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Not sure what's news-worthy here? Safe Rust eliminates certain classes of bugs, not all bugs. The editorializing of the title seems like strawmanning.
by zamalek 1y ago
Not sure what's news-worthy here? Safe Rust eliminates certain classes of bugs, not all bugs. The editorializing of the title seems like strawmanning.
- shakna 1y agoA bug in Ubuntu's standard sudo executable is newsworthy. Updates are probably required for a large number of servers.
- creatonez 1y ago> Updates are probably required for a large number of servers. This never affected any servers, because non-LTS ubuntu versions are never used in productions. They are essentially treated as betas.
- drogus 1y agoThere were two very serious issues in original sudo this year. I can't find much info about them on HN.
- alextingle 1y agoThe drive to rewrite existing, tried and tested code in the new trendy language is crazy. Hopefully problems like this will be a bit of a reality check for those cheerleading it.
- drogus 1y agoWhat kind of reality check would it be when the original sudo got two even more serious security issues this year, even though it's "tried and tested"?