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sebtronon Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

Signal sends you a notification that says "new version available, tap here to update", but tapping it never did anything for me. I have to re-download the apk their website every time there is an update.

sebtronon European Alternatives

I agree the web app is not amazing, I use a native mail application.

sebtronon European Alternatives

Why? I have been using mailbox.org for a few years and I am very happy with it.

sebtronon 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe

Walking outside with 40°C is not "enjoying the beautiful weather", it is miserable. Air conditioning only solves part of the problem.

sebtronon Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

I can pay with iDEAL without interacting with a smartphone, using only my laptop and a physical 2FA device provided by my bank. Do you know if this will be possible with Wero?

sebtronon European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

Why does it have to be a phone? Some people still use tablets, laptops and, believe it or not, desktop PCs.

sebtronon European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

> Are there any other Operating Systems than iOS, Android or Android flavors?

Like Windows, MacOS and Linux?

sebtronon Linux Terminal Memory Usage

I did not know about this. I used it on Fedora, and I thought Fedora was as close to "default GNOME" as possible.

sebtronon Linux Terminal Memory Usage

> I expected gnome-terminal's memory usage to be in line with konsole (KDE's default terminal), but gnome-terminal shows remarkably well in this test

In tipical GNOME fashion, they have decided to replace this largely working piece of software with on with one that places solidly at the bottom of the article's list (ptyxis).

sebtronon iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

I think it means a digital copy of a ticket or similar card.

sebtronon iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

Can I use this feature to generate an airplane ticket? :P

I think "create" is the confusing part. It should be "digitize" or something. Either this, or "pass" means something else here.

sebtronon Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

Lucky you, I guess. In all the companies I worked for I have had a company-provided Windows laptop where the OS was managed by IT. The degree of freedom (e.g. what software could I install, what websites were blocksd) varied.

sebtronon Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training

I am a European in Europe and I expect the same. Why would I assume otherwise? The company laptop is full of spyware, starting from the OS. I have no reason to consider it "mine", and no desire to do so. If I want to do anything private (including things that my company would not like) I can do so from my private devices.

sebtronon Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

That comes preinstalled :)

sebtronon I don't use LLMs for programming

I agree with you, but considering the state of modern software, I think the values "truth and correctness" have been abandoned by most developers a long time ago.

sebtronon C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

I see what you mean now, thanks. To reproduce that example with std::variant I would need some kind of strong type alias, which as far as I know is missing from C++; so the only feasible way to do that would be wrapping the string in another class or struct.

sebtronon C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

I am not sure what you mean, you can definitely have e.g. an

    std::variant<int, std::string, bool>

Which is a sum of those three types.

sebtronon C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime

Since C++17 there is std::variant

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant.html

sebtronon Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

> or that you don't own the device you use (which makes it unacceptable)

It's already like this, unless you go out of your way to install a custom Android rom, which 99.9% of people will never do.

I agree it is unacceptable.

sebtronon Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

But dog breeds are much more diverse than humans. For example, a chihuahua weights about 2kg, a St. Bernard about 70kg. That's a 35x size difference.

sebtronon 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

A metric kilobyte is 1000 bytes. An imperial kilobyte, on the other hand, is 5280 bytes.

sebtronon Is Rust faster than C?

> Are people making user facing apps in rust with uis?

We are talking not only about Rust, but also about C and C++. There are lots of C++ UI applications. Rust poses itself as an alternative to C++, so it is definitely intended to be used for UI applications too - it was created to write a browser!

At work I am using tools such as uv [1] and ruff [2], which are user-facing (although not GUI), and I definitely appreciate a 16x speedup if possible.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

[2]https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

sebtronon Is Rust faster than C?

I think this is related to the C++ standard library implementation.

Using pthread in C, for example, TBB is not required.

Not sure about C11 threads, but I have always thought that GLIBC just uses pthread under the hood.

sebtronon FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI [video]

Thsi talk is scheduled for January 31st, or am I missing something? Why is it being posted here? There is no video yet.

sebtronon Changes to Android Open Source Project

We just call it "apps" now.

sebtronon I program without syntax highlighting

On my personal devices, I turned off syntax highlighting a few years ago to see how hard it would be to live without, but I ended up liking it and I have not turned it back on since. I am mostly working on small (<10k LOC) projects, or single-file programs (e.g. Advent of Code).

However, at work I am working on a much larger code base, and the extra help given by syntax highlighting (for example, having a quick visual feedback on whether a method exists or not) is valuable to me.

I think this also depends on the language used: at home I mostly program in C, but if I were doing more e.g. C++, I would probably enjoy some syntax highlighting.

sebtronon Inverse Parentheses

This seems to be the best guess so far. But then I am wondering, how is

    a (*) b + c

Parsed then? The precedence of '* is bumped down, but does that mean it has now strictly lower precedence of '+', or the same? In the first case the operation is parsed as

    a * (b + c)

In the second case, the "left to right" rule takes over and we get

    (a * b) + c

And what happens when there are more than 2 priority groups Taking C has an example, we have that '' has higher precedence than '+' which has higher precedence than '<<' [1]. So
a + b * c << d
Means
(a + (b * c)) << d
Now I could use the "decrease precedence" operator you proposed (possibly proposed by the author?) and write
a + b (*) c << d
Which then bumps down the precedence of '' to... One level lower? Which means the same level of '+', or a level lower, i.e. a new precedence level between '+' and '<<'? Or maybe this operator should end up at the bottom of the precedence rank, i.e. lower than ','?

The more I think about this, the less sense it makes...

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_precedence...

sebtronon Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code

Normally I don't mind, but on this page it took at least 15 seconds for me.

sebtronon Making RSS More Fun

> I get the impression this person is using RSS reader wrong. Or is there really a culture of people you are using RSS like a youtube-channel, consuming everything from beginning to end? For me the purpose of RSS is to get the newest headlines, choose the interesting articles and skip the rest. This means there is a limited list of items to check each day, and a finishing line.

Why would the author's use be the wrong one? And why should YouTube be different, in principle? (Maybe you are using YouTube wrong...)

I think at some point there was a shift in the way we consume online content, from "I'll read whatever is up now" to "I have my list of things to catch up with". RSS is older, so it is natural to connect it with the older way of consuming content. But there is no reason we can't do the same with YouTube channels, for example.

sebtronon “Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill

Ah yes that must be perfectly legal and a sign of a healthy democracy.