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see also (which is a much better writing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32263535

It's fun to see new waves of Linux UI polish attempts (like DHH's Ubuntu/Arch scripts, or this project). The Linux desktop could use some care -- and it's the kind of work a single…

Obj-C apps are not deprecated yet, so the approach in that GitHub repo must still work. That app is indeed written in C, but a big chunk is about building Obj-C classes and using o…

there are not a lot of options to get a virtual server under $1 per month, especially with IPv4 address

I wonder if anyone is working on a fantasy console with PS3-level graphics. A lot of games on Steam today have retro aesthetics and aren’t very demanding. A game runtime that works…

About 20 years ago, I was setting up a shared PC at my university. I googled for a way in Windows XP (via registry or group policy) to only let specific programs run. I added stuff…

I wonder if there is a simple chip, similar to the 4004, 8080, or Z80, that can run at modern high frequencies — 4–5 GHz, or even higher due to its simplicity? Not much of a practi…

I'm working on QA Sphere https://qasphere.com/ - a lightweight tool for managing software testing. It’s built for QA engineers to document functional test cases and track execution…

This may be a bit unrelated, but it is actually possible to run Xenix in a browser: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/unix/ibm/xenix/1.0/

There is also a similar thing for CSV files encoded as JSON arrays - csvj.org

Can somebody share (potentially adjusting for IKEA effect) if homemade pasta really tastes better than pre-made one? Barilla? De Secco? Artisan brands?

The days of x86 macOS are numbered. I don't think there are good ways for running ARM macOS on non-Apple ARM CPUs and I am not even sure there are ARM servers comparable with M1 in…

So is nginx with http2 enabled vulnerable too? Caddy? I should I not worry about this, because a small (by Cloudflare scale) botnet may DDoS a single server completely anyway?

Interesting. I never even considered the instance stability to be a risk when using ARM CPUs on Amazon. Anybody else can share their experience?

I wrote a TUI tool (runs over SSH in a terminal) for managing simple WireGuard configuration on the server: https://github.com/andrianbdn/wg-cmd You just run it on your server and …

Indeed, TempleOS had a dynamic runtime C (HolyC) compiler too. Perhaps when people see the world differently, they try to compile C code on fly.

Once I've read "Its primary purpose is to be maximally useful during the first stage of civilizational collapse," my mind started to wonder away from this blend of Forth and C. It …

Thank you for clarifications and thank you for your work on Homebrew. I hope that Homebrew approach is sufficient to make security risks acceptable.

It is not feasible to avoid installing any third-party software. Moreover I admitted that I use Homebrew. However I don’t understand what makes Homebrew reliable. Homebrew is a non…

While I use Homebrew on my Mac — it is a major risk. I am afraid that the project is not following strict security policies and will be compromised at some point. Evil package or e…

That's cool - I wonder why exit code is not set to 42 in practice? binary still returns 0, must be a bug somewhere.

I had to add #define _GNU_SOURCE #include #include I've tested in Fabrice Bellard JSLinux with tcc (x86 arch) and on https://replit.com/languages/c (x64). I failed to see any side …

The following .gitignore is my favorite way to commit an (almost) empty folder to git: # Ignore everything in this directory * # Except this file !.gitignore .gitignore can be pres…

Some of it sounds similar to now defunct Crux Linux https://crux.nu/ but with rolling release

I have 20 years experience using Linux (user and administrator). Couple of years ago I tried doing roughly the same using Pi and old cheap Xerox laser printer (required some additi…