Does the Linux Kernel use simple C though?
I think and assume they use enforced guidelines, custom types and tooling to make it workable. By that point C is no longer simple. You extended the language to make it safe, and ended up with the same complexity.
I’m very skeptical of sticking to “old and tested” without reasoning.
If you’re talking about the implementation, if they’re making changes it’s no longer “well tested”. If it’s undocumented, it’s not approachable. If you’re talking about toolchain, if the old is unapproachable because of inherent toolchain barriers, and custom toolchain dialects, I think it’s good to question.
There may also be something to say about them struggling to get new contributors and maintainers (from what I heard/read).
The “we use a stable macro that uses the same unstable features anyway” is kinda confusing though.
I guess it’s about language interface stability more than unstable feature functional stability?
DRM panic support
I’m already panicking
Linus Tech Flips
One cucumber 🥒 👀
Your broad claim and what is actually being banned on instances makes it seem you want to include questionable if not destructive opinions.
Can you be more concrete? What are you missing, and where?
What banned content that couldn’t find a home on another instance do you want to see?
Do you think opinions should be shareable in any form, or only in respectful form?
Available as AppImage, via nix and uv (never heard of that before).
Typing the commands is always a hassle. I wish I had a TUI like this. Looks promising.
You don’t need to understand German for it to appear in your feed /s
And we all know almost everyone uses their arms
The strength of open-source
“Killing” seems like an inappropriate term for end-of-support though. That’s clickbait to me.
man oregano => https://man.cx/oregano
oregano - GNOME application for schematic capture of electrical circuits
I doubt it is about that though…?
Title: “is finally rolling out to the wild”
Content:
Ahead of Legion Go S shipping, we will be shipping a beta of SteamOS which should improve the experience on other handhelds, and users can download and test this themselves.
So, neither that product is rolling out yet, nor the SteamOS beta is rolling out yet?
(This quote is from Valves announcement, but meaning-equivalent to the linked article sentence regarding it.)
We don’t need to trust anybody.
Reviewing every change and discovering every issue is unfeasible on multiple levels. Even skipping that fundamental, base level requirement; you need to trust in trustworthiness from submitters and reviewers, and that people review. You need to trust those maintainers that can push and pull and merge. You need to trust the builders and publishers and distributors.
I doubt you’re reviewing every code change and compiling or verifying reproducible builds on every software and patch version you run. You put trust in the chain. And the chain decided to cut at some point because of risk.
Besides, the idea that employed developers with a Russian day job are a risk… but one fails to consider these were the honest ones who declared their day job.
So you think people do only one job and have only one concern? Do you think people of sanctioned countries, contributing to an unjust war, more or less directly, are a bad place to start reducing risks?
I feel like properly vetting commits to the kernel that does not involve the core contributors and maintainers too much is the way to go.
I’m baffled you can make this point while at the same time not accepting their decision after review, assessment, and consequence. You’re asking them to review while not accepting their decision. From the same people.
Microsoft needs some serious regulation.
Given their OS prevalence, their forceful push to cloud and cloud system user accounts is unacceptable. Optional suggestion would be fine; but they’re doing the opposite.
OS upgrades forgetting other programs and other program file associations while at the same time making it much harder to change them is unacceptable. Offering or suggesting their own products in a non-intrusive manner would be fine; but they’re doing the opposite.
There’s much more to criticize. But those are the worst and obviously unacceptable offenders to me.
Some niches switching to FOSS won’t change their dominance or behavior. Only forceful regulation by state unions will.
The post weblink target doesn’t seem to even play the video but redirect to a different video website.
This video is not available on this instance. Do you want to be redirected on the origin instance:
I will instead label them as “Copilot-ers” and “Control-ers”, for brevity.
Were the Copilot-ers copiloted or are they copilots? 🤔 There are probably both kinds.
I had never heard of opkg. I looked it up:
opkg: Fork of ipkg lightweight package management intended for use on embedded Linux devices;
ipkg: A dpkg-inspired, very lightweight system targeted at storage-constrained Linux systems such as embedded devices and handheld computers. Used on HP’s webOS;
Wikipedia has no dedicated pages for either of them. I guess they’re quite niche.
Is it because you read one per day by the end of the day?