Electronic Frontier FoundationEFF is appalled by how quickly and uncritically internet restrictions are being adopted around the world, David Greene told CNET. "Even if they are under 18, or under 16, children have the right to access information, to speak and to associate.” https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/indonesia-social-media-ban-under-16/
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Hmm.. If my data is adrift (not clearly in transit) do I have to pay salvage to whoever recovers it (before the pirates, state sponsored or not, get it)?
The right of free passage is one thing. The right to just bob about in the ocean as though it's some sort of "the floor is lava" defence is not so well established. In fact it's established that a vessel is subject to the laws of the country who's flag it flies. Hence flags of convenience and all that but it's not "stateless".
Hmm.. If my data is adrift (not clearly in transit) do I have to pay salvage to whoever recovers it (before the pirates, state sponsored or not, get it)?
The right of free passage is one thing. The right to just bob about in the ocean as though it's some sort of "the floor is lava" defence is not so well established. In fact it's established that a vessel is subject to the laws of the country who's flag it flies. Hence flags of convenience and all that but it's not "stateless".
@hyc What do you think of wasm? As a "you can't do fun things with the stack or generally deciding to execute arbitrary storage and addresses, but you can express pretty much any (typed) access to a (virtual) data memory space? As a safe enough for mortals (and maybe somewhat less than deterministically generated code) portable assembly language for most usage (I'm not talking about the jailed environment here, just the language)?
@maswan @mjg59
Many years ago I had the privilege of listening to a presentation from a guy working for PWC Japan, of all places, who had, to guerrilla solve the problems the vendors of big-name solutions had sold his management, set up a bespoke BSD based perimeter around the lot so he could solve (and create!) problems without relying on "support" from said vendors. Interesting on so many levels, not just technical.
Many years ago I had the privilege of listening to a presentation from a guy working for PWC Japan, of all places, who had, to guerrilla solve the problems the vendors of big-name solutions had sold his management, set up a bespoke BSD based perimeter around the lot so he could solve (and create!) problems without relying on "support" from said vendors. Interesting on so many levels, not just technical.
@goatcheese @0xabad1dea @pixx
Oh absolutely it can't invent. But
1) rust compile errors prevent some versions of Frankenstein's compiler from even lurching off the table, so Frankenstein has to try again with different body parts (feedback loop)
2) a train of borrowed fragments of rust, that pass that fitness test, and that fit together probabilistically, from a sample of rust code that works (as well as compiles) is more likely to stay on the rails than the same in C.
It is interesting that "correct" but it's a memory hog (no ownership conflicts but lifetime management issues?) is evident from the comparison of gcc vs ccc execution.
I'm not suggesting any sort of magical properties from rust - just that it removes some degrees of freedom.
@goatcheese @0xabad1dea
This is a very good point. The "yay the compiler runs without crashing" part would be far less likely achieved were it writing the compiler in C.
This is a very good point. The "yay the compiler runs without crashing" part would be far less likely achieved were it writing the compiler in C.
@0xabad1dea I saw the hype around this and couldn't think of anything constructive to say. It's unfortunate that it didn't plagiarize a few thousand lines tiny C bootstrap compiler rather than spewing out a low quality copy of a monster. It's not hard to write a tiny C compiler. I'd trust the output from said tiny C compiler to be correct before I'd trust this thing. But most importantly, of all the things that a pattern replicating machine should be able to replicate, its a tedious repeated pattern set of code (lexers, recursive descent parsers, codegen from AST..) to process a regular language. It doesn't seem to demonstrate any surprising capability, nor any real utility. I'd be more interested (and terrified) to see results from ML learning how to emit machine code that makes the generated code pass the programs unit tests while also getting best benchmark scores... I like horror movies...
@mattblaze Nice black and white alt text imagery too.
@campuscodi here in Australia we have a famous boat race on a river with no water (it's in a desert). We also like to prank tourists with BS. Consider this part of the True Aussie Experience.