GNU Image Manipulation Program (or Project)

Wow. Under what stone has this guy been living since the start of the digital age?

As if any site that stores such data would not be a prime target for hackers for a number of reasons, and as if any site could really defend against a dedicated attack for as long as this law runs.

Back then, the internet was a thing of trust and cooperation. We got an assigned port number the same way. Current problem: Our company changed over the decades, and I no longer have the email address that would identify me to the IANA as the one who requested that number reservation.

Well, at least there are people who still use Perl.

I remember being forced to learn this in university.

I started CS from the POV of someone with several commercial projects under the belt and at the time being fluent already in five or six different programming languages. But the university where I started had had an issue - they had been way to theoretical (imagine people writing their CS thesis on a mechanical typewriter, and professors telling us that one does not need computer access for mastering CS!). So they had been more or less forced to include at least a bit of real world stuff into their blackboard and paper world. Which resulted in a no-excuse-mandatory beginners course in Turbo Pascal in the first year and Turbo Prolog in the second.

And I was not alone. It was painful. They showed a programming task to be done on the overhead projector, and about 90% of us could have just typed down the answer without thinking and be done with the weekly assignment in five minutes. Nope. Instead, we had to follow (and join) a lengthy, boring, and worthless discussion about the very basics of programming, before we were allowed to work on it. And woe to us if we did not follow the precise path that we had been “taught” in that lesson, even if it was done in a way that no normal programmer would ever implement it.

If they had given us all the assignments for the semester in one go, we would probably had finished them in one afternoon, including documentation and time to spare.

At least with Turbo Prolog we learned something new. First and foremost that there are strong reasons that nobody uses Prolog for serious programming.

Ahh, the good old RFCs dated April, 1st. This one is number 1149 ( A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers), and got later updated in RFC 2549 (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service).

I actually never picked sides in that conflict. Both sides are nuts, the Hamas are terrorists, the IDF commits war crimes, they are both evil.

I propose putting a wall around the whole area and wait for the noise to stop, either by them getting their acts together, or by having killed each other.

Well, you can say exactly the same about COBOL…

People are still using those?

Apart from Python, is anyone of the listed contenders actually still breathing?

Well, to be honest C is still C, but it’s children have run mad.

I didn’t say that I agree, I just pointed out that there are way more prominent ways this sexualisation is done.

I also don’t agree with the headline of the article that this kind of pictures will somehow “flood” the internet. It might flood their hidden nieches for being cheap and plentiful, but I don’t think they will pop up increasingly in any normal users everyday browsing activities.

We did Prolog in university - actually it was one of the two languages we had to learn in CS, the other one being Pascal.

I always considered Prolog a pain in the ass and unsuitable for anything bigger than a piece of homework due to the “we don’t do loops, we have tail recursion” making the code unnecessary complex and hard to read. On a list of Write-Only languages I’d rate it a few steps below Perl.

For “normalisation of sexualisation of children” go ask the people organizing child beauty pageants.

Old enough they still know Prolog.

Don’t know how you compare torrent to usenet. They were built for completely different purposes. If you abuse usenet for file sharing, don’t complain about any shortcomings, as you are trying to drive a screw into a wall with a hammer.

If he gave it all back, why is he still a billionaire?

If you are starting from scratch, why do they limit the language selection?

If I would complain about any new language or environment I’d be dropped in, I’d probably in the loony bin by now.

Tell the team leader that you don’t know the language but are willing to learn, read the existing code which will give you a feel for the language, the project, and the local programming style, all in one go, and you should be fine. Imagine the backend was written in PL/I, Prolog, or LISP instead of just another ALGOL dialect ;-)

The EU would tackle this by telling those aircraft owners to switch to unleaded fuel somehow, e.g. by fixing or replacing the engine, or put it out of business.

That is exactly the case here. I’ve got a private wiki with a rather large extension by now, and it is the only PHP project I have. So whenever mediawiki f-cks something up, which is nearly every update, I restart my PHP skills to find and fix the sh-t they did to my code this time.

Welcome to my world. Not that I’m using node, but I’m using mediawiki. They manage to f-up something with about every update, and the documentation, if it exists at all, is often enough completely wrong or broken.

“This incident demonstrates the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in the face of sophisticated attacks. We continue to work directly with government agencies on this issue, and maintain our commitment to continue sharing information at Microsoft Threat Intelligence blog."

Translation: Fixing bugs cost way to much more money than just leaving them in, so in order to save the profits, we just wait them out. If the shit hits the fan, we can still start looking into the issue and maybe get some PR coverage to distract the public.

But we still happily support government agencies to exploit the barndoor-sized holes in our software for whatever nefarious reasons they have because they pay us for that.