Posts by bombastic bob

'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer

Re: Whats the problem with unsafe code in Rust?

I think you overgeneralize too much negativity about the C language [which I use ALL of the time]

And YES, I've done GUI programs in C.

Re: Whats the problem with unsafe code in Rust?

"whereas with C/C++ any old pointer could be wild."

Not when you write the code properly. An experienced kernel programmer would know this.

(if you're talking new college grads first time trying their hand at coding, that's completely different, but when you've been coding longer than those people have been ALIVE... *NO* need to limit things or over-generalize the 'paranoid case' just because SOME people just aren't competent enough)

Re: Whats the problem with unsafe code in Rust?

there are many reasons I do not use the Rust language, low-level code efficiency being one of the big ones.

I don't much like their model for threading either. I'd must rather hand-tweek my own algorithms based on the understanding of the system they run on, Then you can decide whether the overhead of a job queue is worth the performance benefits of spawning multiple threads, from the total number of simultaneous jobs you can run [based on the total # of CPU cores available], to the nature of the threads themselves (do they have I/O wait states or in any way lock global objects or cause priority inversion) and so forth.

And when you've been coding long enough, you can use pointers SAFELY. It becomes SAFE CODE because you WROTE IT to BE SAFE.

There's really no substitute for proper design and techniques, ESPECIALLY _NOT_ some "new, shiny" language that pretends there IS...

my language of preference: C, or C++ when the need arises. It usually doesn't. And good C++ code looks very much like good C code.

Re: He's not wrong

yeah this "community" thing usually gets conceived as something *really* *nauseating*, all "touchy feely" and "we all just get along", which is the EXACT opposite of STARK REALITY.

A "community" (read: small group) of contributors who submit patches and occasional features is fine, but SOMEONE has to have the gonads to say YES or NO to all of that. Because, we do NOT all "just get along". There are agendas and personal vendettas and crusades and "i want this feature dammit" and so on... and *WAY* too much *FEEL*.

maybe this is why what the CUSTOMERS (i.e. end-users) want has become such a LOW priority these days... you know, like with major ball-busting changes like Australis, Gnome 3's UI, 2D FLATSO, removal of user customization, EVERYTHING looks like Chrome and CHROME LOOKS LIKE CRAP (all bright blue on blinding white), et cetera, et cetera, et cetera...

Re: He's not wrong

"Large swaths of the open source community have become intolerable"

This is why you need a project manager with a heavy hand that isn't afraid to say "no", or even "NO!" or "*HELL NO*!!!", as well as enforcing coding style consistency, and putting certain kinds of pull requests permanently on the shelf.

Someone like Linus, let's say. .. WITH the profanity and unafraid to insult people. [I particularly like his comments regarding 'compiler masturbation' by which he meant using "new, shiny" features simply because they were there, not because they were better or easier to maintain - which in the cases he pointed out, were NOT]

Re: "...and that its community gets a better handle on how to proceed constructively."

"Inconceivable!"

(good reference by the way)

Re: Not just open source

"People publish Open Source software because they're hobbyists who think others might find their work useful."

Although I am certain that there are many people who fall into this particular category, you are being QUITE arrogant if you make the assumption that ONLY "hobbyists" publish open source.

I had someone say "hobby" with respect to a serious hardware project I had designed for my own company. I considered that to be BOTH condescending AND arrogant. Well, *THAT* guy's contract ended early, for a number of reasons, in a major project we were both involved in. He was one of those "UX" designers who "worked" by slapping canned packages together, writing sloppy code that barely worked, and calling it "a user interface". Oh, wait, that's "User eXperience". *facepalm* (he couldn't meet design deadilnes, even acted out and deliberately interfered with getting things done - last I heard, he applied to work for the EPA, suits him perfectly I guess)

yeah, _I_ took over his duties, and actually made the thing work, cursing his name and choices for MONTHS... [customers happy with it though]

Re: Not just open source

"If your project is successful and popular you will attract the slugs, the uses who want it to do everything for them but aren't prepared to contribute."

well said!

Also a corollary of that: don't try to make your project do TOO much or it will bloat into an uncontrollable mass of feature creep. If the 85/15 rule applies, let's say 15% of the effort going into 85% of the functionality, and the rest of the functionality (15%) taking up 85% of the time and/or amount of code to support it.

