Do any of the major airlines have a software stack that isn't a legacy nightmare?
Readit Newscibyr commented on United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown allchronology.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/rectang
cibyr commented on Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge blogs.windows.com/msedged... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
"built to the highest Microsoft standards of security, privacy and performance" seems perhaps importantly different from "but to the highest standards".
Have you seen https://file.pizza/ FilePizza? Similar concept using WebRTC
Similar concept, though an important distinction: QFTF assumes that you have a phone you can scan QR codes with, but that isn't where you want the file to end up. Instead, it displays a QR code on both the sender and the receiver, and you scan both of the QR codes with your phone to start the transfer.
I've been working on a little utility to transfer files between two computers using QR codes: https://github.com/cibyr/qftf
It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses iroh for the p2p networking - on both ends, and also in the little web app that you use to scan the QR codes and start the transfer.
cibyr commented on CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/chrononaut
So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.
cibyr commented on Do not download the app, use the website idiallo.com/blog/dont-dow... · Posted by u/foxfired
> If you've ever opened Reddit, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or practically any popular service on your phone's web browser, you've likely encountered it.
Another website that asks to Get The App is https://imgur.com/ , every time you open a link to just view that image you instantly got asked to Get The App. It's really annoying!
Imgur is particularly infuriating because it was initially touted as an alternative to the shitty image-sharing sites of the day (photobucket and the like) - one that would let you just link to an image without any bullshit. Now it's completely unusable.
cibyr commented on There is no memory safety without thread safety ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/... · Posted by u/tavianator
This is one of the things that I'm also looking on at Zig like a slow moving car crash about: they claim they are memory safe (or at least "good enough" memory safe if you use the safe optimization level, which is it's own discussion), but they don't have the equivalent to Rust's Send/Sync types. It just so happens that in practice no one was writing enough concurrent Zig code to get bitten by it a lot, I guess...except that now they're working on bringing back first-class async support to the language, which will run futures on other threads and presumably a lot of feet are going to be fired at once that lands.
Zig's claims of memory safety are a bad joke. Sure, it's easier to avoid memory safety bugs in Zig than it is in C, but that's also true of C++ (which nobody claims is a memory safe language).
cibyr commented on There is no memory safety without thread safety ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/... · Posted by u/tavianator
...by that definition, can a C program be memory safe as long as it doesn't have any relevant bugs, despite the choice of language? (I realize that in practice, most people are not aware of every bug that exists in their program.)
Can a C program be memory safe as long as it doesn't have any relevant bugs? Yes, and you can even prove this about some C programs using tools like CBMC.
cibyr commented on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust viralinstruction.com/post... · Posted by u/jakobnissen
What's the alternative though? If you're fine with garbage collection, just use garbage collection. If you're _not_ fine with garbage collection (because you want deterministic performance, or you have resources that aren't just memory) then Rust's borrow checker seems like the best thing going.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Project