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I was working for a long time on a project that was in Common Lisp, with a C++ library. We didn't use Clasp but SBCL, so every C++ thing available to Lisp had to go through a pure C interface. Major pain, you first have to wrap all classes and...

If you see the amount of work, the Rust community has put into their Rust abstractions binding layer, it is probably safe to assume bindgen has not been successful at automating the task of generating bindings. As I mentioned before, they have...

Rust people are like vegan. You know what they are within the first two or three minutes of your first meeting.

While I generally agree with the core of the statement, I'd like to add that rust folks make it really hard to just ignore it. They show up with an armored convoy, bash in your front door, strap you down on a chair and force you to listen to...

In fact, forget the blackjack. :) I'd doubt that any modern EU e-banking system would rely on a cookie alone to pull this off; true though didn't test this myself and web pentesting is not my cup of tee; this should be /relatively/ easy to try...

Perhaps he was able to login and see .mozilla? ZioMario can see who logged in?

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There is no solution that will 100% mitigate this hack. A SIM card swap attack and email spoofing are both simple tasks for anyone intent on putting in the work to steal identity. Even authenticator apps like M$'s and Google's can be spoofed.

I do like the "bolt on a basic C frontend" idea. It was my option 1 because it would be easier than writing an entire OS. It seems heavy but I honestly think that would be a good approach for Rust. Especially since it is already built on LLVM...

The Common Lisp compiler Clasp interfaces to C and some C++ by using the LLVM and Clang libraries, aka it properly parses the header files and gets structs and function signatures out of that. In other words, it drags most of a compiler around...

Its been said a few times here before. Smart phones are the least secure devices that you can use. I would highly recommend separating your important data from them.

Sadly not. Bindings generators (including SWIG that came before it) can't quite do the full job. Thats why you have many, many bindings in crates.io such as for SDL2. You have the *-sys crates which are the thin unsafe bindings (some partially...

Rust, like modern C++, is a much higher level language than C. The ability to build libraries in C is very limited by a lack of generic programming. Just think of quicksort and binary search in C. The library has them, but the interface is a joke...

Unfortunately not. As mentioned earlier, the issue with language bindings leading to considerable technical debt is already well explored (a very verbose paper but actually covers the issue well, including multiple different approaches to...

You mean, after firing all those with a clue? Those should immediately form a new company and rent out engineering consultants with a "market oriented and fair" rate. You know, the kind that would make McKinney blush? That would be karma.

They did that in python iirc. And the legal eagle (tweed stuffed lawyer !!) did a vid telling them that the 120year olds are due to some RFC that deals with unknown birthdays.

I like how people just casually glanced over these comments. This is a potential serious issue that will need to be addressed at some point. How are we going to deal with this? Also, has anyone even assessed whether GPU vendors even want to work...

https://thecodinglove.com/elon-musk-wants-to-rewrite-all-the-cobol-code-behind-u-s-social-security-in-just-a-few-months Tens of millions of lines of cobol, developed over decades of work. What could possibly go wrong? 😂 They wrote a GUI for a...

I for one hate Flatpaks, snaps and all sorts of that cuisine on Linux. Why can't you just give me a fat binary?

I for one hate Flatpaks, snaps and all sorts of that cuisine on Linux. Why can't you just give me a fat binary?

Android internet banking applications security is based on X.509, at least that is the case for major European banks. My m-banking application requires physical activation at the bank. You download the application normally from the store...

Following 286592 (that Andriy alerted us to a few days ago) is proving fruitful - just today, the devs have tested a patch for x11/sddm that seems to resolve that Ctrl-C bug. At this point, I think it's a matter of seeing when it makes it into...

I lean towards what VladiBG said - more likely you entered your data to a phising site by accident. Relatively easy to pull off and with suprisingly good results. This happened to my gf's friend 2 weeks ago or so - she was busy with her kids...

Everything after the exec mate-session never gets executed. Move that line to the end. Ah, already noticed. Yes, there seems to be some common confusion as to what exec actually does. The entire current process (the shell that's executing the...

