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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
Concrete examples: GNU software, musl C library, everything from x.org and freedesktop.org. Just have a look at the top 1,000 projects from the Debian popularity contest and you'll find many projects outside the Github bubble. Why not
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
> any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror That might be true, but many of the mirrors are unofficial.
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
Do I get this right that you can only nominate projects on Github? It should be known by now that a centralized platform like Github is the complete antithesis to open source.
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
Paying individual OSS contributors without a service agreement is not a charitable donation with regard to taxes. It's not a deductible business expense and typically leads to double taxation.
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
I think the last Intel CPUs that didn't support AVX were 10th gen (Comet Lake) Pentiums and Celerons, released in 2019. Edit: That's wrong. Jasper Lake from 2021 also came without AVX support.
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
There's a fascinating way to generate the Kolakoski sequence with bit fiddling: https://11011110.github.io/blog/2016/10/14/kolakoski-sequenc...
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by nwellnhof 8mo ago
> This is bad when I'm using it as the editor for something like git commit, which will fail if $EDITOR returns nonzero. I got hit by this so often and never knew the reason. At least I know who's to blame now.
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by nwellnhof 10mo ago
Contributors and their submissions are vetted by maintainers. New maintainers are ideally vetted by existing maintainers. This can obviously break down in undermaintained projects.
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by nwellnhof 10mo ago
It should be noted that Google Project Zero doesn't care whether a software product is maintained by multi-trillion corporations or a single volunteer. Imposing an "industry-standard" 90-day deadline on a unpaid solo develope
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by nwellnhof 10mo ago
Normalization forms NFKC and NFKD that also handle compatibility equivalence do.
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by nwellnhof 10mo ago
It's even more than the bottom 5% if you only look at the US. 13 million or 10.4% of US households have negative net worth according to [1]. I've seen articles claiming that the bottom 15-25% of US Americans have negative net wort
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Advertising on Prime Video: German consumer watchdog sues Amazon for 1.8B(heise.de)
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
fmemopen and open_memstream are both part of POSIX, so they're not restricted to GNU systems and can be used portably. fopencookie is a GNU extension, though.
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
Why not petition to change § 52 AO directly? I made such a petition a couple of years ago but didn't get around to promote it: https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/anerkennung-der-...
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
> I cannot understate the impact of Russian Energy being cut off. It's an interesting fact that Western Germany imported Russian gas since the early 1960s, throughout the cold war and in complete opposition to US interests. German W
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
> It's not that Russia had nukes in Ukraine and withdrew them. Russia is the single legal successor of the USSR, so all Soviet nukes became Russian nukes, regardless where they were located. So after the USSR broke up, Russia did
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
Python ElementTree uses Expat, only lxml uses libxml2. Right now, I'm working on SIMD acceleration in my not yet released, GPL-licensed fork of libxml2. If you have lots of character data or large attribute values like in SVG, you will
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
Removing XSLT from browsers was long overdue and I'm saying that as ex-maintainer of libxslt who probably triggered (not caused) this removal. What's more interesting is that Chromium plans to switch to a Rust-based XML parser. Cu
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by nwellnhof 11mo ago
I receive about 20 phishing emails each week sent from Google servers, on top of 50 other spam emails. All my abuse reports are ignored. At least for me, Google is the largest source of email spam by far. Maybe they should start to clean up
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
The "severe security issue" in libxml2 they mention is actually a non-issue and the code in question isn't even used by Chrome. I'm all for switching to memory-safe languages but badmouthing OSS projects is poor style.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
> cybercrime — which the U.N. estimates costs $10.5 trillion around the world annually. That's almost 10% of global GDP. Who comes up with these numbers?
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
At least it seems that they won't assign CVE IDs and credit researchers without compensating them at all (which is what happened when I reported CVE-2024-27811, for example): > We want those researchers to have an encouraging experi
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
Paying $1,000 for low-impact issues is a nice move which might make me contribute to their program again.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
Making this feature opt-out is a clear violation of the GDPR. Linkedin claims they have a "legitimate interest" in collecting this data for AI training without consent, but this argument is laughable.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
Numpy depends on BLAS and LAPACK.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
If he's unhappy, why doesn't he step down? That's what I did as libxslt maintainer and what I'm about to do as maintainer of libxml2.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
The 11% number for Germany (and probably the whole table) is completely wrong. I guess it only shows federal taxes which are about 40% of all taxes including state and municipal taxes. So total taxes are roughly 24% of German GDP.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
That's what Europeans tell themselves, but showing weakness just sets them up for more humiliation.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
Russia is a nuclear power and direct NATO involvement could quickly lead to nuclear war. Doesn't sound like a joke to me.
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by nwellnhof 1y ago
I'm aware of the Patch Rewards program. The problem is that you have to complete the work first and then hope that you'll be rewarded. They also had a Security Subsidies program with upfront payments but this was discontinued in D

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