Chlorus

the dedicated server situation was (is?) pretty dire back when i hosted a few SRCDS instances. here's a small taste: https://wiki.alliedmods.net/SRCDS_Hardening#Current_Exploits

not to mention that the commands themselves obey absolutely zero *NIX conventions at all. Left a bad taste in my mouth ever since

Wasn't Apple's iMessage protocol supposed to be an open implementation too? Whatever happened to that?

> ". Your tools seem to be bizzarely obsessed with colors, though"

Ah, there it is. The "you don't need that feature" attitude that made desktop Linux the roaring success it is today.

> We have shown an ability to not just change code artifacts, but the protocols and languages which we use to communicate, at a very rapid rate.

Results may vary for the C language, IPv4, X11, GTK, ALSA, and massive swathes of the CoreUtils.

> "this ORM is just bad, next time we will use a different one"

...pretty sure there are competing abstraction layers to working with DBs other programming paradigms.

> OOP works on low complexity, small projects, but quickly falls apart at certain point, > More experienced people figured out some way around OOP to make it more robust,

I thought it fell apart?

> "oh, you just doing it wrong: insert excuse and advise here".

Wait til you learn what point-free style is in Haskell! Have fun!

> People who really though it through, and tried different approaches are the ones that hate it and are vocal about it.

So if you happen to like OOP, you just haven't thought it through. Thanks for the constructive comment!

Do tech support for a hospital and this attitude will very quickly dissipate.

>In my experience, the contrast is stark to another high-paid professional group: lawyers.

Database systems like WestLaw & word processing systems in the 80s and 90s were killer apps for law offices, so if lawyers are tech illiterate it's a recent phenomenon.

"You missed a trick by not naming it 'Just the Tip' or something to really convey the true spirit of the app" --> Rejected

…That is not, in fact, the (exact) definition of a paid shill. Apple would have to be paying him conditionally, with the sole intent of him advertising / defending / whatever, regardless of his actual personal opinion.

He just has a clear vested interest in the platform as is. Would we all be FOSS shills for making our living with OSS software & continuing to advocate for the conditions that make that possible?

He's referring to the mobile version of Safari, which for some reason labels 'open in new tab' as 'open in background'. If you hit 'open in new window' by mistake you end up with a split screen view that can't be swiped away with a gesture; you have to long-press the tab icon to tell it to merge the tabs in the new window together with the old one.

20th century Communists, of course, were famously tolerant of their opponents.

The guy who was repeatedly reprimanded by his own party for it & stripped of his assignments? By this standard, the Democrats are socialists since they won't reprimand AOC. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-wh...

> Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.

If we're bringing up stuff from the 1930s, you're not going to like what the Democrats were doing from then until 70s.

This is a completely worthless, ahistorical comment.

> French Revolution,

How did that turn out?

> American Revolution

There is no definition of leftism that would include the American independence movement. The conception of leftism didn't even exist!. My head is about ready to explode.

> Mexican Revolution

See French revolution.

>And the all time greatest threat to the world has been a right wing populist revolution; the rise of Nazi Germany.

Pick up a book on the Weimar Republic some day, you might learn something!

> Right wing revolutions tend to curtail rights like the Iranian Revolution

'Tend to'

I have been repeatedly informed that the Iranian revolution was a liberation from the Western Imperialists & therefore left-wing (yes, seriously).

Strangely omitted are the Russian, Chinese, & Cuban revolutions. I wonder why?

Frankly, I'm shocked the mods let this topic survive on the front-page for this long. It's a honeypot for every kind of crank to show up and start arguing (myself included) In summary, you guys need to put down the IDEs & start reading actual history books (not wikipedia & and half-assed bastardized regurgitations of Chomsky)

…it was created in September 18, 1947 as part of a reorg brought on by difficulties encountered during WWII. Pretty good foresight on their part to realize they were going to need to start a bunch of unnecessary wars!

"There is not a major political party in the US that advocates for an employment guarantee, banning private property, or withdrawing all armed forces from around the world. These are positions you would expect from a range of left parties in a parliamentary system."

That's a pretty loose definition of 'major'.

Parliamentary systems sound pretty shitty then - keep in mind the Golden Dawn, UKIP, and any one of the perennial "let's deport all the Roma" parties also counts as a major political party under your definition.

I for one can't wait to return to a time where the only people who could afford to be writers were members of the upper class who didn't need to rely on publishing for their income; we might be spared the next Dan Brown.

It's no wonder copyright reform has completely stalled out over the last 20 years when all discussions devolve into the same repeated canards.

> One should not use so much memory for a mail server, way too risky.

Is there a table or formula I can consult that will give this particular dumb person(myself) a handy guide for what amounts of addressable memory will introduce security risks for particular applications? Apparently more than 32-bits is obviously[0] a problem for email; what about databases? Should I feel bad I use more than 64GB of memory in my DB installations? Am I being irresponsible? What about web servers? How much risk does each additional bit of memory add?

