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  • What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

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  • If only all companies would support their "free" backend like this.

  • Iteration in Literate Programming

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  • When you make changes to the comments or pseudo code to maintain the program, then you also need to do the same changes to the actual source code the compiler will use. As the human language comments need to be compiled to C by human, right? And this would end up thinking and maintaining the source code of two languages and hope they always align in their logic.

    I never did this approach and only get this from reading the blog post.

  • AI and formal verification

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  • So just write more tests and a Test-Driven-Development (TDD)? Someone has to engineer these tests too. How does the simulation software (which itself needs to be developed and updated) know all behaviors of a system, that is relevant to it? You basically ask if we someday could have a magic box that does all of that for us.

  • On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport

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  • I don't think that most will abandon in the future, as the Ai even becomes better and most people only look at the surface. The biggest problem (besides the unethical training data and not respecting licenses from the original data) is if you don't know what it produces and don't check it without understanding. Where it can be useful is aiding in code analysis, but not replacing it. And most will shift to local available models (I hope so), as local hardware becomes better at it too.

    I'm not the biggest fan of Ai at all. But I don't see a reality where Ai disappears in the future, unless every company is doing it gets bankrupt. Looking at Microsoft and Nvidia, this sounds unreasonable. Because if one major player like Anthropic goes down, another one will rise up, maybe from China.

  • A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. | Filip Roséen

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    Should You Migrate to Rust in 2026? The Performance Data Behind the Hype

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  • Probably to warn any readers coming across this post.

  • Ungate — use your Claude/ChatGPT subscription in Cursor instead of paying for API tokens

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  • This happens if you are that dependent on Ai tools. It would be less of a problem running offline models on your own hardware, so you don't have to pay for subscriptions or tokens.

  • Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak

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  • The difference of a private chat with an Ai to a public question on Stack Overflow (or any forum for that matter) is, that on Stack Overflow multiple persons can read and comment. Answers often iterate and fact check if someone hallucinates, because so many eyes sees it. If the answers are helpful is something everyone has to decide themselves, but the principle of an open platform being very useful is undeniable.

    Compare this to your private Ai chatbot. Only one person sees the answer and if something hallucinated is in there or the quality of the answer is not good, then you might not know. And those Ai bots are controlled by the few big corporations, maybe a little less if you use a custom offline bot, but they are probably not as good as the big models. That's why this is a bad trend. I think the open and user controlled Stack Overflow was a better approach, by principle.

  • Stack Overflow drops to 1,442 questions in July, down 99% from 2014 peak

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  • On Stack Overflow.

  • Fastfetch 2.67 System Information Tool Adds New Interactive Configuration Generator

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  • Ah I see. I tried Fish several times before. Without getting into why I'm not using it, I totally forgot it had a web interface. I guess it makes sense for a shell, because if you screw the config up, then at least you can reconfigure it in the browser. That is the only use case I could think of that would be useful "to me". But fastfetch on the other hand, is not a huge thing like a shell. I mean it would be bloat if we suddenly could configure grep or other terminal applications in the browser too. Wouldn't it? That is how it feels to me.

    Off course I'm not gatekeeping here, don't get me wrong. Everyone should use and do what they want. I personally just don't like the idea for fastfetch specifically to have a web interface. Not because it hurts me, but I think it makes the code of the program more complicated and bigger, potentially introducing bugs or security issues. For ... nothing (in my opinion).

  • Fastfetch 2.67 System Information Tool Adds New Interactive Configuration Generator

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  • I'm not sure what exactly that is. fastfetch --config fish_config or fastfetch --config fish doesn't work. So I guess that answers your question. :D

  • Fastfetch 2.67 System Information Tool Adds New Interactive Configuration Generator

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  • I feel like this is a bit over engineering. Browser based editor for a terminal tool that only has the job to fetch information, even an interactive user interface? The watch mode for auto refreshing data without rerunning the program seems to be a useful addition. Otherwise I could have just used a simple script with sleep that runs the command in intervals anyway. I just hope it does not get bloated with feature creep. Still may favorite fetch-tool since years. :-)

  • Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager?

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  • Because you don't want a single operating system manage the entirety of the Rust eco system. They need to be its own thing, so it can be used and managed by an individual team independent from any operating system.

  • YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use

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  • No, read again what I explained before. I explained the technical problems of the architectural flaws. There are deep problems with LLMs and I explained why some people have a problem with it. You might not care, but that doesn't solve the problems.

  • YouTuber Hank Green Is Facing a Fan Revolt Over His AI Use

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  • There is a difference. I explain why you are dishonest and misleading. I don't just accuse. So its based off technical reasoning and not just personally attacking without reason. You just have no arguments left and just attack personally instead basing off on reasoning. That is a huge difference.

    Unless you have good arguments, LLMs have architectural flaws in their design and need to change. And that is a factual correct statement, which I explained earlier. That has nothing to do with an opinion.

  • The Lua community needs to learn to move on - hisham.hm

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  • The Lua community needs to learn to move on - hisham.hm

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  • To support your point in stylizing the name: https://www.lua.org/about.html

    Like most names, it should be written in lower case with an initial capital, that is, "Lua". Please do not write it as "LUA", which is both ugly and confusing, because then it becomes an acronym with different meanings for different people. So, please, write "Lua" right!

  • The Lua community needs to learn to move on - hisham.hm

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  • semantic versioning wasn't a new concept when semver 1.0.0 was released. Before that lot of projects already followed this scheme and this was just made official so that everyone should follow it as the standard. So its kind of like if all web browsers support non standard features, and then the committee decides to add it to the standard to make it official. My point is, that the release of semver 1.0.0 isn't the invention of it.

  • The Lua community needs to learn to move on - hisham.hm

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  • Longtime support (LTS) exists for a reason in the tech industry. Maybe provide an LTS.

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Codeberg had a major outage today! About 7 hours of complete down (July 31, 2026)

    statusgator.com /services/codeberg
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    You Can’t Kill Zombie Processes - Here's Why (defunct processes) by You Suck at Programming [14:32 mins] on Apr 22, 2026

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    (Github scam do not click links) Solana grant by GhoulStatesman

    github.com /GhoulStatesman/SolanaGrant-2932776/discussions/6
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    One of the best use cases for an Ai... without content generation