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When did this occur? I am a GNU maintainer, and have never heard such a thing from the FSF. The GNU Coding Standards and other similar texts leave the decision to support non-free …

I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU c…

The others and I, working on GNU coreutils, frequently use 'yes' to generate a bunch of garbage input for testing programs. It is nice that it can do so quickly.

The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and th…

> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facil…

> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely beli…

The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspira…

Well, they have held back some slop in CPAN (a surprising place to find slop) [1]. Some of said slop recently caused GNU coreutils test suite to fail [2]. Surely the bot will get i…

This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.

At the current moment I would be against it. The language and library is changing too fast. Also, Rust has some other things that make it hard to use for coreutils. For example, Ru…

No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno se…

Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too eas…

> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was…

You see zero similarities between Hitler invading Poland and Putin invading Ukraine?

Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with…

Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to fil…

I am one of them. The title of the substack seems fine since it mentions "if you use iTerm2". The tweet has no mention of iTerm2 which makes it sound like an issue in 'cat', which …

fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combin…

The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have st…

I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Repub…

Even if one grants that it is a small minority, aren't they still voting for someone who advocates for jailing and killing political opponents?

Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.

It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).

Haven't read it since it is down, but based on other comments, it seems to be an issue with cleartext signatures. I haven't seen those outside of old mailing list archives. Everyon…

MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds https://g…