I agree with you even though I’m only guessing at the episode you’re talking about and I have no idea which of the two Vortas he was.

(It’s the Ferengi hostage exchange episode, right?)

While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.

Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.

In other words, it’s one of those situations where the fact that it’s hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it’s wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as “open source”), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.

Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf

I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I’m not sure if that’s always the case or if it’s undefined behavior.

This cursed code is quite well-written.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abuse+of+the+c+preprocessor

Yes, as are n and i. Do they not deserve ‘fleekness?’

Pro tip: the arguments to main() don’t have to be named argc and argv.

Also, you forgot to #define an alias for atoi, and number, n, and i could’ve been named something more on fleek.

Look up “Topsy the elephant” (among other things).

Wanting shit to be properly categorized isn’t oppression. Your take is flat-out idiotic.

The name made me think it was made by the same company that makes these.

One man’s “battery drain” is another man’s “built-in UPS.”

My text editor doesn’t access shit on my drive (unless I ask it to) because it’s Free Software and my Linux distro package maintainers audit it to make sure it doesn’t contain malware like that.

You’re praising a pathological solution to a problem that shouldn’t exist to begin with.

What do you mean, “most?” Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.

Haha teletype goes clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick

Dark mode just doesn’t make sense for professionals.

What, you don’t skateboard down the hallway to the server room?

Obligatory: The Story of Mel, a Real Programmer

Make sure to print them out and re-photograph them on a wooden table!

It certainly didn’t stop Other Linus!

Trusting official installation instructions from the software developer might be a step or two down from trusting your distro’s package maintainers, but it’s still several steps up from trusting random advice from a forum or chatroom.

And with the possible exception of Ken Thompson or Ben Eater, we’ve all got to trust somebody.

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