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by thesuperbigfrog 9d ago
This is a great write-up about installing Linux on Chromebook. Thank you for sharing it!
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by thesuperbigfrog 11d ago
It looks like they have a few paying customers: https://technologychecker.io/technology/ubuntu And they are slightly behind RHEL: https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-server-market-shar...
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by thesuperbigfrog 1mo ago
They should have said "No": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8eP99neOVs
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by thesuperbigfrog 1mo ago
The oath that military officers and civil servants take does not mention the President at all: "I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
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Rust 1.98.0(blog.rust-lang.org)
19 points by thesuperbigfrog 1mo ago|1 comments
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by thesuperbigfrog 2mo ago
On Android, Termux ( https://termux.dev/en/ ) has packages for the Rust toolchain, wasmtime, and wasmer. This might be enough to run wasi containers, but might not have the sandboxing that other runtimes have.
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by thesuperbigfrog 2mo ago
One line of my family's four lines is affected. Rebooting the phone does not help. The affected phone sees the network, but shows "No service" error. It seems like some kind of authentication issue?
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by thesuperbigfrog 3mo ago
Recklessly discarding OpenSSL errors is really bad and could lead to security vulnerabilities. Calling ERR_clear_error before operations is widely recommended: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/2
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Rust Commercial Network Launches to Bring Commercial Rust Users Together(rustfoundation.org)
11 points by thesuperbigfrog 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thesuperbigfrog 3mo ago
stdx is on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/stdx But it seems to be a placeholder crate of sorts and is not Kerkour's stdx. It does re-export several other crates, but has not been maintained or updated in a
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by thesuperbigfrog 3mo ago
Here is a nice setup that works well: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/use-workshop-to-run-opencode-...
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
>> Something that I had heard is that it is because Mormons use a different baptism, which is not Trinitarian. However, it seems that it is Trinitarian, although this trinity is different from that of Christians (even though they stil
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
Really? What are some major Linux distributions that are only headless? What is the market share of those Linux distributions compared to Linux distributions that have a GUI desktop?
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
Most Linux server distributions would be expected to be headless. "General purpose" Linux distributions (not "server") typically would include a GUI desktop.
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
This looks like a really nice feature to see what goes into Rust binaries. This post says that it is experimental, but does not say where it is used. On my Ubuntu VM, it works with bat like the example shows, but does not work with the new
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
If you like psy electronic music, there is 'The Mystic Didgeridoo': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhhLhb3zc8
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by thesuperbigfrog 4mo ago
Greg Kroah-Hartman has been maintaining Linux for decades. If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am excited to see the work advance. I was skeptical of Rust unt
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
It is also available as a snap: https://snapcraft.io/space-cadet-pinball
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu Linux) has remote software engineer jobs: https://canonical.com/careers/6707824 Their hiring process is a bit strange compared to other tech companies.
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Newbie is similar. rosettacode.org also has other tasks: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
>> should not be rolled out in an LTS edition. The Rust coreutils were first rolled out in the previous release which was not LTS: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-10-q...
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
>> Vegetarianism is such a bad label lol Agreed. I was expecting to find AI-generated vegetarian recipes. Actually, I wonder if they would be any good.
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
I fear that you are correct. Perhaps if people become desperate enough something might happen, but keeping people divided is a strategy to prevent resistance. It seems like we are sliding closer everyday to George Orwell's 1984. I won
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
>> Why? And also: What can be done to change this in the future? Two corrupt political parties that are owned by monied interests thanks to Citizens United, decades without campaign finance reform, and rampant "gifts" and ex
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
> if Rust can't do OOP (assumption) Rust handles basic OOP, but not all of the characteristics seen in C++ or Java: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-01-what-is-oo.html
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by thesuperbigfrog 5mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRImYairm1A There is not a good way to "guard ships on the sides" against hundreds of Shahed drones or small seaborne drones. They would overwhelm any defenses and only a few would
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by thesuperbigfrog 6mo ago
George's personal home page (seems to be a mirror: https://www.bkinzel.de/misc/ghg/index.html ) with the grill lighting video and the TWINKIES experiments (original site gone, but archived: https:/&#x2
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by thesuperbigfrog 6mo ago
Maybe the Ubuntu transition from GNU coreutils to uutils coreutils is going well?
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by thesuperbigfrog 6mo ago
After working with C and C++ for many years and handling the problems associated with such software, Rust solves many of the difficult problems and makes nearly impossible problems manageable. Rust is not perfect. It has flaws, moves quickl
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by thesuperbigfrog 7mo ago
Ubuntu recently added a more specific target for AMD64v3: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari...

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