My final question is, why does pretty much every other software maintainer not have a problem fixing the memory allocation themselves, obviating the need for external tools to fix these issues? I guess they're going the extra mile!

[0] So obvious a problem that sendmail, postfix, and exim don't require me to apply workarounds for it for some reason. Very irresponsible of them, if you ask me.

Not sure why you're being downvoted - I expect more meat from a submission than 'here's a context-free few sentences on a tweet!'

Yes being able to freely buy a product that offers a different point on the security / openness continuum is slavery, and phrasing it like that doesn't undermine either the meanings of the word 'enslave' or 'authoritarianism'. Congrats on your dedication to your cyberpunk larp!

Found some additional info on the legacy computing symbols - chapter 22, page 856 - https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode13.0.0/ch22.pdf

"Support for these legacy computing symbols includes 212 characters added in Version 13.0 to provide compatibility with a wide range of early home computers, or “microcomputers,” manufactured from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. These symbols also cover the teletext broadcasting standard originally developed in the early 1970s, and the Minitel standard developed in the 1980s. This collection of early microcomputer symbols includes support for the character sets of Amstrad CPC, Apple 8-bit, Atari 8 and 16- bit, Commodore 8 and 16-bit, MSX, Yamaha, RISC OS, and Tandy"

> it isn't even necessarily incorrect to express that they may not want to pursue that particular field anymore

Can I express that to people who think a volunteer project owes them anything & couldn't be arsed to implement the project's functionality themselves in the first place? Somehow I don't think that would be a constructive use f time.

Yeah, it's kind of weird how little attention some of C's (historical)competitors in the systems programming space get. You'd think to see a lot of comparisons to whatever Ada* or Pascal would do in the same context.

* Probably because the Ada practitioners are all trapped in Scifs somewhere in the inner mantle of the Earth.

> If steam would be forced to build new products rather than sitting on their platform we'd probably have had Half Life 3 a bunch of years ago.

Steam is a terrible example for this. First of all, Steam isn't a company, it's a product. Valve is the company. Second of all, unlike the App Store or other similar infrastructure, it's not like you're locked into Steam, so they're not really rent-seeking. Steam has had plenty of competitors over the years(Direct2Drive, Games for Windows Live, that garbage GameStop store), they all sucked, and as far as I know there's nothing stopping me from publishing on multiple stores & ignoring Steam. Third, Valve hasn't exactly been doing nothing - they've done more than any other company to the gaming experience under Linux & have pioneered VR. Odds are good they wouldn't have taken those risks had it not been subsidized with comfortable margins they got from Steam.

If you had cited, say, the App Store, or something that has actual monopoly power in terms of infrastructure (like our good friends at Comcast) it would have been a much stronger argument.

Came here to say the same thing- had eye surgery a few years back and the floaters are maddening. I've got a few apps that use a white background feels blinding whenever I have to use them.

> it's gotten really unreliable in many places these days because the infrastructure is decaying and companies are spending the absolute minimum to keep it going, but they're milking it for profit from all the dinosaurs who refuse to give it up.

Citation? I haven't heard anything about this and I work closely with telecom.

> and is getting older and easier to manipulate into buying stuff.

You know, Slashdot was never quite this toxic back in the day.

Wait til you find out who gets the most IPv4 addresses!

> Many people were saying this, Paul Krugman (one of the leading economists) went as far as comparing the internet to the fax machine:

And he caught a bunch of shit for it, even at the time. You keep trying to conflate critics of Bitcoin, many of whom have technical & finance backgrounds, with the largely non-technical crowd that didn't understand the web back in the 90s.

> I'm too young to live through it, but luckily I studied it in university :-)

What's the name of this "history of the internet" course(s) you took? The most historical context I ever got consisted of maybe a few intro paragraphs on Arpanet in my networking 101 class.

Good riddance, I remember when web browsing on Linux was obnoxious because every other site used Flash but the only plugin available was an older version for Firefox that had serious glitches like desyncing audio. It wasn't until like 2009 that Adobe started providing better binaries.

I wonder what NewGrounds is going to do about all their older content?

Because it's very not not broken, and here's the reasons why: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2019/04/26/synchronous-text/

It just reeks of the same lazy garbage of that whole "separating the programming goats from the sheep" meme that went around a few years back. "It's not that my pedagogy has faults, people are just inherently bad and there's no point trying to teach them"

"“Yeah, medicine seems really powerful, but med school is hard and I’ve got patients to treat.”"

Isn't that in fact the case, and why we have nurses, RPNs & medics? "Sorry, I can't give you this flu shot - I've gotta finish med school first"