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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • OIDC is innately centralized

    Huh, that’s not my understanding. I was there when it first came out, and the whole point was to allow you to use any URI of your choice as an authenticator. Let’s see what the first line of Wikipedia has to say:

    OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol

    Huh. 🤔







  • Charitable reading of his thought process: “huh I wonder if this is the guy I’m here to deal with? I bet it is, I’ll go collect him. Oh shit, oh shit he’s getting away! I have to stop him from getting away!”

    But here’s the thing that I don’t think gets surfaced enough: let’s say this was the guy and let’s say he was getting away. If you had captured and arrested him “properly”, the penalty wouldn’t be death by firing squad. Even if he was charged with resisting arrest he wouldn’t be sentenced to death by firing squad. So certainly there’s no possible universe where shooting a person is an acceptable tool of arrest. People sometimes debate in situations like this about how dangerous it is for cops, and how they need guns for protection, etc etc. But in situations like this I think it’s better to reframe:

    The police are supposed to be the first step in a process. Collect bad guys, contain bad guys, then another part of the system judges and sentences. I’m not arguing this is the best way to do this, just that even the people who like police tend to feel this is how the system is meant to work. So definitely we should all be able to agree that handing out harsher sentences at the first stage of the process than the last stage would ever consider should just be impossible to justify. If you can’t collect the bad guy without killing them, then I guess they got away. Even if they’re guilty. It’s better than someone being dead.






  • He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

    If the monster world went into a blackout, he’d have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being “necessary” for the economics of the system.

    And yeah, it’s a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that’s just a bit of movie magic 😉



  • The difference is that a tip is “you’re already getting paid to do your job, why would I pay you to do your job?”. Whereas this is “you gave me this for free, so maybe if I make a bunch of money I could show appreciation for that gift” or pay-it-forward so the next guy can also get a free start, etc.

    And yes I know they’re are busted places on this Earth where basically servers don’t already get paid to do their job and are thus reliant on tips as income, but that’s a different problem…



  • I know we’re joking… but just in case people don’t know, π, despite what we call it in English, is the letter “p”, which ought to be said “pee”, and was chosen for “periphery”. Though “perimeter” could be used as as well. Because even though we have the special word “circumference” for the perimeter of a circle, pi is the ratio of a circle’s perimeter to its diameter. As in, take diameter, multiply by magic constant p, get perimeter.