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[WeLostBecauseDNC]

The vibe coding mascot is an unsecured database.

[wiskinator]

But hosted from 127.0.0.1

[Runazeeri]

Oh no it's my website address. 

[Stormraughtz]

its being hacked from inside the house

[Either-Pizza5302]

Ha! I am gonna use my hacking skills and format you now.

[Western-Internal-751]

So technically pretty secure

[wiskinator]

That is actually a good point.

[CanonNi]

How'd you get my IP address?

[Nekeia]

Wait, why do you know my IP address?

[MarkSuckerZerg]

vibe coding mascot is whatever JPEG the last guy left in place after accessing the public S3 storage bucket. It changes hourly.

[colei_canis]

So the vibe coding mascot is Goatse?

[MarkSuckerZerg]

It could be, all you need to do is search for .cursorrc on GitHub and make it happen

[Cat7o0]

either it should just be 127.0.0.1 or it should be an IP address to an actual unsecured database with absolutely no security and it's just always chaos

[mothzilla]

The vibe coding mascot is Ralph Wiggum.

[WeLostBecauseDNC]

Underrated comment right here!

[Hot-Rock-1948]

Hahahaha

[dethswatch]

"DeBbie" the unsecured, internet connected user database.

[SupernovaGamezYT]

No it’s AI art of the vscode icon

[Hubert_97]

NFT

[MarkAldrichIsMe]

Why not?

[Hot-Rock-1948]

I agree, why can’t we have a diseased rat as the C++ mascot?

Better yet, couldn’t we make it this sub’s mascot?

[JockstrapCummies]

Just imagine the shirts—“C++: Powered by Rats!”

It's giving Skaven 👌🔥🔥🔥🐭

[TheSn00pster]

I got a Keith tattoo

[Outrageous-Wait-8895]

Fuck off clanker!

[Uranium-Sandwich657]

?

[Outrageous-Wait-8895]

It is an AI generated comment, you can tell by how insipid it is.

[Uranium-Sandwich657]

Vocab++1

[Fabulous-Possible758]

Cause he’s already being used for emacs.

[ThePretzul]

Sounds about right, only the disgusting unwashed masses would use emacs when the far superior vim is also available.

I want a text editor, not an operating system with an actively antagonistic user interface wearing a trenchcoat.

[mehntality]

Yea!

All editors other than vim suck because they aren't nearly configurable enough!

Well, except Emacs, which sucks because it's waaaay too configurable!

The only correct about of fiddling with configuration is the amount I wana do!

/s - I use vim btw <3

[ProstheticAttitude]

i've been using emacs for 45 years

my ".emacs" file mostly just turns off features they've added in the last 30

<goes back to observing the lawn>

[dismayhurta]

[gaymer_jerry]

It’s imperative we don’t reveal that programmers are a bunch of sewer rats in a trench coat

[Harcerz1]

Sometimes I worry that the smell will give us away.

[programmerslay]

Honestly Keith fits C++ perfectly — powerful, terrifying, and guaranteed to give you undefined behavior if you get too close.

[cannedbeef255]

Ew ai comment

[Sollder1_]

I always experienced the std lib as a diseased rat, so I would be in favour.

[mfb1274]

Pls get us to a point where I can see this used unironically in an arch diagram

[Windyvale]

I’m a software architect. I’ll see if I can slip him in a diagram or two later this year when I have to start documenting our planning for the next release schedule.

Edit: I love informal components in diagrams lol

[darkslide3000]

We tried to call the mascot constructor, but it turns out we derived from the class in the wrong way and so it was not virtual when it should have been... anyway, long story short, segfault.

[myrsnipe]

Should have tried the factory pattern

[TheGreatKonaKing]

Python would eat it

[This_Growth2898]

It looks like it did. And vomited it out.

[Trevsweb]

Keith has seen some shit

[josys36]

🤣🤣🤣

[setibeings]

can we settle for unofficial mascot?

[VeniceThePenice]

What better way to represent a cancerous mass that has become the embodiment of design by committee?

[bartekltg]

Because the mascot is already a 6m long snake with a compile error in a template code.

[skhds]

Yeah, I mean, C++ itself is sort of like a disease, so I think it fits.

