So this is how the furry subculture started

Both things can be true at the same time. E.g. people sometimes are worked up thinking about some strawman they are discussing against in their head. So when I don’t virtue signal enough that I’m on their team or at least not against entirely against every single thing they stand for, those people sometimes take a very clear and to the point thing I say or ask and misconstrue it into meaning some horrific, morally objectionable thing.

Like, when people say that burning kittens on BBQs is a huge problem that we need to band together against, and I reply that I doubt that this is a widespread enough or well enough organized phenomenon that banding together would be effective, they take it as me admitting that I’m pro kitten-burning.

Sure, I failed to coddle them and front my opinion with how abhorrent those kitten burners are, but also nothing I said implied that in the slightest. I just thought that didn’t need mentioning, why say something so obvious?

Yeah, if all those complainers want something more modular, they’re free to push for protocols that allow to leverage existing components while also allowing for them to come from multiple vendors.

Ah, you’re “from US state” too?

Objectively, Apple is focusing on leveraging high DPI over subpixel tricks.

It makes sense that people who value sharpness on low DPI screens prefer subpixel rendering over grayscale.

https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/

Qt is a thing. Idk why all these environments are messing around with a GTK that’s being sabotaged/neglected by GNOME while Qt just keeps working.

Until? The “hunter gatherer, then farmer” progression is a story, not reality. People sometimes did one in summer, the other in winter. Or gave up farming when they found nice herds.

The both-sidesing was already telling. Sometimes the only “controversial or alternative viewpoints” are just idiotic conspiracy drivel and should be presented as such (or not at all)

Who?

A developer who hasn’t caught a virus since his teenage years.

Why would we?

Rust is faster than C. Iterators and mutable noalias can be optimized better. There’s still FORTRAN code in use because it’s noalias and therefore faster

You got it right, the person you replied to made a joke.

In a good way. Using a non-verified bytes type for strings was such a giant source of bugs. Text is complicated and pretending it isn’t won’t get you far.

I don’t think those are better or worse. My point isn’t about some ancient far too limiting standard, but about how easy it is to wreck everything by not knowing some obscure syntactical rule. My issue is about implicit conversion between strings and arrays, about silently swallowing errors and so on. And the only shell languages that I know aren’t idiotic are nushell and Powershell.

That KDE theme that nuked some user’s home directory? Used a bash script. That time the bumblebee graphics card switching utility deleted /var? Bash script. Any time some build system broke because of a space in a path: bash/ZSH/… script.

Why would anyone make an init system based on shell scripts these days?

POSIX shells are horrible unmaintainable bug factories.

shellcheck is not enough to make them safe programming languages. They are acceptable only in an interactive context.

Having anything encourage people to write POSIXy shell scripts is a design flaw.

Services are bash scripts?

Oh no. That’s horrifying. I’ll never go back to the bad old days where my system constantly has dozens of untestable buggy bash scripts running.

I currently have zero bash scripts running on my system until I open steam, and there’s no world where I’d go back.

You’re right, there’s more parts to it, especially social engineering. Maybe there’s other ways to hide a payload, but there aren’t many avenues. You have to hide the payload in a binary artefact, which are pretty suspicious when you don’t do it in a (well scrutinized) cryptography lib, or a compression lib.

Then that payload has to be executed for some reason, which means you need a really good reason to embed it (e.g. something like widevine), or have to modify the build script.

I mean, teachers are not practicing the science they teach. They only need a textbook level understanding.