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points by KitsumiTheFox 23 hours ago | 0 comments
I fail to see how the term virtue signaling applies to what you highlighted, care to elaborate?
[–] egorfine 22 hours ago
Rust rewrites of existing rock stable applications is only done for performative reasons as there are no merits.
[–] db48x 16 hours ago
Sudo may not be as “rock stable” as you suppose. The sudo-rs project has discovered a number of exploitble bugs in sudo that had existed for years.

And remember that sudo was itself a replacement for earlier tools like su. It has no special claim to be the one and only tool for the job.

[–] pjmlp 22 hours ago
And pimp up my CV kind of stuff.
[–] kelseyfrog 22 hours ago
The virtues being signaled are trust, reliability, and generosity. The mechanism is rust-washing. Like greenwashing, rust-washing has the appearance of and takes credit for the virtues without actually delivering on them.