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@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill also #BlackBerry's #PlayBook #Tablet was released as a accessory screen for their Phones, which gave it "#WiiU-Effect" in terms of marketing.

  • Plus #RIM relying hard on business clients and their proprietary applianced mail systems and having big carriers upsell to business people made them look outdated & quite literally out of touch once #iPhone went mainstream.

I mean, the hardware was never their problem and #SMS-Typists swear by their #BlackberryCurve's #keyboard but BlackBerry's #toolchain - just like #SymbianOS's - was just hideous to the point that devs like @fuchsiii didn't even want to try making #Apps for those devices.

  • Unlike #Mozilla fucking up #FirefoxOS by refusing to sell devices to #developers, by the time RIM & #Nokia came from their high horses, their market shares had been squeezed into mere "rounding errors" by #iOS and #Android as it was way cheaper and easier to get #Apps developed, tested, sold, bought and use them than on their devices.

#Sony even released some #Symbian #S60 devices but since they didn't have the same signing keys, one couldn't even #sideload apps (not to mention they didn't had the #OviStore on those either!)...

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@dalias personally I think that #Linux #Kernel needs to prioritize what it wants.

#AFAICT Linux always prioritized clean, lean & human-readable #C code over features, efficiency and sometimes even security.

#Rust being turned into an integral part would extremely complicate the #build process and add a shitload of #dependencies to build @OS1337 or any other #minimal / #embedded OS that it would be a net negative by just making the whole #toolchain bigger, bulkier, more complex and convoluted.

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)@dalias@hachyderm.io +1 I avoid #Rust because it adds #complexity. - In fact I'm yeeting #SYSLINUX from @OS1337 because it's ~200kB of #bloat and #Perl...
A typical #TUI #Rust application has usually about ~600 dependencies or similar figure.

A typical C applications has less than ten. C application might possibly be less "memory safe" language but you can statically analyze every bit and piece of the code base, including dependencies.

And by doing hat, you end up getting more verified, and *objectively* more memory safe build artifact ;-) 🤷

What many people especially in the Rust community completely have ignored, one side-effect of this new language popping, was igniting the heyday of the development of static analysis of the C language, which has *vastly* improved both in LLVM and GCC toolchains.

Just look at how amazing e.g. GCC 14 is when analyzing C code, and given the low amount of dependencies you can get pretty solid guarantees on safety of your code base.

Static analysis of C can *only* get better because the base language is compact and does not really grow anymore. One thing where C is factors more immutable is the language spec itself ;-) Rust language spec on the other hand is the most mutable spec ever invented, and run by a Github pull request process...

#rustlang #gcc #llvm #toolchain
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@BrodieOnLinux @that_leaflet @AuntyRed
@SecureOwl if this ain't some #StateSponsored #SupplyChainAttack it was at least so methodical that it's definitely some sort of specific attack against a specific target...

I mean, I've seen weird #3Dchess in #ITsec so I'd not be surprised if this was just some #1337hax0r wanting to take revenge on an employer/client who still owed them pay...

I mean, that whole #xz #backdoor has serious #nocom vibes:

youtube.com/watch?v=elqAh3GWRp

#TLDW: people literally gaslit an admin with specific packet flooding into filing a specific bug report so a specific fix would be implemented that would get a #backdoor implemented in #Spigot, a popular #Minecraft #Server #Toolchain...

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@joepie91 Don't forget:
- #Mumble for #VoiceChats

- #Linphone as #SIP / #VoIP client

- #gparted and #ddrescue as well as #testdik & #photorec for halding storage and recovering data.

And ofc all the tools I need daily like #SSH (#OpenSSH), #OpenVPN, #WireGuard, #IPsec, #pfSense, #OPNsense, #ipFire, #LUKS/ #dmcrypt and the whole #toolchain needed for OS/1337 like #gcc, #musl, #toybox, #dropbear and so on.

#OS1337
os1337.com

os1337.comOS/1337
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Noch weiter gedacht: wenn das Buch fertig ist, landet es per weiterem Knopfdruck im #AutorinnenBuchShop
...und 5 Tage später beim lokalen Buchdrucker ( gibts das bzw. macht das Sinn? Was #BoD zentral kann, kann vielleicht auch mein lokaler Copyshop dezentral? ).

Bei mir sind das nur Ideen - aber wahrscheinlich machen das andere schon so oder ähnlich? #leanPublishing #autorenleben

Oder haben schon gelernt, dass das so doch nicht geht?

#JoachimKreativWeg #kreativeWertschöpfung #toolchain
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