Servo exists

Well ackshually, any such system with a defined maximum precision can be represented by an integer unit that is small enough, the numbers will just get very big.

Well ackshually real-time describes a mode of processing data where you have hard requirements on when a computation needs to be finished.

You think a company run by Elon has an extensive software safety review system?

I loathe tiktok but if someone had banned Reddit while I was still using it I would have been hella mad. On the other hand it would have been “How will I manage without unhinged shitposts mixed with ads” from the outside

Yeah I don’t think this is a big-ish problem currently. But by having this vulnerability to point to, other CPU vendors have a good reason not to include this feature in their own chips.

There are definitely bullshit cves out there but I don’t think that’s a good general rule. Especially in this context where it’s literally unpatchable at the root of the problem.

So the attack is (very basically, if I understand correctly)

Setup:

• I control at least one process on the machine I am targeting another process on
• I can send data to the target process and the process will decrypt that

Attack:

• I send data that in some intermediate state of decryption will look like a pointer
• This “pointer” contains some information about the secret key I am trying to steal
• The prefetcher does it’s thing loading the data “pointed to” in the cache
• I can observe via a cache side channel what the prefetcher did, giving me this “pointer” containing information about the secret key
• Repeat until I have gathered enough information about the secret key

Is this somewhat correct? Those speculative execution vulnerabilities always make my brain hurt a little

Most pixeled Shit I’ve ever seen

The good days didn’t have uber ;)

God yes. Having ten buttons on the turn signals is a nightmare. No I don’t want to play “guess which button controls the wipers” when I sit in an unknown car for 10 minutes. Thanks.

Noone gets to use their phone. Bring a deck of CDs or talk. Let’s go back to the good days.

Messaging layer security exists now, just a matter of implementing it for xmpp

It’s also potentially skipping some of the parts that should be looked at. It depends on the training set.

As I said: you need to trust your home instance in that regard. I don’t think there is a technical solution for these problems.

As for hijacking usernames: If you are able to wipe and reinstall the instance you likely have the ability to just set my password hash to something else and control my account. As a user you need to trust your home instance.

That isn’t so much a question of the language. Horizontal scalability is a property of the system you are building. You need to engineer the communication between the individual nodes, you need to make choices on the CAP tryingle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) and more.

So rust is already horizontally scalable, it’s just hard to build horizontally, in any language.

(Sidenote, there is the language Erlang which seems to do a lot of this under the hood, but I have no experience with it so…)

That’s true but total horizontal scaling is very hard for systems that need some kind of consistency properties

Without any knowledge on the details of both implementations: scalability has two dimensions, vertical where one server can handle more requests and horizontal where more servers can be added to serve requests. In recent years focus has been put more on the latter and for that the performance of a single node isn’t as important as for the vertical scalability.