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  • In time it may become a trade-off between new (with associated features and speed) Vs tried and tested/secure.
    To us now this sounds perverse, but remember that NASA generally use very old hardware because they can be more certain the various bugs & features have been found and documented. In NASA’s case this is for reliability. I’ll concede ‘brute force’ does add another dimension when applying this logic to security.

    This may also become an AI arms race. Finding exploits is likely something AI could become very good at - but a better AI seeking to obfuscate?


















  • Ernest will no doubt correct me if I’m wrong, but I think he’s also said he’d prefer to leave aps to those for whome it is a core strength.
    I think he knows it’s something the community would like, so I think the post you link above was in reaction to Artimis unfortunately going offline and the App (for now) dieing with it (since nobody seems able to contact the developer). I suspect it’s something Ernest will progress ‘in his free time’ if no other apps which live up to his ambitions are developed first!



  • how it should work on kbin.social [?]

    In my view ideally upvotes and downvotes federate both ways, but I can also see why some admins might choose not to federate in downvotes.

    I guess the real question comes down to what you do with the information.
    I think currently the sort order is very heavily skewed towards boosts (which I actually quite like), but I do also sometimes wonder how it would look if the sort order was aligned with the reputation system (i.e. boost= two upvotes).
    Having both sort options available might be nice, (noting that we’ll not federate in any boosts from Lemmy).

    If we did federate in downvotes the current sort order (which seems based on boosts less downvotes?) probably wouldn’t make sense?

    …I’m also be keen to see others thoughts on this!

    Edit: formatting