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Ideally we’d want a mix of ages, genders and ethnicity, but as long as old white men dominate politics, gotta push back.

but then I question what the customers are doing on their weekends

Plenty of reasonable online services that end-users will want to use on weekends, like online shopping, entertainment like streaming. Also payment services for businesses

There’s niche WebKit browsers too, like Epiphany. Also Ladybird in development, but that went full AI slop AFAIK.

“Isn’t” what? If you’re referring to the hosting experience, I’m talking based on experience setting up some PHP software from the last year or two. Unless you just slap docker on it, it seems to be a pain getting php running, it might want a very specific version (extra pain to get that specific version running), and I remember dependency management giving me trouble, possibly also being weird with the older version of PHP.

Or because people had bad experiences with it. Like hosting software built in PHP, which seems to have uniquely terrible hosting mechanics and version and dependency management.

Okay, but how do you verify that? In order to check if the certificate was logged, you need to access the log; if somebody can fake certificates and intercept your requests, can they also impersonate the certificate log and fake an entry there? Or is it secured in some additional way?

I wonder about one thing, if somebody can perform MITM on arbitrary domains, is there something like certificate pinning to stop impersonating the authorities used for things like this? I remember OCSP being something like that (if I’m not butchering the initialism), where the browser requests confirmation the certificate is currently valid, and the server can pre-fetch this confirmation to send to the client.

It always throws me off because in polish it’s “Sztuczna Inteligencja”, and has also been abbreviated like that long ago.

I do wonder if they even know SI units exist…

Aw dang it, thanks for letting me know. I fully agree with you, so it’s a shame.

That is kinda true… I don’t think Valve actually says that, but I don’t think there’s a way to tell, so people can get away with not disclosing it.

It’s more complicated, because Valve absolutely isn’t perfect and contributes to problems, and most of that comment is valid. I still wouldn’t boycott them as it stands, because I do see them as the best option and don’t mind them getting some of my money.

The best alternatives have their own flaws, GOG using GenAI in official promotional material and no Linux launcher, itch barely having a launcher, which is valid, but is severely lacking compared to Steam.

Yup, that would match up with what little I’ve seen. I think a presentation is orders of magnitude more prominent than a forum post, so it’s much more understandable to me.

I don’t know about the specific drama you’re talking about, but I had the impression somebody did a presentation on some event presenting a “vision of an AI-friendly KDE” or something, that at first glance looked like it was being presented by KDE.

AI slop

I’d like to be clear what you’re referring to, because I only know two things Valve is allowing in that regard

1. Games using GenAI are allowed on steam, but disclosure is required, which is a position I appreciate.
2. Steam hosts promotion events organized by third parties, where banners are displayed, a special page is available, and a lot of games go on sale - in those events (and AFAIK, none of Valve’s own events) promotional art is displayed that is submitted by those third parties, and sometimes has blatant GenAI use

Is there something else I’m unaware of? Because otherwise I guess it’s a matter of where you draw the line, because I’d still consider Steam the best platform available, and have to agree to disagree.

The episode is White Christmas, for reference, though there’s other episodes on the topic of consciousness in technology, one particularly notable episode is the black museum one, not sure what the name was.

Jet says the following

If you want https it’s gotta be a external DNS record anyway, might as well point to internal ips

My point is, the A record, the one pointing to an IP address, doesn’t need to be public/external, it’s not needed for the wildcard cert, so it can be kept internal.

I’m mentioning the other challenge trying to make it clear why the record matters for that, and not for a wildcard cert, sorry if that just made things more confusing.

The point is, the challenge doesn’t require a public DNS A record pointing to your IP, it’s not involved in issuing a wildcard certificate. It requires you to control DNS records for the domain to issue a temporary TXT or something record to prove it, one which you can remove afterwards. This was my point in the original comment.

It’s A and AAAA records that are used when you open a website in a browser to map the domain to an IP address, the ones I’m saying don’t need to be public.

The challenge dosent require your site to be public only the DNS to be public.

And just to be clear, that was describing a different kind of challenge, the simpler one which most people probably use, and which does actually involve A records.

I’m a bit confused by what you’re saying, because to my knowledge the DNS entry you’re mentioning won’t help with getting a certificate at all. Challenges will typically require either having the DNS entry point to a publicly reachable website (doesn’t get you wildcard) or proving the ability to modify records for the domain by adding something like a TXT record on the fly, which shouldn’t require A/AAAA records.

So you should be able to do the second type of challenge without a global A record to get a wildcard certificate, and use local DNS for the A record?

The third level seems to be the same person reposting to a different platform, so that’s completely reasonable to do, though including it in the screenshot if the higher up levels don’t add anything of value.

In theory, a benevolent dictatorship is a good system, that can cut through a lot of bureaucracy and enact good changes in a timely fashion. The obvious problems are who gets to be dictator and how do you keep the dictatorship benevolent.

If I could unilaterally make somebody a dictator and believed they would do what’s best, I’d do it. But I don’t know if there is such a person. To me it just seems like people believe in and trust certain public figures to agree with them, and enact the same changes they’d want.