With a significant number of CVEs stemming from memory safety issues in C systems programming, what is the best path forward?

#memorysafety #systemsprogramming #rust #zig #c

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I once mistook a trebuchet for a park bench. It was the long wooden seat that threw me.

I think Fedi would appreciate the anti-car sentiment this meme has.

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It's not that the Republicans and the Democrats are the same...obviously. But for decades - since Clinton - the Dems have sided with neoliberal economics, just like their Republican counterparts, so the major differences between the two related to overt discrimination, to the exclusion of the economic policies that immiserated working people, with the worst effects landing on racial minorities, women, and gender minorities.

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Anyone working with printers in their #activism should know about tracking dots. This project helps deal with them.

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

my favorite operating system is bingos 11, i like the way that you can't even do anything with it, it just does its own thing and shows you ads and sends your most private thoughts and fears to an advertising agency. at least they made it so scrolling up moves the page left and vice versa

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concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead

"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”

"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”

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