Painful read, this reads like it was written by AI.

simple human written summary: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/01/chrome_edge_malicious...

Seems to be company policy. They had another article here recently that was just as bad: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647853

The line is becoming very blurred to me, I did not really notice.

This line was what tipped me off.

“This isn't malware with a fixed function. It's a backdoor.”

What about that sentence is sus to you? I'm not sure if I'm missing another AI tell I'm not aware of or what.

Seems very similar to not only X, but also Y

Is that a common attribute for LLMs to output into text?

Yes there is a video on youtube "How to spot AI text"

I've watched that, but it was basically just the emdash thing.

I flag posts like this.

Kept feeling like it was about to say something interesting, but by half way through nothing else was said

so is this gonna stay in c++ or are you still moving to swift

Whatever happens, large parts of the codebase + dependencies will be C++ (or C) for the foreseeable future.

We're working on integrating with Swift, but despite the team's earnest efforts, Swift/C++ interop is still young and unstable.

On a personal note, I'm increasingly feeling like "C++ with a garbage collector" might actually be a reasonable tool for the task at hand. Watching the development of Fil-C in this space..

What'd be the effect of Swift be on the possibility of a Windows port? I know anything end user friendly is ages away, but I don't live in Apple land, and neither does most of the world. Apple has a monopoly on iOS and huge market share on Mac, and is still at 20% or something.

https://x.com/GregKamradt/status/1848045525473677314

https://x.com/wycats/status/973761496277704704

The core Swift Lang has is being made more independent of Apple, and can be compiled for an increasing number of platforms thanks to the LLVM-based compiler

I'm honestly not at all familiar with browsers but I really do wonder if a custom language wouldn't be a reasonable tradeoff. It's not all that insane as that is a path that has been walked before. For instance FoundationDB has their own syntax to manage their actor system which just transpiles to C++: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/flow/README....

V8 also has torque which I think to some degree also fits into that type of mindset.

> I'm honestly not at all familiar with browsers but I really do wonder if a custom language wouldn't be a reasonable tradeoff.

careful, last time someone said that we got Rust

Out of curiosity, why not C# at this point? It's pretty hard to marry C++ with a high-performant garbage collector, since underlying language semantics does not allow for e.g. compacting GCs.

What makes Swift a better choice than C#?

C# is more platform independent. Has a well-tested GC.

yes

as an index card enthusiast, I think this is the next step for me.

SL looks like an absolute dog's breakfast. I'll be sticking with Go and Ebitengine's Kage shader language.

Apologies. This was an experimental landing page haphazardly thrown together after the investors we're pitching to wanted a two-slide problem/solution. The rest of the app is actually made mobile-first.

You can 100% call Australian payphones. Last week I stood next one in the Sydney CBD and called it, it rung - I didn't pick up.

Here's a list with physical addresses and phone numbers. Enjoy.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/B15mu7h/Payphones/master/P...

Username checks out!

Wow, didn't know about this at all. Will be experimenting with these for sure. Thanks!