Yeah I just took a look at it. First thing I did was click on the "source" tab on a repo. That actually makes the source tab disappear? Clearly not designed by anyone who has any experience designing sane UI.

I think Gitlab and Forgejo are better options, and not run by a creep. Forgejo is similarly fast and actually has a sane UI. The tabs don't disappear!

I'm not sure I agree. I think most people can understand recipes or instruction lists and totally could program, if they wanted to and had to. They just don't want to and usually don't have to. They find it boring, tedious and it's also increasingly inaccessible (e.g. JavaScript tooling is the classic example).

But I think mainly people just don't find it interesting. To understand this, think about law. You absolutely have the intellect to be a lawyer (you clever clog), so why aren't you? For me, it's mind-numbingly boring. If I was really into law and enjoyed decoding their unnecessarily obtuse language then I totally would be a lawyer. But I don't.

After Dorsey sold Twitter to Elon Musk, selling the platform out to the far right for a crisp billion-with-a-“B” dollar payout, the FOSS community shouldered the burden – both with our labor and our wallets – of a massive exodus onto our volunteer-operated servers, especially from victims fleeing the hate speech and harassment left in the wake of the sale.

That is a very weird way of putting it. Like Mastadon et al didn't want more users? That's not at all the response I remember.

Yeah Verilog. That's literally the language people use to design chips and FPGA bitstreams.

Someone has already done it: https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio

It's sooo sloooow though.

Impressive persuasion! I can't imagine that ever working at any company I've worked at.

It requires you to sign into a Microsoft account (which I assume most non-nerds do, given how hard they make it to avoid) and have hardware that supports it... But yes Windows enables full disk encryption by default now.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-24h2-will-enable-bitlocker-encryption-for-everyone-happens-on-both-clean-installs-and-reinstalls

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/device-encryption-in-windows-cf7e2b6f-3e70-4882-9532-18633605b7df

When you first sign in or set up a device with a Microsoft account, or work or school account, Device Encryption is turned on and a recovery key is attached to that account.

Yet another? The only other one is Node's and that is trash.

Sorry that example was a bit too limited to demonstrate the problem actually. Add a second lambda and you hit the issue:

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2021&gist=eb99d3d670bdd9d92006f4672444d611

Still totally fine from a safety point of view, but the borrow checker can't figure that out.

So either you agree with what it's called or you're "disruptive" and should be banned? Hmm.

I read a load of his comments and they seem quite reasonable. A million miles from ban-worthy.

Come on, surely by now everyone knows TIOBE is meaningless bullshit?

If the build scripts were tiny and checked then the attack vector would have just been different, I’m not even too sure the language mattered.

I have to disagree here. Maybe they would have found another way, but it would have been a more obvious way, which is a very good thing.

Yes it would have still been compromised but it may have been detected earlier. So it's still pretty bad to have these incomprehensible build scripts.