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Today, Rust 1.77.2 will be released with a critical security patch to the standard library for those on Windows using the Command API to invoke batch files with untrusted arguments. No other platform or use is affected.

See the announcement for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

wisdom of the elders:

we used to make tiny little hard disk drives for ipods

Oklahoma’s governor refuses to let kids in his state access the federal government’s new summer EBT program, to ensure that kids can have meals when school is out. In response, five tribal nations have teamed up to provide the benefits to any eligible kids who happen to live on tribal land (which is a lot of Oklahoma). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/politics/school-meals-summer-ebt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE0.NZAi.mehkrnKm8xuN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ugrp=u&sgrp=c-cb

Don't do this, people. It helps no one and if anything pushes people away from our community.

#godot #godotengine

I think it's really cute how compilers play a little Zelda right at the end, as a treat.

Dunno why they call it linking though.

yo dawg i heard u like notes

What's YOUR favourite capitalist innovation from the last 10 years? There are so many to choose from!

a) Renting someone else's computer while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

b) Renting someone's music while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

c) Renting someone else's movies and TV while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

d) Renting someone else's house while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

e) Renting someone else's car while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

f) Renting someone else's scooter while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

g) Renting a poor person's body while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

Sound off in the comments!*

*Don't reply to me

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?"
Psychology: "That's not how humans..."
Economics: "Also my system will grow exponentially forever!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

Back at work

There it is.

@DivineKestrel
This one still hits and I absolutely love it.

I love it!
I love being a girl.

Credit: AyvieArt

unfortunately since posting this thread i have been consumed by thoughts of what my own replacement for shell scripts would look like… am i finally going to become a real programming language designer

‪gods, the world really needs a better shell scripting language‬

anyway:

• unloved code is bad
• unloved code in arcane languages is worse

therefore:

• gnu autotools must die
• please stop writing shell scripts
• we need better build systems

‪this may be unpopular, but cmake's configuration language is also arcane in my opinion. my experience with reading its documentation trying to figure out what code does and how to do anything vaguely complex with it is only pain. but that's an aside. it's okay for simple projects‬

‪so, build scripts are the kind of unloved, neglected code where bugs too easily hide. but i think we collectively make this worse for ourselves by writing this code in unloved languages we don't or can't fully understand. python is just about acceptable. but bash? that's arcane.‬