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witx ,

Or perhaps it will come from the right? Undefined behaviour is the magic word

witx OP ,

Thanks for your answers. I wasn't able to get what I wanted to work but that's because the device used broadcast for discoverability which doesn't work through subnets. I pivoted to something else

witx ,

I read somewhere that someone was using anonymous currencies to buy life saving medicine from "non traditional" markets because they were much much cheaper. Let me see if I find the article

witx ,

Haha no drugs in that article at least. I can't find it but I think it was either for diabetes or asthma

witx ,

They are power and space efficient, and usually very quiet. That's fascinating enough.

witx ,

It depends on your needs. I have minis that cost <100$ and have others that cost 500$. My cheapest mini has currently 3TB of backups of my personal things, so it serves my needs very cheaply. I don't need a GPU so it keeps the costs down.

4 months durability for an $800 phone!

My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...

witx ,

And the apple fanboys appear. Let's blame the consumer for what is a design flaw ...

witx ,

You're just partially correct.

With Rust you get compile time guarantees that your code doesn't have a specific class of vulnerabilities. Can you do that with C?

witx ,

Ahah, I'm pretty sure many of the programmers on Linux et al, that worked on code with CVEs are still better programmers than you will ever be. The fact is that a lot of projects are just complex and they are hard to reason about on languages like C.

But I guess you know that. Keep trolling.

witx ,

You are not very consistent, first you imply that not "being a shitty programmer" is the fix for security issues in C. And then you say that any programmer can and will make mistakes...

Again you refuse to see my argument: yes I agree that viewing Rust, or any other language, as being a panaceia is wrong and following the hype. But Rust is provably better than C w.r.t to memory safety issues because it, provably, finds memory issues during compile time. I'm not discussing other types of security issues.

Yes C needs all that "freedom" with memory due to its low level use cases, but Rust is proving that it can also cover those cases (with the unsafe keyword) and cover the opposite cases where you want more strict memory usage and safety, so much so that you see now operating systems and firmware being developed in it. I won't argue and compare performance as I don't know enough.

You could argue that Rust by providing the "unsafe", keyword can and will have memory issues, but IMO the fact that you need to enclose unsafe operations in a scope allows for more focused reviewing and auditing

witx , (edited )

You keep coming up with insults or inflamatory comments instead of answering the points, when I'm just trying to have a discussion of ideas. I don't understand why I am being unhinged when I even agreed with you partially.

I'm not a Rust programmer, I just play occasionally with it on pet projects. The languages I'm most experienced in are C++ and then C, I have no "horse in the race" of Rust, and I don't see c/c++ going away anytime soon, I just see what the language improves on them

witx ,

To me it feels like people romanticising their hobbies/escape activities. If they started doing it as work soon enough they would have lots of pain points and stress. Sure you don't have CVEs or libraries to update but the deadline for that chair or cabinet you were commissioned is coming and you can't just get the damn thing right. At the same time you have another customer complaining that you need to check some other stuff you've made that isn't working right .. see where I'm going?

I know a lot of people in the trades and they have very similar or analogous pain points as me in software.

Doing it as a hobby though? It's amazing. I don't really need a car anymore but I've been learning how to fix mine and it has been great

witx ,

I think HL3 will only happen to push some frontier in gaming, like they did with Alyx and VR. It's the only safe move with that franchise and all the hype

witx ,

Ah the marvels of infinite growth and capitalism.
Are we still allowed to say enshitification here?

witx ,

Gotta love user reported bugs. I had one that reported a product of ours crashed only on Mondays. We spent a total of 5 minutes thinking of a cause and appointed customer support for a Friday morning. Lo and behold the app still crashed.

In this case the app only crashed on Mondays... because that's when this user actually used the application

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witx ,

imho Debian is far from beginner friendly. They will end up with a laptop without WiFi.

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