Contrast this to the UNIX principle of "do one thing, well".

So at some point, all of that extra functionality should become add-ons and not built-ins. Then when the slugs complain about "no feature" you can say "write a plugin, contribute it, and then it will do what you want". So simple!

then again, if you do like Firefox and CHANGE THE API such that the old plugins break...

South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos

Re: Surely the South American countries have a prior claim

and the trees were chopped down to make the books sold on amazon, heh

Big corporates shouldn't be allowed to get there own TLDs.

why not? I don't think anyone else could afford to cover the cost of one...

Re: TLDs - I am confused

I've got a domain for '.name' and another for '.com'. They're still pretty cheap, though having gotten into the game early means I had a better shot at something I wanted.

Re: Why do Amazon even care

I think the idea of '.amazon' is to register a seller's web site using that as a TLD

Re: Who's going to bet..m

let's not break teh intarwebs, k-thx

(I'm sorta surprised there's not a group of female warriors in scantily clad armor angry over it)

Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems

go back 100,000 years and we're all from Africa!

Re: NASA are paying Boeing more per-astronaut than they're paying SpaceX f

I would also expect that later down the road, as more companies get involved into space, that NASA will make it possible for OTHERS to qualify, using the standards set with Boeing and SpaceX.

There's [apparently] a government expense, though, in qualifying the candidates, so for now, there are two... and then once we have suppliers, others get into the game.

I suppose Virgin's hybrid attempt might be a possibility at some point.

Imagine 100 years ago when airlines were first forming. I expect it's a bit like that. Only thing is that the cost for entering the new private sector space race is considerably higher than "just get yourself a big biplane and learn to fly it".

Re: "given that the rocket is lost during the test anyway?"

when you buy things with tax money, it goes into the pockets of the corporate investors and employees.

Why is _THIS_ a problem? Better to buy "something" (in this case, rockets) than just HAND IT OUT TO PEOPLE WHO WILL DEMAND MORE AND MORE AND MORE...

Re: Yes it very much DOES matter

exactly, I would prefer a _REAL_ test even if it is expensive. SpaceX saved money by using a rocket that already had a few launches under its belt [read: 'old reliable'] which is their model for cost efficiency, and therefore a REALLY GOOD test.

Re: Causality

I expect this was done with a modification so that the normal systems would catch the "unexpected" event, thus demonstrating the ability to function in a REAL emergency.

Or at least, that's how _I_ would set it up... [you need to simulate the actual abort trigger condition after all]

When I was in the Navy we simulated trigger signals like this all of the time, for the reactor safety shutdown systems, to make sure they were working [but of course it did not have to have a real catastrophic failure to do it - it was just routine maintenance, with the simulation stuff built in].

To catch a thief, go to Google with a geofence warrant – and it will give you all the details

Re: And this is why...

mine's a dumb phone. pre-paid cell that I rarely use. It's nearly always OFF. I have a droid slab for development work and e-mail when I'm at a remote site. And no GPS or other tracking in my 20+ year old car.

and I also put aluminum foil in my wallet so that the chips in the cards can't be read. The newer ones apparently have actual electrical contacts so it's less likely they'll be a problem but I think my driver's license is as insecure as any of them evar were...

but seriously, I would hope that none of this information would be given out without a proper warrant FIRST. We don't need any aggressive investigators investigating individuals, looking for a crime [rather than investigating a crime, looking for perpetrators].

You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes

99 little bugs on the wall

99 little bugs on the wall

99 little bugs

you take one down, patch it around

104 little bugs on the wall

or, as an associate put it: Kill one bug, grow six more

Re: Profits

Except that the assertion is wholly untrue. Their highest priority is to maximize profits.

this is to be expected. keep mind that airlines don't purchase unsafe planes... [which affects profitability]

In order to maximize profits, they will attend to quality and safety issues if and when the publicity arising from those threatens profits.

No. See what I said above. it's *impractical* (and unprofitable) to be so heartless. Dead customers aren't repeat customers, after all... (nor are they satisfied).

WebAssembly: Key to a high-performance web, or ideal for malware? Reg speaks to co-designer Andreas Rossberg

W'asm - makes me spasm [when trying to say it]

Re: You can import stuff from your host environment

remember ActiveX? "Oh the control has been marked 'safe' so THAT means it is OK!"

