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KeepassXC comes with its own share of risks (supply-chain attacks, zero-day vulnerability detections etc). No matter, which 3p software you are using, you are effectively gambling …

It used to be pretty popular for mathematical modeling in quantitative finance.

You might have missed the memo, but Roku's main business has been advertising for quite a while. It is just shrouded in streaming and platforms. But it is advertising nevertheless.…

That's precisely what is wrong with the state of the UI for Linux. Instead of boring, long research into user habits, finger memory, and productivity, resulting in boring standards…

I was not aware of that and literally read into this particular article. Thanks for clarifying!

As someone who shipped my fair share of critical production features, I find this plan raising my eyebrows somewhat. Disabling a feature AND simultaneously removing the codebase fo…

Almost 40 years of software engineering experience - and I hate Gradle more than I would consider reasonable. In fact, I consider Gradle the absolute worst software system out ther…

Amazing project - and you actually fulfill a dream of mine (to have a collection absolutely all historically interesting UNIX-like OSes in VMs available on demand). I'll dig throug…

I'm not gonna laugh but I can tell you quite authoritatively that Google will not abuse your passwords and passkeys. But more importantly (which is the main decision factor for me …

Google's is even better, as it is cross-platform (although same caveat of having even more dependency on your account is still true). Plus (not sure about Apple) but Google also do…

That's an excellent idea! It will work out absolutely great - much like Communism. Meaning, when you forcefully standardize and regulate how phones are built, you might expect that…

This will not work for two reasons: 1. Thanks to the sanctions, it is virtually impossible for RF citizens to purchase anything abroad with Russian credit cards. 2. VPN was design …

Oh no! Yet another "difficult but right decision" (tm) to self-fund further investment in AI.

Funny, how we reliably keep finding the boogeyman - first in computer games, then in "right wing extremists online" then in LLMs, while carefully avoiding the correlation of dyspho…

Indeed, they made Level Editor available. In fact, there was even a friggin' book on level design: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0782118690 Blast from the past indeed. Many many moons …

Snapdragon X Elite laptops have been out for the last two years, if not more. How much has Qualcomm did over this time to make Linux work on those devices - almost nothing. As of 2…

This. And speed aside, Gradle embodies everything that is wrong with modern software development. A giant, opaque, idiosyncratic black box. I develop for Android (Java and Flutter)…

Pretty interesting. I guess it was way later, when they came up with the SUID semantics and appropriated the first character for symlinks (l) or setuid binaries (s)...

Nope. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Second that. Microsoft Money was _amazingly_ practical and useful - head and shoulders above Quicken. It is a real shame, Microsoft didn't find a better solution than to sunset it.…

I don't think VAX emulators were the thing back then. :-) In fact, our target platform was a cluster of commodity DEC Alpha machines running an early version of RedHat Linux for AX…

Yes, absolutely. You will be shocked how complex CMOs might be just to calculate plain cashflow on a tranche ( https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Mortgage-Backed-Securities-7... is a …

Speaking of crazy applications of Emacs... Long long time ago, my team was tasked with rebuilding an MBS analytics system for one of the leading fintech companies. The original sys…

Interesting timing (pun intended): apparently one of the recent Gnome updates in Ubuntu made terminal barely usable due to lagging - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509058/input-d…