You probably missed the news. But Firefox is becoming a data seller too.
Recently they updated their policies, since they are on GitHub you can see the exact changes.
One of them was the elimination of a phrase like “we won’t sell your data, and that’s a promise”. So promise broken I guess.
Simplicity is easy to pirate though.
If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.
The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.
That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.
With your definition this conversation doesn’t make sense though. Since rust’s direct array access doesn’t perform bounds checks when building in release mode. And it doesn’t require using unsafe.
As I said, I don’t consider going out of bounds of a buffer a memory safety issue. Forcing the programmer to handle an out-of-bounds case every time there is an array access can be incredibly tedious. So much that not even rust forces you to do so. And if that language has iterators, it’s even less of an issue.
I consider out-of-bounds array access to same as casting a pointer to another type. Just because a language lets you do it, it doesn’t mean that it is not memory safe. It is a performance feature, since checking the bounds every time is always possible (and incredibly easy to implement), but also with too big of an impact when you could just check the length once per loop instead of per loop iteration.
How can you not have memory-safety while also having a garbage collector?
Garbage collection means that all objects live as long as you have a reference to it. Which means that you can only dereference a pointer to invalid memory if you willingly create an invalid pointer, or reinterpret the type of one pointer into another. Going out of bounds of an array counts as the first case.
If a language has garbage collection but no compiler/interpreter supports it, then the language doesn’t have garbage collection.
Null safety and memory safety are different features.
Null safety means that you cannot access a struct’s fields without first checking if the pointer to that struct isn’t null. And this must be a compile-time check.
Memory safety means that you cannot read or write to/from memory that has been free-ed. Without leaks ofc, otherwise it would be very easy.
I kinda disagree. The reason rust caught on is because it is much safer than C++ while having the same or even better performance. And in some contexts, being garbage collected means bad performance.
Before rust you could either have a fast language (C/C++) or a memory safe language (any other language. That is, languages with garbage collector). But if you required memory safety and peak performance, there wasn’t any option.
Yes, the reason that rust is both memory safe and fast is because it has a borrow checker. But the borrow checker is the means, not the end.
Boeing is famous for enshittifying its part manufacturers. Even if it wasn’t manufactured by boing, if it is in a boing plane chances are that boing pressured them to make it faster/for cheaper. Which is what leads to all these plane failures.
What are you gonna do? Lose the boing contract and be out of work? Or sacrifice quality to meet boing’s demands? This is the only possible outcome.
Over aggressive? The west has only been on the defensive against china and Russia.
Russia:
The west hoped that relying on Russia for energy would mean that they would calm and see the economic benefits of peace. Even after they invaded a European nation, the west has not militarily attacked Russia.
China:
The west has attacked 0 Chinese vessels. Meanwhile china continually attack other nation’s vessels. And violate airspace and territorial waters.
The last war of aggression by the west (excluding the stupid bombing of Iran by the US) was Afghanistan, which ended years ago and was neither against Russia nor China.
Your library has dedicated parking?
It is not. App X creates image A with location data.
App Y without location permission accesses image A in read mode. Now image A has no location.
You open image A again from app X and the location is no longer there. It makes no sense. Had app Y written to image A, it makes sense that location data was stripped. But opening a file in read mode should not alter it. Except for metadata of the kind “last opened at …”.
If they wanted to, they would do like they do with taxes. “Oh. It is not our data, that data is owned by Microsoft company of the virgin islands, which is totally a different company from Microsoft USA”
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
It is affected by gravity. But does it have gravitational pull? The thing about black holes is that they have a lot gravitational pull.
I’m asking because I honestly don’t know.
Your Airbnb was someone’s home.
The comment you replied to originally was talking about why billionaires should support a democratic society.
If the society is not democratic, it would be authoritarian. Therefore what I explained could happen.
A billionaire cannot exist in 2 countries at the same time. It doesn’t matter if his company is multinational, he isn’t.
If you jail that billionaire, which is not hard as a state if said billionaire resides in your country, you can “convince” him to give even assets in foreign countries.
That’s why they removed his passport.
To anyone unfamiliar with Spain politics, it might not be even noticed.
But it is incredible that the party with most scandals and corruption (PP) claims that they’ll party will do less corruption than them. Why don’t the media give attention to other parties that have less corruption than PSOE instead of the masters of corruption PP?
We no longer live in a 2-party country.
Rust: has stronger typing than C. This guy: I don’t like rust since it’s weakly typed.
Also this guy: doesn’t uses cargo because it downloads from the internet without taking the 5 seconds of research to know that --offline exists.
Also this guy: I don’t like that rust calls C unsafe. It’s safer than assembly.
The guy is just dumb as rocks.
It is not propaganda as it is factual information. If you believe this is 4D chess from Google to manipulate us to dislike Firefox you are out of your mind. https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e this is an actual commit made by mozilla. It was not made by Google.
Changes include:
That to me indicates one of the following:
I don’t like either of those alternatives.
I don’t know if they are able to sell the data you mentioned. Because I’m not in the enshittification minds of giant American corporations. 20 years ago people would laugh at the idea of buying data about the screen size of a user. But now they do, and use it for fingerprinting. If recent history has shown anything is that most data has some kind of value. And giant corporations will find their way to use that data against users.
I’ve seen way too many companies that were supposed to be the cool kids and were doing everything morally enshittify. There’s no reason to believe Mozilla is going to be different. They’re showing the same signs.