The death of affordable computing in the US of A.
In their infinite wisdom they apparently stored a bunch of ammunitions out in the open.
Yes! It's an absolute must-have on any of my devices, and the only game installed on my phone.
My favorites are Unequal (Adjacent mode) and Slant.
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Maybe 3x faster, but because Energy = mass × speed SQUARED, you die 9x harder.
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Just the right speed for high-speed trains.
Going Skiing with the Tram in Trondheim
FairEmail for Android shows a popup with the actual link.
The proper meaning of CDU has long been Club Deutscher Unternehmer.
So true. Every time I have to look up how to write a bash for loop. Where does the semicolon go? Where is the newline? Is it terminated with done? Or with end? The worst part with bash is that when you do it wrong, most of the time there is no error but something completely wrong happens.
It's the part in the video where you can see the Linux Desktop.
Pewdiepie built a Gaming PC, and installed Linux Mint on it!
I just think it's pretty cool that Felix, who has never really mentioned anything Linux before, chose to go with a Linux distro for the PC he put together.
Link to video : https://youtu.be/tsu0Rw3Nqi8?t=1554
Lemmy is open source, so you can easily download its source code and open it in neovim :)
Reminds me of the beginning of Zelenskys presidency in 2020 when he refused the deal with Trump to investigate Hunter Biden. Trump really believes he can get Ukraine to do anything for him.
Just wait until they figure out how much carbon is captured by planting a tree.
Only if you convert rubles by "purchase power parity" as opposed to the market rate, which seems like a weird way to manipulate data to fit some narrative.
Funny idea, but good luck getting this leaky bucket from the Baltic sea all the way via Gibraltar to the Black sea.
"Fraunce" is my favorite part of this map.
What were your favorite puzzles of 2024?
Now that Advent of Code 2024 has concluded, I wanted to get people's opinion on what puzzles they especially liked looking back. This could be because of the puzzle mechanics, the description, because you are especially proud of your solution that day, or for any other reason.
Feel free to answer even if you only saw part of the puzzles.
My picks would be:
- 14 (Restroom Redoubt, robots moving into christmas tree shape). Even though it caught me off-guard in the moment, I did like that part 2 had this very imprecise requirement for once. Definitely made for varied, creative solutions.
- 15 (Warehouse Woes, robots pushing boxes) The second part was a fairly big complexity spike with just a minor change in the tasks. Basically a form of simulation where the hard part is finding a good data representation for the setup. I liked this one because debugging was such a visual process for me, by printing the grids.
- 17 (Chronospatial Computer, running a machine code) For me the first reall
Writing the same number a different way does not make it rational. There are no two natural numbers p and q so that p/q = 1 base pi.
Yes, please put tracks everywhere.
Australian Macquarie Dictionary chooses "Enshittification" as Word of the Year
The EU wants to cut funding for Free Software. Tell them why they should reconsider.
The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow t...
linked from: https://programming.dev/post/19267200
In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.
The EU wants to cut funding for Free Software. Tell them why they should reconsider.
The European Commission has cut important funds for Free Software. The non-transparent decision shows the need for sustainable long-term funding to allow t...
In its current plan, the EU commission intends to cut €27 million in funding for Free Software. The article has a link to a questionnaire that you can fill out and express your opinion about the plan. I believe non-EU citizens can participate as well.
Some thoughts on the xz backdoor
While the exact details of this vulnerability are still investigated (see here if you want to catch up on the topic), I wanted to share some of the thoughts I had regarding to what this incident means for the wider open source ecosystem.
TL;DR: To summarize, these are the main points I found remarkable in this entire development:
- A backdoor was snuck relatively openly into an open source project
- It was done by a somewhat trusted maintainer
- The target was not even xz itself, but rather sshd through an obscure chain of dependencies
- Luckily, it was discovered within a few weeks before the backdoored version was widely adopted
Obviously, there are many examples of security vulnerabilities occurring in open source software. But these are usually due to oversights or mistakes of most likely well-meaning developers that end up enabling the possibility for critical exploits. In the case of the xz backdoo