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Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications
- mx7zysuj4xew 1y ago[flagged]
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- OutOfHere 1y agoThis has to be the dumbest argument for Rust that I have ever seen. It doesn't belong on LWN.
- pharrington 1y agoDo you disagree that its easy to cross compile and create static binaries with?
- OutOfHere 1y agoIt is, but Go is easier, and various other languages also have this property. It is not a sufficient argument for Rust. In fact, large Rust projects are well known to take a very long time to recompile.
- userbinator 1y agoI suspect it's there because it ticks a bunch of virtue-signaling boxes. DEI, Rust, some "safety and security" boogeyman.
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- kelvinjps 1y agoI found the whole thing inspirational
- Esophagus4 1y agoI love seeing stories of people building things to make the world better, rather than “Juicero but make it AI.” I didn’t pick up on it from the article, but why local binaries over a SaaS? It seems like that app would be the ideal candidate for a client server model… she wouldn’t need to worry about old Windows machines or firewalls or installing it on non-technical users’ machines, as long as they had a browser. They mentioned something about “locked down enterprise environments” but I don’t know what that means. Edit: oh, maybe “locked down environments + firewalls” means these machines have no internet egress so you would have to poke holes in a firewall to reach the internet?
- pharrington 1y agoStrict chain of custody requirements prohibit this kind of thing from being SaaS.
- Esophagus4 1y agoCould you elaborate a bit? Don’t mean to dig in on this, but I googled for some chain of custody / evidence tracking SaaS and found: QueTel, SAFE by Tracker Products, CustodyChain, and BlazeStack. Just curious. I probably have to read up on what chain of custody really entails.