For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.

This is irrelevant to Linux kernel development.

The article seems like a rebuttal to a strawman argument to me.

You’d have to be pretty oblivious (or a non-software engineer) to express the premise of this article as an opinion.

The only interesting part to me was asking specifically what types of functionality are being delegated to libraries instead of (re-)implemented in the program itself. The author should ask this same question of some Rust and Javascript programs of similar size, so we can see if left-pad in Javascript is just a meme or if programmers armed with convenient package managers are delegating trivial one-liners to external libraries.

Stop recommending Ventoy! It’s a huge security risk and the author has not responded in 8 months.

sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

QubesOS can be built from source code but none of the linux distros can.

lol what?

Like I said, I’ve used it.

you very likely wrote this comment on a platform whose code is managed by Perforce

I’m a bit confused by this comment. Lemmy uses Git for version control. Where did you think I wrote this?

I had no idea that Perforce had acquired Puppet Labs. I’m honestly surprised that Perforce is still in business considering they make the worst version control software I’ve ever used, and that was before Git was invented.

Night Trap

Is this concern trolling?

Yes, I use a uBlock Origin filter that looks like this:

lemmy.ml##.post-listing:has(.post-title:has-text(/trump|elon|musk|biden|kamala|rfk/i))

You’ll need to modify the domain at the start (replace lemmy.ml with your instance hostname) and then change the keywords at the end with whatever keywords you want to exclude.

To use it:

• click the uBO icon and then the gear (settings) icon
• click on the My Filters tab
• make sure that “Enable My Custom Filters” is checked
• paste the filter into the text area below
• press the “Apply Changes” button

This is so much better than a remake or remaster.

id Software led the way, decades ago, making Doom and then Quake engines open source. I wish more studios would donate their old software to the public domain.

Fingers crossed one day we will get Unreal source code. I wonder if it even still exists.

the lawsuit accuses Keighin of streaming leaked Switch games, including this month’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership, ahead of release using emulation software as many as 50 times in the last two years. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 in damages for each instance of alleged copyright infringement.

Hilarious that the screenshot Kotaku use in the article is his social media post with his recommendations of what sites to download the games from.

Informative and interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Quite a few of these POSIX improvements were new to me, even though it turns out that they already exist in the GNU versions of the tools.

The ad at the end doesn’t help either.

You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked[…]

Don’t go around telling them they don’t have to “do anything” plz 😅

You removed the emphasis on “You” from my quote which changes the meaning. I specifically meant that you, the person that I am replying to, don’t need to do anything, and there are people who will do something on your behalf.

Nothing that you’ve said changes my critique of your critique btw. You said:

he lives in absolute La La land

No, actually he presented a well thought out analysis of the way that the relationship between business and customer/user in our current system, along with the relationship between business and legislator, both entrenches monopolies and causes a pathological dependency whereby customers cannot exercise their right to freely choose with whom they do business, and so their rights are severely diminished.

the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

The main point of my reply was that you are arguing against a straw-man here since the intended audience of the article is not “the people with power.”

like, buddy, your country just went full Nazi. You’ve been living in a total fantasy. You’re not going to rethink the concept of fixers, get a grip.

A non-sequitur and then a baseless dismissal of the argument that suggests that you either didn’t read it, or didn’t understand it.

Did you think this blog post was aimed at the people with power, to petition them to change the laws?

It’s aimed at us, the people getting fucked over, to point out what (among the many other things) we should be fighting for. Commentary like this is important to align the goals of the organizations, charities and lobby groups that defend YOUR civil rights by filing amicus briefs, publishing articles, encouraging activism and drives to get citizens to write to their representatives on the important matters that affect their rights. You don’t even have to do anything and there are thousands of people out there trying to protect you from getting more fucked by Big Tech and capitalism, on a volunteer basis.

It sounds to me like you’ve just given up hope that any progress can be made on this front, given the new status quo.

Never give up. Just because civil rights defenders will be on the defensive for a few years does not mean that discussions of what is worth defending no longer have value.

Yes sorry, I didn’t realize that until I posted it and saw all of the “cross-posted to:” links. It’s the first time it’s posted to this community though, and I think it’s an important topic.

The past tense of the verb “to lead” is “led.”

“Lead” is a heavy metal.

Gentoo users in shambles