I don't get this article. They're not even fuzzing the interpreters, but rather the STANDARD LIBRARIES. How is this remotely interesting? Passing unsanitized input to arbitrary standard library functions, what could go wrong?? *facepalm*

That's nonsense, you can't fit a milligram of anything onto a blotter square.

Why so few ONUs? I worked for an ISP in a third world country for a while, and we used Zhone equipment, which I would never recommend. Even so, it supported up to 64 ONU per fiber.

I love how it's done in Ruby. It's compact and yet readable, unlike certain other older languages known to include many paradigms, including OO and Functional.

If you avoid static_cast/traditional (C_casts *), and use -Wall -Werror, then C++ is really quite a lot safer.

It's my most familiar language, back from when I was learning it on the schoolbus by reading K&R. I would still never choose C over a carefully-selected subset of C++ for a new project. There is just no advantage to keeping things more primitive except when it comes to very specific environments, like traditional Unix kernels. I think templates are very useful in limited doses and far superior than macros, inheritance is somewhat useful to almost any kind of CS problem, and the STL itself is a huge boon to software reliability and interoperability.

Of course, I also have no qualms with Java, so....

Note 2 owner here; I would welcome this upgrade because my WiFi/Bluetooth module is now dead and I doubt I'm capable of reflowing the solder which is likely the reason for failure.

i.e. any modern Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, etc.

I am quite curious if Sony is now the leading manufacturer of consumer electronics powered by FreeBSD. The only other manufacturer that I think may be in the running would be Panasonic, with FreeBSD as the basis for their televisions.

No, they're not. They're your perceptions based upon what other Linux trolls have posted on Slashdot. Grow up.

The magic's gone since they started seriously dumbing down the game at the end of TBC.... Have only done a trial period or two since then, totally unimpressed. Final Fantasy XIV is it now, unless that goes in a direction that is clearly upsetting to me. I am pretty damn nostalgic for old WoW memories, though. You can never go back.

Revision control systems are not magic; if you edit the repository, you've changed the data. If they're open source like CVS then there's not a hint of obstacle in writing a program to modify the revision control repository, including modifying any metadata like checksums.

Oh, don't worry, they'd make sure to send mvn -o off to space; download times for dependency updates would certainly not be stellar.

OSv certainly appears to be a derivative of FreeBSD (see https://github.com/cloudius-systems/osv/tree/master/bsd).

Oh, the irony. Let's conveniently ignore the fact that OSv is based on FreeBSD.