www.theregister.com China rallies support for Kylin Linux in war on Windows
openKylin project is latest chapter in Beijing's love-hate relationship with Redmond
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Huawei is not the only one. Almost all software companies have some KPI that employees are farming. (speaking from experience here)
It's probably because those with decision making authority have no idea what open source is and how it works.
That being said, China is a huge contributor to open source. For example Huawei and Alibaba are among top kernel contributors.
China is doubling down on Linux as trust for Microsoft erodes.
sfconservancy.org Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left Source...
Which Matrix clients are you using and why?
I managed to convince my friends to give Matrix a try. Among us we span almost all platforms. Any ideas on what clients to use would be much appreciated.
Rust equivalent for Python's shelve?
Hello all, I'm learning Rust after years of programming mainly in C/C++.
Python has a very neat shelve library: https://docs.python.org/3/library/shelve.html It's basically a dict (hash table), but is located on disk instead of memory. It's great for easy persistence and also for working with massive objects that won't fit into memory.
Is there anything similar for Rust? I could not find any, but I'm still learning Rust and could have missed it.
I don't have a TV. I'm asking to understand what it runs inside.
Is this something a router-based DNS filter like PiHole remove?
Ukraine Bans Main Opposition Party, Seizes All Its Assets
www.zerohedge.com Zerohedge
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
The leader of the opposition was already in house arrest.
Reddit is getting worse and worse. Not sure what happened, but it started losing it's way around 2014-2015.
I read that German government retalliated against her father in Germany. Also I assume she wants to go back home at some point. Sad business.