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Cake day: October 3rd, 2021
  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mltoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•EU OS
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    16 hours ago

    Is there a filter to block all these EU OS posts, please?

    As I see it, it’s hardly an open source project but just some malicious start up attempting to get funded by EU then flee off.

    Show me your production ready OS, not your POC boot screens.

    And perhaps properly name your product. Naming it after ‘EU’ is self-righteous. What comes next? Earth OS?

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Best (preferably offline) HTML viewer? Minimal resources?
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    11 days ago

    Do you just want to see the text content of a HTML file? - a text editor

    Do you want most, if not all, HTML tags to be rendered as pretty graphical shapes?

    Do you want the text have proper fonts?

    Styles? You need something to parse CSS files.

    What about dynamically generated content like ten smiley faces? You need a JavaScript engine.

    Do you also want to see iframes? You need it to be capable of sending XHR requests.

    What if it references to a piece of WebAssembly?

    It’s way more complicated than you anticipated.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Which areas of Linux would benefit most from further standardization?
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    20 days ago

    What you described as the weakness, is actually what is strong of an open source system. If you compile a binary for a certain system, say Debian 10, and distribute the binary to someone who is also running a Debian 10 system, it is going to work flawlessly, and without overhead because the target system could get the dependency on their own.

    The lack of ability to run a binary which is for a different system, say Alpine, is as bad as those situations when you say you can’t run a Windows 10 binary on Windows 98. Alpine to Debian, is on the same level of that 10 to 98, they are practically different systems, only marked behind the same flag.

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ubuntu explores replacing gnu utils with rust based uutils
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    25 days ago

    Imagine a contributor of the project. He would have been fixing the bug for free and give the work to the public project. Right before he submits the code change, he sees an ad from a big tech bro: “Hiring. Whoever can fix this bug gets this job and a sweet bonus.” He hesitated and worked for the company instead.

    Now that he is the employee of the company. He can’t submit the same bug fix to the open source project because it is now company property. The company’s product is bug free, and the open source counterpart remains buggy.