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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

here's the Programmer Readable version of that wall of text: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpriseEdition

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

false dichotomy. Sometimes people justifiably dislike something for reasons beyond elitism (e.g. Canonical is a for-profit corporation that muddies the waters of FOSS), but it's also not just playful bants.

Also, as with every opinionated topic: do your own research and think critically. Don't hate Ubuntu until you have tried it and have investigated those who maintain it. Don't praise it until you do so either.

I don't care if you come to a different conclusion than me, as long as you didn't just function on the "wisdom of the crowd"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Implementing Equality in Haskell:

    deriving (Eq, Ord)

After learning how easy it was to implement functional programming in Rust (it's almost like the language requires it sometimes), I decided to go back and learn the one I had heard about the most.

It opened my mind. Rust takes so many cues from Haskell, I don't even know where to begin. Strong typing, immutable primitives, derived types, Sum types. Iterating and iterables, closures, and pattern matching are big in Haskell.

I'm not saying Rust uses these because Graydon Hoare wanted a more C-like Haskell, but it is clear it took a lot of elements from the functional paradigm, and the implementations the designers were familiar with had descended through Haskell at some point.

Also, deriving is not the same as implementing. One is letting the compiler make an educated guess about what you want to compare, the other is telling it specifically what you want to compare. You're making, coincidentally, a bad comparison.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

When does Debian update a package? And how does it decide when to?

These both can be answered in depth at Debian's releases page, but the short answer is:

Debian developers work in a repo called "unstable" or "sid," and you can get those packages if you so desire. They will be the most up to date, but also the most likely to introduce breaking changes.

When the devs decide these packages are "stable enough," (breaking changes are highly unlikely) they get moved into "testing" (the release candidate repo) where users can do QA for the community. Testing is the repo for the next version of debian.

When the release cycle hits the ~1.5 year mark, debian maintainers introduce a series of incremental "freezes," whereby new versions of packages will slowly stop being accepted into the testing repo. You can see a table that explains each freeze milestone for Trixie (Debian 13) here.

After all the freezes have gone into effect, Debian migrates the current Testing version (currently Trixie, Debian 13) into the new Stable, and downgrades the current stable version to old-stable. Then the cycle begins again

As for upgrades to packages in the stable/old-stable repos: see the other comments here. The gist is that they will not accept any changes other than security patches and minor bug fixes, except for business critical software that cannot just be patched (e.g. firefox).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I keep finding tracks to love on each album, but Controlling Crowds has too many, so I just recommend the entire thing.

Also Axiom is killer too, but that might just be because I'm a sucker for narrative concept albums

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Robert Glasper - Black Radio

Sungazer - Perihelion

Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire

Frank Zappa - Civilization Phase III

Will Wood - "In case I make it,"

The Algorithm - Brute Force

Devin Townsend - Empath

Miles Davis - Bltches Brew

Oneohtrix point Never - R + 7

Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

King Capisce - Memento Mori

Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us

Archive - Controlling Crowds The Complete Edition Parts I-IV

Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things

SHT GHST - 1: The Creation

Dan Deacon - America

Opeth - Ghost Reveries

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)

City people have fucked priorities. I moved to a large city from a small rural town, and it's nothing but noise 24/7.

People yelling, construction happening, people watching TV with the window open, babies crying, dogs barking, birds calling, cars constantly rumbling by and hitting potholes so loudly it sounds like an explosion, acs running, radio from businesses, crowd noises, hundreds of thousands of little bits of metal and plastic clinging and clanging and pinging and popping, shoes on concrete clicking and clacking, airplanes, conversations going on, gunshots and concerts and car alarms and sirens and parties and car radios all the way up and... Even in the dead of night when it's all died down, there is this constant low hum coming from the city.

But specifically fuck the people who play music on their phone i guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

those still require root, they just don't explicitly say so. They still pop up with a password prompt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Jump ship. If you can make do without windows, do so. It takes away so much of the frustration, and you just learn to let it go when devs won't make linux-compatible binaries: after all, it's basically them telling you they need to be able to spy on you, so why use their app?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The point of security isn't just protecting yourself from the threats you're aware of. Maybe there's a compromise in your distro's password hashing, maybe your password sucks, maybe there's a kernel compromise. Maybe the torrent client isn't a direct route to root, but one step in a convoluted chain of attack. Maybe there are "zero days" that are only called such because the clear web hasn't been made aware yet, but they're floating around on the dark web already. Maybe your passwords get leaked by a flaw in Lemmy's security.

You don't know how much you don't know, so you should be implementing as much good security practices as you can. It's called the "Swiss Cheese" model of security: you layer enough so that the holes in one layer are blocked by a different layer.

Plus, keeping strong security measures in place for something that's almost always internet connected is a good idea regardless of how cautious you think you're being. It's why modern web-browsers are basically their own VM inside your pc anymore, and it's why torrent clients shouldn't have access to anything besides the download/upload folders and whatever minimal set of network perms they need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

... @lemmy.world

Found your problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so, correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds to me like your financial problems are causing a strain on you both, but you don't want to cede control over the finances because you've tied your sense of self-worth to your status as the breadwinner?

I've been there myself, but that didn't work out for entirely separate reasons; she's still my best friend (she's just straight). Looking back, I feel gross about wanting her to be dependent on me but not being okay with being dependent on her. I get there's different types of dependence, and emotional is just as important as financial, but still...

Maybe it would help to reframe this as a tenporary support to get to where you need to be, instead of a new normal. This can be your chance to focus on transition, or mental health, or career aspirations; it doesn't have to be you saddling her with more responsibilities and becoming a deadweight.

 

Finally, another web engine is being developed to compete with Chromium and Firefox (Gecko), and they're also working on a browser that will use it.

Here's the maintainer talking about the current state of the project, and a demo of the current functionality

 

I occasionally see love for niche small distros, instead of the major ones...

And it just seems to me like there's more hurdles than help when it comes to adopting an OS whose users number in the hundreds or dozens. I can understand trying one for fun in a VM, but I prefer sticking to the bigger distros for my daily drivers since the they'll support more software and not be reliant on upstream sources, and any bugs or other issues are more likely to be documented abd have workarounds/fixes.

So: What distro do you daily drive and why? What drove you to choose it?

 
 

It's the series finale for our friend Plague Roach. Big props to Drue for all the work he's put into this project

Here's the full series playlist on youtube

 
 

As a user, the best way to handle applications is a central repository where interoperability is guaranteed. Something like what Debian does with the base repos. I just run an install and it's all taken care of for me. What's more, I don't deal with unnecessary bloat from dozens of different versions of the same library according to the needs of each separate dev/team.

So the self-contained packages must be primarily of benefit to the devs, right? Except I was just reading through how flatpak handles dependencies: runtimes, base apps, and bundling. Runtimes and base apps supply dependencies to the whole system, so they only ever get installed once... but the documentation explicitly mentions that there are only few of both meaning that most devs will either have to do what repo devs do—ensure their app works with the standard libraries—or opt for bundling.

Devs being human—and humans being animals—this means the overall average tendency will be to bundle, because that's easier for them. Which means that I, the end user, now have more bloat, which incentivizes me to retreat to the disk-saving havens of repos, which incentivizes the devs to release on a repo anyway...

So again... who does this benefit? Or am I just completely misunderstanding the costs and benefits?

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