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  • Monthly update on the FOSS "Ladybird" browser engine

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  • That actually does describe the class of licences fairly accurately. Companies specifically love cuck licenses because of their unfree propagation properties.

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  • Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive • The Register

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  • They opened the ticket with thanks and appreciation, and made respectful factual arguments. Far from “whining incessantly”.

    The initial user yes, but read the rest of the comments. There are a few friendly ones voicing real concerns, but the majority I'd definitely not place in the "nice" or "constructive" category.

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  • Dash to Panel maintainer quits after failed donations drive • The Register

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  • Good on the developer. The users complaining are really a bunch of spoiled children. Someone provides you with a free product, a donation button is introduced and you start whining incessantly.

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  • Any opinions on "vibe coding"?

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  • We should let these twits enjoy their shit on twitter. The AI hype is just like the crypto hype, it'll fade.

    The name vibe coding sounds like a drunk evening with friends getting an MVP off the ground, but nothing more.

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  • Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components

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  • I have to stop clicking on the phoronix comment section. It's like a mini Twitter.

    Still, Ubuntu should also ditch snap instead of hanging onto it just because they wrote it. It's the reason I don't recommend Ubuntu to friends anymore.

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  • Remote c++ development suggestions.

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  • Sshfs should work with a local IDE like CLion from Jetbrains (although that's pay to use, it's the best C++ IDE I know of).

    Out of curiosity, what's wrong with qtcreator in VNC viewer? Qtcreator should provide code completion, going to definitions, expanding macros, and so on.

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  • Remote c++ development suggestions.

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  • A few questions:

    • why do you have to SSH into a remote box?
    • do you know how the VM was created? can you recreate the dependencies?
    • which OS are you on?
    • you mention qtcreator - do you have remote desktop session?

    I ask these questions because my preliminary solutions without knowing all the details would be

    • recreate the VM locally, install the tools you need
    • mount the project on your machine with sshfs, use the tools you require locally
    • use the VM as a proxy if you're using it to access an internal git to clone the repo to your local machine and use local tools there
    • create a remote desktop session and forward it locally either via ssh x11 forwarding or connect to it via some RDP client like remmina, krdc, or whatever your OS uses

    qtcreator has code completion btw, so you can use it for your development tasks.

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  • Am in the only one who cringes at install instructions that require piping some curl output into bash?

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  • Those just don't get installed. I refuse to install stuff that way. It's to reminiscent of installing stuff on windows. "Pssst, hey bud, want to run this totally safe executable on your PC? It won't do anything bad. Pinky promise". Ain't happening.

    The only exception I make is for nix on non-nixos machines because thwt bootstraps everything and I've read that script a few times.

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  • Clarifying what's happening at Mozilla: an Interview with Ryan Sipes from Thunderbird

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  • I'm curious about what @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social said about funding (can't remember where in the video). There was some mention of Google's money being a smaller percentage of the total funding and it's not clear what that means. If it's just "Google is giving us 400 million instead of 500 million", that's not really an issue, honestly. Companies I worked at had way less revenue than that and been able to do a lot with that (by underpaying people too, of course).

    What I can say with absolute certainty is that if Mozilla were single focus "We make a web browser and that's it!", money donated to Mozilla went to everything related to browsers e.g experiments for new browsers, writing a new browser engine in rust, making the engine embeddable in just about anything, providing an API to the browser for testing, experimenting with new languages in the browser, making the browser run on every platform and arch, expanding web standards for the new challenges ahead, and all that, I'd donate. But right now, Mozilla invests in ads, in collecting data, in AI, in paying CEOs millions, and a bunch of other shit tangentially, and quite often not at all, related to browsers. It's like donating to the Breast Cancer foundation, expecting the majority of your money to go to research and finding out 80% of it goes to marketing, 18% to "awareness", and 2% to research. No fucking way is my donation going there.

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  • Clarifying what's happening at Mozilla: an Interview with Ryan Sipes from Thunderbird

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  • confused about communities and servers.

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  • Let's say there's a group of people in your hometown who like dogs. They will talk about dog thing this, dog thing that, probably something local. Now you travel to another town and they too have a group that likes dogs. They will talk about dog things too, but probably it'll be different dog things that are also specific to their location.

    You have the option to join both dog communities without physically traveling from one town to another. You can even choose not to join a dog group in another town that only like to talk about dog fighting for example.

    There is no "tech savvy" required here. You signed up in a town that has communities there, you can see communities from other towns, and you can choose to join them all, some, or none. It's up to you.

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  • I honestly think this is a good idea. From what I understand it's just making it easy to share the same link from reddit without having to copypaste a bunch of stuff, right? It's like reading an RSS feed or stumbling upon a cool thing you want to share and having an easy way to do so.

    Don't worry about the naysayers. There are always a bunch of purists around that believe the world can be divided into black and white.

    Lemmy-users won't be able to tell the difference between somebody who found a link and shared it by copy pasting or someone using the extension🤷 Good content is everywhere and where you found it shouldn't matter.

    Put the source up on codeberg, publish the extension, and let people decide for themselves if they want to use it or not.

    Good luck

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  • Drama in the world of Nix: Eelco and DS accused of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

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  • Dunno how much more drama nixos will need to have a substantial amount of people just move to a fork. Aux exists, but I think it's dead. It could be revived if more people joined though.

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  • What would you do with hardware like this?

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  • Do you have another computer @bpt11@sh.itjust.works ? I'd make this my main if I didn't have one. I'd use it as a builder for applications or host a CI server on it. Woodpecker or similar. I know codeberg is looking for CI hosts. Maybe @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com might also have some input on joining the AI horde :)

    Or, seed some torrents from the internet archive or Anna's Archive.

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  • Cannot post image anymore ? [solved]

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  • Testing

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  • Git without a forge

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  • I think his dude would be better er served by radicle. He can host his seed node, people can push their branches into namespaces in the bare git repositories there, they can request that those branches be merged into a branch in his namespace, they can create tickets that are all stored in the git repositories, comments on patches/merge requests/etc. are also in git, he can add trusted contributors, and so on.

    People don't have to create an account. Just a public key pair on their machine and they are off to the races.

    I don't know his email, but somebody could mail him and make him aware of radicle.

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  • Anyone get these messages?

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  • Falsehoods programmers believe about languages

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  • Falsehoods US programmers believe about languages

    The US-centric, anglo-saxon centric worldview strikes again 😮‍💨 For those us that speak multiple languages, many of these are revelations...

    Also, if they are, it's best to add examples, otherwise these are just random claims without any sources to back them up.

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  • What do you think about this one?

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  • The interview process being broken doesn't mean the job is broken/useless. It's shitty IMO that Columbia university wants to take "disciplinary action" for exposing useless interviewing practices. It would've been better to tell Roy about ethics and say "If you want to do this kind of stuff, that's fine, but here's the way to do it. In fact you can continue doing this at our university and make a career out of it. Let's talk."

    And Amazon's reaction is also dumb (as expected). They should instead be hiring this dude to improve their interviewing practices by letting him build internal tooling to try and defeat the interviewing process. Of course they won't do this because there is a certain prestige in getting a FAANG job. Keeping recruiting costs low but interest high with a high rejection rate is the goal for recruiting.

    I'm not quite sure there's a winner in this triangle, except those outside it: this might force companies to change their recruitment practices. My guess is that there will be a lot of resistance first and more money will be spent on "fraud detection" than actual improvements. It will be a cat and mouse game with probably the companies losing, but at least some C-suite bastard will get rich selling the fraud detection solution 🤷

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