git was created because a proprietary VCS was being a dick

I was reasonably certain, but left it open in case OP knew of some edge case where flags that are intended to be machine independent caused bugs on different architectures

-O2 vs -O3 adds -fgcse-after-reload -fipa-cp-clone -floop-interchange -floop-unroll-and-jam -fpeel-loops -fpredictive-commoning -fsplit-loops -fsplit-paths -ftree-loop-distribution -ftree-partial-pre -funswitch-loops -fvect-cost-model=dynamic -fversion-loops-for-strides

I don’t think any of these optimizations require more modern hardware?

For historical info - Oracle bought OpenOffice and started to close it down, so all the developers that worked on it forked it into LibreOffice

Oracle has since given OpenOffice to an open source group, Apache, but the main development still happens on LibreOffice

I have fond memories of playing it as a comedy game back when the Radeon RX 480 came out

There was a bug with the shaders in this game, so all the walls and many floors were rainbows 😂

Is that how you think about your bills?

“Your rent can be paid on the 10th, and you can pay late up to the 31st”

If this is normally only used for full screen 3D, would there be a way to enable it only on fullscreen, a. la. the old unredirect full screen windows in X11?

Ironic timing https://christianselig.com/2024/10/juno-removed/

I agree it’s dumb, but I’m also trying to understand how politicians think changing the tax rate for healthier or less healthy foods can possibly affect behavior in the USA when it’s set up this way in stores

There’s some evidence it somehow works https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/do-soda-taxes-work

But I’ve never known what I’ll be taxed on a specific item

My belief that it’s intended to incentivize behavior is from talks about things like the “soda tax,” where some goods are taxed at a different rate to try to reduce consumption

I don’t understand how they can be effective when you don’t see the price on the sticker, though

If your speedometer/tachometer is a screen instead of dials, it’s extremely likely it’s running Linux, too

So still somewhat useful in the auto space

All the “portless iPhone” rumors have seemed unlikely because of DFU mode.

If they can now enter DFU wirelessly from the initial bootloader in silicon, they might actually be close to a portless iPhone

My assumption is baseball

AAA is the best you can get in minor leagues before you move to the major leagues

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)

I was all in on GOG 10-12 years ago when they said they were working on Linux support “soon”

After so many years of promises and no action, while Valve pays developers to improve Linux gaming, I’d rather buy from Steam

Prices tend to be similar between the platforms here, though

I… I know they made colorful iMacs… But… What was the marketing idea behind this ad?

What did they mean by “No artificial colors” for a computer…?

without any distro or configuration caveats.

In those cases, they generally have the Ubuntu version that’s supported in the specs section

Both GNU and GrapheneOS have staunch requirements and will accept no compromises.

This is a situation where their requirements don’t align, so they’ll never reach an agreement.

GrapheneOS, for example, is also strictly against making the Fairphone line of phones a little more secure because it doesn’t meet all of their security requirements

In this case GNU won’t certify GrapheneOS as fully open because it includes binaries that aren’t open

The FSF is more along your line of improving the situation where they can

I’d used Linux a bit out of curiosity in the Windows XP era

Windows Vista came out and was completely unusable on the computers I or anyone around me owned. It was also harder to configure than Linux and the new UI looked worse than the Linux UIs at the time

So I switched and haven’t been back to Windows since

For whatever reason org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze-Dark was deprecated

The workaround listed here: https://github.com/flathub/org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze

Is to run: flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro

However, that exposes a little extra if you have favorite places stored

I think it works if you only expose xdg-config/gtk-3.0/colors.css, xdg-config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, and xdg-config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

The summary here and in the paper isn’t very helpful to check what CVEs are relevant

The kernels referenced aren’t supported, and it says the issues were reported upstream

Checking some of the references of the paper, it says

By the time we posted this writeup, all the distros have patched this vulnerability.

Do you know what CVEs users should check against?