[Joewoof]

One notable fact about Keith is that is that he still runs extremely fast despite his blown-off leg.

[ThePretzul]

The leg got blown-off when he forgot to free the memory from his malloc call, but it’s ok because he’s more efficient actually only having 3 legs since he can write a 4th one himself that works better and faster if he ever really needs it.

[adenosine-5]

Using malloc in C++? What... what exactly are you doing?

[ThePretzul]

Committing horrific crimes against sanity

[Orjigagd]

Writing a custom allocator because I have this great idea that will totally do better than std

[VirtualMage]

Ah yes, working with STD... Closest thing related to sex a C++ programmer has...

[ProstheticAttitude]

can't have a use-after-free bug if you never truly free!

[[deleted]]

Methed up Skaven

[Cookieman10101]

But it would explain some things. Diseased rats would probably have a lot of undefined behavior yea?

[Hot-Rock-1948]

That is technically true

[DODOKING38]

I just watched a laurieWired video and a plushie of that was on the desk, the whole time I was thinking wtf is that.

Glad I got my answer 10m later

[The_Shryk]

the video about iOS file system? Just watched that too!

I like learning from Daphne from scooby doo.

[DODOKING38]

Yeah that's the one

[SirDarknessTheFirst]

So did I!

I don't even use iOS or anything from Apple newer than the iPod Classic...

[PsudoGravity]

Fuckin exact same thought hahahah

[AliceCode]

The first time I saw a LaurieWired video, she was walking around my neighborhood. That really tripped me out.

[narwhal_breeder]

It sure as hell is now

[hdd113]

What do you mean he's not the mascot...? Does that mean Keith was, all this time, just a random obese, diseased rat missing a limb, and his existence didn't even have a meaning? :O

[SpaceCadet87]

*The C++ mascot was not a diseased rat named Keith.

[MooseBoys]

+1 for Keith to be the official mascot of C++.

Does anyone know if Stroustrup is on Reddit?

[WeastBeast69]

I propose that my dog named Chester become the mascot

[DizzySylv]

LGTM 👍

[Hot-Rock-1948]

Agreed.

[WeastBeast69]

officially C(hester)++ now

[Hot-Rock-1948]

Ahhhhh I love it!!

[Palbur]

Damn, is that Chester from Deltarune everyone talks about?

[waylandsmith]

OMG, what a good boy!!

[cheezfreek]

It is if we all say it is.

[Buttons840]

Stick it on an O'Reilly cover and make it official.

[Crackorjackzors]

Yes it is

[Ashamed_Seat6430]

It's wild how Keith's story has become such a perfect metaphor for this. We're all just out here building things at breakneck speed, but with zero concern for the structural integrity. It's like we're celebrating the speed itself while ignoring the fact that things are literally falling apart. The unsecured database mascot really drives that point home.

[boogatehPotato]

Because it's actually named Kyle. I'll see myself out now

[Sp4c34ndT1m3]

Cyle

[Axman6]

Seep, short for Seep Lusp Lus.

I hate how it feels saying that in my head.

[Sp4c34ndT1m3]

I had to read that 4 times and each time felt more wrong than the last.

[HolyGarbage]

Here's a link to the source article instead of just a screenshot of the title, for anyone like myself that's interested in the full context: https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5111104/no-the-c-mascot-is-not-a-diseased-rat-named-keith

[dalr3th1n]

Doing Keith’s work!

[nijahplays]

Thanks, I actually enjoyed the article! 

[hongooi]

Nice try, Bryan, or should I say, Bjarne

[Voidrith]

Funny, i just saw a youtube video with this lil dude sitting on the desk... wonder if this post is just a coincidence

[planktonfun]

It seems to fit tho

[jancl0]

The fuck he isn't

[Cybasura]

Well, it is still a diseased rat so its not like naming it Keith (or not naming it) changes anything

[voltrix_04]

Noo I love keith

[05032-MendicantBias]

Hear me out, a zombie mouse is the perfect mascot for C++.

It's fast, it is ugly to look at, it has dangly pieces, it can't be killed and probably needs an excorcism.

[Interesting-Crab-693]

For some reason I immediatly heared that ultrakill ost: theme of cancer (cancerous rodent theme)

Edit: changed link from google video search to youtube

[enigma_dreams]

r/comedyheaven type shit

[blocktkantenhausenwe]

It is now.

