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@psychotimmy It looks so nice. Where I live is not so common to see snow 😅

@tecnoysoft Según ellos es para conocer la demografía de sus usuarios. Yo a todas esas contesté: "prefiero no contestar". Así he podido dar mi opinión sin contestar a ese tipo de preguntas invasivas.

Normalmente no participo en este tipo de cosas pero en el caso de Mozilla he hecho una excepción ya que ahora mismo no tenemos muchas alternativas en navegadores gráficos ya que las alternativas principales están basadas precisamente en Firefox: librewolf y tor browser por ejemplo.

@tecnoysoft Pero puedes optar por la opción: prefiero no contestar

@coolowt This was one of my favorites and still is.

Mozilla wanna know what our dream is. I already told them that we want what they promised in the beginning, and that we don't want ads and AI crap.
Now it's your turn.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

#Mozilla #FreeSoftware #internet #browsers #firefox #thunderbird

🇪🇸 Mozilla quiere saber cuál es nuestro sueño. Yo ya les he hecho saber que queremos lo que prometieron al principio de su fundación y que no queremos publicidad ni porquerías del mundo IA.
Ahora es tu turno.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

#mozilla #SoftwareLibre #internet #navegadores #firefox #thunderbird

🇬🇧 GNU Press Shop is open until Dec. 31. If you want to buy some FSF gear while contributing to free software , now is the time!

🇪🇸 La tienda de la FSF está operativa hasta el 31 de Diciembre. Aprovechad si queréis comprar algo porque luego volverá a cerrar hasta nuevo aviso.

https://shop.fsf.org/

#gnu #GNUlinux #fsf #shop #shopping #FreeSoftware #SoftwareLibre

@psychotimmy I'm sure you'll solve it while having a fun time

@psychotimmy The day you'll end your project you're going to know more about the machine than the original engineers 😉

@PaniczGodek you're right it's a conversion I mixed concepts sorry.

@PaniczGodek because char, unsigned char and signed char are integer types.

A char can contain a value from -128 up to 127. 0x80 is 128 so when you set 0x80 to a char variable it's going to overflow. That's why your if fails because you are comparing if your char is 128 and it's not.

If you use an unsigned char which can hold values from 0 to 255 then your if is going to work as expected.

@PaniczGodek Sorry I thought you where talking about the conversions.

Your sample of the int overflow is going to get caught if you set the warning flags of the compiler, and because your affirmation sounded odd to me, I tested your sample on GNU/Linux with GCC 12 and on OpenBSD with clang 16 and I got exactly the same result.

@PaniczGodek Some conversions are implementation dependent not all of them.

@uliwitness I'm not saying C is an easy language nor I'm saying everyone has to use it 😉

@PaniczGodek This is the part: " the C language assumes you know what you’re doing" 😉

An int overflow is something common to almost any language as far as I know, and the implicit conversions are documented in the C Standard.

@evgandr yes, the Rusty hype 😀

@tylermumford Using a language that you feel more comfortable with is good, and I don't think it's silly to be scared. Maybe you're not scared by the language, maybe you just have a deep respect for it: with great power comes great responsibility 🕷️ 😉

Why so many people hate C?
Because the C language assumes you know what you’re doing and lets you. If you don't know what you are doing you can learn or you can hate the language.

#clanguage #c #programming

🇬🇧 Filter, block, mute: my best friends here on Mastodon, particularly with every Twitter exodus.

🇪🇸 Filtros, bloquear, silenciar: mis más mejores amigos en Mastodon sobre todo con cada migración desde Twitter.

#mastodon #twitter #fediverse #exodus #fedi #fediverso

@psychotimmy I have one of those but it's been years since I used it