5 comments

  • bradknowles 1 hour ago

    This isn’t really a new problem. Back in 1995, I was the Sr. Internet Mail Administrator at AOL. We were doing everything we could to fight the spammers.

    We found that we would work on a new technique over a period of weeks or months, and then they would find a way to work around our technique in a single weekend.

    Rinse and repeat.

    The only thing that has changed is that the market for scammers has moved, and they’ve gotten a lot better and faster at adapting to your protection techniques.

    • tensegrist 3 hours ago
      • bobbiechen 1 hour ago

        Referring to "decisioning", which is unfortunately a real term in this space.

        Don't get me started on people who use "decision on" to mean "enforce a decision" (i.e. by blocking an action)

      • edude03 5 hours ago

        Not something I need but super cool that this is both open source and shows the realtime flow.

        • octoberfranklin 48 minutes ago

          Is anybody else annoyed by made-up words like "decisioning" and "proofing"?

          You can't slap "ing" on a noun. It's for verbs. Stop nouning.

          • mh- 10 minutes ago

            yes, but don't blame OP for it. this is effectively a term of art in their field.

          • Messier43 6 hours ago

            There's a meta linux distribution with that name already :(

            https://kairos.io/

            • jonas21 6 hours ago

              And an identity verification company: https://kairos.com/

              And an AI safety organization: https://kairos-project.org/

              And a DARPA program: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/knowledge-directed-a...

              Pick any ancient greek word and you'll probably find at least a handful of collisions.

              • citguru 4 hours ago

                There will always be projects that share the same name. You can do quick search on Github: https://github.com/search?q=kairos&type=repositories. However it does not change the significance of what each project is building and the problem they sought to solve.

                • giwook 5 hours ago

                  and...?

                  • Joel_Mckay 3 hours ago

                    In general, the community tries to avoid/mitigate project naming confusion. It is usually a gentleman's agreement, but sometimes may get nasty with trademarks/copyrights (example: Arduino.)

                    If you are not associated with a core decision team, it is considered nice to avoid confusing the public. In my opinion, gleaning donations is just theft. =3

                    • rytill 1 hour ago

                      "The community" of every single person that works on software and names things? For which you can speak?

                      • gnabgib 1 hour ago

                        Oh that community! Yeah we banned Joel_Mckay for speaking for us