A Slint fanboy from Berlin.
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A Slint fanboy from Berlin.
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Linux kernel Rust coding guidelines are heretic.
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3....
sudon't – blog by Tony Finch (dotat.at)
Ubuntu Snap Hate
I’ve gathered that a lot of people in the nix space seem to dislike snaps but otherwise like Flatpaks, what seems to be the difference here?...
C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)
Safety, Revisited (accu.org)
regarding fLoss licenses for customization on proprietary software?
I am forced to use some proprietary software at work. The software lets users export custom functionalities. You can then share these to other users. I have made some that are pretty simple, but greatly enhance the use of the application using its native tooling....
What do you think about brains unsafety? (programming.dev)
Maybe you have to hear about this....
is Wine with -O3 and -march=native a placebo?
For nerd purposes I’ve been trying to custom compile Wine to see if i can squeeze some performance out of it, i pulled out the -g flag and put in its place -O3 with march native. i don’t know how to benchmark properly to see if there at least a marginal gain, so idk if it is a placebo or not. tried to search for articles in...
Nix/Silverblue users: How big is the advantage if you already have 100% automated your deployments via Ansible?
There is a similar question on the site which must not be named....
Ode to C
Personally, I have nothing against the emergence of new programming languages. This is cool:...
Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? (chaos.social)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/8121843...
Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?
I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...
Thoughts on this? (futurology.today)
Fedora 40 Will Enable Systemd Service Security Hardening (fedoraproject.org)
Summary...
Why GPL instead of AGPL license?
People who use GPLv3 want the code to stay open/libre under any circumstances. If this is the goal, why not use the AGPL instead, even for applications which are not served over a network?...