Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3773097
#HackerNews #C++ #Standard #Library #Hardening #Scalability #SoftwareDevelopment
@datum Mastodon is distributed at the level of the protocol, not infrastructure. Sure, some people use a server in their closet, but most license hyperscaler infra to host their mastodon instance.
Meta note, we seem to be dealing with a confusion in what the term "distributed" means in this context.
Somebody please #timewarp me to 1999-01-06 and invent an #IETF #standard #protocol for federated #instantMessaging 🙂
Btw. my local internet club, founded in 1995, does host both #Jabber and Matrix now. No #hyperscaler involved. No #selfHosting needed.
At first glance, this looks like a great initiative, Really Simple Licensing: https://rslstandard.org
It's a simple standard way to embed licensing terms in robots.txt, #RSS feeds, web pages and more, so that internet crawlers (especially #AI bots) can understand the author's intentions, and supports collective #licensing platforms.
This is a critical part of the plan I put forward in my blog post here https://dougiamas.com/how-we-could-build-a-better-future-for-creators-in-the-age-of-ai/ where such labelling should be legislated.
But before we jump in, what do you think of #RSL as a #standard?