His boss wants to stay in power, Ukraine is just convenient way of doing it.

Goose says “Gaa-ga”(Hauge)

They will write kernel in Ada

calendar - lighter blue

It’s called goluboy. In Russian at least.

In some countries uniform look at least provided good for society. In this case it provides only profits for to 1%.

Good for society:

Matrix is general-purpose chat. Meet will be replaced with Jitsi.

Also why not nextcloud for storage on someone else’s computer.

I think it was flower at some point.

Worse, they think the problem is that everybody else does not “get” visual design.

This means they didn’t even make good design. Another example is KDE vs GNOME.

KDE: “We just did system we wanted.”

GNOME: “No, you don’t get it, this is design!”

Except this is not “browsers” group or “email clients” group, this is “vertical monopoly” group.

Let us not talk about situations where CHAR_BIT != 8 that’s not POSIX anyway.

Yeah, let’s not talk about 20-bit one’s complement ints.

man strncpy

If n is smaller than the string length (as in: distance to first null byte) then you’re bound to have garbage in your return destination

Wha? N is just maximum length of string to copy. Data after dst+n is unchanged.

In retrospect null-terminated strings were a mistake, but so were many other things, at some point you just have to accept that there’s hysterical raisins everywhere.

All hail length-prefixed strings!

Meanwhile mathematicians working on cryptography: the universe will die before you get even 10% chance of cracking encryption.

Security by obscurity is no security.

Got crowdstruck

Oh no. You tell them forbidden knowledge of reading manual.

strncpy becomes stringnumbercopy. You can see why short version is used.

though you can set it not to be displayed to anyone,

Is it something new? I don’t remember it being a thing.

What do you mean by passport?

In certain countries(Russia) you need passport to buy SIM card. So phone number is tied to person.

What evidence would they have to arrest people on?

Message in big group chat and phone number. Message can for example say that war is bad, and as result you will be charhed with “discreditation of army”.

Especially now that people don’t have to share phone numbers to add a contact

Phone number that tied to your passport. Yep, not sharing phone number to add a contact will magically help here.

Did Signal roll their own encryption?

Yes. Even entire new algoritgm - Double Ratchet.

How is competeing with macbooks at the consumer level is related to enshittification by marketing team becoming managment?

Now me Apple ARM laptop that’s competeing with chromebooks.