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  • Your original “pick two” comment implies that you can pick “anonymous” + “free of bots”, or “available to everybody” + “free of bots”. I can’t think of any system that would satisfy those.

    The former can be had on a system accessible only by a restricted group of people, through terminals that have no automation interfaces. Think of a local private library with a bulletin board: Only members can enter, and once inside, anyone can post using the provided tools, but there are no tools that bots could use, and there's nothing connecting an individual to what they post on the board. Of course, a system like this would not be available to everyone; it wouldn't work as an internet service, for example.

    The latter can be had by requiring an access token issued to each user. Bots could then be either ejected quickly by revoking their owner's token when discovered, or prevented early by requiring all access to be through public terminals that have no automation interfaces. Of course, any system that issues an access token to an individual cannot be anonymous if revocation is to be meaningful.

    The government would keep track of whether or not they issued you an ID,The token/ID system adds anonymity

    I wish that were possible, but no, it is not. If a government (or any other authority) keeps track of whether they issue someone an ID, then they must also have the ability to connect IDs to individuals. Such an arrangement can only be anonymous if everyone involved is a good-faith actor choosing not to abuse that ability, which history demonstrates is not a realistic assumption.

  • but your identity is tied to it for the duration

    This doesn't disprove what I wrote, as it's not anonymous.

    you can provide pseudoanonymity,

    Pseudoanonymity is not anonymity, regardless of how any given person chooses to define that nebulous term.

    My "pick two" stands.

  • As for humans passing their token to a bot, that’s not really solvable by any system.

    Indeed. Which is (part of) why I wrote, "pick two".

    But the human is still the one with the authority, and chooses to delegate to the bot.

    Which is what we already have today.

  • but your identity is tied to it for the duration

    Then it's not anonymous.

  • If anonymous and available to everyone, what would prevent people from acquiring an ID and passing it on to a bot, or from acquiring multiples?

    • anonymous
    • available to everyone
    • free of (unwanted) bots

    Pick two.

  • No. They chose a nonstandard Python because they wanted to use coroutines before standard Python had coroutines.

    Your No True Scotsman argument is not only fallacious, but just plain incorrect.

  • you can’t make games or even big projects for GUI

    Oh no? Someone should probably tell the people who made Eve Online.

  • Youre breaking a core tenant

    Did you mean tenet?

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Tomorrow’s U.S. Senate Vote: Four Internet Bills, One Wrong Direction

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
  • Privacy @programming.dev

    Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

    krebsonsecurity.com /2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/
  • I really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way.

    That would be Debian Stable. I'm using it with KDE Plasma (6.3.6), and am pretty happy with it. (I also applied a few backports for gaming and software development, but that was easy.)

    Is there something about newer Plasma versions that you absolutely must have right now, rather than living with 6.3.x until next year?

  • This is a thinly veiled advertisement.

    tl;dr: The length of a slice is not a valid index into that slice.

    Of course. Because Go uses zero-based indexing, just like many other languages.

  • is to identify the human. This may not even be a conscious development from the company.

    Given the reign of surveillance capitalism and rise of fascism, I think it would be naive to believe it's anything else.

  • Indeed. It's linked in the third sentence of the article.

  • Privacy @programming.dev

    Cloudflare Precursor watches your mouse and keyboard to decide if you are human

    nerds.xyz /2026/07/cloudflare-precursor-bot-detection/
  • An argument could be made that the first group is about engineering software, while the second group is about navigating a certain kind of adversity.

    I guess one could call the latter a kind of engineering, but not of software.

  • Describing the saboteur as "The developer of Mumble" is misleading, because Mumble is developed by multiple contributors, and Beatrici isn't even the most prominent one.

    The post's true headline is:

    Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

  • Systemd (along with the various add-on services that come with it on most major distros) meddles with and tends to break critical functionality quite often, except on boring systems where the needs being served happen to be handled well by systemd's happy path(s).

    If the computers you maintain fit Lennart Poettering's idea of how to do things, then you might never notice a problem. On the other hand, if you're responsible for systems with unusual or complex configurations, or have need of the flexibility that makes unix so very useful in the first place, then you might very well discover that systemd is a pushy, invasive, poorly considered, buggy, and in some ways just pain broken collection of software, maintained with a level of arrogance and carelessness not often matched in the unix community, and you might rightly come to despise working with it.

    Sadly, my experience has been the latter. In the years since the systemd suite was adopted by Debian distros, I have been burned more times by it and spent more weeks of my life troubleshooting it than I can count any more. Because of this, I have come to resent systemd. And I know I'm not alone in this.

    So, dear readers, when you see people complaining about systemd, please try not to be like the zealots out there who routinely cry "luddite" and demand proof when they encounter folks who dislike it. Try instead to remember that one size does not fit all, that some of systemd's detractors are very skilled and reasonable people who happen to run systems that are necessarily different from your own, and have encountered problems that you have not. It has been over a decade. Some of us are tired of it, and tired of talking about it.

  • Privacy @programming.dev

    "The KIDS Act" Is KOSA+ and Congress Could Vote On It Next Week. Here's What You Need to Know

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online
  • Privacy @programming.dev

    WhatsApp Catches Spyware Firm NSO Defying No-Hacking Court Order

    www.securityweek.com /whatsapp-catches-spyware-firm-nso-defying-no-hacking-court-order/
  • Linux @programming.dev

    Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-source-code-for-its-tvs-os/
  • Privacy @programming.dev

    EFF is Leaving X

    www.eff.org /deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x
  • Programming @programming.dev

    This AI open-source cloning software shows the gaping hole in code copyright

    www.pcgamer.com /software/ai/in-the-long-list-of-awful-things-ai-might-lead-to-we-can-also-add-killing-open-source-software/
  • Programming @programming.dev

    CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font

    www.codingfont.com
  • Linux @programming.dev

    CrackArmor: Multiple vulnerabilities in AppArmor - Qualys Security Advisory

    cdn2.qualys.com /advisory/2026/03/10/crack-armor.txt
  • Privacy @programming.dev

    Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles

    www.heise.de /en/news/Paying-without-Google-New-consortium-wants-to-remove-custom-ROM-hurdles-11204037.html
  • Programming @programming.dev

    inputlag.science: latency issues and how to tackle them

    inputlag.science
  • News @lemmy.world

    Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

    www.404media.co /man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
  • Programming @programming.dev

    An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

    theshamblog.com /an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
  • Programming @programming.dev

    Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

    notepad-plus-plus.org /news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
  • Programming @programming.dev

    Doing the thing is doing the thing.

    www.softwaredesign.ing /blog/doing-the-thing-is-doing-the-thing
  • Linux @programming.dev

    VoidLink: The Cloud-Native Malware Framework

    research.checkpoint.com /2026/voidlink-the-cloud-native-malware-framework/
  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev

    A Grandchild's Guide to Using Grandpa's Computer

  • News @lemmy.world

    Public Domain Day 2026

    web.law.duke.edu /cspd/publicdomainday/2026/
  • Programming @programming.dev

    Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat

    www.theregister.com /2025/12/23/memory_software_opinion/