The Reddit space is just a bunch of pictures of people’s home Labs it’s not really a self-hosted community at all.
It’s not interesting to explore and read like this one is.
It’s suffered from a common phenomena of any community that grows in popularity where it caters to the lowest common denominator and loses its niche.
Google should be subject to antitrust legislation regardless.
Their position as a monopoly is what enables this.
I definitely don’t like it, I’m pretty sure exponentially doesn’t mean what this comment thinks it means though…
Because it’s relevant? Is this not factual information that readers may or may not have known?
The availability of hardware changes by a not-negligent degree based on the legality of acquiring it.
Curious readers likely find information indicating that these shouldn’t be readily available at your local big box store to be pertinent information.
Sounds like a nightmare for security, and a dream for attackers.
More companies need to do this, solid job security.
I love the Linux bros coming out of the woodwork on this one when this could have very well have been Linux on the receiving end of this shit show. Given that it’s a kernal level software issue, and not necessarily an OS one.
It’s largely infeasible to use Linux for many, most, of these endpoints. But facts are hard.
No, still a shit show at airports at the time of writing.
Lots of kiosks, screens, and other devices still show BSODs in airports. Systems still slow and unstable.
Likely similar in other industries.
To be fair this seems to be the sentiment on most Linux and linux-ancillary forums.
Which while wrong and ignorant on multiple levels, seems on brand none the less.
Lol good fuckin luck.
In a corporate environment you just aren’t getting what you need out of Linux that you don’t of windows for many of the kinds of endpoints affected.
How do you deal with places with thousands of remote endpoints??
In house.
Depends. Our engineering slack (Few thousand members) doesn’t contain secrets for a few reasons:
This has been incredibly effective. Especially the secret bot.
Turns out that the problem with people sharing secrets is just a matter of convenience. If you make a secure way convenient then everyone tends to just use it by default.
Just because it’s not marketed doesn’t mean it’s not offered
Your logic isn’t making sense.
The code would end up somewhere for others to use…? What?
One-off products or beta offerings are often kept private, sometimes indefinitely.
And now you know why he’s donating to the Trump campaign.
Because with the shift of power with project 2025 he can actually do this.
Yes but it pushes it to an operating system level and that means everyone wins as the operating system solutions to improve as vulnerabilities are found and resolved.
You also don’t need rce access to exfiltrate data. If decrypted keys are held in memory, that mitigates an entire class of vulnerabilities from other applications causing your private chats from leaking.
Full disk encryption is not a solution here. Any application that’s already running which can provide read only file system access to an attacker is not going to be affected by your full disk encryption.
They don’t necessarily need RCE access.
Also this isn’t how security works. Please refer to the Swiss cheese model.
Unless you can guarantee that every application ever installed on every computer will always be secure under every circumstances then you’re already breaking your security model.
An application may expose a vulnerable web server which may allow read only file system access without exposing the user to any direct control of their computer from an attacker. Now your lack of security posture for your application (signal) now has a shared fate to any other application anyone else built.
This is just one of many easy examples that are counter to your argument here.
This is exactly it. Reddit right now is what our society is like. This is the lowest common denominator.
EVERY forum and community online will always approach the lowest common denominator as it’s size grows. This has always been the case on reddit, where niche communities lose their niche to the lowest common denominator.
The only way to avoid this is active moderation, clear quality expectations, and a strong stance on what does and does not belong in a community.
It won’t burst, just deflate, and then gradually grow like the ready of the tech industry.
AI is getting more robust, not less. The current hype is crazy, that’ll burst, but the good use cases don’t vanish. The actual problem spaces where it excels (like astroturfing and manipulation public opinion, or intelligent search, Q & A, information management, knowledge work supplementation…etc) will still be there.
This does nothing the data is record kept and mass deleting/shredding your comments is already deductible and there have already been cases where shredded comments have been reversed after people have deleted their account.