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He's either bought the propaganda, or he's pretending to have bought the propaganda for safety reasons.
AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
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Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#62This is super cool, though I very much doubt the following statement: > AsmBB is very secure web application, because of the internal design and the reduced dependencies. There's a lot of value in using well tested dependencies, and even Chuck Norris will have bugs writing complex software in assembly. Especially when doing string manipulation which this project should be doing a lot of.
Chuck Norris does not use an assembler. He live codes machine language directly into DRAM.
He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head.
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
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True, but it's a tricky time to point that out. Right now we'd have to boycott a large proportion of open source projects by Israeli and Arab/Iranian/etc authors if we wanted to avoid using any open source software written by people who support obscene and inhumane military actions.
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
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Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#65“In addition it supports Unicode Emoji characters in really native way.” I wish it would go into greater detail here. I’m unclear what “really native” implies, as opposed to some sort of “kind of native” way?
Just spit balling here: some sites like Twitter have their own emoji sets and I wonder if they're saying that they don't do that and instead rely on the OS's normal rendering of emojis.
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree; dependencies are more of a liability than anything else.
I can see this maybe being true in a high level language (depending on the dependency), though it's definitely not the case with assembly. OpenSSL, for example, was hit with quite a few serious bugs over the years, and I'd still choose using it than my own SSL implementation. Especially in assembly.
> OpenSSL, for example, was hit with quite a few serious bugs over the years, and I'd still choose using it than my own SSL implementation. Especially in assembly.
That's the difference between a programmer and a real engineer: an engineer doesn't need any help from dependencies to make his code totally insecure.
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, from that perspective every backend web application in every language is really just "calling C code".
That's overly simplistic and untrue. If you write a C# / .Net program you're not "just calling C code", you're not calling C at all.
but then your runtime VM calls C :)
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
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True, but it's a tricky time to point that out. Right now we'd have to boycott a large proportion of open source projects by Israeli and Arab/Iranian/etc authors if we wanted to avoid using any open source software written by people who support obscene and inhumane military actions.
True. Worthwhile contemplating how to navigate this sort of thing.
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#69I couldn't read the article on mobile due to live notifications.
Why would anyone care to know that an anonymous person is reading the same page as you?
Re: AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language
#70This is super cool, though I very much doubt the following statement: > AsmBB is very secure web application, because of the internal design and the reduced dependencies. There's a lot of value in using well tested dependencies, and even Chuck Norris will have bugs writing complex software in assembly. Especially when doing string manipulation which this project should be doing a lot of.
Chuck Norris does not use an assembler. He live codes machine language directly into DRAM. He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head.
"He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head."
Not just any kicks, but roundhouse kicks of course.