Hey developers!

YEAH?

Do you like solving problems?

YEAH!

Do you like reverse engineering?

...YEah..

Do you like having zero documentation?

..uhm..

Buy a house! Enjoy a lifetime of fixing other people's undocumented hacks while introducing your own!

I will never talk positive about VSCode nor use it anymore.
Read:
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

Love to see how mad the Onion is here. More folks should be this mad about this.

If you want a really solid critique, it's actually here too. They put their *all* into this piece and while it's sarcastic as usual, it really does cover *so many* aspects of how horrible the current trend of "news" in this space has been.

Go read it:
https://www.theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997

Web Summit CEO was forced to resign over this tweet:

“shocked at the rhetoric & actions of so many Western leaders & governments, with the exception...of Ireland’s government, who for once are doing the right thing."

“War crimes are war crimes even when committed by allies, & should be called out for what they are,”

The fascism of the tech industry knows no bounds. Anything other than aiding & abetting a world sanctioned genocide is not acceptable apparently.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/ceo-prominent-tech-conference-resigns-amid-backlash-public-104197638

Open source people: "We don't get any contributions from people who will help us with accessibility 😢 😢 😢 what do? "

Also open source people: "We're using FuzzBingBang Style library so you never have to leave the DOM and or know CSS! also React, also, here is a really complicated state machine that controls way too much, also please make sure to weed through our types that look like ABSOLUTE GARGLED JIZZ we spit out into a file! Oh, were you looking for the HTML? HAHAHA what HTML!?"

Dave Karpf's takedown of Marc Andreessen's manifest/pamphlet is marvellous
(Title: Why can't our tech billionaires learn anything new?) https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-cant-our-tech-billionaires-learn

It’s amazing to me that a proposal to scan *literally ever private communication in Europe* is barely making newspapers, and we’re reading about legislative progress on blogs.

“What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home."

That #OpenSource is a crucial part of modern public infrastructure that should not be profit-maximized by a single vendor, but be a public good.

Build value around *that*, not a fence.

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

Programmers fallacies about postcodes:
- A postcode covers a small geographic area
- A postcode is good enough to locate an end user for generating location suggestions
- A postcode will be in a single timezone
- A postcode only has a single state
- A postcode has no exclaves/enclaves

I would like you to meet 0872. Australia's largest postcode (I think), covers 3 states, has two cut outs (Warbuton and Alice Springs), and even still some mail outside of this area is routed via 0872

Day six of the trial against Sam Bankman-Fried was largely spent with the prosecution questioning Caroline Ellison, who testified about "alternate" balance sheets, bribes, Saudi financing, and her painfully intertwined personal and professional life.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-ftx-trial-day-six

#FTX #SBF #crypto #cryptocurrency

A principle is a fundamental truth which guides your beliefs.

If your beliefs related to war crimes changes dependent on who the war crimes hurt, then you have a problem with your principles.

@josh
Wow. What an ordeal. I've only met Bradley once, and quite briefly, but he struck me as a kind and conscientious person, and I admire the work he and the SFC is doing for the FOSS community. Devastating to hear that he has to contend with all that!

I'm proud to call Bradley Kuhn a friend and am celebrating him joining the growing community of out-and-proud FOSS leaders.

But it is a tragedy when someone is forced out.

I've watched as Eben Moglen and SFLC have abused the legal system and attacked SFC, wasting the scarce resources of one of FOSS's most important charitable nonprofits, and am devastated to learn about the personal abuse Bradley has endured.

FOSS friends: please take the time to read this. https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2023/10/11/moglen-sflc.html

other portentous unix timestamps (los angeles timezone)

1696969696 Oct 10 '23 01:28p 🎉
1700000000 Nov 14 '23 02:13p 🔜
0x66666666 Jun 09 '24 07:35p 🤘
0x69696969 Jan 15 '26 02:25p
1777777777 May 02 '26 08:09p
1800000000 Jan 15 '27 12:00a
1888888888 Nov 08 '29 07:21p
1987654321 Dec 25 '32 10:12p 🎄
1999999999 May 17 '33 08:33p
2000000000 May 17 '33 08:33p
0x77777777 Jul 06 '33 08:01p
0x7fffffff Jan 18 '38 07:14p ​

Microsoft, quietly, has published a guide on how to download and install Linux.

No... Seriously... It is not a joke...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install

The article was published September 29, 2023 (9 days ago).

The guide provides every option available, too. Starting with using their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), to using a Virtual Machine, and even on "Bare Metal" alongside Windows.

That's right, Microsoft now tells you how to dual-boot Linux. 🤯

#Microsoft #Windows #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian

"Fast and Clean: Auditable high-performance assembly via constraint solving"

a superoptimizer for ARM64 assembly, cool!

https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1303.pdf

repo:

https://github.com/slothy-optimizer/slothy

Which is no surprise to those of us who have been trying to tell early fediverse settlers that discovery has to be prioritized over safety. Unless we can find news and information to begin with, finding it safely becomes moot. Bluesky clearly gets this, which is why the big news accounts are now starting to gravitate there. If the fediverse doesn’t improve in that regard, it will soon become the Linux of social media. Beloved by thousands, ignored by millions.

Source: …

What do #Linux books fail to cover that you'd like to see in a book? What is covered too much? (Please boost for reach, I'd love to get a lot of feedback on this if possible.) #OpenSource #Documentation

Dear software people,

Unicode is older now than ASCII was when Unicode was introduced. It’s not a weird new fad.

It’s complicated but so is the domain it represents. We recognize that we have to think about time zones and leap days and seconds, for instance. And it’s a cleaner abstraction when you aren’t halfhearted about it.

Sincerely,
Charlie

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