HackerNews Summary (2023-05-18 03AM)

Source: The Case For Bash

Summary
Bash is often criticized as difficult to maintain. However, each language is best suited for certain types of problems, and Bash is excellent for solving problems that need to be fixed immediately. Bash values fitness for quick problem-solving, simplicity, and availability.

Fact

📜 Bash is often maligned because it is regarded as unintelligible and thus unmaintainable.

🛠 Bash is great for fixing problems that need to be fixed immediately.

👉 Tools, including programming languages, are better adapted to certain problems and programming languages have different values that suit different people.

💪 Bash values fitness for quick problem-solving, simplicity, and availability.

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Source: How a Secretive Swiss Dealer Is Enabling Israeli Spy Firms

Summary
Mexican journalist Fredid Román Román’s phone was silently pinged a day before he was shot dead, indicating a possible attempt to geolocate him using a mobile phone system loophole.

Fact

💀 Fredid Román Román was shot dead a day after his phone was pinged.

📱 His phone number was silently pinged in an attempt to geolocate him.

🕵️‍♂️ The ping was done using a loophole in the mobile phone system.

🇲🇽 The incident occurred in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico.

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Source: Another issue with the Cyber Resilience Act: European standards bodies are inaccessible to Open Source projects

Summary
The European Standardisation Organizations (ESO) are expensive to engage and often dominated by national industries; hence, it might be difficult for them to take into account the development workflow that applies to Open Source software, leading to the Open Source community being neglected.

Fact

💻 The European Standardisation Organizations (ESO) are corporate-controlled, patent-loving, and are not accessible to Open Source developers per se.

🤝 EU legislation stemming from the CRA (and related instruments) needs to specify that standards bodies must consult and include the Open Source community if Open Source is to be accommodated.

🌍 The legislation needs to reflect and take into account the diverse applications of software due to the social movement of Open Source, which is primarily focused on the community.

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