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DeathMetal3000··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
The software world is littered with memory vulnerabilities and you’re here still asking for proof? You may not like Rust and that’s fine. But don’t continue propagating the attitude that got us here in the first place.
DeathMetal3000··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Firefox
DeathMetal3000··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
The backup is free for text and something like 60 days of media. You only have to pay to backup all media.
DeathMetal3000··on C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper
I’m sure writing their own ORM would have given them instantaneous insight into this issue and introduced no other challenges. Open source developers hate this one weird trick!
DeathMetal3000··on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers
You’re just a bad driver;)
DeathMetal3000··on Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla
And it couldn’t have happened to a worse company.
DeathMetal3000··on Zinc, a systems programming language prototype
Starting a new language with header files (.h)? No thanks. I’d rather leave the 70s behind.
DeathMetal3000··on Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
Did a little reading on Fil-C and… “Also, it's slow – about 1.5x-5x slower than legacy C.”

So that’s dead on arrival.

DeathMetal3000··on Notepad++ is 21 years old
Thanks for your contribution. I really like it and switched to it immediately when it came out. The initial theme was not quite right but it’s good now.
DeathMetal3000··on We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
They fixed a bug on a tool that is widely used. In what world is questioning why an organization is checking in a file that you have no context on a “better question”.
DeathMetal3000··on Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
“Windows has announced a commitment around the Rust programming language as part of Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative (SFI) and has recently expanded the Windows kernel to support Rust.”
DeathMetal3000··on SQL is now 50 What is coming next to the query language?
This article is pure garbage. Here are some of its sins: * It says that SQL was introduced in 1974 and could be used for web applications (the web was invented in 1989). * Then it calls AI “Artistical Intelligence”. * And it never even talks about the topic of its title: what’s next for SQL.
DeathMetal3000··on Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024
Unless you’re using Internet Explorer, every browser works on every site. I’ve never had Chrome installed even as a backup. Have yet to find a site that doesn’t work on Firefox.
DeathMetal3000··on Casio G-Shock time sync radio
I have the all black GW-2310FB. I’ll be honest, the gray digits on black background can be a little impractical in low light (it does have a very good backlit if you press the button). But it looks awesome and I have no regrets. Love it. And for those of you that are militant about your IDE’s dark mode, this could be the watch for you too. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/gshock/product.GW-2310FB-1/
DeathMetal3000··on Software Engineering at Google (2020)
Official PDF on github: https://github.com/abseil/abseil.github.io/blob/a5168e886917...
DeathMetal3000··on Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016)
Has anyone here tried to read that book (Superintelligence)? I found it impossible to get through it. The author drones on and on seeming to try to reach a high word count as some sort of academic pompous goal and takes so long to make a point that I didn’t stick around for the ending. Incidentally, I have a free copy for anyone that likes lots of words.
DeathMetal3000··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
There’s 15 billion reasons they won’t.
DeathMetal3000··on New Arkansas bill to keep minors off social media exempts most social platforms
So the handful of companies that are not exempted will simply add support for short dance videos thus guaranteeing that the Venn diagram of affected companies will include exactly no one. This is political theatre in its purest form.
DeathMetal3000··on Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers
Because an advertising company (Google) designed it just for such a purpose.
DeathMetal3000··on Tik Tok is a national security threat
I’m pretty sure the Snowden leaks made it clear how the US chooses to treat its allies. So no, to anyone outside the US, Tik Tok isn’t substantially different from Facebook.
DeathMetal3000··on What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years?
I don’t believe .us is very popular.
DeathMetal3000··on IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power
Jesus?
DeathMetal3000··on Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention
I realize this is unrelated to the blog post but it is related to Carbon… If you are creating an off-ramp language from C++ wouldn’t you keep the syntax as close to C++ as possible? The syntax looks like it would be more familiar to a Rust developer than a C++ developer.
DeathMetal3000··on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
Firefox is the best browser in many respects. But even if it wasn’t. Even if it was missing extensions, used all my RAM and chewed my CPU, I would still choose it over Chrome. Because using a browser from the world’s biggest advertiser is wrong on principle. And using an ad blocker (I don’t use one) while using a browser made by an advertiser is next level cognitive dissonance.
DeathMetal3000··on Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
Yeah, that’s the one I use. Unlike Comcast here it works on Windows. http://jagt.github.io/clumsy/
DeathMetal3000··on Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
E2ee services are the only sane hosted solution. I use sync.com and find it works as well as Dropbox. There are other ones but I haven’t tried them.
DeathMetal3000··on Xournalpp++ – closs-platform, open source note taking software
While I fully agree that the name is terrible (maybe we should start open sourcing product names?), the name is “Xournal++”, not “Xournalpp++”. The title here is wrong.
DeathMetal3000··on Google Drive users stung by macOS '.DS_Store' copyright infringement issue
I won’t use a drive service that is not e2ee. My files are my own business. There are multiple alternatives out there like sync.com (no, I’m not affiliated with them).

Disclaimer: I also don’t store copyrighted material.

DeathMetal3000··on Unusual login activity was due to bug
How about the built in Firefox password manager? You can (optionally) sync across devices and set it as the password store in iOS (probably Android too).
DeathMetal3000··on FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps
Signal FTW!
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