Did they ever explain the highly suss Chinese links? I've used this a bit and it worked well but I'm still not sure I fully trust it.
I think this strategy makes perfect sense and is really working.
Most of the open source community uses Linux or Mac for development. Windows is pretty much an afterthought. You even sometimes see "cross platform" projects that don't work on Windows.
But now that you can use WSL for all that development there's much less reason to use Linux in the first place. At my company we have a couple of hundred people using Linux, and we're considering all moving to Windows with WSL because the hardware support on Linux is just too unreliable - random crashes, laptops not going to sleep when you close them, poor thermals, bad memory management, etc.
It's not a mirror. It's the primary repository. And yes unfortunately they aren't accepting PRs or using it for issue tracking, but it's a start.
So... to store encrypted data that only the user can decrypt you don't need any fancy zero knowledge algorithms. Just have the user keep the encryption key.
For authentication you could use one of these algorithms. OPAQUE seems to be popular. I'm not an expert but it seems like it has several neat zero-knowledge style properties.
But probably forget about implementing it without a strong background in cryptography.
it is wise to stick with old and tested.
You mean old and known to cause endless security vulnerabilities.
Pretty disappointing that some people think this is acceptable behaviour.
At least it's still very obviously "AI slop" as they put it. If ChatGPT ever stops its distinctive patronising waffle it's going to be much more annoying to filter out.
☝ this is why Linux will never be mainstream
Swift users... how is it? I hear compile times are bad. Worse than C++/Rust?
Ask the Rust maintainers to fix it presumably? The antagonist in the video above claimed there are 50 filesystems in Linux. Do they really fix all 50 filesystems themselves when they change the semantics of the filesystem API? I would be very surprised. I suspect what actually happens currently is either
- They actually don't change the semantics very often at all. It should surely be stable by now?
- They change the semantics and silently break a load of niche filesystems.
I mean, the best answer is "just learn Rust". If you are incapable of learning Rust you shouldn't be writing filesystems in C, because that is way harder. And if you don't want to learn Rust because you can't be bothered to keep up with the state of the art then you should probably find a different hobby.
These "ooo they're trying to force us to learn Rust" people are like my mum complaining you have to do everything online these days "they're going to take away our cheque books!" 🙄
Yes. The fact that git is decentralised means you can still carry on working and making commits while GitHub is down. With SVN your basically have to down tools.
Yeah... It's going to take a whole lot more than $1m for this. I am skeptical.
Also not super enthused about another browser written in C++. I skimmed some of their code and it seems pretty high quality, but still... this is going to be chock full of security bugs.
Servo is definitely the more interesting project.
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Me too. I think announcing this is good - otherwise he'll get no feedback.