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(Even more importantly, it’s libre software!)

So not out of place at all on Hacker News?

Opposite goals. This is a tool for having less posts on Bluesky, not more.

> Stable Debian is using Linux 6.12, if your laptop has modern hardware what do you do? Can't use wifi?

Why not just install a newer Linux version from the official backports repository if you need it?

https://backports.debian.org/

> Not nothing, but I don't think it's incorrect to say has any more OOP than general purpose languages like Lua or JavaScript in that sense.

The comment is saying that the language has more OOP than Lua or JavaScript, but it seems like it might have been meant to say the opposite. That, and it appears to be missing a subject (which I assume to be ‘it’ or ‘the language in question’, based on context). So personally I do find it somewhat confusing.

The problem is not the double negative itself, though; it’s more how it’s being used in context here.

I don’t see them providing any kind of reasoning behind their dismissal here, but if perchance you meant `cowlevel`, then I understand and thank you for the clarification!

Huh? How is Anubis close to erotica? I’m not seeing any hints of eroticism.

GNU/Linux was very quick to support the format, followed by Apple, but Windows and Android still don’t support it out of the box.

Even C and C++ can be memory-safe if you need them to [1], but is arbitrary code execution strictly about memory safety only?

  [1] https://fil-c.org/

For personal use, if those are your only two choices, then go with H.265 for higher efficiency, or H.264 for wider compatibility. If other codecs are an option, go with AV1 for higher efficiency. It’s currently the best and already pretty widely supported.

With JPEG XL finally being allowed into mainstream web browsers, we’ll hopefully see more native platform support and be able to slowly phase every older codec out, since JPEG XL does very well at more or less everything (except for animation, compared to video codecs).

Why?

Other than Ada/SPARK, which languages can guarantee this won’t happen?

I assume the reason was more generally non-permissive licensing and legal issues? Specifically seeing only copyleft as the problem sounds unreasonably sociopathic, so I assume you picked that out as just one prominent example. (That, or I should take care to steer clear of NetBSD.)

I don’t feel like the sentence structure in English is particularly flexible. It relies on word order for things other languages prefer to express with cases, prepositions, or context.

I think the disparity between the written and spoken language is big enough of a problem to make the language difficult; certainly not less so than extra verb forms or gender in other languages. For example, I don’t find French remarkably more difficult than English, because even though it has both of those features, reading it is fairly straightforward, which makes the language so much more comfortable.

Another part of English that I personally always found challenging (and which still trips me up from time to time) are the verb tenses. Just wrapping my head around them and all the context switching to know which one to use for the past/present/future relative to what I’m talking about right now. Perhaps most people don’t feel as strongly about them, though.

All that said, I consider English among the easier languages to learn, but still quite challenging. Difficulty-wise, one can do far, far better.

The important detail being that this surveillance only concerns merchant income, not customer payments. Omitting that is bound to give people the wrong idea whenever you call it a ‘surveillance system’. :-)

(And I still doubt whether the term ‘backdoor’ really makes sense in this context.)

It’s also the most successful attempt of its kind, by far. Which might be a little depressing, but hey, at least the language is still alive and well and not totally unknown! That’s something. :-)

I wouldn’t call English especially easy and forgiving. Why would you?

Well, any language becomes relatively easy when you learn by immersion. That’s how I finally managed to learn English with little effort, after struggling with it for years. Doesn’t mean the language in and of itself is easy. And it most certainly isn’t neutral; just the fact that it’s the native language of several countries and an inherent vehicle of cultural influence disqualifies it as such.

I’m not in any way doubting the success of English as a widespread second language, I just find it unfortunate we haven’t gone with an easy, neutral language instead.

Edge case or not, I do consider a dependency on user-hostile proprietary software owned and controlled by foreign companies a serious problem by nature. Most people not caring doesn’t make it any better.

> easy

> neutral

> leave hurdles of the various national languages to their native speakers

> (context)

Of all the possible languages in the world, how did my comment make you think of English?

As a non-native speaker, I’d be happy if we all could just adopt an easy neutral language for international communication and leave hurdles of the various national languages to their native speakers. Probably not happening, but one can dream.

It’s not a blocker for adoption, but it is a serious problem.

Yes, but that is by design. Taler promises to protect the buyer’s privacy, not the merchant’s. That is very explicitly stated.

When you say ‘GNU Taler provides a backdoor for spying’, that implies to me that it provides secret means of accessing private information to a third party. That is not true, since the party in question is directly involved in the system and there is no expectation of privacy guaranteed via technological means. Calling that ‘a backdoor’ is very misleading.

There is such an expectation for the customer, where it would make sense to speak of a backdoor if there was one, but there isn’t, to the best of my knowledge, and since it’s all libre software, anyone can verify this.

My understanding is that you (the buyer) connect to the exchange to get tokens, and the seller later connects to the exchange to get money for your tokens. The exchange doesn’t know where, how and when you spend your tokens. Where’s the backdoor?

(And I think the exchanges aren’t expected to be run directly by the state, but that’s probably irrelevant to the topic at hand.)

> I hope every dev realizes by now that there's no meaningful difference between a git clone back then and using LLMs now.

Um… conscious intent? History? Integrity? Attribution?

> It's only plagiarism when people didn't publish their source with this intent.

Yes. And they didn’t. Unless they were public domain (which most libre projects chose not to be), they absolutely didn’t and I can’t begin to imagine how you arrived at your conclusion.

Taler is a payment system used with existing currencies. It’s neither a currency nor an investment asset. It’s a way to pay for stuff without giving up your privacy, not for staying ‘ahead’.

> GNU Taler provides a backdoor for spying.

And that backdoor for spying in this entirely free/libre software is…?

> Also claiming buyer privacy when the money ultimately has to come from a bank transaction or another digital transaction leaving some sort of trail is a false illusion.

Don’t all state currencies ultimately come from banks? This feels much closer to cash in practice, which also comes from banks, yet I’d say it’s compatible with privacy.

> It's "money" but it has to be permanently connected to the Internet and it *expires* if disconnected for too long??

Staying disconnected is not what makes them expire, but you need connection to ‘renew’ them before they do expire, if you plan on keeping your tokens for a very long time (say, years). At least that’s my reading of it.

> This is infinitely worse than Bitcoin.

If we only consider this single aspect and ignore all the other ways in which it’s arguably better than Bitcoin, then yes.