Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.

The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.

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Preemptive pardons incoming!

Of course not. Why would they? I don’t want that either. But we are considering the actions of an authoritarian system.

Individual privacy isn’t relevant in such a country. However, it’s an interesting choice that they implement it this way.

Hm, that’s true there’s no way to distinguish between editing software and photos that have been completely generated. It only helps if you want to preserve and modified photos. And of course, I’m making assumptions here that China doesn’t care very much about privacy.

Would it be more effective to have something where cameras digitally sign the photos? Then, it also makes photos more attributable, which sounds like China’s thing.

Almost the same as me. All kinds of programming jobs. I usually end up working in Python or C, for embedded systems work.

Of course, if you’re talking hobby, it could be anything.

You’re right. It’s a stop gap, but when you’re talking about a code base that has been maintained for 20 years plus you can’t really sell re-implementation.

Most recently it was with an older version of C++ using shared pointers.

You can also make everything a smart pointer and be done with it.

I can count on more than one hand the number of large scale projects where converting everything to smart pointers fixed major memory issues. Even if smart pointers can’t handle circular references, the number of projects that just don’t manage their memory correctly at all and were fixed by introducing these tools is way too high.

It’s almost backwards compatible. You can use old or new foot guns.

Ah, C++. An endless supply of footguns where the difference between a junior and a senior dev is knowing what parts of the language to never use.

They don’t have principles.

I think the downside is one of consent. There’s no way to categorically indicate that you don’t want to participate in the play protect program.

This is an update to the standard, right? No actual software support, so we still don’t have it. Is that correct?

It is Linux, but with a bunch of non-free software on top of it.

I’d settle for at least the compensation getting paid directly out of the budgets of law-enforcement.

Have to learn to laugh or you’ll cry. That’s life.

Maybe we do want a minimum barrier to entry that involves the slightest amount of patience and forethought.

Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.