Forgive me if it’s a rude question but I’m assuming it’s a monthly cost. Can I ask how much you are paying for it? It also might be helpful so others can offer suggestions maybe tailored towards helping pay for it. :)
Boring or retired relatives whose only purpose is to consume political media. They periodically call you and proceed to rot your brain you with whatever hate, fear, or gossip they feel needs to be spread. Your mind then spins for days as you realize you are slowing losing respect for someone you once perceived as wise. It's like a perpetual low-grade mourning.
By moving abroad and being in a different time zone you have a good excuse not to take their phone calls anymore and/or keep them short. With your mind clear you can then write cleaner code faster and be happy.
A former president added 3 justices to the Supreme Court and hundreds to the federal judiciary, and those appointees are now shielding him from prosecution for his crimes.
In his current campaign, he has discussed discarding the Constitution and has schemed to throw out election results that don't favor him.
He openly admires foreign fascists and enemies of the US, including Putin and Orban. His last attempt at ending peaceful democratic transitions of power only failed because his vice president was more loyal to the US than to him.
Many people are rightfully worried that he will win and end peaceful democracy in the US, which he has openly promised to do by refusing to accept any unfavorable election results.
What does the 0.1% have to do with people making $500/month on side projects? How much extra do YOU pay in taxes? Can you post your donations to the IRS?
On a brighter note, apple is currently in the process of converting almost all iMessage components to Swift for this reason. I'm sure it is taking many engineering hours, and image parsers/open source libraries like this are the most difficult to convert.
Just one component, the one that parses incoming messages. The problem here is that it parsed the message and decided to pass it to ImageIO, which is written in C++.
I’m only a few more CVE’s from advocating C++ and Objective(ly)-C(rap) proponents be subject to registration and public humiliation whenever the (inevitable) next issue occurs.
I get it, legacy crap has momentum and you can’t ignore that. What’s not ok is the mountain of people who pretend that’s not a problem.
It takes an expert to know that there's vulnerability. Whereas construction engineer can "see" the pothole and so they can fix it. Software engineer has to "know from exploits" that there's a vulnerability so they can fix it. It's not far away when OS are written in memory safe languages like Rust.
It's more complex to find security bugs, yes, but I think the analogy stands.
In order for a construction engineer to "see" a pothole, they need to actually know where the pothole is and physically go there.
When you have millions of kilometers of paving across a continental-sized country, like the US or China, for example, this is unfeasible. "Seeing" a pothole isn't so simple as it might give you a first impression...