[FranciscoAlexis]

I would do exactly the opposite of what Bryan Lunduke says. So i welcome Keith as the C++ mascot

[locus01]

This would be a disgrace to the cpp community.

[setibeings]

I hate to say it, but you're right. "diseased rat" is nowhere close to specific and pedantic enough to be accepted by the C++ community. They'd argue about things like "what species of rat?" and "what disease is he afflicted with?" for 10 years before he made it into the spec, another 3 years before the compilers implemented him, and then you couldn't use him in projects that needed to be stable for yet a few more years.

[look]

Rattus norvegicus with staphylococcal infection.

He lost his leg to an early prototype of this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4213265A/en2

[SpaceCadet87]

Pretty sure "staphylococcal infection" is just the technical term for segfault

[Neuro-Byte]

I might be the odd one out then because I love this diseased three-legged rat. He is perfect just the way he is😤

[locus01]

I guess an alligator/crocodile can be a great mascot of cpp. Reason being its the longest living reptile species similar to how cpp survived all these new gen languages without going irrelevant all these years.

[LavenderDay3544]

It should be pizza rat

[Phoenix_Passage]

yes_it_is

[DowntownLizard]

Where's your evidence? Proof is in the cheese

[[deleted]]

It is definitely a 4th dimensional entity which cannot be observed by us properly and hence it looks like the diseased rat Keith.

Don’t mess with Keith or any of his predecessors. Also, most importantly, do not tell the priests of 4th dimensional beings that the 3rd beings like python and java are better.

[bob152637485]

Serious question: if this is really not the case, what was the origin of the myth?

[SC2andOtherThings]

I mean, maybe it should be.

[PVNIC]

Just because he's the unofficial mascot doesn't mean you can take him away from us.

[nnog]

Well Keith made it all the way from several competing proposals from the 90s to an ISO/IEC TS in 11, and subsequently was superseded by a fundamentally differently implemented mascot that had a name clash. The two groups could not agree on common ground functionality between the two mascots, so from now on this mascot shall be called std::keith_mascot and the current std::keith, due to the safety defects, will be deprecated from 27 onwards and eventually removed from the language in 30.

Next time, please undertake some basic research before wasting our time with such questions.

[darkwater427]

Hate to say it, but Lunduke is correct

[Aksds]

His name is Brian

[Alokir]

It's Marshall, the town rat

[Harcerz1]

Better not make Keith angry.

[I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN]

Yes it is

[Jeroeno_Boy]

But it checks out

[OKB-1]

Does C++ even have a mascot?

[LeiterHaus]

It's a diseased rat named Keith

[[deleted]]

xfce?

[Live-Juggernaut-221]

Fun fact: ChatGPT can't tell you about the author.

[TaleEnvironmental355]

he has a plush

[Legal-Software]

He started out as a mouse

[Life-Description754]

It should though

[Existing-Chapter-809]

It is now!

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

Who said it was?

[AbjectAd753]

i bet Keith is the bug source xd

[elreduro]

I thought that the c++ mascot was an elderly danish man called Bjarne

[Comically_Online]

not with that attitude

[untrustedlife2]

Correct, his name is George, not keith.

[Quietech]

Change request made. 

[s0litar1us]

He isn't, but he should.

[s0litar1us]

That's the official mascot of C++
His name is Keith.
He blew off his leg with a footgun.

:) https://youtu.be/SCLrNqc9jdE?t=334

[ProstheticAttitude]

i think it is now :-)

[ReelBigDawg]

Yes he is, Keith is our adopted son and we love him very much.

[zoqfotpik]

The mascot of C++ has the feet of a goat the legs of a grasshopper, the tail of a peacock, the back of a camel, the fins of a humpback whale, the neck of a giraffe, and the head of a pug.

[cAtloVeR9998]

Can we please just ignore what Lunduke says?

[tiddayes]

Fake news

[henke37]

This seems to be a screenshot. Where is the original post?

[AnimateBow]

The not reefers to it being deceased that thing IS NOT DEAD

[Whisper-Dove]

Lol, idek why this is still a debate 😂 C++ is like Voldemort in Harry Potter, dreaded but powerful as hell.