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  • The bit about “comparability”. Where do you see that they will? (I mean, aside from the original article that claimed it without evidence.)

    A submodule is “just” a pointer to a specific commit in an external repo. It was at one point entirely done via shell scripts, and unless I missed an update is still obnoxiously slow compared to the rest of git.

    I can’t fathom why the SHA-256 support for submodules would do more than just treat the SHA as a foreign key.and go from there. We’d potentially be in trouble if SHA-1 support is being removed, but I don’t see any reason why git would do something so stupid.

    (I honestly can’t fathom why SHA-256 hashed commits couldn’t be the children of SHA-1 commits. A bunch of reasons why you may not WANT to, but that’s a separate concern that seems like it’d be outweighed by comparability.)



  • I read that whole article, and aside from an unsourced statement that GitHub et al will need “new and distinct servers” exactly zero of that seemed to support the thesis that a SHA-256 default was going to be “expensive”.

    Submodules are not the preferred way to incorporate third-party code for any environment I know. And while web-exposed URLs for management tools like Jira or AzureDevOps will need to adapt before the new default can be used, doing so even with a wholesale re-hashing of every commit isn’t technically difficult.

    What would be terrible and dangerous would be if git 3.0 entirely dropped SHA-1 support. But just as you’re free to keep on using “master” instead of “main”, i expect that extant projects will still be supported until a version after every major project has converted to SHA-256 or what have you.



  • “Sexual force” and “young men” need some fairly large qualifications here.

    • the most.common “sexual force” was some variant of “sell yourself” or “ask again”. No distinction was.made in the absract betwreen consent-respecting and consent-disregarding strategies, with all merely grouped as “sexual force”

    • The study is on college student aged men, who responded to an ask to 'tell men’s side of the story", reported a hook-up in the past two years, and either didnt clock the thin rewording of “tell me how you raped her” or continued regardless for the $10.

    This is absolutely a worthwhile study and should be repeated and refined, but its not at all as described in that headline. If you want to distill it.down to a single sound bite, *65% of men claim they never employed rapey strategies" is more accurate.

    (I mean, unless you consider…“ask a woman to help you connect with a date” or “sell yourself as a good hookup” rapey…)


  • These warnings DO serve a purpose, even when they are legally void. People tend to follow less closely behind trucks, secure their belongings when parking, and take other actions to avoid the clearly indicated potential loss.

    If a load breaks and cracks your windshield the truck is likely liable, but depending on how close you were following you may share some liability as well – especially if you, say, collide with the truck or another car after your windshield breaks. The law may hold that the sign has no effect, but itll be hard to convince a jury that you didnt know the truck was a potential hazard after you say that you saw it.


  • We already have a system subject to impersonation attacks and simple fraud. Major retailers and fiscal institutions both spend a considerable amount of time tracking fraud, and often catch it so easily that they need to wait until it accumulates to a point where it’s worth reporting.

    And, even if we were suddenly inundated with a level of fraud attempts sufficient to overwhelm the system, there is literally an entirely separate model of online finance that was designed to be zero trust.

    And if “how existing banking” and “cryptocurrency” don’t convince you we won’t be reverting to cash, please realize that an AI ubiquitous to overwhelm global finance is also so ubiquitous that we might as well do what humans always actually do when commerce breaks down, and revert.to a gift economy.




  • Sudden abscorbic rejection is the tolerant reaction to facist sea-lioning.

    There are a handful of other issues where a similarly strong rejection is appropriate, such as “surely a little rape is OK” or “why can’t a grandfather fuck a 12 year old”.

    It may seem extreme to respond with such vitriol just to a political choice, until you remember that the politocian in question is a rapist and a pedophile.