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The Anomaly of Cheap Complexity

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> "A keynote talk by Thomas Dullien[1] entitled “Security, Moore’s law, and the anomaly of cheap complexity” at CyCon 2018, the 10th International Conference on Cyber Conflict, organized by NATO." [1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=q98foLaAfX8

Off topic, but, I can't put this talk into my Watch Later list because it's "For Kids". It's not the first time I've ran into this issue, but it is the first time I've cared. Before, I said "that's funny", showed my SO, and moved on, because I didn't really care about saving the video. Today, I really do want to save it.

While I could save it as I would any other link or tab, that list is where I go to find the videos that I've saved for later, and as of today, it isn't sufficient for that purpose. I swear, this is the straw that will covert me to maintaining playlists on Newpipe, or, cross-platform, subscribing to channels via RSS, downloading the videos with youtube-dl (or it's progeny), and watching them with MPV. Today is the day! And I'm coming for those other links and tabs next.

I just checked and it seems they've finally fixed a problem around this that I had for a long time. Before they implemented this policy I had added several kids videos to my watch later. After implementing the policy I could no longer remove such videos from my watch later playlist. I'm glad to see this fixed, I feared they might be there forever.

A bigger question is why is this classified as made for kids?

did someone press the wrong button to classify it as child content when uploading it, or is it an exercise left to the reader to resolve?

I think many uploaders misunderstand it as simply "safe for kids" rather than "made specifically for kids" with all the consequences it entails (no comments, no background play or minimization in the app, no adding to playlists, possibly more).

Well, nothing stops voting machine design in Vhdl. Move the hardware software partition 100% to the hardware side. Prove a design formally

Right, but the point of the article is that it would be expensive to do that. VHDL, although not difficult to learn is a specialized skill that many technical people do not have. It’s very dissimilar to something like CPP for that reason. You can build a team to do it, but the market is smaller. Then you have FPGAs themselves, which are expensive chips, then you have tool chains, which are proprietary and closed down. This does not help costs and it does not help security.

Then you need to attach the fpga to peripherals, like the display, so you need to build a board, solder components to it.

There’s a lot of supply chain complexity in building a simple device. That’s the point, and that’s why we don’t see it.

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