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  • I’m starting to come around to big corps running their custom enhanced versions while feeding their open source counterparts with the last gen weights. As much as I love open source, people need to eat.

    As was mentioned, if they start doing something egregious, they’re not the only game in town, and can also be forked. Love it or hate it, a big corp sponsor makes Joe six-pack feel a little more secure in using a product.



  • Thank you for the work on this extension. I understand the idea and the simplicity, and laud the work that went into it.

    Ideally, security should be composed of these visible little file connectors like you have here. They’re auditable near by definition (external calls,obfuscation,hidden exploits).

    The main issue, and a sad state of affairs today, is hardware based security devices or “enclaves”. These are all closed, and many big players lock them down.

    Ideally, the TOTP key should be stored in an enclave to reduce the chance of a key leaking. Master key is nice, but it’s still a software control on an assumed compromised system.

    With that said, isn’t the whole benefit of TOTP the human interaction? If I see one browsers request login, then the code comes from the keyboard, it’s difficult to use that code again. If there is a keylogger you get one session. When it’s stored locally, you can automate it and login from anywhere once you crack or sniff the master password.

    I really like this type of security, it’s likely the future, but the entrenched industry makes securing properly by anyone who isn’t a big player very difficult.

    Passkeys try to get around this by making them disposable per device locked in an enclave. Hardware assurance is a roadblock.







  • It’s a branding issue, ultimately. If I make a product, I should be able to choose where I sell that product and the brands I associate with. Now imagine I sell a pen with a special ink only

    Uniball and Pilot make ink, but that they weren’t really using it so sold it to me at a discount. Everyone starts using my pens and the ink shows up everywhere. As a consequence, the ink industry slowly starts pulling their ink from my pens and raising prices. With everyone now selling the fancy ink pens and me without the original ink, it’s no longer just a branding issue, it leans to common carrier provisions. The ink is like the network, it is common currency in the market, like laid infrastructure. Treating it like a brand now will reduce competition and stagnant the market.

    The ink is also the streaming content. Prevent companies from preventing fair use and you fix the issue. What stops Disney from making 5 “competing” streaming services and “licensing” to itself and blocking others? It’s a media creating monopoly, you can’t let that slide.








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    I can see it a little, but you’re overthinking it.

    The director wanted his movie to be authentic, the city didn’t want to stir up the past. Director rightfully says ok, I have an alternative. City horrified of how it’s portrayed and folds.

    The negative is that the swastika will fly for filming, obviously, promoting (very) indirectly.

    That aspect doesn’t make this meme pro-nazi as I see it. The whole point is that a creative wanted something that the decision makers tried to block. The creative does what their name implies and finds a hack to get their vision closer to what ends up on film.