This is going to be a great time to be a lawyer… until the climate kills us all, of course.

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

That sounds like a good approach. If you can get the posts into WordPress, there’s so many scripts out there that will export the WordPress database into other formats.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

This is perfect, because the Fediverse is better than Twitch and Dragon Warrior Monsters is better than Pokemon.

research papers that require a strong background in mathematics and cryptography to understand and implement.

Lol. I guess that makes sense. Outside of school, we hope that all authentication will be implemented only cryptography experts anyway.

Could you maybe suggest some resources on this topic?

Not really, sorry. I’m not aware of anyone creating resources for your situation.

Or should I choose a simpler project?

For some context, cryptography isn’t even usually implemented “completely correctly” by experts. That’s part of why we have constant software security patches.

If I were in your shoes, I guess it would depend on my instructor and advisors.

If I felt like they have the skills to catch mistakes and no time to help correct mistakes, then I would just choose a simpler project. If they’re cool with awarding a good grade for a functional demo, I might just go for it.

I guess I would take this one to an advisor and get some feedback on practicality.

ISBN Search is a non-monopolist source of the same information.

I mean, you’re allowed to test it before it and iterate goes to review, though.

And reviewers can be allowed to merge stuff that’s “good enough”, and the iterate.

Yeah. The Cardassian cases are the most headache-inducing. My mind-canon for those is just “Gul Dukat thought it would be funny.”

Edit: With an occasional splash of “Garak the Simple Tailor messed with the system and no one was willing to admit they didn’t know how to fix it.” Which doesn’t hold up on DS9, where Odo would have, but works for various Cardassian locations.

The camera thing drives me nuts, because we all know it’s generally just going to be what’s drives the plot for this story. Which is okay.

But as a privacy nerd, my brain immediately concocts some deeply weird privacy law to explain why main engineering is monitored 24/7 and the front door is somehow not. Then my brain starts trying to come up with the relevant moments in the fictional history why the laws are so broken…

But it shows a problem; in most sci-fi not only are all the aliens 1.8 meters tall with five fingers and a larynx that can mimic human speech, they all come from world’s with a 24 hour day.

Yeah! Lamp-shading this trend is one of the ways that Farscape shines.

While Farscape is still frequently guilty of this trope, it’s fun that at least the human main character is often scolded by peers for his human-anatomy-centric biases.

is there a way to move commit out of the way Todo later?

This is what cherry-pick does for me. Now that the work is all done, I can cherry-pick the commits into the new branch in any order I find convenient (and often in an order that causes fewer git conflicts, or no git conflicts to resolve.)

Note that this approach is much stronger if the original commits are fairly focused and purposeful.

In extreme cases, I stop and rebase the new or old branch to clean up the commits before I cherry-pick them onto the same branch.

In essence, all of these techniques are just ways for me to very slowly and methodically organize thoughts, using git.

Also, sometimes it’s all too messy and I just copy and paste all the change I need into a fresh clean branch.

All swearwords, all the time. Generally puns on the servers purpose.

Whatever you do, familiarize yourself with git reflog. It contains all the commits, regardless of your current branch state. Even ones you might think you lost. (For about two weeks until it cleans itself up.)

In your shoes, I usually abort the rebase and start a new branch and cherry-pick the commits I need.

It takes awhile, but it’s reliable.

Source: In my overconfidence, I screw up my local git state pretty often.

That’s what resonates for me.

We don’t have email instances, and email providers similarly block un-desired content, but there’s not a big fuss about missing out on specific types of spam. Lol.

Similarly Internet service providers actually also block big blocks of malware providing domains, and accidentally sometimes block some great piracy resources. People who care learn to use a VPN or switch providers. Everyone else doesn’t have to think about it.

I’ll argue that The Fediverse also carries extremely similar switching cost as an email or Internet provider. For an average user, “Let folks you care to inform know where you moved, and maybe copy over some favorite bookmarks.”

Sure, different providers do try to bring different lenses on the same federated content, but most people aren’t served well by thinking about it on day one.

I think shifting to the term provider is a lot more honest to the user about what to expect.

That’s fantastic. Provider avoids the mostly baseless FOMO (fear of missing out) that instance can invoke.

I think provider more clearly communicates that the majority of the desirable content is going to be available the same through any provider.

There’s a timeline where I’m not automatically alarmed by something just because Elon supports it.

This isn’t that timeline. Where’s the grift?

Why is OpenGL considered an API?

An API is a promise - make these calls, get these kinds of results. An API often has more than one library that implements it. At minimum, there may be completely different code for different operating systems. At best, there may be completely separate vendors that implement identical APIs (Kubertnetes, and the Open Container Initiative, for examples).

Why is it necessary to use other libraries like GLAD, freeGLUT or GLFW to interface with OpenGL?

I don’t know.

where you install these packages that get used like libraries? What’s the difference?

Almost all packages are composed of libraries. Plenty of libraries lack packages. Packaging and delivering software is an entire field of study. As an expert at packaging and delivering software, I sometimes forget that a library I love still lacks a decent package. So I do my best to contribute a package, when I see a need.

Yeah. It’ll be a huge time saver. I understand they think they can have it having whole technology holy wars with itself soon, while the rest of us relax.