Such a cool idea!

That was my immediate reaction here: one of the reasons this was possible is that nobody is going to question the idea of shipping a tarball to spare users from having to touch Autotools.

Of course I wouldn't think of manually hacking together Makefiles since I come from languages that have either the One True Build Tool or a standard for packaging and defining build backends.

I think the author's aversion to build tools trying (and apparently failing) to make everyone's life easier is more a statement about how much C/C++ have suffered from not having a standard for packages.

I don't think those are better or worse. My point isn't about some ancient far too limiting standard, but about how easy it is to wreck everything by not knowing some obscure syntactical rule. My issue is about implicit conversion between strings and arrays, about silently swallowing errors and so on. And the only shell languages that I know aren't idiotic are nushell and Powershell.

That KDE theme that nuked some user’s home directory? Used a bash script. That time the bumblebee graphics card switching utility deleted /var? Bash script. Any time some build system broke because of a space in a path: bash/ZSH/... script.

Why would anyone make an init system based on shell scripts these days?

POSIX shells are horrible unmaintainable bug factories.

shellcheck is not enough to make them safe programming languages. They are acceptable only in an interactive context.

Having anything encourage people to write POSIXy shell scripts is a design flaw.

Services are bash scripts?

Oh no. That's horrifying. I'll never go back to the bad old days where my system constantly has dozens of untestable buggy bash scripts running.

I currently have zero bash scripts running on my system until I open steam, and there's no world where I'd go back.

Arch was never affected, as described in their news post about it. Arch users had malicious code on their hard disks, but not the part that would have called into it.

Since you didn't build a RPM or DEB package however, your didn't compile in the backdoor.

I have a pixel 6 and notice some lag in scrolling. Could it be that you don't use srcsets but instead huge screenshots no matter the device screen?

Ah yes, as we all know, family, friends, and poverty doesn't exist. So everyone is either complicit or will immediately move to whatever perfect country you think exists.

So you're calling me a vassal, you dork.

So “ig” means “inhabitant” somehow?

WTF are you calling me?

I'm from the EU, where there's laws in place for some industries to put EU user data exclusively on servers that are in the EU. I'm assuming that the US doesn't have that kind of law applying to TikTok, and that the US servers are an infrastructure decision by Tiktok’s owner company. If I'm right, then that's your answer. If I'm wrong then they really don't need to ban them.

For the record, please keep in mind that I'm not defending any party here. I'm very aware of post cold war yellow/red scare stories, I just don't see how this inevitably has to be the consequence of one.

They already have control over Xitter and Facebook/Instagram.

I don't get why you draw parallels here. The reactionaries are against veneer-of-spooky pieces of media because of moral outrage bullshit. Media literacy is a thing. Nobody is going to believe in dragons or Satan.

The US government is against big China-controlled media platforms with loads of US users because platforms can control which kind of content users see. You can exert a lot of control over people if you show them only one point of view and make them think this is the majority.

I think the US has enough of a problem with home grown radicalized conspiracy nuts, but banning a China owned TikTok is still a very different move than banning D&D would have been.

Why?

Oof. C++ really is a harsh mistress.

I guess you can always just add an assert not data.isna().any() in strategic locations

Thank you! Video tutorials indeed are trash for most things.

The ideal tutorial format is an article, with gifs embedded for the rare instance where you need to see something moving.

Try reading the article.