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  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Yeah, I think those are just lacking in the internationalisation?

    People like me, who at most have some reading glasses needs and have their computer set to generally English utf-8 will be likely be fine.

  • Ubuntu Joins the Movement: X11 Officially Being Phased Out

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  • Between that and the uutils-coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 sounds like it'll be an interesting experience for users, especially those with accessibility and internationalisation needs.

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    Arch Linux Breaks New Ground: Official Rust Init System Support Arrives

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  • Having had a look at the archived version linked below, it seems pretty clear that it's entirely hogwash:

  • The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice

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  • No, but a bad MS/Windows decision is often a catalyst. I came over to Linux from Windows ME. :)

  • Perfect date

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  • I escaped reddit for this?

  • Perfect date

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  • The O is for the kind of whooshing sound

  • GNOME introducing stronger dependencies on systemd

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  • I've heard of the year of Linux on the desktop, but I've never really heard of the year of BSD on the desktop. Apart from OSX, maybe.

    I guess this is the kind of stuff POSIX could've helped with, but it seems to be busy mandating buggy behaviour.

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • Yeah, and Android has had some 16 years of "optimize later". I have some very very limited experience with writing mobile apps and while I found it to be a PITA, there is clearly a lot of thought given to how to not eat all the battery and die in the ecosystem there. I would expect that kind of work to also be done at the JVM level.

    If Windows Mobile had succeeded, C# likely would've been lower as well, just because there'd be more incentive to make a battery charge last longer.

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • Is there a lot of computation-intensive code being written in pure Python? My impression was that the numpy/pandas/polars etc kind of stuff was powered by languages like fortran, rust and c++.

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • And it powers a lot of phones. People generally don't like it when their phone needs to charge all the freaking time.

  • C is one of the most energy saving language

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  • And battery costs, including charging time, for a lot of devices. Users generally aren't happy with devices that run out of juice all the time.

  • Now Ubuntu is Also Ditching Xorg Completely for Wayland!

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  • I think most of us would consider that an eclipse bug, but yeah, until it's fixed it'd make sense to work around it.

    Kinda similarly, I have a mostly identical setup on several machines, and on one of them Firefox has a memory leak, which even showed up just recently. It also seems to manifest if I have certain pages open, the most noticeable of which is Reddit.

    It's the kind of stuff I could dig into, buuut it's just a PITA.

  • What is “olive” in your language?

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  • Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.

  • The Copilot Delusion

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  • As if anyone cared if they had to wait a total of 3 seconds in a workday.

    That depends on when it appears. Some tasks kind of have to feel instantaneous, and there might be a pretty slim margin between okay and frustrating.

    But yeah, that's the kind of savings that mostly matter on the scale of regional or national grid planning.

    Most engineers already write bloated, abstracted, glacial code that burns CPU cycles like a California wildfire. Clean code? Ha! You’re writing for other programmers’ academic circlejerk, not the hardware.

    It’s interesting that everybody else preaches ‘Write for the human first, for the machine second’.

    Yeah, the author seems to lean too hard into the "programming is electronics" model, where the opposing end is "programming is math and formal logic"; most of us take some mixed view. And most of us have higher correctness requirements than what a reasonable effort in memory unsafe languages like C and C++ gives us, so we trade away some machine efficiency. In the authors parlance, most of us aren't interested in the demoscene circlejerk; we need to make tradeoffs between maintainability and everything else. Write-once code isn't good enough.

    There have been attempts at establishing a third pole of "promptgramming is natural language" or whatever ever since COBOL promised programming in plain English, but the ambiguity of natural language when used to encode a business logic machine means that a "sufficiently advanced compiler" will have to be extremely advanced, on the order of including the manager and the entire engineering methodology.

  • Anyone else?

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  • I think some of the stuff you worry about as a kid will just arise naturally. Ideas like not stepping on cracks, or imagining monsters in dark places are likely produced spontaneously and naturally by an underdeveloped ape brain.

    But it'd be nice if we didn't tell kids about old superstitions, yeah. Wait until they're old enough to react with dismissal about the stupid stuff people used to believe.

  • What's your favorite IDE right now?

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  • I've been using neovim for years (and the vim family for decades), and I guess with LSP it's pretty much an IDE these days.

  • Should we use *Linux when referring to the entire system, instead of Linux?

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  • No, we shouldn't, and yes, you're overthinking, but I am finding myself inching closer to the GNU argument for the desktop/server OS, as I now not only use phone/Linux, but also a bunch of Kubernetes/Linux, with distroless images. It's all using the Linux kernel, and possibly glibc, but it's not Linux as we know it. The desktop/server OS meanwhile might not have GNU coreutils in some years.

    But realistically we've been using Linux as the name for the family of desktop and server OS-es for decades now, and if you need to refer to the Linux kernel you call it "the Linux kernel" or just "the kernel".

    Earlier GNU wanted HURD as an alternative to the Linux kernel—same GNU OS, different kernel. What instead is happening is that we're keeping the Linux kernel but replacing the GNU part of the OS.

    Generally you just need to give as much information as the recipient needs to understand your message. Excess signals that don't add information are what information theory calls noise.

  • Firefox has moved onto Github

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  • It's also likely a bit of cost-benefit analysis for self-hosting vs using a managed service.

    Codeberg would be more in line with Mozilla's ideals IMO, but GitHub is a pragmatic choice anyway.

  • Firefox has moved onto Github

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  • Phabricator was an alternative for a development platform of sorts; development ceased in 2021. They're still running here and there, but I expect them to be in the process of being deprecated.