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Re:CVE Tracker on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:06AM (#50220132)
I wonder if high severity CVEs graph is different. E.g. not https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/09/05/bogus-cve-follow-ups/
Re:MXC - a sandboxed code execution system on Friday October 09, 2026 @08:24AM (#50019477)
What's also interesting is that they added the Experimental_CreateProcessInSandbox API to Windows, like, last month.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/cre...

Funny, now that it's documented, the API name will be stuck with this name forever.

Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:59PM (#49759429)
Nah, AI code is black or white, and whether the code is good depends on your religion.
Same here, not using firefox because of worse compatibility (maybe not their fault, many devs only test in chrome) and weaker security (maybe not their fault, they don't have as much money). I appreciate the people who do and help diversify the ecosystem though.
Re:Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online on Saturday August 29, 2026 @07:09PM (#49494126)
Legend
Re:AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry? on Saturday August 15, 2026 @12:07PM (#49311727)
Betteridge's law strikes again
Re:Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:16AM (#49273741)
Honestly more than I thought
+1, works well enough
If it's an actual bug, I hope the Linux devs will. It impacted a human, and it's a bug regardless of human or non-human touch. Of course, looking at a bug is a matter of priority, always has been.
That I agree with (not instead, in addition)
PoC||GTFO, if it reproduces, it's valuable
wow, everything is broken lol
> That’s subjective obviously. Some folks swear by type systems like Rust’s to catch as many issues as possible. That’s just not how I roll.

Yeah, I like it. I also like not caring about dangling pointers, UAF, and other things, not even because of security. These are just bugs that are not fun to debug.

But I get the appeal of the freedom of C++. Especially if you deal with FFI and low level stuff, Rust either forces you to write safe wrappers (good investment long-term, but not fun to do), or just use lots of unsafe, in which case there's no benefit.

This, and there's also cargo which is convenient.

> When I write new code in Fil-C, I just lean into the GC all the way, which makes programming in C and C++ so much nicer.

Then it's no longer C/C++. More like C++/CLI maybe. And it probably gets tricky with FFI. Anyway, keep it up on making the world a safer place :)

Let's not shy away then. What details do you disagree on?

P.S. Also fan of your work. Competition is always good.

Re:Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter on Monday July 06, 2026 @07:14PM (#48811709)
Trust
That's what I thought too when I first saw it. But then I actually took a moment to read it and eventually changed my mind.
Re:There Is Life Before Main in Rust on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:43PM (#48508607)
I thought it was about prehistoric Rust before the main branch was created :)
Re:Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS) on Saturday June 06, 2026 @12:45PM (#48426666)
There should be 2 options for speed, regular and sped up. Then there should be a key to speed the game up. When I was a kid, it was the space key for GBA. You could have the normal game and skip the boring parts fast.
Re:Coreutils for Windows on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:04PM (#48374708)
Not that spammers couldn't do without this feature, but advertising it as a service is kinda weird.
Re:GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:37AM (#47862706)
pseudoanonymous, meaning not anonymous? lol
Re:I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++ on Thursday April 09, 2026 @03:32PM (#47708626)
What about cmkr?

https://cmkr.build/

Looking at the title, I was confused why a recommendation of some random PC gamer is interesting. Capitalization is important.
Hilarious, some of them are easy with the keyboard
Re:XML Is a Cheap DSL on Saturday March 14, 2026 @08:49AM (#47376151)
It's not so cheap, in terms of maintenance and mental load

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