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New comment by simplesocieties in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

simplesocieties — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:43:57 +0000

Supposedly humans have become “100x”™ more productive with these AI tools, but nowhere to be seen are the benefits for the wielders of said tools. Is your salary 100x higher? Are you able to spend more time with your family/friends instead of at the office? Why are we still putting up with these outdated work practices if LLMs have made everybody so much more productive?

New comment by simplesocieties in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

simplesocieties — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:36:59 +0000

“Thing x happened in the past, therefore it will continue to happen in the future” is perhaps one of the most, if not the most pervasive human-created fallacies anywhere.

New comment by simplesocieties in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

simplesocieties — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:18:02 +0000

This was the exact same argument used to push new c++ features and look where the language is now.

New comment by simplesocieties in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

simplesocieties — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:17:10 +0000

The rust maintainers need to learn from the mistakes of the c++ design committee and understand that not adding a feature at all is in itself a desirable feature.

For example, your section on effects:

> Functions which guarantee they do not unwind (absence of the panic effect)

* I actually don’t see how this is any more beneficial than the existing no_panic macro https://docs.rs/no-panic/latest/no_panic/

> Functions which guarantee they terminate (absence of the div effect)

> Functions which are guaranteed to be deterministic (absence of the ndet effect)

> Functions which are guaranteed to not call host APIs (absence of the io effect)

The vast majority of rust programs don’t need such validation. And for those that do, the Ferrocene project is maintaining a downstream fork of the compiler where this kind of feature would be more appropriate.

I think rust is in a perfect spot right now. Covers 99.99% of use cases and adding more syntax/functionality for 0.001% of users is only going to make the language worse. The compiler itself provides a powerful api via build.rs and proc macros which let downstream maintainers build their desired customization.

New comment by simplesocieties in "2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up"

simplesocieties — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:47:29 +0000

Rooting for Ladybird https://ladybird.org/

New comment by simplesocieties in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

simplesocieties — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:12:42 +0000

> From what I understand these systems are legal because there is no expectation of privacy in public.

This is a common line of phrasing parroted by Flock and their supporters to no end but it's a myth. The SC, as much of a joke as they are now, established that a person has a reasonable expectation to privacy in their long term movements in Carpenter v. United States (2018). To date there is NO precedent carved out in the constitution or ANY Supreme Court case stating that people have zero expectation to privacy in public.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-402_h315.pdf

New comment by simplesocieties in "When did people favor composition over inheritance?"

simplesocieties — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:01:16 +0000

And yet somehow the Zed team managed to do it with gpui and rust.

New comment by simplesocieties in "Python: The Documentary [video]"

simplesocieties — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:58:28 +0000

Why not Go? I don’t understand starting new backend projects in a JVM language when go exits and its both faster and simpler. People love to proclaim Java’s ability to handle “big data” but I have programs parsing TB of data daily in Go without a sweat. And it was much faster to write and teach new engineers on than Java

New comment by simplesocieties in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

simplesocieties — Mon, 19 May 2025 04:13:08 +0000

Tailscale has made all of their client source code available for anyone to view so if you want to confirm that you’re not sending unencrypted data or keys through their servers you’re more than free to do so.

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

I think there is some merit to setting up wireguard (e.g. you want more devices than what Tailscale offers for free, or their servers become unreliable for some reason)

But people who push the “scarey boogeyman will look at your data” with Tailscale are either technically illiterate or overly-paranoid.

New comment by simplesocieties in "Apple's Widget Backdoor [video]"

simplesocieties — Mon, 12 May 2025 03:52:59 +0000

If Apple wanted to score easy points they would leave this be and add a widget/app icon animation api in the next major release of iOS. This would be way more useful than whatever crap Siri and Apple intelligence are.

But, it’s Apple. So it’s not going to happen.