Credit unions, at least in theory, are known for caring more about their customers. It'd be worth explicitly giving them the feedback that you use them via their website or via an app that works on an Open Source phone, and telling them that that's one reason you're a customer.
Fraud prevention. If they lock things down, they lose less money to fraud. I think they should just have to suck it up and eat the cost but obviously they don't think that way. Only a small minority even understands and cares about these issues. The money they save by trampling over our freedom is no doubt much higher than the value brought in by us. They will no doubt sacrifice us for increased profits if we force the issue. We have no leverage.
There is no reason whatsoever for a major corporation to not use remote attestation technology. Banks will use it because fraud. Streaming services will use it because piracy. Messaging services will use it because spam, bots. If you're the corporation, the user is your enemy and you want to protect yourself from him.
Governments want this too. Encryption. Anonymity. They need to control it all. Free computers are too subversive for them. They cannot tolerate it.
> If they lock things down, they lose less money to fraud.
[Citation Needed]
I see this kind of claim made often, but never backed up with evidence that remote attestation of consumer devices has any real-world impact on fraud. It sounds like it could be true because it would detect compromised devices, but it could just as easily be false because people with devices that don't pass are usually technically sophisticated.
I've gone all SSR (server-side render) with JSX using Astro or Elysia. If I need frontend logic, I just sprinkle in a little Htmx or roll my own inline js function. It makes debugging 1000% easier and the pagerank scores are usually amazing out of the box.
Hey I read over hyperstar and enjoy the whole minimal interface for syncing server state. Please do continue working on this and announce when it graduates from beta phase :)
Absolutely this. It's no wonder why these states are also culturally grounded in terms of "command and hierarchy". If GM fires you, it's end of the line for you.. good luck serving hot meals at Cracker Barrel.
- AI without "higher intelligence" could still take over. LLMs do not have to be smart or conscious to cause global problems.
- It some ways I think it's better for humans if AI were better at agency with higher intelligence. Any idiot can cause a chemical leak that destroys a population. It takes higher awareness to say "no, this is not good for my environment".
Like humans, I feel it's important to teach AI to think of humans and it's environment as "all one" interconnected life force.
You can host your own instance, but resolving forks is not self-authenticating and requires some central trust (because of the 72 hour rollback window for higher priority rotation keys). Not counting that, you could essentially run your own fully independent instance where the worst that could happen is that you lack some newer updates to people's did documents (but anyone can upload them since they're self-authenticating). Some people do run their own instances for caching reasons, but these just ingest operations from the official one.
In terms of "credible exit", if the community at large could decide to move to a different PLC host, it would be technically possible for everyone to switch over.
Worth mentioning that Bluesky PBC is relinquishing legal control over the PLC and spinning it off into its own entity based in Switzerland.[1]
While did:plc was intended to be centralised from the start and under open governance (https://docs.bsky.app/blog/plc-directory-org), did: provided a framework to adopt other key resolution methods.
As part of the IETF work (https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf) this is a hotly debated area and I’d expect some solid evolution to happen as part of that process, super encourage anyone interested to get involved there!
The likely hard truth: 90% of software 'itself' will be easily replaceable, especially indie software. The reason why Shopify, Jira, TurboTax, etc are hard to replace is due to most of the HARD work being OUTSIDE software- the legal work for being a payment processor, legal insurance, special client relationships that only salesmen can foster, high market TRUST requirements, legal COMPLIANCE (HIPAA), etc etc. I'm fairly convinced that AI coding is going to force most programmers to move into becoming experts in specific business hard problems.
100% we are definitely heading towards a world where we work on hard problems and novel problems. The days of a team building a dashboard for a year for a crud app are likely behind us
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