/tech/ - Technology

It's cool but why use this when you can just use vim, or, if you happen to be a homosexual, emacs.

I'm still using Sublime

Holy shit, that guy isn't just anti-China (who isn't against fascism? inb4 tankies…) but he is also in support of NATO's Ukronazi regime.
That sucks, he used to be a pretty decent leftist back in the days and I enjoyed his fb posts when I was still using that.

Anyway, nobody needs Windows and as the Notepad++ dev always said, Linux already has similar tools so nobody really needs this.

>>12382
>use vim, or, if you happen to be a homosexual, emacs.
It seems you are confusing the two, as emacs' resistance to Apple's attempt to vendor-lock-in programmers through proprietary plugins is quite possibly the reason for a massive anti-GPL-campaign that ran years ago with shills heavily spamming 8/tech/.
Can't remember where I saved the pic but some anon on explained it quite well.
tl;dr vim is the macfag's editor of choice.

>>12502
>It seems you are confusing the two, as emacs' resistance to Apple's attempt to vendor-lock-in programmers through proprietary plugins is quite possibly the reason for a massive anti-GPL-campaign that ran years ago with shills heavily spamming 8/tech/.
Sorry for replying 10 days late but does the GPL prevent proprietary plugins ?

>>12502
>Holy shit, that guy isn't just anti-China (who isn't against fascism? inb4 tankies…) but he is also in support of NATO's Ukronazi regime.
Based.

Laughed my ass off when russkie IPs got blocked from accessing ClamAV database servers. Dis is de price of multipolarity kek.

>That sucks, he used to be a pretty decent leftist back in the days and I enjoyed his fb posts when I was still using that.
Imagine choosing your software based on dev's political positions kek.

Pathetic useless leftoids, you might as well drop all projects that use Jenkins because they "Stand with Ukraine" kek.

>>12543
your liberal takes (which just come off as uneducated) aside making software development political is completely cringe.

<This can't possibly backfire like every other sanctions attempt on russia or china in recent history. no way.

I don't use the java ecosystem and I think I will keep it that way.

Also you might want to go check out a website called lemmy.world it might be more up your ally redditor if you aren't a communist.

>>12544
>your liberal takes (which just come off as uneducated) aside making software development political is completely cringe.
To be honest Technology can on occasion be political, but this type of essential-ism where the political views of the inventor is imbued onto his creation is dumb. Will the liberals go back to tungsten filament bulbs when they figure out that a bunch of Soviet """tankies""" invented the LED, and then back to candles because Thomas Edison had lots of "problematic" opinions commonly held in the late 1800s.

I would say the real-politic part about software development would be what license it uses, and possibly other stuff like what kind of dependencies it has. Is this really just un-reflected hot-takes, or is this something more sinister, to distract from the important issues ?

>>12545
you make a sensible point. but software can be politicized and weaponized in ways a light-bulb or physical products in general can't
for example, what happens when one of these radlibs decides his software should fuck up your computer if your IP happens to be from a non-NATO country? even if the program is open source, as long as you don't audit it, you are giving the author arbitrary code execution on your system. I don't care enough to search the names, but at the start of the smo some development libraries did do this
and even if you audit the code, once that retards start weaponizing it you are nonetheless fucked because it is really easy to inconspicuously introduce vulnerabilities, for example

this is to say, you are as dumb as the average anti-communists that you are defending here

>>12547
>software can be politicized and weaponized in ways a light-bulb or physical products in general can't
Of course physical products can be weaponized too. I could give you examples, but i don't want to give anybody ideas.

>politically motivated malicious code
I wouldn't do this because other people will not judge actions based on motives, they will just conclude: beware that one has a tendency to include malicious features, don't trust.

But if this becomes a problem we need a technical fix, evaluating the political opinions of people to estimate whether their software packages are safe is not a reasonable approach. For the simple reason that people can lie about that stuff. How viable would it be to train machine-learning algorithms on known security bugs from the past ?
Or does everybody have to install Qubes OS and begin sandboxing everything ?

