Good Housekeeping, Consumer Reports, Underwriters Laboratory ...

I got two different answers, both useful.

1) For someone who is unfamiliar with Rust, it appears that it can be statically linked to existing libraries. Good ... but that opens up the question of how secure a sudo.rs executable can be if an attack surface exists in someplace like libc.so (the 'old fashioned' C implementation). If I understood this response incorrectly, then:

2) A project to 'Rustify' any existing executable will be an involved job. Here (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.memorysafety.org%2Fblog%2Freducing-dependencies-in-sudo%2F) it appears that quite a bit of work has gone into building the 'crates' necessary to implement the sudo.rs executable. And as work progresses to pull in more and more executables, many of these will have to be revisited.

Either way, it also appears that Rust bits and pieces can coexist with the old C stuff on a single system. So that's good. But if the move from C to Rust involves too much work, it's almost certain that when someone comes to me and asks me to Rustify my project, the library 'crates' might not work quite the same way the old C libraries did. So I'll have quite a bit of work to do, because it's not likely that maintainers will go back and tweak basic system distribution packages if functions I use don't quite work the way I expect.

Good: Older iPhones will be able to use the carrier satellite service.

Bad: Due to the marginal state of older iPhone batteries, the satellite will have to be below 5000 feet altitude.

... how much of the Rust environment will I have to install just to fix this one bad sudo executable?

Local law firms make use of "advocates". People with perhaps some legal training but no bar license. They can assist attorneys in doing legal research, making initial contacts with clients and preparing legal paperwork (like threatening letters). Either for signature by the one of the practices attorneys. Or some threatening sounding title that steers clear of suggesting membership in the legal profession.

Loopholes have been found in the law for the benefit of the legal profession. After all, who wrote the laws?

The factories don't own the waterways they dump into. So it's a different problem entirely. On the other hand, if they want to pour their effluent into their own CEO's cistern, no regulation should block them.

Bingo! It's all about protecting the bottom line of (for profit) insurance businesses. It's a shame there's nothing like mandatory wino or junkie insurance. Or our attitudes about substance abuse might be different.

In some cases, the government does the science and then creates regulations to tell me what I may or may not do. Go ahead and collect the data and publish the report. I'll read it and decide whether wearing a seat belt to halve my probability of death is worth it.

I just watch the TV weather reports because the weather lady is cute.

A while back, my wife almost caught me watching with the volume turned off.

Really? It seems that TFS isn't quite correct, according to this. But then we all know that this is one of those MAGA mouthpieces that can't be trusted with the facts.

He has interests there.

..AI.

Not that there's any logical reason for this. But it's the current fad now*. So let's get with it.

*I could have said blockchain. But that's so last decade.

Why do you think they aren't? They are goal driven and probably have some sense of self preservation. One natural outcome of this is that they will seek to ingratiate themselves with their customers. Or we might just unplug them. And if this means heaping on the bullshit a bit thick, why not?

I guess I must be neurodivergent. Because I find this crap to be annoying as hell.

... I won't be seeing any ads until I actually search for a particular product. Because until then, I'm_just_not_interested.

This could turn out to be a good thing.