clacke@libranet.de ❌ (notclacke@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Mar-2018 21:48:33 EDT
clacke@libranet.de ❌> Quite broadly in tech, and especially in Enterprise, "new" versions of software are considered inherently insecure or unstable. > But for all but .1% of Open Source, the opposite is true. Older versions do not contain critical fixes, including security patches. > This is especially problematic in the "Enterprise Linux" world. > You simply cannot get package managers to take new versions.
> OSS Reality Check: > 1) Most projects are unmaintained. > 2) Projects that are maintained only maintain the latest release line. > 3) Dependency graphs are too large to be managed by humans. If you are a human un-supported by automation your deps are out of date. > 4) Almost all the software you depend on contain undisclosed security vulnerabilities that, in the future, will be disclosed.
You get the occasional unmitigated disaster and then you move on. 256 is a boatload of bits, Should Be Enough For Anyone, birthday paradox or not.
And as someone mentioned, as soon as someone feels that a 256-bit planetary content store threatens the fabric of society, we just swap in a 512-bit hash instead, and the next cataclysmic collision will happen after the heat death of the universe.
@Vann There are no cute girls in such a world. Only the Devil's temptresses.
But @starbreaker , this is not unique to monotheism at all.
> “Of all the scents that can enslave, none is more lethal than that of a woman. Of all the tastes that can enslave, none is more lethal than that of a woman. Of all the voices that can enslave, none is more lethal than that of a woman. Of all the caresses that can enslave, none is more lethal than that of a woman.”
It is just that religion of any form is a preservation of thought, and thought preserved for 2500 years will pretty likely be the thought of men in a society where women are their inferiors.
I don't think *.status.net and identi.ca ever had ad revenue?
IIUC, the idea with StatusNet Inc. was to have enterprises either pay for managed public servers, or have in-house deployments and pay for support and statusnet-based application development.
With heavyweights (with even more VC money and thus heavier marketing) like #yammer moving in around the same time, this never quite panned out.