>>12549
>I wouldn't do this because other people will not judge actions based on motives
as I said, this already happened and basically nobody gave a fuck precisely because of motives and it only affected a non-NATO countries, most users weren't affected

>evaluating the political opinions of people to estimate whether their software packages are safe is not a reasonable approach
it is perfectly reasonable, what the fuck are you talking about. radical actions, more often than not, come from radical individuals (retards, in this case)

>For the simple reason that people can lie about that stuff
yes, but guess what, a non-trivial number of malicious actors are not this smart
there are intelligent and disciplined people and organizations currently doing this, that doesn't mean that you should also let the more vocal and less intelligent ones compromise your system

>Or does everybody have to install Qubes OS and begin sandboxing everything ?
you are missing the point. the american government can probably tap into your computer, and you are not doing anything that would justify the trouble of changing that fact. so no, don't waste your time with a larp OS
but here is the difference, the manchild weaponizing the shitty logging library he maintains is not the CIA spying your emails, he will just
<rm -rf $HOME
because his "objective" is just to annoy people and get internet attention

>>12550
>as I said, this already happened
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this thank you for your patience, because it wouldn't have occurred to me, i can't imagine how this could possibly influence some other countries foreign policy.

>it is perfectly reasonable, what the fuck are you talking about.
If we boil down the problem to the most basic form, you have to calculate what somebody will do, based on what they say. This is an incredibly messy problem, it would be really nice if we could avoid wading through that. I mean how are you going to do this ? Stalk all the social media accounts of software-devs and try to correlate their political speech with software security vulnerabilities in their code ? Not merge their most recent git-commits if they post too many hot-takes ? I feel dread thinking about this, even the most clever version of a "political hazard" warning system will introduce so much more friction. Isn't there some other way to create incentives to keep software packages clean ?

>"objective" is just to annoy people and get internet attention
Can't we channel this "negative sentiment" into another, preferably harmless, direction ?
Like obnoxiously themed programs or something.

>>12552
it doesn't affect any foreign policy because it's just a guy that made a commit with something like
<if (IP from X countries) then rm -rf $HOME
to a library that is used by another library […] that is used by a relatively popular software

at this point I don't know if you are trolling or are just dense and stupid, but you don't need to make a full background check: they are vocal and deranged enough that you don't even need to check. you are so retarded that it hurts and this is my last message because you are too dumb to use a computer and yet you evidently spend too much time online

>>12557
>t this point I don't know if you are trolling
I'm not trolling you. I get your point, a bunch of radlibs blew a fuse over geopolitical events and began screwing with software packages. And you want to yeet them because that's a breach of trust. I also understand that for this particular case it's relatively easy to zero in on who's doing this, and nip it in the butt.

However I'm also thinking about the general case. We'd be introducing the principle of discriminating based on political affiliation. I would like to avoid this kind of stuff. I would much prefer to have a politically neutral purely technical solution. I don't particularly care about what political or philosophical views some programmer has, as long as the program they make is good quality and does not include malicious features. If we could find a way to make some kind of automated code-audit-system that makes it sufficiently difficult to spike a software package in this manor, we could screen out bad actors, without having to deal with politics and all the bad blood that brings.

>>12560
Libs banned Strelok from the app store too so now it's hard to find an apk without using yandex and a translator. Fag dev couldn't monetize it so he shut it down. All the more reason to go open source. We desperately need a FOSS app to estimate holds!

>>12561
>Libs banned Strelok from the app store
So apparently that was a "ballistic calculator". I've only heard that in the context of Naval artillery. Your hobbies must be wild.
>We desperately need a FOSS app to estimate holds!
i tried searching for this online but, i got nothing, what's a "hold" ?

>>12565
some cool afghanistan boomers at my USPSA and they taught me some long range stuff too with their Rem and vortex. You can use the app with your caliber barrel length etc to calculate what hold to use on the reticle. You can also turn the top turret to adjust for drop. It's nicer than other apps because it has a lot of reticles pre-loaded and can select between mil and moa dots. Boomers I talked to like mil because you can estimate range based roughly on shoulder width and height. They had it in a notebook with a table for it but it was something simple. Go talk to boomers anon they have a lot to teach and no one to listen.