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Computing in the age of climate crisis is often wasteful and adds nothing useful to our real life communities. Here we try to find out how to change that.

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The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 years ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/permacomputing@slrpnk.net

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

These projects are so incomprehensibly vast that no human mind can comprehend even one small isolated subset of the entire thing.

Which means - no human mind can trust them either, and no human programmer alone can conduct a security review.

Which means they should not be trusted, and should be considered insecure - unless they can be carefully isolated from the environment so that only a trusted surface is exposed.

My ideal project size: something that an average coder can read in a week or two, and come back to their (possibly anarchist) colleagues saying: "this code looks reliable and won't be leaking buckets".