demesisx
@demesisx@infosec.pub
Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 1 week ago:
I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke that day.
- Comment on Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships 5 weeks ago:
Hopefully this sticks. IMO, movie studios need to keep attracting customers or the whole film industry will stay dead.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 weeks ago:
Touché!
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 5 weeks ago:
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
- Comment on ouch 5 weeks ago:
Looked it up. Yes
- Comment on I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius 1 month ago:
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 month ago:
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
- Comment on An antidote to social media censorship? Nostr. 2 months ago:
I’m looking into using NOSTR on a project that was originally going to be a Lemmy fork that allows retailers to broadcast their inventories to decentralized aggregators (or even run their own).
- Comment on The Election Ritual: the illusion of American democracy 2 months ago:
Thanks for bravely coming to this comment section to actually demonstrate EXACTLY what the video is about. You are such a fucking joke (to the Democrats and Republican parties) and you don’t even know it. You are cosplaying as an activist.
Thanks again for the laugh.
- Comment on Investors Brace for a Jobs Wipeout 2 months ago:
Economist wonks are terrified that we’ll realize that the rain they told us is landing on our heads is piss.
Most normal people know that the economy is bad and has been bad for a few years now despite economists droning on and on with bullshit, cherry-picked unemployment numbers.
- Comment on Google’s ex-CEO blames remote working on the company’s AI woes 3 months ago:
This is the guy that worked directly for Hillary’s campaign in 2016 (and slightly less incriminatingly Obama’s campaign in 2012), I personally witnessed remember that they scrubbed inconvenient links about her corruption from search results.
- Comment on Do we really want a leader who celebrates firing people? 3 months ago:
Thank you. I surely oversimplified it.
You’ve hit the nail on the head as to why I prefer to keep my activism quasi anonymous. The long list of amazing activists who were right but still ended up dead…. The only one who survived (Kwame) left the country.
Anecdote: At the beginning of this most recent uptick in the ongoing genocide of Palestine, I was pretty vocal and downright subversive with my language about Biden and his bloodthirstiness with regard to Gaza and was actually taken aside and expressly warned by a friend of mine in the MIC. I decided that my family was too important to me to keep up my activism. I’m sure I’m not alone in giving up and I’m sorry if I sort of glossed over the concerted effort by the that cadre of World Bank puppets working tirelessly to stifle any perceived threats to capitalism.
Thank you for your comment.
- Comment on Do we really want a leader who celebrates firing people? 3 months ago:
It all goes back to money in politics. Citizens United absolutely fucked us.
The cavernous power vacuum on the left caused by unchecked capitalism/corporatism (corporate personhood) caused all of the fiscal conservatives in the GOP to leave the circus and take over the DNC. Now, we’re stuck with an extreme right wing vs. a bunch of old school Bob Dole right wingers like Chuck Schumer. As a leftist, it hurts so much to see the Overton window shift unnaturally toward fascism. We have “spirited” debate about things that wouldn’t even be a question in a society (rights for all people…like what the fuck. There’s only one answer that even remotely makes sense to non-sociopaths) that isn’t sick to the core with corruption. It hurts to be spat on and shamed by people that should be my allies (or in a different political party altogether) because I have the intellectual honesty to call out the DNC for their blatant corporatism. I always say: Obviously Trump is shit. It’s the power vacuum on the left that caused this shift toward radical right wing ideas becoming mainstream.
- Comment on How The West Debt Trapped Sri Lanka 4 months ago:
Obligatory nod to the book that informed me about the true nature of the world bank, our CIA, and what disgusting activities firms like McKinsey are actually directly responsible for overseas.
- Comment on How the IMF Debt Trapped Kenya Causing Nationwide Protests 4 months ago:
This is standard operating procedure for the CIA along with the world bank. Read “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” for more detail on this, which is, IMO, actually what our CIA has done all around the world.
