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Witness the Septopert, which is not just the smallest known Nopert at 7 vertices, but we now know it is the smallest possible Nopert!
New Noperts drop: https://github.com/tom7/noperts
The fact that it contains a Triforce and the eponymous 7 is not a cheeky easter-egg, but simply a BEAUTIFUL PROPERTY OF MATHEMATICS.
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I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.
That makes for a pretty bad experience.
yes, assuming you are there for a discussion and not entertainment.
most folks are on reddit for entertainment, let’s not kid ourselves. very tiny sliver of the users were there for discussion.
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For me reddit got bad because of grouphink and terrible moderation (you were not nice to some idiot? banned for life!). I never used any 3rd party apps (nor the official app for that matter, only the website with adblock).
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one sub i recently visited talking jobs/layoffs got meme-fied recently. because happen tor each the front page a couple times, it drawn into many trolls and bots.
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I noticed a profound change in moderating about the time TheDonald became popular. People started getting bans after this for things they would have never been banned for before and it wasn’t the racist/sexist people getting banned.
I eventually received a subreddit ban after leaving a comment in a conservative Reddit effectively stating the Republicans should take out Ron Desantis like the dirty diaper he was. When I pointed out to the moderators that what I said was rather tame compared to other comments they claimed I was harassing them (for exactly one appeal message). I received a 24hr site ban over this which was both bizarre and confusing. I started to disengage after this and after the API changes I stopped using it completely.
@Kurorori ha, ich auch!
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I don’t know, size made it pretty bad. Subreddits with hundreds of thousands or more users create environments where no one is trying to have a discussion. People are just vying for attention. That creates an environment where comments are either all jokes, or all snark. It’s really, really hard to have anything that resembles a human experience in a place like that. People stop recognizing each other as people, and just treat everyone as an audience.
That makes for a pretty bad experience.
A combination of three things:
The connected bit means that they are always part of an attack surface. Security can't be an afterthought. The networking is also often expensive (mobile Internet across a fleet of tens of millions of devices): software updates cost money to deploy, so avoiding needing updates.
The long installed life means that need to be easy for software maintenance. #CHERIoT's compartmentalisation model makes this easy because it encourages well-defined interfaces and allows some things to be auditably removed from the attack surface (this component deals only with trusted data, we don't need to patch vulnerabilities in it). CHERIoT's retrospective analysis of FreeRTOS+TCP in our compartmentalised networks stack shows that none of the CVEs in the 12 or so years since the project was created would have required an urgent patch (in the worst case, they can do intermittent denial of service). That's the kind of guarantee you need for this. There was testimonial in the US congressional hearings about smart meters a few years ago with companies claiming that they needed a 20-25 year operational life for smart meters to make them economically feasible. CHERI is about the only game in town for that if you want security and don't want a 30x (minimum) increase in your costs from formal verification.
And the national infrastructure bit (if you can compromise all smart meters in a country, there's a lot of damage that you can do even if all that you can do is manipulate price data to make smart devices increase demand when the grid is at capacity), which is why the government is encouraging this.
@david_chisnall thanks this is a really interesting perspective. I’d have assumed larger / more complex systems would be of interest @cheri_alliance
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I stopped talking about politics because I would be brigaded by western/capitalist bros.
With the Ghislaine Maxwell WorldNews moderation stuff I wouldn't doubt if there were more unknowns around banning generally cordial leftist/Pro Palestine/Anti capitalist voices. I mean also just look at the Luigi Mangione crackdown.
It bleeds into conspiracy, so I try not to push it much, but I'm sure there's some type of moderation aspect.
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@Kurorori ha, ich auch!
German defense tech giant Helsing launches Clarity, an intelligence platform using military-customized AI agents to rival Palantir's Maven and Anduril's Lattice (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
https://resiliencemedia.co/helsing-launches-clarity-a-competitor-to-palantirs-maven/
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p21#a261111p21
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CLOSE THE DOOR we’re hot boxing the place
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