What about downloadable windows font files? Not web fonts, WINDOWS fonts [which are actually DLLs]

The tech itself is not dangerous. No, no no. It's what people CAN DO with it. It's almost like why the local 7/24 convenience store doesn't sell dynamite...

Re: WaSm to you too

I am looking for the option in firefox to just DISABLE it. A less-than-quick search online shows "javascript.options.wasm" in about:config might do it... but of course, IT IS NOT IN THE NORMAL PREFERENCE OPTIONS.

(the article has done nothing to convince me I should actually ALLOW it)

Microsoft picks a side, aims to make the business 'carbon-negative' by 2030

Re: Truly hope this is not just a marketing ploy

" CO2 was at 330ppm when I was at school and is now, what, 410?"

is the water warmer also? You have to consider several physics and chemistry factors when making your claim, otherwise the conclusions you present are "less than accurate" (read: complete B.S.)

a) warmer water cannot hold as much gas in it, and so the gas is released from water. Result: like a soda going flat when it is warm, CO2 is released from warm water. Additionally, carbonates are dissolved and converted to CO2. This causes increased measured atmospheric CO2 levels, which are due to the equilibrium state. [study chemistry, you'll understand]

b) Additionally, underwater volcanoes are a major factor in water-borne CO2 release. if you measure atmospheric CO2 near an underwater volcano over time, you'll see "elevated levels". This happened a decade or two ago, skewed atmospheric CO2 levels at a particular measurement spot off of the coast of California, due to a nearby underwater volcano, and it was somewhat quietly covered up once the truth got out... even though the people presenting this were CLAIMING it as "evidence" for man-made CO2 climate-apocalypse-doom-gloom-disaster-whatever. (and your freedom and money MUST be given away, FOR DUH PLANUTZ)

I know that the enviro-wackos behind the CO2 nonsense won't publish the truth about it. There have been at least 2 major scandals with respect to "cooking the data" to get a RESULT, rather than STUDYING the data and formulating scientific conclusions. Yeah, they were in the news, even. So I call B.S. on your claim. Not because it wasn't measured "that way", but that you're leaving out important information that does not present the ENTIRE truth.

There are those who understand chemistry, and those who don't. Those who DO understand it realize (I love saying it that way, using the left's leading question techniques against them) REALIZE that temperature alters the equilibrium constant. In 1970, the temperatures were at the bottom of a COLD cycle in the Northern Hemisphere. Not sure about Southern, they have different cycles. in any case, if the 300 ppm measurement was from, let's say, 1970, and the 410 was from, let's say, 2010-ish, you'd be measuring it at two peaks of a 70 year temperature cycle. You can expect the equilibrium levels to be different because the water temperature is different.

Those who UNDERSTAND basic chemistry REALIZE this.

Re: Easy

Wake On LAN - a way for evil hackers (aka 'crackers') to take control of your computer while it's still plugged into the network (but otherwise 'off'). No thanks.

How about just make Windows not so INTRUSIVE with respect to "updates", get the code right the FIRST time by PROPERLY TESTING IT [instead of having end-users be the QA department], and allow PARTIAL updates rather than "We take over your machine for 4 hours so UPDATING becomes its primary function, too bad YOU wanted to do WORK or PLAY A GAME, MUAHAHAHAHAHA!"

WOL does NOT fix the inherent problems with Win-10-nic, and its constant NEED for "updates".

[I fixed that recently by upgrading an old Vista laptop to DEVUAN with MATE - and the owner is VERY happy with it!]

Re: I call marketing bullshit

you can have CO2 concentrations as high as 2% without serious side effects. FYI.

(above that you start getting headaches, etc. and it becomes bad for animals)

I know because, when in the Navy, the sub constantly monitored air quality. The scrubbers would keep CO2 below 2%, but you needed consumable canisters to get it below 1%. Hovering between 1% and 2% was fine. And since CO2 doesn't really absorb or reflect IR energies for black body radiation [for temperatures actually found on earth] then it won't have an effect on temperature, either.

But it might rain more. And plants would grow WAY faster! And they'd deplete it all, and we'd be back to where we are now at < 0.04%. Equilibrium.

Re: Truly hope this is not just a marketing ploy

"Given that Windows 10 Linux will run on the same spec PC as windows 7, why would you chuck it out?"

fixed it for ya!

