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by keyle 29 days ago
Computers used to be cool; now they're dangerous.

Every company keep harping on about safety and being exposed (being in the news): so the narrative against 'unsafe' is up the wazoo.

The new world is basically a bunch of city dwellers who haven't seen raw nature and you show them a lawn mower, they freak out. Blades that spin?!?!?! Madness!!
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pjc50 29 days ago
If everything is going to be dependent on computers, it's probably important that they work and remain under their owner's control rather than whichever NK or Chinese hacker group gets to them first.

Can't talk about C without CVE.

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keyle 29 days ago
Yeah, npm, all the yaml state machines, & now MCP Gemini --yolo entered the chat.

If you think C is the problem, you'll come to the eventual conclusion that humans are the problems, and greed. Don't hate the player, hate the game etc.

C was invented so you don't have to write assembly. It wasn't invented to expose devices to billions of other devices.

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