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Didn’t necessarily think you were saying that, but everyone’s looking for an easy excuse with security problems, so best we can do is hit them with the ol' “it depends" :)

Great article, by the way, thank you!

This feels very AI-slop-y, and the green username comments are triggering my spidey senses, but maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy?

That was quite fun, and I enjoyed the data mining aspect of it. Quite edifying, thanks!

i’d argue against just saying "An adversary with write access to files on your machine has better things to do than tamper with your Go cache — by rational choice, they’ll steal your secret keys instead." because that’s only true if I have access to both. If I only have access to the cache, I might use that capability to get a chain into the next level going etc.

I’m not saying that "a poisoned Go cache" should necessarily be part of everyone’s threat model, but I’d also not just dismiss it by saying "well, it requires disk access". Either might be wrong, depending on your situation.

No, a lot of people do that! That’s usually the response I get when I write about it :)

To be fair, this is an interview with him, not an article by him. Still content featuring him, but not quite the same level of endorsement.

This is really fun, and I don’t even like Golf in real life!

The physics feel a bit wonky, but maybe I just don’t get the interface completely yet. Sometimes the balls trajectory curved in a way that I didn’t understand.

As a data point: I can honestly say I’ve never heard of Gamergate before this comment, and I am a 31-year-old white male. I did read a book on Watergate when I was in my teens, though.

I think the downvotes are coming in because you are carrying out a fundamentally different argument.

The article argues that people used to be more intellecutally capable when they were younger and it diminished with age.

You are arguing that each generation used to be more intellectually capable than the one before, and that that is diminishing.

I’m not trying to accuse you of anything, but it seems like you didn’t actually read the article you were commenting on. Is that possible?

I recommend visiting the Ecomuseo in Palermo [1] if you ever have the chance. They examine, among other things, the lasting impact of the subpar building of now mostly crumbling structures by the Mafia that still litter the cities of Sicily.

Yes, the mafia built housing, but it’s not the kind of social housing we might hope for—it’s mostly slum-like. Of course, the city of Palermo is also EXTREMELY densely populated—I read something like the fourth-most densely populated city in Europe in a magazine once, but can’t source that now, so take it with a grain of salt.

Nota bene: I’m not Italian myself; my wife’s family has their roots in Sicily.

[1] https://www.marememoriaviva.it/ (website only (?) in Italian)

2 per week, i.e. roughly 100.

You might want to check out the sibling thread.

It might be a little glib, but that’s the main incentive I see here, especially since they’re exclusively using their own system, Github Sponsors, to direct the money. It makes sense, but if it was truly only about the maintainers, wouldn’t it be better to get the money to them through whatever means they choose to implement?

But you’re right: in the end trying to find out what their actual motives are is purely speculation, and I shouldn’t have phrased it as if it were a fact.

It seems like you are pretty angry at me trying to get the notion across that this is good, but they could do better. That’s okay, I can deal with that.

But I want to make one thing clear: I’m not doing this for HN karma. I haven’t commented on here in years, and this article prompted a reaction. Trying to somehow shoehorn that into "you’re only doing this for points” is invalidating that in a way that I find troubling, because, really, how can I prove you wrong? I might just have an opinion on something and wanted to engage with a community about it, or I might not. Only I can tell (and you, apparently).

EDIT: Correction. I submitted two comments 2 months ago that I forgot about, the comments before that are from 2019.

I make about €120,000/year.