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  • Rust is close to C++, in that you get a lot of high level constructs to help you. C is very low level, and you can learn the syntax in a weekend, but you’ll also have to learn memory management and implement advanced structures (linked lists, etc) yourself.

    Memory management isn’t too hard, it’s mostly remembering who created what, who reads and writes to it, and who is responsible for cleaning up. With some additional comments as you go it’s not too hard. Also, depending on what your doing, leaks may be acceptable. A short lived program can leak all it likes, and the OS will clean up for you ibthe end :D




  • Just because they are a distasteful company, doesn’t give us free reign to spread lies about them. There is plenty of verifiable true things to say.

    The signal protocol and encryption explicitly prevents the transit server decrypting messages. That a theoretical hidden third person (who may or may not be part of meta) in the chat doesn’t change that is e2e encrypted.

    Simplifying it down to "they might have a hidden back-door, therefore it’s https is a dishonest framing in my opinion.


  • Them including themselves as a participant still does not make it “like https”.

    Being sued also doesn’t mean anything, anyone can be sued at any time, and there does not need to be a basis in reality for it to go ahead. It is not proof of anything.

    They control the app, they can obviously steal the messages if they wanted to, but you are making very strong claims with zero evidence.

    I don’t like meta any more than you do, but if you are going to make claims of “like https”, bring actual evidence.












  • CameronDev@programming.devtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlBenefit of AI?
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    You can AI as hard as you like, you’ll probably not manage to replace the really complex tools.

    I have just started writing a laser cutter tool, and I tried some suggestions from AI for doing basic matrix transform calculations, and it was completely wrong. So I wouldn’t trust it for anything moderately complex. That said, it was fantastic for the UI.