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“ Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps.” No! This should be: Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into source code used by man…

Some nice things in this RFC. But The not only the end user is unlikely to understand complex end-to-end cryptographic protections, also many developers should not burn their fingers or nextgen-vibe A…

Section and peer reviews seems doable. But how can AI text be detected when I. One sentence a minor manual change is made? And what about false positives? How will false positives handled? A common pr…

Great short read. But this “ It’s why the world wasted $10B+ on self driving car companies that obviously made no sense.” Not everything should make sense. Playing , trying and failing is crucial to m…

The full story https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-1... …

Great summary! replacement for email should not be email, but something better. But for many years, history learned us that there’s nothing invented that sticks…

Anonymity by default : not true, banks shouldn’t be trusted. And retrieved referral info will be stored by banks.

Good question, but on the wrong place. Question has been asked regularly. The HN was https://slashdot.org/ till ad bots took over. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

All python packaging challenges are solved. Lesson learned is that there is not a single solution for all problems. getting more strings attached with VC funded companies and leaning on their infrastr…

AI or machine learning is not a tool for every problem. Or to put it even more clear: In most cases applying AI/machine learning is overkill, too expensive, does not work, and other traditional s…

See e.g A Field Guide to Complex Systems , https://www.bm-support.org/problem-solving-methods/ …

Nice article! Simple gets complex very fast when creating systems for business problems. For anyone interested in tools check some tips in a free cc-by book at https://nocomplexity.com/…

Strategic consulting is never about knowledge. It’s all about personal relationships and having another external company to blame for all important decisions. Nobody gets fired for hiring IBM. Or what…

90% of the cost will be building the business. Product dev cost are minor! Do you want a business or great software that nobody uses?

This wheel has been reinvented again and again. The $$$ seems very attractive. But simple is a scam… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838059 Make an existing Foss wheel better. …

I think there is a lot of code that relies on the repr() or str() so there can be security implications. Since this idea is far from new it strongly reminds me of the mail thread https://bi…

Nice idea. In practice many sites have different methods to prevent scraping. Large risk on doing things manually imho.

Haven’t tried gpt 5, I’ll keep hoping local AI tools will eventually do the job..

Reading the first line I thought it was about https://github.com/eclipse-capella/capella , the Foss solution for Model-Based Systems Engineering. Confusing. But now there is also …