cmeerw 3mo ago • 100%
at least you could keep their reviews so users could at least know if the app can be trusted.
You mean, don't trust a flatpak uploaded by a random person, but if there are enough fake reviews, it can be trusted?
cmeerw 3mo ago • 100%
No mention of Reflection which was passed to the Core Working Group for wording review, or senders/receivers (on the library side) which was actually voted into the working paper.
cmeerw 3mo ago • 100%
Huh? There is no such alternation between new features and feature freeze releases. In fact, C++26 will very likely get reflection as a major new feature. In comparison, the biggest core language feature in C++23 was probably "deducting this (explicit object member functions)".
The only thing that keeps Contracts out of C++26 is that they might not be finished in time (they'll need to be handed over from Evolution to Core by the February 2025 meeting, and then make it through Core review during the summer 2025 meeting).
cmeerw 3mo ago • 100%
... except when ISO delays publication of the standard.
cmeerw 4mo ago • 100%
Can anyone explain why there is such a huge difference in some of the benchmarks: Poll, Forking, CPU Cache, Semaphores, Socket Activity, Context Switching (all Stress-NG). Can we really trust these tests?
cmeerw 5mo ago • 100%
Depends on what semantic you want. Sure, if you use a unique_ptr
member, you will get a deleted copy constructor/operator - I wouldn't consider that blowing up in my face.
cmeerw 5mo ago • 100%
And even the presented fix hurts my eyes. Should have used a unique_ptr
or optional
.
cmeerw 5mo ago • 100%
Yes, it's not Open Source, but I am not sure that's really relevant here. I see it more as a prototype implementation for something that could be standardised for C++.
cmeerw 5mo ago • 100%
The linked tweet links to the recording, but it has apparently also been uploaded to YouTube: https://youtu.be/5Q1awoAwBgQ
Anyone else noticing all those broken icons/images on this instance? e.g. https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 seems to result in something like "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png&thumbnail=96): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known"
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The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the eighteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system [NetBSD 10.0](https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0/)! See the [release announcement](https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html) for details.
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and probably last) [release candidate](https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC4/) of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the [release announcement](https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html) for details.
Anyone got any experience with running Linux on a Chuwi Freebook N100 yet?
This is a bug-fix release with no new features. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 29.2 * Tramp * New user option 'tramp-show-ad-hoc-proxies'. When non-nil, ad-hoc definitions are kept in remote file names instead of showing the shortcuts. * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 29.2 * 'with-sqlite-transaction' rolls back changes if its BODY fails. If the BODY of the macro signals an error, or committing the results of the transaction fails, the changes will now be rolled back.
cmeerw 9mo ago • 100%
Also the location of known Wifi networks.
For RC3 only few (relatively) minor changes were made, including https certificate verification in libfetch (which is used by pkg_ad(1)), and also improvements to the EFI bootloader to better deal with booting from CD (or in virtual machines ISO images), plus lots of various bug fixes.
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
Embracing the GC
I never actually liked the GC in D as it didn't seem to fit in with the general direction of the language, and Walter Bright in D at 20: Hits and Misses says:
Miss: Emphasis on GC
The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the second (and probably last) [release candidate](https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/) of the upcoming 10.0 release, please help testing! See the [release announcement](https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html) for details. The netbsd-10 release branch is more than a year old now, so it is high time the 10.0 release makes it to the front stage. This matches the long time it took for the development branch to get ready for branching, a lot of development went into this new release. This also caused the release announcement to be one of the longest we ever did.
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
There is also lowendspirit, but in both cases you have to be very careful what you buy - not everything that is advertised there will work as advertised or will work long-term
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
where they will double your monthly data limit for free when you comment your order number.
where they use you to spam the forum thread (for giving away something rarely anyone has any use for)
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
So they actually rewrote The Hurd in Rust.
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
Prepare for a humongous inrush of spam before servers patch this one.
But it's already patched by GMX and Microsoft.
As far as I understand it, it doesn't affect single mail servers, but only mail systems where you have separate inbound and outbound servers and the outbound servers trust the data they get from the inbound servers.
cmeerw 10mo ago • 100%
Not sure how many get the joke in "Figure 23: Typical Austrian reaction after receiving a spoofed e-mail":
OIDA
😂
cmeerw 10mo ago • 80%
There is no reason to “hate” Ubuntu but there are better choices.
What are those better choices then (for those who currently use the non-LTS Ubuntu releases and don't want to move to rolling releases or LTS-only releases)?
cmeerw 10mo ago • 75%
I still think Ubuntu is the best option (particularly if you want to use the non-LTS releases)
Having said that I do hate snaps and also dislike flatpaks. So what I do is just use the Firefox deb package from the PPA and the chromium package from Linux Mint. Oh, and I have actually replaced ubuntu-advantage-tools with a no-op dummy package.
cmeerw 11mo ago • 100%
Only issue is they’re stored in my server as belonging to the server user (I assume everything in those directories should belong to root and I can just use chown?) But I also don’t know if they retain the same permissions when backed up.
Not everything will be owned by root, and some of the binaries will be setuid or setgid, some might even have extended attributes (e.g. ping will usually have a security.capability attribute). /var
will also have a lot of different owners.