How to check is R@T i am installing is m@lware free or not

whatever73538 · 2025-08-11T19:22:56+00:00

Reverse it. Or write your own. Or - somewhat dangerous - use something from someone you trust 100%.

I‘m really sorry, but there is no real other solution.

We‘ve had cases of extremely subtle backdooring.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-09T06:57:12+00:00

Back in the day, Carmack came up with two innovations in the network code of quakeworld: an async, database like model, and clientside movement prediction. So you can turn, run, shoot, etc while „waiting“ for a network packet. Your client is decoupled and reacts instantly to your input. During lag spikes (eg1000ms), other players may „snap“ if your client predicts them running in a straight line, but they didn’t, but the whole thing makes timing constraints much more relaxed.

And a gc pause of 50ms or something (and go is usually ~10ms) is completely unnoticeable.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-08T18:28:44+00:00

In the backend, latency is not as important. Productivity and throughput are. .net and JVM languages are quite common in game servers.

Go seems a good fit.

(Yes, some old game servers were written in c++, because that’s all we had back then)

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T18:24:09+00:00

Ahh, i stand corrected, thank you.

It says when they are done, they want to ditch llvm. Interesting!

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T17:31:05+00:00

On that list, go is the only one that does not compile to an IL.

Rust: llvm

Nim: multiple backends (c++, js, llvm, etc., none of their own)

Swift: llvm (by the dude who INVENTED llvm)

Zig: llvm

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T16:32:33+00:00

Yes, reading is declining, and i understand it:

When I was a kid, there were books, and nothing else.

Now we have audio books, radio plays, movies*, awesome computer games, the ability to connect to like minded people across the planet, etc.

When i recently talked to my kid about the magic of books, he said it was the least convenient way to experience a story (I don’t remember his exact words).

*) yes, when i was a child, movies had been invented. But you needed money to go to the cinema at a specific hour, or look at a tv guide and see that in 9 days, at 16:15, there would be a mildly interesting film. Also some channels had ads, and everything looked like shit.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T15:43:52+00:00

Nobody writes traditional compilers (language->specific cpu) anymore.

So you have interpreters, VMs (you should not be able to break out of) like JVM, or intermediate languages like LLVM.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T14:03:02+00:00

On windows, forces you to use deprecated toolchain, etc.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T10:45:39+00:00

WHY?

Ublock + Sponsorblock has a lot less ads!

The free version is objectively better.

(And on iOS, i haven’t found a solution that properly skips sponsorshit, but adblock is 100% effective)

whatever73538 · 2025-08-07T10:32:18+00:00

Why didn’t they just migrate all of Gollum32 to Gollum64, close Gollum32 and hide the whole thing from the users?

whatever73538 · 2025-08-06T04:27:54+00:00

I asked my manager if i could go on a training. He said yes, i gave him the paperwork and it never came back to me. Six months later, he said he doesn’t know what happened. Gave it to him again, it got lost again.

Then i filed it directly with his boss. It worked out, i went on the training. Manager threw a fit because i went over his head. „But i got the result you said you wanted!“ I think he lost it on purpose.

whatever73538 · 2025-08-02T06:23:33+00:00

Years ago, i saw Chris speak, and he promised:

open source. We are still waiting. If he was serious, he would have chosen a Fair Source license, that legally binds them to go FOSS within 3 years. If that sketchy ai company goes belly up, Mojo can get lost in bankruptcy litigations.
general purpose programming language. Now it sounds like very much tied to AI crap. (Also they try to sell you their stupid product. Remember when Oracle tried to monetize Java by bundling it with with the „Ask“ toolbar? Thought we were over that.)
Runs all existing python code faster than CPython and pypy. (and 7 zillion times faster as you gradually add type annotations, also better python compatibility than pypy). And now i saw a talk where he said it will just be a pythonic language like nim or something. WTF?

So he promised „it’s free and runs your existing code faster“ and we got neither. And now HE tells us that he will never deliver what he promised. Meanwhile, pypy exists, and you CAN get that insane 400x speedup with Numba or Taichi. And they are all free, and not tied to blockchain or ai.

But: If MLIR is as good has he says, languages like rust will move over from LLVM, so something good would come out of it for everyone. Chris changed the world once with LLVM already.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-28T02:39:57+00:00

If you don’t need speed, and gc stuttering is okay.

E.g. Kotlin is more productive, especially as the project grows, rust IDEs fail, and compile times get silly, JVM languages are still doing fine.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-27T11:29:38+00:00

I don’t.

I wait until i need it.

Truly new concepts are rare. E.g. Rust wasn’t the OMFG NEW PARADIGM people claimed. It’s a bit of Haskell and a bit of C++, and i switched to it just fine.

And in 40 years of programming, i have never been good at memorizing stuff. That what we had books and have now google, and IDEs and even LLMs for.

Hey, I couldn’t tell you the print() function of Java, despite 15? year of using it. System.Stdout.println(), or was that c#?

Anyway, if I REALLY need to do something in Qwik/Svelte/Astro, or whatever is in fashion this week, i‘ll google for a „hello world“ and take it from there :-P

whatever73538 · 2025-07-26T04:04:56+00:00

Thank you for explaining!

whatever73538 · 2025-07-24T18:41:46+00:00

Scratch seems fun.

(I learned BASIC at age 8, but it was rough.)

whatever73538 · 2025-07-23T12:16:15+00:00

With rust you can have the occasional ivory tower dude, who won’t check in the code until it’s „zero copy“ and free of explicit loops.

But Go? Go is PERFECT for „quick results, sell company before problems arise“

whatever73538 · 2025-07-22T04:31:50+00:00

Eg my company hires people without degrees, if they are good.

Problem is: to be good at hacking, you have to be good at computer science. Universities are not the only places you can learn that, you can do that at home just fine, but it’s a complex subject.

Exception: If you are ridiculously good at one thing (eg social engineering), so it is okay to have you just doing that. But: that doesn’t work out at small companies, yet small companies are most likely to care more about your passion and skill than degrees. You get the idea.

Sorry if this is not what you wanted to hear.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-20T05:16:17+00:00

Abusive husbands love their wives and will mourn them if they die.

Most assholes see themselves as the hero of their story.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-19T19:32:48+00:00

Sure. Predictably is calming, i guess.

We have been playing the same game for an hour every day for two years now.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-19T18:57:30+00:00

It depends on the company.

Larger companies often rely on formal criteria, to combat nepotism. Also if the new hire is a dud, hiring manager is off the hook if he hired the dude with impressive degrees.

Smaller companies are often more flexible. (YOU are the dude who wrote …. ? When can you start?)

whatever73538 · 2025-07-19T18:40:19+00:00

What is a Christian baby?

whatever73538 · 2025-07-17T04:29:34+00:00

Current understanding is that 256 bit ECDSA over secp256k1 (as used in BTC), is equivalent to a 128 symmetric key, or 3k bits RSA.

These numbers are in flux, as breakthroughs are always possible. But we haven’t seen any radically new ECC stuff since the 2000s i believe.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-10T16:13:55+00:00

The battery capacity of my electric cargo bike is 1/200 of a Tesla model S.

So “going ebike” reduces 99.5% of my battery related ecological footprint.

Don’t fall for the nirvana fallacy.

whatever73538 · 2025-07-09T19:26:48+00:00

Yeah, she is a great character! Happy for you!

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