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Posts by Adam Inistrator
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Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library
Intel pulls plug on mini-PC NUCs
Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says
Wednesday 27th September 2023 07:16 GMT
Free speech comes with disinformation. The common man cannot have free speech in a curated environment.
Our system to date has not allowed freedom of speech to the average man. Twitter simply allows that in spades.
Our legacy media is currently full of disinformation as well. See climate change, covid, race, immigration etc.
Can people handle disinformation mixed with their free speech? I think so.
Most of the Musk haters are simply the usual left wing establishment drones who love the current "liberal" semi-fascists in power globally.
When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out
UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'
The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust
Will Flatpak and Snap replace desktop Linux native apps?
Wednesday 6th September 2023 12:55 GMT
libreoffice snap is a slug on Ubuntu for some reason. Both to start and to open large or password protected documents so I just went back to Ubuntu's standard deb despite it being not the latest version. I dont know if it is fast enough for other people in general but I hadnt time to invest.
Many distro's are mulling skipping libreoffice in standard installations nowadays since people are using web/cloud solutions like Office 365 more and more so the need for locally installed monsters is reducing over time.
Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack
C++ zooms past Java in programming popularity contest
Google says Android runs better when covered in Rust
Monday 5th December 2022 10:31 GMT
Simple minded people conclude what they want from weak data. No conclusion can be drawn from the data as presented. Apart from the failure to publish the actual NUMBERS of defects and instead relying on the ever misinterpreted percentages, just one gaping hole in the logic is the assumption that the C++ and Rust code is doing equivalent work.
Saturday 3rd December 2022 09:39 GMT
I would wager that most of the drop in defects will be due to a drop in defects in C++ code over the past 10+ years as modern C++ has been implemented ... and nothing whatsoever to do with the absolutely *tiny* fraction of Android coded in Rust.
The arguments correlating the drop to Rust being very weak, you have to wonder about the motivation of those who dare put such a non sequitur argument forward.
Why no breakdown of the drop in defects by language?
Cloudflare: Someone tried to pull the Twilio phishing tactic on us too
Log4j doesn't just blow a hole in your servers, it's reopening that can of worms: Is Big Biz exploiting open source?
Wednesday 15th December 2021 06:29 GMT
"At the end of the day, companies are responsible for ensuring the code they ship to production is safe, secure, and reliable,"
Open source maintainers dont ship to production. They ship to repository. The users of those repositories ship to production and are therefore responsible to ensure the code is safe and secure. Since open source has many advantages over closed source make this a value judgement. Is the poor chain of responsibility in open source worth it or not? There is no way to force the big open source users to connect with the open source producers but finding new ways to fund open source like patreon etc. could improve the situation.
The Rust Foundation gets ready to Rumbul (we're sure new CEO has never, ever heard that joke before)
China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5
Thursday 25th November 2021 04:36 GMT
Re: a limitation of hypersonics
Said object cant see at hypersonic speeds. That is the whole point. And a miss is as good as a mile unless nuclear which is a different game. Carriers will have moved many miles in unpredictable directions during even a hypersonic flight time. They are not at all fixed objects. If hypersonic was an advantage then existing rockets could easily achieve it. But they dont, presumably because of the final targeting requirement. Hypersonics advantage is arriving in the area quickly, and at relatively low altitude compared to ex atmosphere ballistics, so detection time is far later. Their weakness is in the targeting stage. Everybody is flapping around assuming that they are just faster versions of existing tech, which isnt true.
Tuesday 23rd November 2021 05:04 GMT
a limitation of hypersonics
While hypersonic they are deaf, dumb and blind due to the speed induced plasma around them. Think space shuttle during re-entry. They can arrive in the area quickly which, for mobile targets like ships, considerably assists in targeting, but they would need to slow down before being able to find or receive the final targeting. Then they would be vulnerable to existing anti-missile technology. Not exactly the "carrier killer" bragged about or feared.
Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account
Tuesday 9th February 2021 13:51 GMT
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I think that Rust is just a very successful experiment but its lessons will be borged into the main stream languages eventually. It's main problem is the bolt on parallelism due to its initial establishment as a single threaded css processor within Mozilla. Go has the parallellism built in far better but will also be borged in the long run. The reason is that languages like C++'s problems are unavoidable if you want to deal with the breadth. The alternative is that we will no longer have main stream languages but separation into niches.
Don't scrape the faces of our citizens for recognition, Canada tells Clearview AI – delete those images
Tuesday 9th February 2021 12:58 GMT
It looks more like a list of words that would not come up in school plus all anatomical words like penis and vagina. Banning the word "escort" and "undressing" seems a bit much. How are adults supposed to discuss all the banned items?
auto erotic, autoerotic, bastard, bdsm, beastiality, bimbos, bitch, bitches, bollocks, bondage, boob, boobs, busty, butt, buttcheeks, butthole, cialis, circlejerk, clitoris, clusterfuck, cock,cocks, darkie, date rape, daterape, dick, domination, ejaculation, erotic, escort, eunuch, fingering, gay sex, genitals, girl on, grope, hard core, hardcore, hooker, hot chick, huge fat, incest,intercourse, kinky, lovemaking, menage a trois, negro, neonazi, nipple, nipples, nsfw, nsfw images, nude, nudity, orgasm, orgy, panties, panty, pedophile, penis, playboy, porn, pussy, rape, raping, rapist, rectum, sadism, semen, sex, sexy, sexual, sexually, sexuality, slut, smut, snowballing, spastic, spread legs, strip club, suck, sucks, swastika, tit, tits,titties, titty, topless, undressing, vagina, viagra, vibrator, voyeur, vulva, xx, xxx
In wake of Apple privacy controls, Facebook mulls just begging its iOS app users to let it track them over the web
China showing signs of brewing IPv6 eruption
In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module
25 years of PHP: The personal web tools that ended up everywhere
Thunderbird is go: Mozilla's email client lands in a new nest
Thursday 30th January 2020 09:52 GMT
Re: "Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, apparently"
% share is more important than the absolute number. Of what importance is the absolute number to us in this news article?
Up from .1 to .5 would be explosive growth so I doubt that.
I donate monthly a small amount and am delighted to hear donations are doing so well.
It's been one day since Blighty OK'd Huawei for parts of 5G – and US politicians haven't overreacted at all. Wait, what? Surveillance state commies?
UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament
Node.js version 12 is now out: Let's pop the hood and see what's inside this JS runtime
This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend
On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft confirms Windows 10 can automatically remove borked updates
Wednesday 13th March 2019 09:38 GMT
Install. Uninstall. Reboot. Repeat. Is that a play on the rave mantra? Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. Eat. Sleep. Rave. Repeat.. well, you get the idea.
Canonical brings some bling to the Internet of Things with Snap-happy Ubuntu Core 18 release
Docker invites elderly Windows Server apps to spend remaining days in supervised care
UK networks have 'no plans' to bring roaming fees back after Brexit
User experience test tools: A privacy accident waiting to happen
Ubuntu sends trash to its desktop's desktop
Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it's over
Google's Grumpy code makes Python Go
Get ready for Google's proprietary Android. It's coming – analyst
Software snafu let EU citizens get referendum vote, says Electoral Commission
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS arrives today complete with forbidden ZFS
Thursday 21st April 2016 10:40 GMT
Re: Priorities?
zfs isnt as flexible as btrfs IMO eg Cant remove physical extents and rebalance. btrfs is the default fs in suse. and apt-get automatically snapshots every upgrade and you can rollback or co-exist even version upgrades although it requires command line to do so. I doubt ZFS even comes close on that score. Pretty awesome.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
