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  • Uhhh, yeah, I could see why Reddit might ban you for posting artwork by Sally Mann. I 100% take Mann at her word when she says that her work is strictly artistic. That to me is not even remotely in dispute.

    What deeply concerns me now is the combination of you posting Mann’s artwork (I’m assuming you didn’t just get banned for one of her landscapes) and posting sexualized illustrations of fictional children and remarking about licking your cousin’s underwear while she wears it. That’s a really disturbing pattern, and I mean with 100% sincerity that, even just for your own benefit, you should seriously consider seeking professional help.

    Therapists are some of the kindest, most understanding types of people you’ll ever meet, and they can and would want to help you work through whatever you’re going through.


  • Actually, I was curious why someone with a <1-day-old account here was coming in like “We need a community dedicated to Megumin 😣” and posting Asuka ass shots, which was an instant red flag they’d been abruptly banned from Reddit for doing some really gross shit but still needed their fix somewhere else. I forgot that Reddit doesn’t say what a user is banned for anymore, though, so I just clicked the first live link on the Wayback Machine to see if I was right. This process took a cumulative two-ish minutes.

    Lo and behold, they were “joking” about “licking [their] cousin’s underwear while she’s wearing it”, which OP chalks up to having “different tastes”.


  • “Why isn’t there an entire community dedicated to jerking off to softcore imagery of an anime character who’s canonically 14? 😣”

    Please, OP, get help. This isn’t normal, and this isn’t healthy.


    Edit: okay, so you were permanently banned from Reddit (probably for fantastic reason, uncharacteristic of Reddit), while you were there made “jokes” about “licking [your] cousin’s underwear while she’s wearing it” (seek therapy, OP), dumped lengthy LLM slop into comments sections and got defensive when rightfully called out, and showed up here today to start immediately hornyposting about various canonically underage anime characters.

    We’re not Reddit’s backwash, OP, and there’s something seriously wrong with you that being here is not going to help.




  • I’d go even further: the learning curve for Rust is shallower than C/C++.

    • C is obvious: dealing with strings is a goddamn nightmare in pure C, and strings are used all the time in modern programming. Almost no guardrails for memory safety mean that an inexperienced programmer can easily run into undefined, nondeterministic behavior that makes bug hunting difficult.
    • In C++, there’s a trillion ways to do anything (which varies enormously based on C++ version), and when you make mistakes of even moderate complexity (not “missing semicolon on line 174”), compilers like gcc spit out a gargantuan wall of errors that you need to know how to parse through.
    • Rust, in my experience, gives you a much clearer “good” way to do something with some room for expression, and its compiler tells you exactly what you did wrong and even how to resolve it.

    The fact that the compiler actually guides you, to me, made learning it much easier than C/C++.


  • I don’t know how else they could react:

    And the compiler was slow, the code that came out was slow…

    The compiler is slower because it has more to check for, but “the code that came out was slow” seems like nonsense, exaggeration, or PEBCAK. Rust code is highly performant and very close to C code.

    The support mechanism that went with it — this notion of crates and barrels and things like that — was just incomprehensibly big and slow.

    Dude what? C’s build systems like cmake are notoriously unfriendly to users. Crates make building trivial compared to the ridiculous hoops needed for C.

    I have written only one Rust program, so you should take all of this with a giant grain of salt,” he said. “And I found it a — pain… I just couldn’t grok the mechanisms that were required to do memory safety, in a program where memory wasn’t even an issue!

    He doesn’t say what the program was, and the borrow checker operates by a set of just a few extremely simple rules. There’s no idea of what he was trying to accomplish or how the borrow checker impeded that.

    So my reaction as someone who cares deeply about how disastrously unsafe C is and the tangible havoc it creates in modern society:

    • I agree the compiler is slower. Honestly boo hoo. It’s slower for two very good reasons (better static analysis and better feedback).
    • The code being slower is such a minor issue as to effectively not be true. Benchmarks prove this.
    • I’m not going to take “big and slow” as a serious critique of Cargo from someone who idealizes C’s ridiculous, tedious, convoluted build system.
    • The borrow checker is trivial, and unlike C, the compiler actually gives you easy, intuitive feedback for why your code doesn’t build.

  • They struggled to deliver their ambitious mainline Linux phone on time during Covid yes, but they eventually delivered.

    And for the people who requested refunds who waited months if not never received them? Despite them moving back their timeline literal years with repeated delays? I don’t care what challenges they faced; they knowingly took people’s money and refused to give it back to them when they couldn’t deliver. It’s their responsibility to be prepared for challenges. And in some extreme edge case where they couldn’t have been prepared, it’s their responsibility to be transparent about that to the people who gave them over a million dollars (let alone purchased the product after the Kickstarter was finished). I suppose too that the pandemic affected Purism in January 2019 when they were supposed to deliver their product?

    The fact that they did is a huge win for the mobile Linux ecosystem becoming a real contender just when we need it.

    The Librem 5 is not a contender for shit. It’s so overpriced that it can only be successfully marketed to people who care so deeply about their privacy that they’re willing to use an inconvenient mobile OS, get completely boned on hardware specs, and deal with a company notorious for fucking over its customers. Purism’s behavior is a fucking embarrassment to the Linux ecosystem.

    NXP i.MX family debuted in 2013; Intel i7 family in 2008. Their phone uses a 2017 i.MX 8M Quad, the same year they crowdfunded their phone.

    That CPU is based on the ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M4, launched in 2012 and 2009, respectively.

    2017 i7 computers are equally not from 2008…

    When I say “2013”, I’m not talking about the debut year of i.MX. I’m talking about the fact that you can compare this phone side-by-side with a Galaxy S4 or S5. 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of eMMC storage, a 720 x 1440p IPS display, no NFC, USB 3.0, an 8/13 MP front/back camera (which they inexplicably call “Mpx”; good job, guys), 802.11n Wi-Fi, no waterproofing, and a shitty-ass i.MX 8M CPU. I still remember watching a trailer for the Librem 5’s continuing development, and as they were scrolling through a web browser, it was noticeably stuttering. This was years and years ago; I can’t even imagine it today.

    It still today remains one of the best ARM processors with open source drivers without an integrated baseband. It means basically any flavour of Linux can install on the device, with a significant layer of protection from carrier conduited attacks. Other modules have similar tradeoffs between performance and interoperability/security.

    I do not give even the slightest inkling of a shit try to confirm or deny this, so I’m just going to assume it’s 100% true, because it’s not relevant to the point that the spec is absolute trash and being sold for $800. If you are not absolutely married to privacy, this is not a sellable product in 2025.

    Want better specs? We either need SoC companies to release more of their drivers open source, or more people to patiently reverse engineer closed source ones.

    Actually, if I want better specs, I’m just going to go out and buy a phone that isn’t from Purism. It really sucks that it’s not open, private hardware, but Purism is such a scummy company that so wantonly fucks over their customers that I wouldn’t touch the Librem 5 even if I could justify spending $800 for that spec just for privacy’s sake.