Re: Truly hope this is not just a marketing ploy

"busy telling everyone that they need to buy a new Windows 10 compatible computer ... with more memory and disk space than the old Windows 7 box."

And put LINUX on it! I suggest Devuan with Mate desktop.

I recently did this for a "content consumer" relative, who LOVES the Linux. $30 for 500Gb hard drive, built it in a VM, swapped it in, a few UI and settings tweeks, and all good! Computer owner took a few minutes to get used to it, and lots of "thank you" replies. It solves MANY problems, actually. [it's a Vaio from 2008-ish that came with Vista on it].

Re: Truly hope this is not just a marketing ploy

of COURSE it is a marketing ploy.

a) humans are NOT causing climate change. But a lot of people *FEEL* and so MS is doing a MARKETING PLOY.

b) CO2 is NOT even a greenhouse gas! A greenhouse gas is supposed to trap heat that would otherwise radiate into space (black body radiation). CO2 really _sucks_ at doing that. Look at the IR absorption spectrum, compared to temperatures actually FOUND ON THE EARTH. G'head I _DARE_ you!

c) CO2 is less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Compare that to water vapor, a *REAL* greenhouse gas, which can be as high as 8%. Yes that's 200 times as much as CO2. And is ANYONE trying to control WATER VAPOR? Of course not! The planet is FLOODED. That'd be even MORE laughable.

d) CO2 is at biological and chemical EQUILIBRIUM. You could double, or even TRIPLE, or even MORE increase in the production rate of CO2, and the reactions and biological factors would shift to match the depletion rate at a slightly (very slightly) higher concentration.

e) CO2 is used in greenhouses to MAKE PLANTS GROW. Increasing atmospheric CO2 would do that, too. And they'd deplete it faster.

In short, this is NOTHING MORE than "pure politics" MARKETING MANIPULATION of people's FEELINGS. And it's _NAUSEATING_.

I'd be MORE impressed if they invested $1Billion in FUSION RESEARCH, something that WOULD make a difference!!!

The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

Re: Mixed messages

"porting code from 32bit to 64bit should be straightforward"

assuming the APIs haven't changed. But this was MacOS 32-bit vs OS/X 64-bit, most likely. That wouldn't be trivial (not the way I understand it, anyway)

It has to do with the way the old MacOS windowing and menus and other OS APIs work. I looked into it once. I understand that OS/X was a MAJOR change to how this worked, hence the compatibility layer.

Re: Mixed messages

again, I don't think it's the "bit-ness" in this case. I would expect that this 30 year old code was written for the MacOS APIs and is effectively incompatible with OS/X APIs. As such, the "32-bit" code (which would be for older MacOS APIs) would have to be re-done to use the OS/X APis instead.

I'm not familiar enough with OS/X coding to really know for a fact, but I suspect it's NOT a trivial thing. That being said, a re-write is apparently in order. And like I mentioned before, if you're going to have to re-write, use GTK or maybe even Java, so that it becomes cross-platform, so that the market goes beyond "just OS/X" and covers every OTHER operating system, too.

MacOS vs OS/X

If I read the article correctly, the program was originally written for MacOS and *NOT* OS/X.

There seems to be a significant difference between the two from the software side. So I expect that it has _LESS_ to do with 32-bit vs 64-bit, and MORE to do with a lack of a backwards compatibility later for MacOS API calls... (or did I miss the point here?)

Something like this would require a MAJOR re-write. Basically it would be a "start from scratch using the old code as a guide" effort. This might explain things better...

My opinion: If you're going to do THAT, re-write it using GTK and make it available for ALL platforms, from Apple to Linux and even Windows.

And THAT would be a GOOD thing! [Just don't make it 2D FLATSO like Firefox with Australis and Chrome - too much of THAT crap out there already]

Bad news: Windows security cert SNAFU exploits are all over the web now. Also bad: Citrix gateway hole mitigations don't work for older kit

I've always *HATED* application and driver certs

I've always *HATED* application and driver certs. In many ways, it's an ASSAULT ON OPEN SOURCE AND FREE SOFTWARE.

A lot of this started with windows vista, so the problem exists in 7 as well. Microshaft NOW requires all kernel drivers to be signed by *THEM* for a "modest fee", a TOLLBOOTH on the information highway, in essence. It's a TOTAL RIPOFF.

iOS's attempted "lockdown" is no better. At least there's a method by which an indie developer for Android can make an APK available for whoever wants to download it.

anyway...

