Looks great, won't touch since they are probably going to do a switcheroo or a shutdown as usual.

And of course I would need to look at all the implications of spying, being locked out of google account and absence of support that are google amo. No time for that. Not for them.

The question is how much are people willing to pay for this trouble. Usually industries that stick to very old system did so because they didn't want to invest resources in the migration.

> Usually industries that stick to very old system did so because they didn't want to invest resources in the migration.

That can be the case, but there's also a lot of instance where it's not a matter of not wanting to invest, but that being stuck on an older system is the only option until a larger component also goes EOL or dies and cannot be repaired.

I see this all the time in manufacturing. User control interfaces that run on Windows XP or 2k. Machine is still great, can still get parts & repair it, but the software has long ago since stopped being supported. The manufacturer isn't going to spend 6 figures to replace a machine that hasn't fully depreciated yet.

In these instances, you just air gap it off and you're fine.

"It's complicated" is probably the line I hate the most in movies for this very reason. It's lazy writing made vocal.

It's doubleplusgood language and perfectly cromulent.

Because many people, including myself, have been consistently experiencing better quality from Rust-written software.

Maybe it's the type of language that attracts people who are interested in getting the details right.

Or maybe the qualities of the language mean if a project manages to reachthe production stage, it will be better than an alternative that would reach the production stage because the minimal level of quality and checks required are better.

Or maybe it's because it comes with very little friction to install and use the software, because Rust software usually comes with a bunch of binaries from all popular platforms, and often, installers.

Or maybe the ecosystem is just very good.

Or maybe it's all together, and something more.

Doesn't matter.

The fact is, I did have a better experience with software written in rust that in Python, JS or even Go or Java.

And I appreciate knowing the software is not written in C or C++, and potentially contains problems regarding security, segfaults, and encoding that are going to bite me down the road, as it's been common in the last 30 years.

So "written in rust" is a thing I want to know, as it will make me more likely to try said software.

The others students will get code from chatgpt way faster than from your code.

If you are afraid that people will think this code is not yours, sign your commits, it's unlikely they will take the time to clone your repo and remake it with new signatures.

But honestly, if it's such a source of stress for you, don't share it. It's ok to not share code. There is no rules that say you have to.

Just because most of us are into FOSS and open source doesn't mean we will less of you if you are not.

Top comment: this article sucks.

Then HN proceed to keep the article at the head of the front page for the day.

Modern Python is quite close to the ruby version:

    from dataclasses import dataclass

    @dataclass(order=True)
    class AppVersion:
        major: int = 0
        minor: int = 0
        patch: int = 0
        
        @classmethod
        def from_string(cls, version_string):
            parts = map(int, str(version_string).split('.'))
            return cls(*parts)
        
        def __str__(self):
            return f"{self.major}.{self.minor}.{self.patch}"

All languages steal from each other, so on a long enough time scale, it makes sense they kinda converge.

I already setup a secret passphrase with my family. My mother is particularly naive when it comes to what's online. Of course she is going to get abused.

A passphrase is cheap. If you never need to use it, so what?

And if she got a desperate, pleading call from "you" and "you" claim you can't remember the passphrase, then what?

These scams are imaginary. Yes they have probably happened but it's far more likely that your mother will get scammed by a "legitimate" financial advisor than some stranger using an AI to impersonate you.

The scams that people don't even know they are getting scammed on - GenZ has the one of the highest scam rates, but the dollar amount per scam is way low and they often dont even know they were scammed. Also, the political donation scams where the people "think" they are giving to a party or candidate but nope, just a PAC that spends all the money its collects on "operations" and "consulting fees" to its partners. Wild times.

Then it failed. Things fail. It's ok. Especially if it's cheap.

And no need for AI. I already had family members getting scammed by facebook or mail impersonation.

But at some point, the capability for AI is going to get so cheap it will be mass-produced by bots from millions of identities like SMS or email scams.

It's not an "if". It's a "when".

I'd rather have my mother at least have the reflex to try to send me a message if I can't remember the passphrase to check if it's indeed me.

And if it doesn't, work, it doesn't. I'm not working for a 3 letters agency and my mum is an old tech illiterate lady. There is a limit.

This.

Pretty much yes. From Saas to authentication systems to OS to chips. The EU infra is entirely dependent on the US. All documents, emails, chat messages, and most forms of storage are directly or indirectly linked to an American service.

On top of that, the US can update it all remotely, including the hardware now thanks to things like intel ME.

Let's hope we never get into a conflict with them, because even without bombs, they can basically shut us down with a few keystrokes: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/the-eu-can-be-shut-down-with-a-fe...

Or at least have everything they need to develop such a capability. And it's not like the current people in power care much about alienating other countries.

> the US can update it all remotely, including the hardware now thanks to things like intel ME

Let's not be excessively alarmist; AFAIK, the Intel ME is not (unless you're using things like vPro) exposed directly to the network, you need the cooperation of the operating system to reach the ME.

Of course, said operating system is usually Microsoft Windows, which can be updated remotely... (and even Linux users often use USA-based distributions).

According to its specs, but since it's a black box for which we have neither the source nor the design documents, and given that implementing back doors is a regular request from governments, it's a logical concern.

> From Saas to authentication systems to OS to chips. The EU infra is entirely dependent on the US.

I would absolutely love to see the EU invest in developing processors and operating systems. It'd benefit us all to have real competition in those spaces, and it's the only way the EU can ever keep their data out of the hands of the US government.