Weed is illegal in many places. Meanwhile, in California:

@bitprophet “Hell yeah, buddy! I’m a BLUR!”

The little sticker on my bottle of ADHD meds amuses me.

Well, that was fun!

- One of my DigitalOcean servers changed its main net interface from eth0 to ens3. The other did not. They’re both on identical OS versions and kernels now, so I have no idea why that would be.

- Docker had been using the aufs filesystem driver, which they deprecated a few months ago. Rather than carefully convert from aufs to overlay2, I nuked Docker and rebuild Mastodon from scratch.

But hey, we’re back up and running!

Alright, here we go. See you on the other side!

The #FreeRadical server may be down intermittently this morning. It’s time for the biannual “cross our fingers and hope that remote Ubuntu upgrades work perfectly the first time” event.

As a reminder, the official Mastodon app doesn’t show the local timeline, which is what gives individual instances a local flavor. Without that, there’s no difference between any two: they’re basically email servers.

Don’t use it, and don’t recommend it to people. It’s not fit for purpose.

@snickerbockers No, screw that. Snow Crash is still amazing. Zuck's shit version of it isn't.

Can you imagine Bill Clinton asking Saddam Hussein for political dirt to overthrow George Bush? People would have rightfully lost their damn minds.

Watch Trump's brazen request to Putin - CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/03/30/trump-putin-request-biden-ukraine-war-newday-vpx.cnn

Forget the commentary. A former US president called on the leadership of another country — which is currently trying to decide whether to start WW3 against our allies — for political help unseating our current US president.

This is what a traitor looks like.

@strypey One big difference is that the US didn’t claim to own Afghanistan.

@lmemsm Re-read what I wrote. There wasn’t an insult in there.

I like C. My Coverity stock made a nice profit because people paid us a lot of money to analyze their professionally-written code. I think the OpenBSD team are some of the best software engineers on the planet, and they still use static analyzers and their own secured libc functions to try to catch and prevent errors that newer languages would help avoid in the first place.

@lmemsm I’m not saying it’s a moral failure to write C code or anything, just that it’s impossibly hard to get right. Many more experienced devs than you and me have tried and failed.

And honestly, C requires so much mental bookkeeping to use correctly that it slows development down. Think about something like Rust which makes use-after-free almost impossible, and how the compiler will stop you from doing it. You can spend more time thinking about logic than bean counting.

@vertigo Oh, that never happens! "I'll code around the problem by developing a memory safe system implemented in C macros!" is something no one would ever do. /s

@feld Yeah, it’s large C-the-ecosystem that makes it impossible. A tightened up C with far less UB, and maybe a libc built on modern programming principles, would be a different animal. But if you’re doing *that* much rebuilding, then there’s Rust/Zig/D/whatever which are starting over from lessons learned over the last 50 years.

@feld I hope that’s what the future looks like.

@docskrzyk For the tiny embedded stuff, C actually is probably the right answer. I dunno, maybe something like D would fit there, too. I think tiny systems where the code *can’t* grow large enough that a single “normal” person can’t hold the whole source in their brain at once are reasonable uses for it.

Nothing bigger, though. I’ve seen no evidence that large, correct systems can be written in C, even though brilliant people try.

I’m convinced no one on Earth is smart enough to write C.

“All you’ve got to do is…”

“As long as you remember to…”

“Just be sure to always…”

“Make sure you never…”

And yet, stuff like PwnKit is still the rule, not the exception.

While I like Rust, I don’t think it’s going to be the final language humanity develops. That’s the direction of programming, though. C should be dead. There’s zero chance I’d start a new project in C today.

@Mastodon @pepijndevos Yep, I’m on it. We’re on 3.4.5 already.

With Oculus, Facebook has information about what porn you’re watching. Keep in mind that they’re one data leak (or sale) away from that being public info.

Sleep well!