- Comment on We Need To Stop OpenAI 4 months ago:
Broken clocks and all that…
- Comment on A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty 5 months ago:
👏🏽
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
Much like the fediverse, we’re very early on that technology. We’re waiting for the network effect to take hold in both areas. Once it does, things will improve significantly, IMO.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
Amen. I’d love to see Home Assistant start using it. I’m not holding out hope, though, because the guy behind Home Assistant is actively hostile.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
RISC-V is an open instruction set, which should be what the Pi foundation (if their open source mission is to be taken at face value) would be switching to if they weren’t just a way for Broadcom to push their chips on the maker community under the guise of open source.
riscv.org/…/what-is-risc-v-and-why-is-it-importan….
RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), has been making waves in the world of computer architecture. “RISC-V” stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) and the “V” represents the fifth version of the RISC architecture. Unlike proprietary architectures such as ARM and x86, RISC-V is an open standard, allowing anyone to implement it without the need for licensing fees. This openness has led to a surge in interest and adoption across various industries, making RISC-V a key player in the evolving landscape of computing. At its core, an instruction set architecture defines the interface between software and hardware, dictating how a processor executes instructions. RISC-V follows the principles of RISC, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency in instruction execution. This simplicity facilitates easier chip design, reduces complexity, and allows for more straightforward optimization of hardware and software interactions. This stands in contrast to Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) architectures, which have more elaborate and versatile instructions, often resulting in more complex hardware designs. The open nature of RISC-V is one of its most significant strengths. The ISA is maintained by the RISC-V Foundation, a non-profit organization that oversees its development and evolution. The RISC-V Foundation owns, maintains, and publishes the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), an open standard for processor design. The RISC-V Foundation was founded in 2015 and comprises more than 200 members from various sectors of the industry and academia.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now a public company 5 months ago:
They’ve been declining for years. It’s time the community ditched them for RISC-V machines.
- Comment on Dark Brandon is at it again... 5 months ago:
He’ll only have himself to blame WHEN he loses in November.
FTFY
- Comment on How Wolves Change Rivers 7 months ago:
I remember this. Blew my mind when I first saw it. Nature has the answer to most everything wrong with the world.
- Comment on Mother of all breaches - a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records 9 months ago:
Agreed. It WOULD make them almost entirely go away, though. CEO’s are required to do what is best for their bottom line, BY LAW. So, IMO it is essential that this is codified into law in the US in particular because that is the ONLY language that multinational corporations understand and spend real money on fixing.
IMO, It would also help to tip the badly imbalanced scales of profit over to the side of white hat hackers too since organizations that employ black hat hackers creating ransomware make literally TENS OF BILLIONS a year. If I were a hacker (I’m not), at the current market rate, being a white hat hacker is significantly less profitable.
- Comment on Mother of all breaches - a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records 9 months ago:
Reposted comment:
I have a solution:
governments should heavily fine companies that are subject to data breaches.
If it cost them real money (proportional to their market cap perhaps) to allow a data breach, I’m betting they’d shore up those holes REALLLLLLLLLL QUICK.
- Comment on The absurdity of the return-to-office movement 9 months ago:
To be sure, a Starbucks cappuccino is not going to make itself
Why not? That could EASILY be automated.
- Comment on The FUTURE Of PIZZA delivery - Colin Furze 10 months ago:
Colin Furze takes oil money.
- Comment on Is the 'rise of retail theft' problem in America overblown? 10 months ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Linux Hardening - what are you must-haves? 1 year ago:
Here’s how this concept made it into my radar. This is an obsessively paranoid NixOS config and accompanying article:
xeiaso.net/blog/paranoid-nixos-2021-07-18/
Also, for further reference:
There’s a whole subsection of nixpkgs that could be helpful for a gardening guide:
github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/…/hardened.nix
Also, there are a few articles walking us through hardening Nix:
dataswamp.org/…/2022-01-13-nixos-hardened.html
On NixOS Discourse:
