ReligiousFlames

How can we mentor the next gen of code craftsmen/women if we disengage and unplug the phone?

Yes. As a maintainer whom actually cares about feedback and usability, I care that features developed apply to the real world and aren't imagined in an utopian vacuum by own possibly insane biases. Social democracy, not authoritarianism. If code isn't usable by other people in the real world, it's just graffiti while waiting for Godot.

This is arrogant and misguided.

There are a minority of very capable people whom need to be able to report security issues and want to contribute valuable additions easily.

I for one just found a CVE-worthy DoS in a popular YAML library, and an working to resolve it and improve testing.

Shutting off the phone and answering machine because of telemarketers isn't "the" solution, because then no one can get ahold of you.

Instead, deal with the shit to get the sugar too. Otherwise, why use GitHub or why have a phone?

So were many the hundreds of thousands of sailors whom have died at sea. The ocean doesn't care about experience or arrogance when a storm comes up and drowns this guy, or the great deal of money and risk to rescuers this clown imposes should he manage to somehow not die.

This almost assures some quite terrible conclusions in the long-term:

When it becomes technologically possible to interface electronics into our brains, corporations will have almost unprecedented opportunities to do some really terrible things directly when the world becomes socially-pressured to be neurally-connected.

I say "almost" because the manufacturing of consent and desires exist now and it is popularly believed to "apply other people but never me," a direct connection has the potential to make this manipulation cheaper and stimulate the brain in ways a glowing screen looks like banging rocks together.

It's a feedback effect of consumer choice with corporate oligopolization and monocultural cost-optimization.

Popular, easy and cheap wins most of the time, even if it hides deferred costs like terrible security and engineering choices.

This reminds me of that "hackproof" box BBC reviewed that was a Raspberry Pi that couldn't update itself.

Also, having run an email startup in London, patching and anti-spam at almost any scale is nontrivial.

I hope this dies in its current form because:

0. It's self-promoting a panacea "fix" as a product at the wrong level of abstraction.

1. Protocols and standards exist for interoperability.

2. Tries to rebuild everything (supply- and demand-sides) while fixing very little.

Fix what's here and now for the benefit of everyone with a migration path, not for the benefit of a few in a temporary, constrained, arbitrary way divides people similarly to the way Facebook tried to foist another internet onto the third-world.

How many people even know what the flag of Seychelles looks like, where is this country and what is it's infamous distinction without cheating by looking it up?

I use a cheap, no-brand 7x 18650 cell USB battery with a seemingly gimmicky solar panel that actually works from Amazon. It both charges and discharges slowly, but it works good enough for now and it's TSA-compliant to pack in carry-on. It's really poorly designed in that all sides are symmetric and the manual power button lacks an affordance... it does have automatic power-on based on USB draw.

As a similar potential business model, Monoprice seems like a great business for the customer, as cables are/were the highest margin items in electronics store, but I wonder if they're making enough money to be viable: anyone can knock-off cables and compete to the bottom worse than DRAM ($.75 USB cable, where's the profit in that?)

I'm wondering if Anker is potentially investable or if it will at least earn a comfortable living for workers, suppliers and owner/s. Differentiating a-la Zappos but beware of an inherent lack of long-term defensibility and brand-crowded marketplace.

I'll give em a try when I need that next thing that normally would be an Amazon/Newegg/Fry's purchase.

This article is interesting because most people on Earth are resource-constrained. Also, many first-world people still don't have sufficient digital literacy to be aware when/if their technologies are receiving security updates. Finally, scooping up every last consumer of content via maybe important for financial or social venture success if the costs are scalable, but also maybe required by accessibility regulations which benefit the common wealth. I think the point of the article is to realize reality for most people isn't the same as the bubble in high-income metropolitan areas, and that a balance of competing tyrannies is necessary when considering what and whom to build for and support.

VMware Fusion userland & kexts to see how they intercept IOKit USB connections.

Plus, de Vos.

Having great grandparents from Nantucket who's 7 family members died at sea while working as crab fishermen, it's seems reasonable this is a publicity stunt or he has absolutely no respect for how violent and unforgiving is the ocean.