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.
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.
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
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.
this is a new one
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610571
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)
Not something I need but super cool that this is both open source and shows the realtime flow.
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.
There's a meta linux distribution with that name already :(
https://kairos.io/
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.
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.
and...?
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
"The community" of every single person that works on software and names things? For which you can speak?
Oh that community! Yeah we banned Joel_Mckay for speaking for us