It was ONLY a MATTER OF TIME before it got CRACKED. THEN they'll issue a "fix", which will "work" for a while, and it will get CRACKED AGAIN.

It's really a false sense of security.

The biggest problem behind this (other than poorly written poorly tested windows code) is RUNNING WITH ADMIN CREDENTIALS *ALL* OF THE TIME!

In Linux (and other POSIX) systems, running as 'root' all of the time is discouraged on many levels. Some programs won't even run without explicitly setting a flag someplace to allow running as 'root'. Others simply warn you and force you to click through an approval every time.

Windows COULD use a POSIX-like security model, too, because 'administrator' usually doesn't give you the *kinds* of access you REALLY need. Unless you're MALWARE...

This "cert" nonsense SHOULD be a reason to NOT use Windows. I think that *eventualy* it COULD become that. In the mean time, Micro-shaft charges a FEE to "certify" your CRapp or driver, to give a FALSE! SENSE! OF! SECURITY! to end-users, because HOW many "the store" CRapps for iOS and Android have been distributed with "certifications" on them, only to require being REMOVED from "the store" because they're really MALWARE???

Yeah. FALSE sense of security. I say let developers make what they want, and let users just BEWARE and EXERCISE CAUTION instead. Like a form of "street smarts" except it's with SOFTWARE.

Copy-left behind: Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GNU's GPL

Re: Vaccine License is the First Brick of the Yellow Brick Road to Hell

uh, WHAT?

you forgot to use THIS icon (see icon)

Amazon to ask court to block DoD's $10bn early Valentine's date with a Microsoft JEDI

"Did Trump butt in where he shouldn't have? Absolutely.''

Fixed it for ya. I think Trump is looking at cost efficiency, like ANY good businessman would. Not like politicians. It's why "they" hate him so much!

"poor Jeff is pissed because all the dirty money and time he spent to game the system didn't work."

just like the rest of us, "the government" (which _IS_ "the people" or supposed to be) should be able to pick what it wants and buy THAT product, and NOT be *SUED* for *NOT* *BUYING* *A* *DIFFERENT* *ONE*.

"Sewers" - ABusing the legal system to enrich lawyers since, like, forever.

Facial-recognition algos vary wildly, US Congress told, as politicians try to come up with new laws on advanced tech

Re: Unmasked

YOURS is *PRECISELY* the kind of "feeling" (not THINKING) that we can expect from POLITICIANS that INJECT POLITICS into technology via STUPID-REGULATING it!!!

The article sort of addressed this - you need sufficient TRAINING DATA. Otherwise, "all *INSERT DEMOGRAPHIC HERE* look the same" to the algorithm...

What we *REALLY* need is an SJW detector, so we can stamp "un-hirable" on their applications... [thus avoiding MUCH legal expense and office drama that results FROM the SJW types]

No Mo'zilla for about 100 techies today: Firefox maker lays off staff as boss talks of 'difficult choices' and funding

Re: How Sad

"some people clearly have nothing useful to do in that organization"

And I bet that EVERY! ONE! OF! THEM! is STILL EMPLOYED THERE...

Re: Too late

"Rot started with making it a chrome clone"

Exactly!

Re: I still use it, but...

*ahem* modify the source, create a patch for it, and re-apply the patch whenever you bother "up"grading.

Re: dwindling pool

"they keep adding idiotic stuff that just bloats it. Pocket, for example"

And, the "developers" who do this are RETAINED...

If I ever get around to forking Firefox (I'd like to call it "Rebellion", with a 3D skeuomorphic appearance, no 'hamburger', no overt touch-friendliness, and *NO* *POCKET*) it would look more like it did prior to Australis, NOT have idiotic "features" like 'pocket', and do ONE THING WELL: browse the web.

Re: dwindling pool

it's my general opinion that the SINGLE THING that did the MOST HARM to firefox is AUSTRALIS.

That, and everything ELSE that comes with it.

Mozilla has finally learned that FEATURE CREEP (and removal) isn't "an upgrade".

