Hungary for some reason keeps surprising me. I know that fact, I just keep forgetting it.

“The checks and balances might have actually checked us doing something way out of balance, so we just ignored our responsibilities”

Best Pilot, not best mechanic

After writing this comment I noticed it became a bit ranty, sorry for that. Something about this article rubbed a bit in the wrong way.

The relevant section seems to be this:

Browser engines and garbage-collected runtimes are classic examples of code that fights the borrow checker. You’re constantly juggling different memory regions: per-page arenas, shared caches, temporary buffers, objects with complex interdependencies. These patterns don’t map cleanly to Rust’s ownership model. You end up either paying performance costs (using indices instead of pointers, unnecessary clones) or diving into unsafe code where raw pointer ergonomics are poor and Miri becomes your constant companion.

The first half is obviously correct, this kind of data model doesn’t work well for the ownership model rust uses for its borrowchecker. I don’t like the conclusion though. Rust makes you pay the performance costs necessary to make your code safe. You would need to pay similar costs in other languages if you intend on writing safe code.

Sure, if you are fine with potential memory corruption bugs, you don’t need these costs, but that’s not how I would want to code.

The other thing bugging me is how miri being your companion is framed as something bad. Why? Miri is one the best things about rusts unsafe code tooling. It’s like valgrind, or sanitisers but better.

Now, the raw pointer ergonomics could be better, I’ll give them that. But if you dive deep into what rust does with raw pointers, or rather what they are planning to do, is really really cool. Provenance and supporting cheri natively is just not possible for languages that chose the ergonomic of a raw integer over what rust does.

Somewhere an accessibility developer is crying in a corner because of what you just typed

Edit: also, please please please do not use alt text for images to wrongly “tag” images. The alt text important for accessibility! Thanks.

Sorry where does the .deb version store the encryption keys if not in plaintext?

I can feel a hint of the confused anger I would have felt if this was real. Good job.

Therefore Nintendo does that only if they are 100% certain, not just to intimidate like Rockstar does.

Why would Nintendo be so different from Rockstar? Why would Nintendo not use lawsuits just to intimindate? Rockstar too is a company with many the same interests as Nintendo, and I’m sure their lawyers are not cheap either.

Yet, Nintendo did not go to court and wanted to do this with a settlement.

That just proves the point that the threat of a lawsuit is enough to coerce people into submission though. As another example RyujinX e.g. just caved without any struggle.

And the brought up case of Yuzu does not apply here, because that was not just intimidation, that was because the Yuzu developers themselves shared Tears of the Kingdom millionth of times in Discord.

This has nothing to do with the legality of their emulator project. Nintendo used their power to extort more concessions from the devs. It also shows how Nintendo isn’t afraid to use the uneven power balance to their advantage.

https://www.polygon.com/24090351/nintendo-2-4-million-yuzu-switch-emulator-settlement-lawsuit/

I’m gonna hazard a guess and claim that they would go for a copyright infringement claim, as they always do. Again: it does not matter, if they are actually in the right. Even the threat of being sued for something completely made up is still a credible threat if the relative costs are that unevenly matched. Nintendo doesn’t give a shit about what these lawyers cost, even if they lose the lawsuit in the end. The goal isn’t winning the lawsuit. The goal is intimidation, wasting your ressources, time and money. Which they also achive when they lose the lawsuit.

Sued for what? There is nothing Nintendo can sue for. Also we talked about Cease and Desist before, not sueing.

A c&d is a precursor of being sued. If you do not cease and desist, what is the result of that?

Also can you explain me, if you are right, why Nintendo didn’t do that with prior decompilation projects of Mario and Zelda games that reached 100% and are played on a variety of systems now?

I can explain to you, that Nintendo is famous for suing people implementing emulators of their platforms and is also going after things like palworld. It is new information to me, that these decompilation projects exist. I guess they are niche enough to not be interesting to nintendo right now. This does not remove all the other cases where nintendo went after people with lawsuits.

The experience and risks of being sued depends heavily on the amount of money you have. Just being sued, even if eventually unsubstantiated, sucks hard. It consumes time, energy, and money, and all this time you live with the “but what if I get the one bad judge?”

What the fuck is Theseus doing over there?

Vampire - Lazyboy Empire

Something about this makes it endlessly repeatable to me. Also a few songs from suicide sheep and similar artists. Faded was actually in this list for a long time.

ICE-Agent: don’t threaten me with a good time

Damn ya caught me

I think that’s more of a Succons razor situation

I lost a little faith I didn’t even know I had left while reading these weird ass definitely crafted messages

It’s hard to control which Information other people get in a system where many servers share information like posts and comments. Think of it as throwing your post on a public wall. Everyone that walks by will be able to see it.

It’s (relatively) easy to control what information you want to see. Or at least information from which sources you want to see, or not see.

Nah, tail recursion optimization can just reuse the same stack frame again and again. It’s going to loop until it wraps around what ever integer width it has and then tells you if the biggest integer is even or odd. Or, if it’s nice, it’s going to complain about the wrap around

so a male owl would probably not care about a females wingspan, much like in humans 👀

Wait, you people don’t care about your partners wingspan?