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I'm so happy to see this change. I got involved with reproducible builds in 2021 after reading in horror about the SolarWinds attack. [1] I think Magnus Ihse Bursie said it best wh…

That might have been Thunderbird doing its initial indexing of your existing messages. It's the first thing I disable after installing Thunderbird: go to Settings > General > Index…

I'm pretty sure this is the computer that my mom had hooked up to an old TV set back in the early 90s. She used it all the time to communicate with me by e-mail, printing out each …

Yes, I have had a similar experience. I eventually gave up on finding a competent cross-border tax accountant and just learned it all myself. I would rather make my own mistakes th…

I am also very grateful to James Gosling. I was working with C++ at Taligent (an Apple, IBM, and HP joint venture) in the fall of 1995 when I first downloaded Java to give it a try…

That's actually pretty fast. It took 10 years for Java[1] and 5 years for JavaFX[2] to fix some trivial but rather severe text rendering bugs. Most of that time was getting enough …

I enjoyed reading both books, but especially Herman Pontzer's stories in Burn about his time with the Hadza people in Africa. The study is based in part on his research (Pontzer, 2…

I think this study is related to two books I read this summer: Burn , by Herman Pontzer, presents his "constrained energy expenditure hypothesis," and Exercised , by Daniel E. Lieb…

Try this in your '.bash_aliases' file, for example: alias df='df -t vfat -t ext4'

You can now completely disable automatic updates of Snap packages. [1] [1] https://snapcraft.io/blog/hold-your-horses-i-mean-snaps-new-...

It's the 'font-family: Georgia,Times,serif;' that ends up being Nimbus Roman as a substitute for Times (on my Ubuntu system, at least), and that font looks just terrible in white o…

I spent years using NetBeans, then Eclipse, then IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio, and now back to NetBeans. The features that made me return were having full C and C++ support (at…

I think it's a great option, mostly because it can run anywhere the JDK runs. I'm building and testing the JavaFX 18 early-access builds for Linux on six Debian architectures (amd6…

I built a Snap package of OpenJDK 17 and 18 for armhf (armv7l) and arm64 (aarch64), along with four other Linux architectures. See: https://snapcraft.io/openjdk

I agree. Among all the open-source projects I've built, the OpenJDK is one of the easiest and most straight-forward I've encountered — even when cross-compiling for 32-bit ARM. The…

> So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020? For me, by its ubiquity. It has desktop and servers images [1], cloud images for containers and virtual machines [2], and base i…

The "About GitHub Sponsors" help page states, "To be eligible for the GitHub Sponsors Matching Fund, you must apply to GitHub Sponsors by January 1, 2020." This is the first time I…

I use Mozilla Pocket to do essentially just that. I add articles to Pocket with Firefox Desktop and then read them on my Kobo e-reader. I find it much more pleasant to read long ar…

I reported a bug on Launchpad last week for the missing JavaFX support in the Ubuntu OpenJDK package. For details, see "JavaFX support is in upstream OpenJDK 9 but missing in Ubunt…

I came to the same conclusion just this week. I got the best print simply by matching the density of my black and white laser printer with the black dots I wanted it to print. Spec…