JackbyDev

If it comes with Ubuntu and you like it, stick with it. At least give it a try. Everyone can tell you why they dislike it, but most distro hate/discussion is pretty minor compared to like Windows versus Linux discussion lol.

David Hansson is absolutely a racist xenophobic piece of shit.

Yeah, that’s what a Nazi is. Acting like it’s not akin to Nazism is what’s actually pissing on the graves of people who died in the war. “Erm, actually someone is only a Nazi if they were a member of the National Socialist Party in Germany during WWII” is doing them a favor. Don’t let them hide.

Coming from someone who was raised in the southeast US, a huge part of the Lost Cause of the South movement wasn’t to erase what the Confederacy did, but to just paint them in a slightly more positive light. Rebranding, so to speak. Acting like some specific breed of ultranationalism isn’t technically “a Nazi” is just the same shit. In the minds of many people that live near me, there is absolutely nothing odd about celebrating under the world’s largest Confederate monument with fireworks. Despite the fact that it was finished in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Despite the fact that Stone Mountain has historically been and still is associated with the literal KKK. It’s the same shit.

Being pedantic about the terms helps them.

let’s stick with the original premise

Buddy, the original premise of the article WAS donating to Nazis.

Arch and derivatives expect you to check the news file before upgrading, but do not integrate this into the upgrade tool. I have not personally ran into a problem this way, but it’s frustrating that pacman doesn’t have any capability to do this if you’re expected to.

I think that’s pretty good insight. In some ways, the JVM served the role that things like Docker does today. That’s a good way of looking at it

Gosh. I remember working with this back in 2019 and earlier. Our legacy products ran on it. I remember a new service we made (before Spring Boot really took off) used TomCat. It was so much easier to mess with. I asked why we don’t use that for our main product. Imagine my surprise when they said we actually used to.

I’m sure they had their reasons, I was a younger dev at the time and didn’t have insight into why they changed it. But still. Everything is so simple now. Java to run your jar. Your jar has your server built in. Done. And that’s not even including containerization.

I do miss Jenkins though. GitHub Actions seems to be the new hotness. Maybe I just don’t have the muscle memory yet, but it can be annoying.

I’ve been dabbling for years, but my old computer couldn’t run Windows 11. That delay made me wait long enough to see all the recall shit, so my new computer has been Linux since day 1, no dual boot.

There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak.

This is sort of like asking “which fruit juice do you use, an acme apple juicer or a blamco orange juicer.” If I need a flatpak, I use flatpak. Sometimes things only have flatpaks and aren’t on the AUR.

If it’s on both, nowadays I typically prefer the non-flatpak version, but that’s just sort of vibe based, I don’t really have a good reason. I think I ran into a few (very minor) problems with flatpaks (that were probably easy to fix) that I didn’t have with the non-flatpak version and that skewed me in that direction.

I could’ve sworn that I saw a headline recently that gcc isn’t deterministic. But maybe that was some really weird edge case or a bug.

NiTrIlE

My understanding of copyright law, I hate the cliche, but I am not a lawyer, is that things computers make aren’t covered by copyright. Now whether courts will decide if AI agents operating alongside user prompts counts as something a computer generated “itself” versus something the human made by using the computer as a tool, who really knows. But the idea of sending an AI agent to remake some proprietary code and have it be part of the public domain is interesting. Though, sadly it would go both ways, corporations could make public domain versions of copyleft code.

Oobinga is so overrated… Archunga, btw

I switched about a year ago. It’s going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would’ve still happened on Windows.

alias rm='rm -i': Am I a joke to you?

rm -fr /

rm -i: Am I a joke to you?

Don’t forget that they used to add referral parameters to links you clicked so they got a kickback from you clicking things from anywhere even if they didn’t make that link for you.

.unwrap_or_ruin_christmas()

I have been on macOS at work since December of 2019. Before that it was Windows since 2014. If I had the choice for Linux I might take it over macOS, but I’d happily take either over Windows.

Yeah I am very annoyed there aren’t many (or any?) very compact adapters.