Drew Chadwick DeVault / ddevault / SirCmpwn - Opinionated white-male-guilt-ridden software developer. Cancelled Hyprland and slandered it as "toxic" and transphobic. Hates X11 users and Hacker News. Lolicon.

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King of Not Playing Games said:
Maybe I'm just a philistine but how prevalent are some of these architectures? PowerPC, which I normally associate with early Apple PCs? s390x, according to Wikipedia a "discontinued" mainframe architecture?
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Not at all, but if you're the sort of autist who obsesses over compiling your code for every conceivable architecture, I can understand why it'd piss you off. And quite apart from anything else, if Python itself supports a platform its major packages ought to too, unless there's a good reason (better than a glowie with a hate-boner for C having a strop, anyway).

IIRC, s390 is one of the few remaining architectures that's big-endian, so its main value is for testing your code for endian-correctness.
 
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I agree that it is not the best display of Drew's lolcow behaviour. He is at least partially justified in his manchildedness and stomping his feet in this particular case. As an aside, I do find this situation interesting. On one hand, it is true that C is probably not as good anymore as it was decades ago, since most software projects are going to be huge.

Granted, a lot of the demand for a "robust, structured" language is due to managerial and scope bloat, not because technology has become intrinsically more complex. At the same time, we are not going to stop bad JavaShit programmers or consumers chained to their web browsers from propping up, so we might as well encourage them to use Rust which at least prevents an entire category of software errors from existing. It's not as scary as C, right? If my software is to be bloated and bad, at least let it be done in a memory-safe language. It's disappointing that this is what technology has come down to, but it is what it is.
 
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Panzerfrau said:
I actually share some of his sentiments, but he's a massive cunt about everything and I have a very hard time agreeing with him.
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Markass the Worst said:
Drew is still enforcing the cancellation of Jacob Appelbaum and demands that you must question anybody who associates with him. Also, suck the CoC.
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Applenaum appeared on the 37c3 and the CoCsuckers got him escorted out of the convention, but that was around a month ago. I wonder if Drew found out about it just now or there is some other reason

I've talked about it in the OSS thread
The Real Slim Shady said:
Today is the last day of the 37'th Chaos Communication Congress (37c3) and some people got pissed off that Jacob Applebaum (ioerror) has been allowed to attend. <snip>
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Creative Username said:
Understandable mistake, because a lot of things I read about Gemini give off a familiar Drew-like feeling.
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I was interested in Gemini last year and was thinking of getting into it but if the only people on it are AGPs claiming they're lesbians and pre-troon feminist dudes who don't bathe I don't think I could be bothered to.
 
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Rusty Metal Skull Gun said:
I dunno, I don't think Drew is in the wrong here. The python cryptography people did piss a lot of people off, and were essentially saying "fuck you" to any platforms that don't have Rust.

Plus it's a moral duty to treat Rustaceans with disdain, everybody knows that

EDIT: If you look at the GitHub thread those screenshots are from (https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771, https://archive.is/J5KGS), Drew is amazingly not the biggest cow there:
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"language-level memory safety"
it's called stl containers
 
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Catboy Ranch said:
I was interested in Gemini last year and was thinking of getting into it but if the only people on it are AGPs claiming they're lesbians and pre-troon feminist dudes who don't bathe I don't think I could be bothered to.
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Man I wish they were AGP slots, not AGP sluts. Could make my 3Dfx work great again.

9gfuwegw9j9 said:
"language-level memory safety"
it's called stl containers
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He just reinvents the wheel. Gemini looks like a toy language. Unlike Rust that has potential despite the troon community.
 
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i440BX said:
I was in a hurry when I wrote this. I wanted to explain more what Brodie Robertson promotes:
These were some videos that didn't sit well with me 7 months ago:

https://youtu.be/c2uRfvM08Yw (Wayland Is Here: Let Xorg Finally Retire!)
Here it includes Hector Martin and his criticism of users using X org with Asahi Linux.

https://youtu.be/rbb3j5TsRmo (Is The Free Software Foundation Still Important?)
It includes drew's article on FSF https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html
Archive: https://archive.is/UXSOR

I know there are valid criticism for both FSF and some X11 supporters but I felt he put under the rug the experience.
And I feel weird that he doesn't question the thoughts of Drew or Maracan.
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in the video is the FSF still important he actually called out drew for making it about his politics and calling for LGBT forced diversity while also admitting that the FSF has lost its importance over the years and needs new people
 
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I must agree with Drew on this. Even when it was news, I agreed. Replacing a shitty C language library with a shitty Rust language library isn't much of an improvement, but it does serve the nice purpose of making it harder for other people to use and compile it, which is the point.
ShooterOfCum said:
On one hand, it is true that C is probably not as good anymore as it was decades ago, since most software projects are going to be huge.
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The C language was never good.
ShooterOfCum said:
we might as well encourage them to use Rust which at least prevents an entire category of software errors from existing
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The effeminate Rust programmer fears the mention of Ada, which brings his evangelism into question.
ShooterOfCum said:
If my software is to be bloated and bad, at least let it be done in a memory-safe language.
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Rust isn't even memory-safe, whereas JavaScript is. Now, Ada's not perfectly safe either, but that's because it has escape hatches for performance reasons, since it was designed to do everything from compiling reports to controlling missiles.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
Rust isn't even memory-safe, whereas JavaScript is. Now, Ada's not perfectly safe either, but that's because it has escape hatches for performance reasons, since it was designed to do everything from compiling reports to controlling missiles.
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You should elaborate more on this in the programming thread. Speaking of the programming thread, why have you not posted more in it past 13th December of 2022?
 
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