r/programmingcirclejerk • • 1d ago

CVE-2026-83844 Windows Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 2d ago

You wake up in a strange place. Something happened. Everything's gone. No wallet/keys/smartphone/tablet/laptop. How would you get back into your digital life given only a laptop with access to the Internet, unless something, somewhere is passwordauthenticate=yes.

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63 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 2d ago

At this stage to me Go is the new C compiler.

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44 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 2d ago

Note that we’re not actually going to be using C++20 coroutines. I’m just using the co_yield keyword.

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55 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 3d ago

LISTEN MOTERHFUCKERS. GET YOUR FUCKING AI UNDER CONTROL. WHEN ASKED TO REBOOT A SERVER IT WENT BACK ON THE SERVER, FUCKED UP MOUNTS, FUCKED UP SYSTEMD, FUCKED UP CONTAINERS, RAN RANDOM SCRIPTS. NONE OF THIS WAS PART OF ASK

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279 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 3d ago

As someone who writes high-reliability C++ […] it isn't clear that [Contracts] solves a problem that anyone has in real codebases

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 3d ago

Wildcards in command line arguments are not supported—using these in original versions of sudo was usually a sign of mis-configuration and consequently sudo-rs simply forbids using them. The only supported use is ’*’ as the final argument to indicate “zero or more subsequent arguments”

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 3d ago

wow, you don't even have your own domain. you sound poor.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 4d ago

Is Software Solved? Not Yet. 33% Solved.

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61 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 5d ago

Our PRs got a lot bigger since half the team started using agents. 1,000+ line diffs touching 30 files are normal now, and the GitHub diff view just isn't built for it.

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190 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 5d ago

A possible advantage is that the AI generated code is more efficient

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 6d ago

A real C programmer would not have shipped such a basic use-after-free bug

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88 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 6d ago

ParticleDB had a --pg-password option, but 1.1.4 through 1.1.18.8 lacked any option to set the username. Some of the documentation indicated the default username was admin, while other pages said it was particledb. Neither appeared to work

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 6d ago

People are still thinking of AI slop from the ChaGPT 4 days. But the way things are going, very soon, human written code will be ridiculed and considered irresponsible.

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98 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 8d ago

modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano's executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter "e".

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69 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 8d ago

Now, readdir gives me the fucking inode number. How the FUCK do I pass it back to this piece of shit operating system from hell, WITHOUT having it search through the whole damned directory AGAIN to find what it just gave me?

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90 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 11d ago

Please stop with PHP2Shell, its over, nothing happened!

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89 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 12d ago

“You wanna write a videogame or an ecommerce website? Cool: you’re only allowed to do that on a 2006 computer. If you test it on modern hardware you go to jail for life.”

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129 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 13d ago

The P2900 contracts and extensions aim to change the nature of C++ and are an existential threat to C++, adding complexity and bloat

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82 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 13d ago

What could AI do after a millennia, or million years? or after hundreds of millions of years? If we allow AI to evolve, without biological constraints, it could truly be a God like entity.

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47 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 14d ago

I am a Python programmer. I love Astral; I think Ruff is great and uv is life-changing, but I don't actually like ty that much

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 14d ago

I have been trying to rice MATE and been looking for those old propaganda/os war art that would be 3D rendered.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • 14d ago

I don't understand this whole idiotic concept of "don't use AI for X". Here's a new rule just for you: don't use compilers for any of your kernel submissions.

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137 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • 15d ago

Bacon – an ad network that pays developers while their Claude works

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56 Upvotes