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  • Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

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  • Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • "Be nice"

    No I want to be an asshole because I think they are assholes

    "That's not very nice"

    don't punch down

    Wat?

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  • Happy 12 million!

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  • Happy 12 million!

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  • Happy 12 million!

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  • Misskey? 🤔 I heard it's something Japanese? So probably a lot of Japanese fediverse users use it? I don't think I've seen somebody from misskey in my interactions with the fediverse. Are they self-contained or something?

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  • After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

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  • Decisions like these are why they can't move away from proprietary platforms. How much does it really cost to host and maintain this? A single employee could host a mastodon, peertube, and lemmy instance. The employee could also work full-time on one of the projects to address issues.

    They also only had 6 accounts on the instance - out of how many politicians and bureaus?

    Anyway... shame.

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • Enjoy being rude on github then 🤷 I'm sure your reasons for being mean are justified and help the image of the opensource community 👍

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • Of course people are not happy with it.

    Of course. I'm not happy about many things, but that doesn't give me the right to harass somebody. Pointing out something politely is very different from jumping on a bandwagon and spamming an issue, or creating meme issues and meme pull requests. We should be better than that.

    Is that really what we want? Anything slightly popular making a misstep to be hounded by an online mob?

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • You're missing the point. I don't really care about Winamp. It's ancient and probably used by about 15 grandpas. The point is the behavior of the people in the issues and pull requests. It's possible to be polite, but firm and bring a point across. Right now it looks like a pack of dogs barking around thinking they're witty and clever for doing so.

    Projects are not entitled to be received gratefully and respectfully if you treat open source devs like a disposable source of free labour.

    Nobody's forcing anybody to do anything. You're not forced to contribute in any way shape or form. Winamp hasn't hired anybody there to write code under bad conditions. Justifying bad behavior "because the other side is doing it" (which isn't true btw) is just weak.

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  • Languages

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  • Can't imagine there is any. You need to learn three scripts to read Japanese fluently IINM. Katagana, Hirigana and something else... Probably someone who speaks Japanese can say.

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • Winamp source code is now on GitHub

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  • The open source community is really showing itself from the best side by harassing the devs of that repo. I'm sure the devs don't regret publishing the code...

    Sure, the license isn't the best, but that's no way to act. With such childish behaviour from contributors, I'd have just taken the code down again. Bunch of children.

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  • fuck the tests

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  • Help with Creating nix-shells

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  • What if somebody wrote a virus that infected windows computers to replace the OS with linux?

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  • What if somebody wrote a virus that infected windows computers to replace the OS with linux?

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  • What if somebody wrote a virus that infected windows computers to replace the OS with linux?

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  • It could be a "clever" one that only installed linux if linux compatible applications were installed. That might lower the risk of being noticed.

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  • This is why it's not mainstream

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  • You're having a bad day and you're letting off steam - understandable.

    Just yesterday a friend said "Fucking Linux, every time I hit Esc it opens some program" only to be followed up by "lol, my mic was standing on the Ctrl key!". Another friend was having issues with a bluetooth headset and thought for a while that it was linux. After much debugging, we found out the product was just defective and had tons of people complaining about connectivity issues on multiple platforms.

    I'm not saying what you're experiencing doesn't exist, nor that it's a fault of your own. Sometimes software just doesn't work and it sucks. Sometimes it really is linux, sometimes it's something else. Once you've calmed down and taken a breather, do upload a hardware probe. I'm guessing something's fucky either with your driver or with the hardware itself.

    Now imagine someone who’s less likely to open up a terminal using Linux. They won’t. They’ll sacrifice their privacy because they might have full time jobs in something not remotely tech related and just wanted to watch some YouTube and don’t want to spend the little free time they have fixing their own computer.

    Yep, true. It's been a long-standing issue with linux and the opensource community. Sometimes it's due to lack of time, sometimes it's due to lack of interest, but I can bet you that most of the time it's due to lack of funding. Unfortunately, sometimes it due to elitism too ("I don't want lusers using my software"). Hopefully someday we'll get to a point where there's a bigger focus on non-technical users.We've come a long way though. Back in the 00's we had to fiddle with ifconfig and friggin' /etc/network by hand. Things have gotten a lot better.

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