He's just sealioning again.

I used to like reading his comments years ago. Now it's like an enlightened reddit user, in the worst way.

Or maybe these democracy index things are entirely arbitrary

It's been awhile since I looked into this, but it's not necessarily an easy change. glibc malloc has debugging APIs; a distro can't easily replace it without either emulating the API or patching programs that use it.

No need to even patch it out. It's relatively easy to change the default, rebuild the world (distros have a flow for this), and restore glibc for the tiny, tiny handful of individual programs that actually rely on glibc debugging APIs.

From a end developer perspective: I have no particular familiarity with mimalloc, but I know jemalloc has pretty extensive debugging functionality (not API compatible with glibc malloc of course).

I downvoted because the poster doesn't understand what security by obscurity means.

Except I do know what security by obscurity is and you are out of date on the subject. When you have attacks that make ASLR useless, then it is security by obscurity. Your thinking would have been correct 10 years ago. It is no longer correct today. The middle ground is to say that the benefits of ASLR are questionable, like I said in the comment you downvoted.

Zig isn't memory safe, has regular breaking changes, and doesn't have a garbage collector.

ICE probably has quotas for detainment, so they're imprisoning people who would previously have been sent home.

Every day is a slow day these days so those guys who were hired to detain people are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It's like being pulled over for nothing because there's nobody else to pull over at 1am on a Tuesday.

I expect Musk to use this attack as an excuse for sanctions against Ukraine.

I expect Musk to blame Ukraine and use this as an excuse for sanctions against them.

White supremacists worldwide recognized it as a Nazi salute (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-musk-salute-a...).

SBF's money is just as good as anyone else's.

They'll just make something up that supports the desired conclusions.