gotta keep wirth’s law going strong

and only if you’re doing something that has been previously done and publically released

even more. The first 100% of the tech debt is just understanding “your own” code.

only one needs to read the data. Only one needs to write it (the receiver)

if you’re found later with a bunch of pirated material, you’re the one who gets prosecuted, not whoever you dowloaded it from

it’s a digital item. You can only make a copy

you are literally choosing to run the software that writes it to your disk. You also (probably) take steps to ensure the uploader does not have access to your disk. You are in control of what gets saved

when downloading something, you are making a copy. That copy is unauthorized. It’s illegal. The distributor didn’t give it to you, they still have their copy. And you just reproduced it again.

downvotes are because you are saying provably factually incorrect things.

ah so they only downloaded them illigally, and then used them illegally, but didn’t share them illegally. got it

and i have found appimages that fail to worm due to some dependencies too. This is not a solved prooblem for linux. And no, flatpak isn’t it either

because you can’t just target “linux”. You target a distro. That’s not feasible for any of them to maintain

how to use their stuff. We don’t expect them to know what’s under the hood. But we do expect them to have knowledge of the rules of the road, what the traffic signs mean, the fact that driving at high speed into a wall is not desirable etc. Simple everyday stuff required to be able to use, not maintain, a car.

“read the stuff on screen and at least try to understand it” is the barest minimum. But we don’t even expect that of anyone anymore. Or even something as simple as if you see a red flashing sign saying “IF YOU DO THIS YOU WILL BE IN DANGER!”, at least try having a 2nd look

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we expect everyone to take the time to learn how to use anything else. We just use the same expectations for tech stuff.

I just wish the system had a global setting for “I know what I am doing, stop trying to protect me”. Stop revoking permissions you think I don’t need. stop restricting everything. Just turn all of those things off by default. I only have a couple apps installed, let me be the judge of me. And stop having me reconfigure every app individually just so you’ll let it run for as long as I want it to.

and FOSS apps that can be fully code reviewed and confirmed safe, unlike anything proprietary, will still cause banking apps to refuse to run on your unrooted device. I had to go back to carrying a physical key around with me. (the foss apps were there first)

played? Past tense? You must be joking

because of the “perceptual” part.

A normal hash has the property that it produces wildly different hashes for even the tiniest of changes in the file.

Perceptual hashing flips that requirement on its head, and therefore makes finding a suitable hash function much harder.

if you want to have a reliable driverless system, you’re going to have to invent trains… again