

OFF TOPIC, but, how do you do the stand-out quotes like that?
Recreational maths and computing, sci-fi reading and writing, appreciation of fine art and planet Earth.
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OFF TOPIC, but, how do you do the stand-out quotes like that?
@imecth @stuner @littleomid @uthredii ``Rust implies only 1 thing, and that’s no memory leaks, assuming you don’t use “unsafe” code. It’s still very much vulnerable to logic bugs and has the same performance as c (GNOME) and c++ (KDE).‘’
Not only memory leaks, multi-threading generally is hugely safer under the watchful eye of the compiler.
It performs slightly better than C or C++; the compiler is able to make better optimizations thanks to deeper insight into the nature of given code.
@warm @LOLseas @0ndead @hellmo_luciferrari Because the British are still misunderstood by the rest of the world.
@glitching @tal Doesn’t turning encrypted swap off defeat the point of having encrypted swap?
@chronicledmonocle @cm0002 … given all that, it just makes sense to systematically rewrite everything that exists in C as Rust. Nothing to lose, everything to gain.
@chronicledmonocle @cm0002 The real answer is that some people just want something to do.
The more philosophical answer is that after C (circa 1960) there have been lots of developments in programming languages, both translated and compiled. Rust is epochal in that it takes all the best features and has the right defaults based on 50 years experience. Most notably it is the first language which understands the code it is compiling, and is thus able to see errors and make deep optimizations…
@floofloof @cm0002 Poor planning my ass. This was the plan all along. They [expletive] know what they are doing.
@Rothe @cm0002 I’ve never seen it presented that way. In my circles, Linux has always been the much superior OS (I work in data crunching and back-end servers). But even on a desktop I’ve always considered it superior; historically it kept going when Windows BSOD’d, and had multi-user and remote window functionality sussed out waaay before Windows ever did.
@zieg989 @TurkeyDurkey Does linux-libre work perfectly?
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> I honestly can’t think of any good reason to run an ssh server in a container.
An isolated virtual machine for untrusted users?
@racketlauncher831 @CulturedLout ``Reading skill isn’t required anymore!‘’
That’s the level we’ve descended to, isn’t it? Writing died 20 years ago, reading will be dead in 20 years…
@cm0002 … and the point is?
@fartsparkles 🎼 You were so lonesome, you needed a man 🎵
Someone to talk to, well I understand 🎵
That’s only natural…
But why does it have to be me? 🎵
@fartsparkles Me? That could turn out to be a full-time job which I’ll leave to someone else, thank you.
@fartsparkles @onlinepersona Except that the MIT version will get bells and whistles that folk can’t do without.
@FizzyOrange @morto #nix and #guix do exactly this. It is 2025.