Avid Amoeba

Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomy than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.

Why did you do that to yourself… 🥹

The horse-car analogies rarely achieve what you want them to, especially in situations where we don’t have the benefit of hindsight.

Interesting. They already make their motherboards in Vietnam.

I don’t even know which version of GNOME I run anymore. I only notice when the GNOME devs remove some feature I used to use.

This is why security is usually multi-layered - decrease the chances of a single fuckup compromising everything. And yes using a safer language adds a layer. But typically it won’t be the only layer.

Me who uses GNOME on Debian stable

I don’t disagree with these points in general. However this isn’t simply about the tools. Tools go along with people and their skill and experience. There are developers and developers. There are people with lots of experience who create much higher quality C code than others. Personally I’d never touch C if I can avoid it as I don’t trust myself as much. I’d always go for C++ instead. Modern C++ with RAII is great. It’s what most of the software at our corpo is written in. Maybe Rust would end up becoming the default standard at some point. Maybe something else would. I would never go shit on a coworker who has produced tons of well functioning code that they better reskill in something that may or may not stick around, or that they may not become as productive with for a long time. A team skilled in C or C++ may be able to produce higher quality software, quicker than a less skilled team Rust. Rust might be better for teams that just start in native programming. I don’t know. If it grows enough in use, reskilling people and reworking software to cooperate with it might become an obvious choice. For now, as I see it, it depends on the team.

JFC… This such a trainwreck…

No amount of sabotage from old entrenched maintainers is going to stop the world from moving forward towards memory-safe languages.

Jesus fucking insufferable Christ… Saying shit like this, given C has been in use for 50 years and is still in very wide use today, and given the vast number of languages that have come and gone over this period, it’s just incredible.

Stay on Debain testing or unstable?

Every time GNOME replaces a stable, reliable piece of software, I get the heebie-jeebies. I hope the new doc viewer is as good as Evince.

WTF to they mean “break away”, Google isn’t using Qualcomm modems in any Tensor. They’re using Samsung’s modem, the one that ships in various Exynos-based devices. And 4 generations of Pixel have been using Tensor.