So what they need to do, now that they've reduced their "head count", is focus on the basics. That is:

a) backward compatibility (something that FF 57 _REMOVED_, remember?)

b) reliability and stability (on FreeBSD and Linux this isn't bad)

c) *SPEED*

d) *PRIVACY* - give us a reason to *NOT* use chrome, because Firefox does NOT track [or at least lets you bit-fiddle manage what's happening]

More anti-tracking pro-privacy features: good

Hijacking DNS so _YOU_ can track us: bad

Just sayin' Mozilla, it's *OBVIOUS* to some of us...

ICANN finally reveals who’s behind purchase of .org: It’s ███████ and ██████ – you don't need to know any more

Re: A group of people were entrusted with the administration of the .org domains ...

You apparently think PROFIT itself is IMMORAL, don't you?

Making a PROFIT (when you're a FOR PROFIT company) is NOT immoral. It's business.

Profit is _GOOD_. It's been driving our societies for MILLENIA. Without gain, why bother working? No "profit" means SLAVE LABOR. NOBODY wants to be a SLAVE. So you should be paid for what you do, and if you buy and sell things, the PROFIT is your pay!

(and if you're GOOD at it, your financial reward should be HUGE)

mine does but the edit font is so @#$%ing tiny that it's hard to see ANYTHING, even the red squiggly underlines on spelling mistakes

(Hey El Reg can you make the edit font bigger? I am NOT on a PHONE)

"many local internets"

yeah same here, fixed IP with a domain and a web site, DNS, and other things. Helps with customer projects, too. I can mirror a customer web site on my local LAN server, as an example, fix stuff locally, and say "hey take a look at yourdomain.mydomain.whatever" to see if they like it.

But as for ALSO being "part of the big intarwebs" - why could THAT be a problem? Or is it just the DNS system?

If you hate all that in the current DNS system, just use ".onion". Or create your OWN DNS system [which you'd have to pay for, probably, but it's usually cheap]. As for me I could create as many names as I want if you don't mind "mydonain.whatever" tacked onto the end of every name...

but yeah the existing system is there, relatively unfiltered, reasonably secure, and apparently NO POLITICS INVOLVED [or that's the goal]

/me imagines "Cancel Culture" applied to web DNS registration... *shudder* [and it's my general opinion that a FOR PROFIT corporation is LESS LIKELY to engage in this kind of DISCRIMINATION]

Re: Bothered

transparency would be a good thing, yeah.

Aren't there existing laws with respect to companies doing international business? In the USA (well in Cali-fornicate-you at least) you have to file a statement of information with the state indicating who the primary corporate officers are, mostly for legal purposes.

So I would expect something similar, here.

There are also laws _AGAINST_ borrowing money to buy stock. That one dates back to the 1930's, something about unsecured loans being used to fund stock purchase and after a crash the banks have no cash...

Purchase of a company, I suppose, CAN be financed, if it's not through stock... though it _DOES_ seem to be a bit "shady" in that regard. But that's between the lender and the borrower I suppose, and I doubt the loan is without any kind of collateral.

Still I would expect that much of this "must be a non-profit" stuff is a complete misunderstanding of for-profit vs non-profit. Seriously, I bet a for-profit corporation could do the job at LOWER COST TO THE END USER than a non-profit one, simply because they have budgets and investors and bottom lines and need for revenue. And there is a LOT of competition out there for domain names.

And from MY experience with a non-profit, they're sometimes run by COMPLETE IDIOTS when it comes to things like spending money, retaining employees, and even JUST GETTING THINGS DONE.

Y2K quick-fix crick? 1920s come roaring back after mystery blip at UK's vehicle licensing agency

Re: Another 20 (18) years...

I can show you, if you step this way...

Re: 2038

actually the simplest fix is to make time_t a 64-bit signed integer, and be done with it.

Then, fix the userland code before 2038 to prevent further problems.

Re: 2038

all you really need to do is convert the time_t data type to be a signed 64-bit integer and then fix whatever software bugs happen NOW to deal with it...

ideally any code using time_t will simply work. And it helps to pay attention to integer truncation warnings, which would be there if you try to assign a 64-bit time_t to a 32-bit integer. THEN you would see it as a compiler warning and HOPEFULLY go "why is that" only to remember that time_t is NOW a 64-bit value.

Even in 32-bit kernels, you should have support for 64-bit integers... EVERYWHERE.

As for "other than POSIX" operating systems, let them deal with their own issues. POSIX can simply adapt a time_t that's 64-bit to fix it once and for all.