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Yep. More or less like that. Check these at my 'EXTERNAL' tab - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/external/ 2005-2008 @ bsdforums.org – Learning FreeBSD 2008/04 @ daemonforums.org – DaemonForums ... also a screenshot of the (now gone)...

As so often, it was done without understanding the scope, in any way...

Yes, it was just to verify the jails are indeed actually connected to the bridge. epair4b and epair100a have the same MAC address.

I had a quick look at indeed.co.uk last night. I only found one job specifically asking for rust, and one more that mentioned they wanted people who knew "languages like rust and go". I think the adoption in the US must be quite a lot wider...

Yep. More or less like that. Check these at my 'EXTERNAL' tab - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/external/ 2005-2008 @ bsdforums.org – Learning FreeBSD 2008/04 @ daemonforums.org – DaemonForums ... also a screenshot of the (now gone)...

Indeed. If they do solve them, then people will update their criticisms of Rust (or likely its successor language). So far I can see them solved in two ways: 1) Bolt on a tiny C frontend (a little bit like cgo but with full interop). 2) Rust all...

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Seriously? What was the error? It is strange that straight installation did not work.

Its more that the "special" aspects of it, are greatly undermined by the disadvantages of it. Practicality and pragmatism is way more critical than imagination. C++ developers in particular are already quite familiar with Rust's RAII mechanisms...

I remember the BSDForums.org! It got a little overrun with spam towards the end. I was very happy to find out that FreeBSD then started to host their own instead. Much of the community did carry over too.

Yep. More or less like that. Check these at my 'EXTERNAL' tab - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/external/ 2005-2008 @ bsdforums.org – Learning FreeBSD 2008/04 @ daemonforums.org – DaemonForums ... also a screenshot of the (now gone)...

It conflicts with a few coding standards (i.e some modules in DO-178C). These will take decades to change for one. UK specific, DEF STAN 00-55 (or 00-56?) it is recommended to have multiple "independent" and "diverse" vendor toolchains to avoid...

Jeez, that's a handful.

scottro That's pretty close. I remember vermaden started at the original forum a month or two after I did. I don't remember who else is here now from back then. Were you there then? What a zoo that became.

Yep. More or less like that. Check these at my 'EXTERNAL' tab - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/external/ 2005-2008 @ bsdforums.org – Learning FreeBSD 2008/04 @ daemonforums.org – DaemonForums ... also a screenshot of the (now gone)...

They don't need to emulate that. You provided them id/password. They can send that info to the actual bank (as if you were logging to actual bank), wait for you to send the token back to them and go from there.

I have not seen that white house advice being taken seriously, not even in government agencies. These agencies would propably have the hardest time switching languages or having mixed-language systems. But Musk's boys can re-write the social...

Well, C is a very light language that misses many abstractions, including zero-cost abstractions that languages like Rust and modern C++ have. Just as an example, the C library has a quicksort and a binary search, but neither are type-safe, they...

As the title of the article says, "urges" is the word but they can urge all they want and we can still use whatever we feel like.

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"If you are going to commit to a feat of engineering like a GPU driver, adding a trendy new language is a good incentive, making it all exciting again. Open-source is all about playing around and having fun." Yes, that's one I thoroughly approve...

This issue is much simpler than it looks. Imagine I now post here plans to enrich uranium, build atom bomb, etc. Imagine no moderator takes my post down. Imagine nobody responds to abuse contacts for the domain. Police will come knocking on...

Bindings / abstractions are a very well understood issue since the 70s. It does indeed threaten a project by drowning it in technical debt. Since Linux started with Rust a couple of years ago, they are *still* writing the bindings layers. This...

Tried net/guacamole-server some time ago, got it to work but was a bit finicky to set up. It can also provide HTML5 access to RDP and even SSH. Maybe a bit overkill, but it might work for you. https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/

That was not the point. Greg KH has stated that Rust was added to the Linux kernel because of memory safety with the idea that devs can avoid an entire category of bugs just using a different language.