“CPUs are optimized for video games”

Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by jacobsenscott on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @11:22PM (#12266146)

We lived in a world where we didn't spend anything on security, and it was awesome. That's the environment that unix, the internet, web browsers, IRC, and all the other really cools stuff we use every day was developed in. Hacking, exploring, and sharing was encouraged, easy, and expected.

Now what do we have? Ssl protecting the packets that we broadcast to everyone on ad delivery platforms.

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Re:“CPUs are optimized for video games” by jodrellblank on Thursday August 11, 2016 @03:16PM (#12270894)

We grew our computer systems in a clean room, and inadvertently gave them Bubble-Boy syndrome - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Boy

Now what do we have? Now we're spending more money time and effort, getting poor and limited solutions, trying to patch up email sender verification, shove SELinux around things, wrap every browser request in "are you sure?" modal dialogs and "Request refused for your protection" trip-ups, replace IRC-plain-text-chat with "text-chat in a browser" (Slack, Discord) or walled gardens (iMessage, Google, Skype), fight hard to replace C with languages where buffer-overflows aren't one mistake away and everything isn't de-facto built around rudimentary-types and string-concatenation, and do it all without compromising backwards compatibility or established user experience too hard.

'Awesome'.

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