I'm way more concerned that their manufacturers subvert democrarcy to hinder progress that could render their products obsolete.

Your ultimate safety is that if someone locks you out of your account you can always get in touch with the admin over email or matrix and manually verify your ownership of a bunch of things the account claimed to own in the past.

@tosensei what are you protecting? This is a dying forum. The mobile app has long been off the store. And even when it was active, dfox was just as much a random bloke as retoor is. The stakes are limited by using an alt name and unique password, what happens to those is ultimately up to the randoms.

I also wouldn't trust anything important on that server accesible to Retoor and anyone who makes the slightest effort to gain access, but nothing here actually is important.

@xcodesucks What you describe as "taking multiple lines of machine code" (which is not a useful distinction at all given how many factors affect the performance of machine code) is either a nonzero or an iszero check which is the same cost as a boolean true check, followed by an assignment to local which doesn't exist in assembly and serves purely to encode the value flow graph used by both the compiler and the author in a way that's easy to read by a second human. This is the case whether the optional is translated to a tagged union or a nullable reference. I pointed out that booleans don't exist because you attempted to describe how inefficient the conditional assignment is by pretending that _nil has to be cast to false_ in machine code, an exceptionally funny preposition where neither of the operands, nor the operation actually exists in machine code.

Booleans are exactly as real as optionals too. The dumb tagged union implementation of an optional is literally a boolean, and the nullable reference implementation is created the same way a boolean is created, by assigning one meaning to one subset of the possible values of a number, and a different meaning to another. The main difference is that optionals are a distinct concept so the compiler can choose even more efficient implementations for special cases, such as by niche elimination.

I also don't see why either is bad form. They hide a minuscule amount of behaviour, much less than is lost or gained from arbitrary reordering of non-inlined calls to functions that use different registers, they don't hide any usercode dispatch, they branch on the structure of a container. You can also use the C construct incorrectly like everything in C but its correct use involves a trivial datastructure containing either a 1-based ID such as a pointer or nothing

I don't see how this is worse than the C version. I don't know swift specifically, but I would assume that optional is either a tagged union or a nullable reference, both cases should result in exactly the same optimized machine code as the corresponding C technique for value and reference types respectively.

I've heard a couple experts from both sides entertaining the idea that the reason recruitment is fucked is the same reason dating is fucked; the internet shows you a huge variety of options, but it isolates you such that you forget about all the other people being shown those same options. This completely breaks activities where success is hard to measure and so methodology is never developed, as participants have to purely rely on their thus-broken intuition for judgment.

@tosensei The Win32 API is at present 32 years old and it shows its age. I'd be very surprised if old graphics accelerator APIs still worked the same, and weren't reimplemented in terms of newer APIs that dictate different choices of UB, which in turn broke a bunch of games each time it happened, because game development is a notoriously hacky process rife with dependence on unspecified but nonetheless present environmental factors.

It would appear that cementing market domination, whether that be by subverting democratic institutions or via gifts to the glorious leader, isn't condusive to a good service.

@jestdotty Depends on the community. Reddit works better the more niche your interest, that was its original intent and they never really figured out large subs. The biggest community I'm in is r/IndieDev, and those are overwhelmingly real people.

Both because of echo chambers. Users who can distinguish real humans select for them and are thus identified as an in-group by the algorithm. Users who can't are shown the type of automated content with fake replies that they engage with.

My grandma now has a facebook, she can't distinguish between real and fake human interaction, but she also loathes postmodern and later art and all politics, so her facebook feed is like 10% fake people ragebait and 90% fake profiles uploading scans of modern art. She's happy on average I guess but it's frankly surreal whenever I need to fix something and get a glance into her digital world.

This is on devrant, `.` is a valid URL character, but considering that the file uploader is built for devrant it may be a good idea to urlencode that too, just like spaces.

Also, nuclear recklessness isn't in short supply ever since Russia _besieged a nuclear power plant_, I don't expect any better from the US whose homeland is much further from the site of the attack and is thus much less exposed to the fallout.

Iran has made a compelling effort to deescalate by calling ahead to evacuate before their retaliatory strikes. It's clear that, whatever their plans with Israel, they would much prefer the US stay out of it.

Trump has acknowledged this effort as well, so while he may escalate anyway and his foreign policy is generally hard to forecast, I'm optimistic.

can do!

I mean, getting the stuff to explode is pretty much exactly what the facility was working on. It's not like they were purifying it for fun.

@rootshell yeah, I think it's all just to secure billable hours and CV material for the dev.

no really, I need a fucking filter. AI is negatively interesting to me, each time it shows up in a conversation I'm instantly a bit less enthusiastic than I was before,

@rootshell the only part of your criticism I don't get is why the technology and not the incentive is at fault for the abuse. At least JS can be combined with SSR via hydration. Flash, java applets, and VB extensions can't, they are just inherently poorly integrated, and before JS, developers just overused them instead. There is demand for this. The best we can do is make good practices easy with hybrid SSR frameworks.

@rootshell We're testing the correctness of features that were impossible to implement before JS.

@rootshell Yeah, actually, before server-side scripting you could just verify your static site visually, which was even easier. Clearly that was better, and new capabilities are inherently bad, because they have to be replicated in the testing environment.

why the webdriver protocol isn't just a TCP protocol I will never understand.

@Lensflare well, selenium also requires an external driver protocol which uses a combination of socket files and executables to work and at one point I think also supported DLLs using C ABI as a fallback, so it's annoying but not the least bit surprising that it doesn't work the same in every browser.

@Lensflare The UI tests are written for a proprietary selenium wrapper that only works with regular Firefox, but I don't have it because they also require a ton of other configuration so they live on one dedicated machine in the office and run once per day and before deployments.

I use LibreWolf for most things because it doesn't follow group policy so extensions aren't banned, Edge for things that require SSO and for debugging because it's the only one VS has good integration for, and Brave for YouTube and Messenger because Meta and Google sabotage their sites on Firefox-based browsers.

@xcodesucks If you agree with me that by your definition no language can be safe, why would you interpret my claim about heapless Swift as if I said that it is safe by your definition? Clearly, I meant that avoiding the heap saves you from this specific error, while other techniques (such as avoiding recursion) save you from other specific errors, never completely eliminating the possibility of a crash.

@jestdotty POs?

How the fuck am I even gonna present this to my PO who's the sponsor for AI adoption? I want both cucumber and LLMs gone from the project, but maybe it's better to just relay problems as I find them. Can I trust an AI fanboy to recognize the pattern by himself?

Nobody knows the true proportions of anything on the internet.