Exactly. It's just an arrogant and dumb statement that ignores reality.

This has to be one of the most idiotic statements I've read in some time. Every programmer, including you, writes bugs. It's the height of arrogance to pretend this is not true or that you can blame programmers because bugs are a fact in every piece of code ever written. The sane response would be to acknowledge that and the benefit of using a language not actively assisting in causing bugs.

Secondly, no Rust is not going to stop programmers making all bugs. But it will stop a whole raft of bugs caused by using C (and C++) that are easy to find in the CVE database. And nobody uses "unsafe" everywhere. But even if they did Rust's unsafe mode is still safer than C. The unsafe keyword unlocks some mutation and pointer functions but the compiler is still doing lifetime and borrowing checks. In fact, the only reason someone would use "unsafe" is interact with C, the OS or metal. There is literally no reason to use it when Rust is talking to Rust. It's a pain in the ass to use and very conspicuous which is the whole point.

Busybox, Toybox and others. The vast majority of docker images running in the wild probably aren't even using coreutils because their aim is small containers with minimalist userland with some even going distroless. They don't even use glibc, using something like musl instead.

I think for a general purpose Linux dist you'd definitely need coreutils or a drop-in replacement. I think coreutils has a lot of very esoteric features, which uutils have copied so even so, there is merit in examining these and deprecating or entirely removing which no longer serve a purpose.

I think Ubuntu (and other's desire) to remove coreutils is precisely because coreutils is old, brittle and written in an unsafe language. So they've chosen to modernize the code base, attract new developers while still maintaining strict compatibility. And since uutils is MIT instead of GPLv3, and far more portable between operating systems it may encourage adoption elsewhere, e.g. Microsoft already have build for example.

That said, rewriting code always carries risk and uutils has its own set of bugs which have been uncovered and need fixing. There is a "if it isn't broke don't fix it" mantra but I suppose it depends on the definition of broke - if development is moribund then that could be considered an issue too.

It's worth noting that coreutils have derived benefit from the exercise too. The extensive test suite for uutils has uncovered bugs in coreutils and improved the overall code coverage. So even if people don't want to switch (even though they're functionally interchangeable), the existing package has derived benefit too.

Yes it matters assuming Valve wants to drive sales and make the device popular & desirable beyond a small % of people who want to drop $1200 to play a golf sim.

Oculus Quest made a lot of strides with portability and untethered game play but the Frame looks like more of the same. It's good it plays games standalone and streaming too, but so did the Quest. It still doesn't solve the fundamental issue with VR that it is a niche and it still hasn't found a killer game to sell the tech. If Valve released a battle royale or an MMO and gave it away for free then it might incentivize people to buy and use the thing as a casual device. Think quests, skins, clan bases, hang out areas etc. Something that people want to visit and re-visit and which grows organically.

Oculus had this chance too and managed to squeeze out the most boring, group studied, micromanaged, turd in the form of Horizon Worlds. It didn't even stink, it it was so bland and pointless it smelt of nothing. But Valve could pull it off if they wanted.

Sam practiced "effective altruism" which is a pseudo-philosophy for being a selfish, thieving cunt - that dressing up a self-dealing with the odd charitable donation somehow serves the greater good.

But ironically effective altruism actually worked in this case. Being a selfish, thieving cunt landed him in prison and arguably the greater good was served. It needs to happen more often.

Anyone who types "fiji hotel" can be shown a map of fiji with hotels marked on it. If they click on a marker, they can be shown as the first result the hotel's own website and rates before any other site's. If there are any sponsored hotels, or booking sites parasitizing from the search, including Google's own affiliate deals, then they also can be shown below the true result. This is not rocket science.

If I search for hotels, or a specific hotel, why not put THEIR website and THEIR prices first instead of burying it below a bunch of parasitic booking sites?

Google could send all the drivers the same way. e.g. the USA decides to conduct secret economic warfare on a country (e.g. Canada) and Google degrades journey times by creating congestion.

If that's the big problem then FSF should provide constructive advice including viable alternatives.

The FSF wouldn't be the FSF if they could a) say what the problem is in a way normal people could understand, b) what the credible alternative is, c) present evidence of this credible alternative in action. But they can't and we get these pointless campaigns which are tantamount to sour grapes which make the FSF look more out of touch than it already is.

Two dimensional plot, contrivances galore, leaden direction and script. And possibly the most unlikeable and stupid characters ever put into a series. The only time it seemed to have fun was the in-universe space soap opera. The irony is murderbot would have been completely within his rights to murder these sanctimonious assholes before putting a round in his own head.

The US pretends to support choice and competition but the minute they have their asses handed to them, suddenly it's circle the wagons.

And aside from being a stupid hot take that not everyone wants a cluster, the model Y actually does have an extra screen - for the benefit of back seat passengers who can watch Netflix - while the driver smashes into the back of a semi because they had to avert their eyes to check or do something on the touch screen because of the lack of HUD, cluster, physical controls etc.