If I'm not mistaken, especially with x11, it is trivial to install a keylogger without root password. Just a process in the background that listen to your keys and send them over the wire.
(And you can add that program in the list of program to run while logging in)
I was thinking the same. But then I thought about it more and wondered why you need to enter your own password if you're already logged on. If an attacker is already in the system, it can install key logger and whatnot without the root password. And the xn--ts9h program can have the Unix permission so that only the user can run it.
I don't understand this website and why it always get linked. It's just a list of a bunch of crates unsorted. Most of them are unmaintained, or just early prototypes.
There isn't a good comparison of all these crates
Regarding the sloc count, the default automated Rust formating tool is very eager to adds lot of lines by basically keeping only one word per line.
Something I'm not a fan of, I must say.
Yes that's right.
The thing is that people have been using the term OCD as a pejorative term for someone who is "detail oriented" and that need to be avoided. (When not referring to the disorder specifically)
Nice article, but there are many errors or typo that makes it hard to follow. (Is it a typo or do I not understand that part)
For example, his use of 'unsafe': why functions that don't take pointer are declared as unsafe? Also taking a pointer of an array shouldn't need unsafe. Is 4 > 8 ? Missing close ']'. And that's just the one I see.
I haven't tried compiling the code example, but I don't think they do.
'comptime' only works if all arguments are known at compile time and the function can be evaluated at compile time. This is not the same as inlining, which puts the body of the function in the caller and remove the call. (And then do further optimisations such as const propagation)
With BSD, you're giving every company the right to take your code and use it without returning any favour at all.
With the CLA it's the same. But at least Signal give back by still providing libsignal as free software.
It depends on your motivations for contributing. If you don't like the CLA or any other things, you can still fork. Even if it may not be compatible with your own motivations, it is still in the spirit of free software.
I don't really understand this ethical framework. What can be done with these paintings? Must they be destroyed, or anything else is "profiting off victims of Nazis"?
Yeah, but the compiler need to see through all the functions to find out that there is no const_cast and therefore makes const useless because it could as well see it is not modified.
Also it needs to be good at alias analysis.
> This may come down to how good the language is at capturing desired semantics in a library. Rust still has a long way to go to catch up with C++ on this axis, and C++ is not waiting around.
What catch up does Rust need to do?
Rust has slice that know the size of its data built in the language, while C++ doesn't. And Rust has stricter const and mutability rules that facilitates optimizations.
As for the implementation, Rust use LLVM which is also the backend used by one of the popular C++ compiler.