I feel this is a bit of a moot point from the White House. Memory-safe languages have been around for decades. I feel like the amount of C/C++ out there isn’t so much that people think having dangerous stuff around is good, but more that nobody really wants to pay to change it.
Oliver Lowe
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Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgto Programming@programming.dev•White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe5·2 years ago
Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Does email (SMTP/POP3) count as a member of the fediverse?English5·2 years agoDepends how you look at it! Here’s me accessing Mastodon and the fediverse via email: https://lemmy.world/post/11020167 I’ve written a a couple more prototypes to connect one to the other. If anyone is interested I could write up more about how it works or do a more public demo
Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Any apps or sites that scrapes web pages and gives much better privacy respecting web pages or apps than the official ones ?2·2 years agoNot included in the above, but handy is also an alternative web UI for Reuters news: https://neuters.de
Link to the YAML spec, for the (very) brave: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/
no you didn’t Mr. Simpson, no one can
Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.orgto Australia@aussie.zone•Australia is bigger than some people overseas imagine.1·2 years agoThe other fun one is that the continental US (AKA everything except Alaska) is just about the same size as Australia. Then when you consider that there’s 49 states versus Australia’s 7, you can see how the numbers come about.
looks like I’ve solved the unfollow thing. one final test…
but really shouldn’t get this comment as we’ve undone the follow??
well there was probably awareness of ideas of sacrifice, punishment, right/wrong. Old ideas…
of course!