To be fair there’s lots of power-tripping mods on lemmy as well, often using their colorful interpretations of subjective rules/terms to suppress opinions they don’t like.

I will go one step further and say 1. most strong opinions are not based on deep knowledge, and 2. a lot of this drama is legitimate mental illness… a niche of a niche that by design is run by extremely paranoid people, often aren’t all there in the head, or you could say they have simply crossed over the fine line of genius.

better direction for what?

https://0x0.st/XdWf.jpg

Hot Dog Linux, X11 Window Manager with Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, Mac Classic and Aqua UI

All services do eventually shut down, possibly moreso for higher privacy services, you might just disagree on when.

Doesn’t work for me: https://0x0.st/Xkw4.png

Maybe it only works for some people.

it’s not a bug and it’s still not possible, it’s for tracking who created the account of course.

Maybe, but if anything bad happens to originate from that number, the port history is still visible and now they have a suspect.

• any carrier within range can still potentially track you, maybe not with airplane mode but Snowden says don’t trust that

• GPS still “works” without any signal, service or net access

• AGPS mandate forces 911 calls to reveal your location

For max privacy without going completely analog you’d want a device with NO cellular radio at all

tor isn’t email or phone

There’s no shortage of reasons to not like Linus.

IIRC They were also trying to get kernel devs to let official structure definitions live in Rust instead of C, and got upset when they didn’t want to do that.

This would be caught by ASan and other tools though, which should be part of any review.

I’m doing that. I know several others who have as well.

Be that as it may, I personally wouldn’t consider someone to be a very knowledgeable (on how games actually work) game developer if they didn’t at least know how to use things like linear algebra to make a character run and jump naturally and such, even if they’re not coding like that day to day and just using a higher level framework.

You don’t have to agree with me, and I still respect your opinion either way.

Depends entirely on your definition of “gamedev”, IMO. If you’re trying to write a platformer in basic C with no external libraries, you will absolutely need to use algebra/geometry/etc. and maybe even some more advanced things like physics/calculus depending on what features/effects you want to put in your game.

The problem is not everyone agrees on what exactly “editorialized” and “credible” means. You’re making the same arguments they would make against you.

I think you could argue the same point with C++

To be fair, it’s entirely possible to make the same and very similar mistakes in Rust, too.