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  • This is absurd. Are you being serious? I’m aware how sanctions are setup in the US because I’m compelled to complete hr training on them every 8 months even though I have no interaction with anyone that would overlap with sanctions requirements. That doesn’t make it any less absurd. It’s also not on me to somehow categorically disprove the link between Linux contributions and military work, the onus there is and as it always should be is on the entity demanding you do something in response to it. But OK, let’s say all the work on Linux coming from anyone who happens to live in or have a Russian nationality somehow goes back to the war effort. Ban work on Russian firmware or Linux compatibility with Russian hardware. Don’t ban Russian people unilaterally and with force using flimsy hypothetical justifications and reductive arguments. I go back to ww1 and the role of scientists in war. They should abstain. Developers should abstains. We don’t belong to the countries we live in, our work should exist for all mankind and to the betterment of society as a whole. If the US wants a trade embargo, or a corporate berlin wall I’m all for it. This is not that.

    Edit: Also, not really relevent, but I would be absolutely amazed if the Russian government is somehow on the bleeding edge of linux development and actively deploying head branch builds of linux with the latest available firmware. Most of the US government still runs on windows out of sheer apathy. If they are using these contributions in drones their almost certainly backporting to a stable linux release and that means this kinda ban if it follows you’re reason isn’t going to have an impact until a few releases down the line and that’s easily bypassable by just not upgrading linux. Russian already presumably sanctioned to older hardware (excluding self manufactured) so that isn’t even a hard choice.




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    1 year ago

    Just use vscode. It’s basically the standard text editor for everything nowadays. Eventually you may want to start exploring vim/emacs but no reason to prioritise that now when all you need is something you can write code in that gives you squigglies when you do something wrong.






  • I recently played momodora 4. Fantastic game. But you need to finish about 50% of the game before unlocking fast travel and it… is… a… pain. Doesn’t help since its a metroidvania it can lock you off from certain areas and you just kinda need to explore until you find a path through. I ended up going back and forth the entire map 4 times before I just used a walk-through to get where I needed to. Fast travel should be available much sooner for this one. In the other games it varies but really it depends on how much value there is in backtracking.







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    2 years ago

    Wayland what? Wayland is just a protocol. You need a wayland supporting client. If no ones ported one to solaris then that’s not waylands fault. Frankly I question how mature any of those options would be if they did. Seems plasma hasn’t had any solaris support for almost a decade, for example. It has migrated to wayland tho.



  • aren’t I super clever for managing to create this hideously complicated Rube Goldberg machine to solve a problem caused by people not communicating with each other

    It’s amazing how with a language as fragmented as c++ that everyone seems to be independently discovering warts in the proposed module implementation and no one seems to be coordinating things to enforce consistency across compilers. I get these are all separately maintained projects but god no ones gonna use the thing if everything supports it differently.