Posts by G40

Strap in, get ready for more Rust drivers in Linux kernel

Re: past, now, future

shame it (Redox( does not have enough cheerleaders.

'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

Not long now

Until Rust ceases to be the plat de jour. And development can proceed with the hysteria turned down from 11.

Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas

Re: touch screen is incredibly useful for many applications.

good luck if you have neurological problems.

Re: touch screen is incredibly useful for many applications.

Sadly there are chumps everywhere. The TS on my latest laptop is an absolute game changer.

And an opportunity missed

with the monitor: touch screen is incredibly useful for many applications.

It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

Re: Something tells me...

and by pols who want to point to a train wreck and be able to say 'I did that'.

Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again

Re: Fat Pointer Disease

Who keeps anonymously downvoting? Caddish behaviour l.

Re: 1.5x slower....

Cheer up. It’s for an excellent cause. And look at the results, apply during testing, find a bug in the Python runtime. Maybe, just maybe, you don’t have to deploy the checked version into release code.

Excellent…

This is precisely the approach that we want and need.

Props to the author for bringing this project to light.

Five Eyes infosec agencies list 2023's most exploited software flaws

What?

Seriously is Implementation language a data point here? Java looks over represented

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

Re: It's not the language, it's just the way it's "talking"

If this is true those developers are demonstrably idiots. Fire them and start improving your own internal standards.

Former Facebook lobbyist joins UK comms regulator as non-exec director

Ah, regulators

Get to shape and steer the most fundamentally important sectors of the UK economy without any input, or representation or oversight from the voter/ taxpayer. And what a fine job they do as well. Bravo.

Google's memory safety plan includes rehab for unsafe languages

Please stop

Conflating C with C++ again. Google should know better as well.

One-year countdown to 'biggest Ctrl-Alt-Delete in history' as Windows 10 approaches end of support

So? Suggestions please…

All this bitching is great for the bile express but, please, suggest a realistic alternative to W10.

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

Tricky, this patent business. But in this case, very much deserves a huzzah and a =>

The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

Tiresome nonsense

This article is.

NASA engineers play space surgeon in bid to unclog Voyager 1's arteries

Re: Stunning engineering....

Tannoy speakers.

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

Re: Embedded? Don't think so

Recite that back to your mirror image without cracking a guilty smile and I’ll send you a =>

Re: Wanna give some examples?

Good Lord, so now you write code for fun!!

Raspberry Pi 4 bugs throw wrench in the works for Fedora 41

Re: RP2350

Dang. Wonder if the PiHut will be taking returns.

NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan

Really?

Do you have a source for that?

Plane tracker app FlightAware admits user data exposed for years

Re: Just why …

KYC. Then they dropped the C and a whole lot more.

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

Re: Pretty soon you'll be able to pick up a shitty adapter at the local convenience store

Apologies, but is this satire?

LLM-driven C-to-Rust. Not just a good idea, a genie eager to escape

Re: Good luck

Alternatively they’ve been around the block enough times to know when to call out (ahem) nonsense.

Re: Good luck

Psychotic? I think we need to know more.

Re: Things are made easier by the way compilers produce compiled code

FGS, C, bless its aging cotton socks, is not C++.

Good luck

See also the gutting of librsvg.

https://medium.com/codex/i-spent-18-months-rebuilding-my-algorithmic-trading-in-rust-im-filled-with-regret-d300dcc147e0

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

Re: Missing the point?

How so?

When will it end?

The massive lack of understanding betrayed by edicts like this nonsense from DARPA is staggering. Confusing extreme legacy C code with any contemporary C++ is like mistaking a horse for a TGV. Please stop now.

UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims

Re: 1) Why is spoofing still possible?

Calling OFCOM? WTF are you when not asleep at the wheel?

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

Re: Not sure what language they use

You should have a look at the code for a modern Windows kernel driver. Might change some of your preconceptions.

How to maintain code for a century: Just add Rust

So when I port

Coreutils to modern c++, I can expect to read a similarly unquestioning review?

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Pottering … how?

Was there never any pushback against this land grab? Fail to understand how system-d has insinuated itself so quickly. Seems to have superpowers of which a virus can only dream

Father of SQL says yes to NoSQL

Re: The long view

“deliberately hobbled by vendors to push their products, in ways we've seen with other standards such as from C++ to HTML.”

And your sources to demonstrate and support this claim can be found where?

Stack Overflow simply bans folks who don't want their advice used to train AI

Funny you should ask that ...

Have a look at https://stackoverflow.com/posts/417745/revisions

ICYMI This is a (famous) question from 2009. It was edited 3 days ago to more any personalisation.

+1 absolutely correct

SO is the embodiment, perfected, of e14n. And it’s death by a thousand cuts for anything useful and well intentioned. Truly a poisonous source for the well.

Rust developers at Google are twice as productive as C++ teams

Re: confidence

Making claims like this is just chumming the waters. Please post an example we can, err…, appreciate

Where is team C++ ?

And I mean the PR crew? Great headline grabbing stuff here But. Where is the data? How do we know? And how can we verify anything that has been reported?

Google sends Gemini AI back to engineering to adjust its White balance

“In the end, we're our own best content moderators, given the right incentives“. Right, but there has to be a more complete and more convincing argument for the benefit of ban-it-all brigade. Which, I fear, is the lowest common denominator destination for this journey.

WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix

A picture of a familiar looking Outlook desktop app running on a familiar looking Ubuntu would make a lot of sense? Last time I tried Wine it definitely looked corked!

Stratolaunch takes ready-to-fly hypersonic craft skyward, but still no launch

Re: Last Sunday

Well I can promise you there will be many hungry consumers here. Please do post a link or 3.

Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security

Re: Need the EU to step up…

Giant trading blocs do have their uses.

Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious

Ohho something for …

The weekend! Thanks Liam, great article as ever

Unity CEO 'retires' in the wake of fee fiasco

Greed and the not-so great

Good riddance. How foolish and ignorant can you be?

UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there

Re: Why?

They are all incredibly incompetent. Get your thinking hat on and plan to join them on the hustings. Crowdfunding as required. Good luck.

World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second

At what frame rate can we expect to see these magical processes transpire?

Confused by Undulators? Hard and soft? Eh?

UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'

Re: Dead

They’ve only just realised the bill refers to their WhatsApp…

The world seems so loopy. But at least someone's written a memory-safe sudo in Rust

Can we please stop fetishising rust whilst conflating C++ with C?

Rust: an unwanted emission with poor tooling from a source with a dreadful record in good language design. Appalling choices from a syntactic perspective and an unknowable runtime. Should have done much better.

And C != C++. Writing code in the latter language is more simply saving your code with a.cpp extension. Indeed, this has been the case since the previous millennium.

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

Yes, but

Can it a) import existing content directly from Outlook and b) does it use a sane structure for storing email itself? i.e. have they stuck with the wretched implementation which plagued Tbird back in the 90s?