sentence is: "If the government wants to get in they're going to get in, unless they want to utilize the courts in any way, in which case they have to do things the right way."

If this reporter was a terrorist in Yemen they would have just hacked her phone and/or blown up her apartment. Or even if they simply wanted to knock off her source they probably could have hacked it or gotten the information in some other illicit fashion. But that's not what is happening here.


I think this is what aider/cecli does

I've added it to my AGENTS.md for Antigravity too.

I don't believe in souls, and it makes me much happier than when I believed in souls as a child.

Though, I have never heard any theist claim that a soul is required for consciousness. Is that what you believe?


I am just asking him to clarify if he things "rocks" can't be conscious simply because they are not human or because he just thinks its not yet at a level but there is no argument against any other physical system being conscious just like the physical system that is a human.

You are describing everything Microsoft has done since at least the late 90s.

Things were named fine back then. Small Business Server, Office, Frontpage, Internet Information Server, Visual Studio...

That was back when they were going wild naming everything "Active". Active Desktop made sense, Active Directory? What made that "Active". ActiveMovie? It's just a video playing framework... ActiveX?? X?? ActiveSync, I don't want my sync to be active. ActiveStore was apparently a thing?

It's like ChatGPT, that goes with "Sora", instead of "Image Generation", which would have been very clear

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851548

I think this story should probably be on the front page for a while since it originally dropped on the weekend.


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