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koakuma, to random
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We authenticate ourselves all the time to computers but they barely, if ever, authenticate themselves to us (and when they do the mechanism/UX is usually clunky enough that people fall to scam login dialogs all the time) :thounking:

wolf480pl,
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@koakuma the key problem is that most people can't do ECDSA in their head

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @koakuma
it's a bit long, so can you point me to the chapter that talks about the user verifying that the monitor they're looking at has not been replaced with a fake one?

18+ wolf480pl, to random
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Does EU Parliament effectively have any power? Or is it just a bunch of comfy seats with comfy pay and zero responsibility?

wolf480pl,
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@takao @icedquinn
ok but like

When the European Commission proposes an idiotic bill

(and it does it with surprising regularity)

how come we never hear of EU Parliament stopping it?

why is this always a game between the European Comission and the European Council, and the parliament in the middle seems powerless?

wolf480pl,
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@takao @icedquinn
Oh, ok, a feedback loop.

EU parliament is useless -> use it as retirement for poloticians who fucked up

EU parliament is full of politicians who fucked up -> EU parliament is useless

?

wolf480pl,
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@takao @icedquinn
what if EP was allowed to propose amendments?

(let's for a moment ignore whether such a change would pass and pretend it magically passed, would it make things better?)

wolf480pl,
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@takao @icedquinn
that'd require caring...

Maybe if the media started highlighting who voted for some bill, instead of letting the blame fall for "the EU", "the European Commision", "Ursula", and "Germans"

18+ wolf480pl, to random
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fuckin North Americans keep pretending VAT doesn't exist

18+ wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn you have sales tax tho?

18+ wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn by "your business" do you mean the buyer or the seller?

18+ wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @arcana
are you saying in US, the sales tax is also paid on business-to-business transaction?

18+ wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @arcana
is it designed such that you don't know what tax you're supposed to pay, so you have to pay a tax company to calculate that for you?

dragoonaethis, to random
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A tiny sliver of hell froze over: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/

>Is Alpine cool with this?
(Most likely) absolutely not, but please keep going

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
Ok, now look at Linux kernel. Or wlroots. Or something from OpenBSD, eg. OpenSMTPD.

They have some objects, with some inheritance, and and some of those have virtual methods.

They also have generic collection types.

And you know what? There's nowhere near as much boilerplate as there's with gobject.

Because they have a few macros.

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
Well, and a lot of good judgement on what macros to make.

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
WDYM?
No container_of?

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
ok but like

did you have a double-linked-list anywhere in the code?

Normally in Linux kernel when you need a list, you include struct list_head inside your struct that you want to keep on the list.

Then when you retrieve something from the list, you get a pointer to the struct list_head, and you use container_of to get at your own struct that contains the list_head

wolf480pl,
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@icedquinn @dragoonaethis @lanodan
like, how do you write a driver without using this: https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/LinkedLists

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