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Even worse, checking for overflow before casting can be tricky: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/526070/handling-overflow... It's sad that comparison operators in C/C++ can lead…

> All members must be current Linux Foundation members and sign the participation agreement and NDA. Just another opaque and exclusive subproject of the Linux Foundation.

It's completely absurd that this is funded by Linux Foundation while Apple doesn't support FreeBSD with a single penny.

The sad thing is that stepping down as maintainer is the only thing that raises sufficient awareness. You can put a disclaimer in your README that you need help, you can run around…

> ~1.8Mbpd (million barrels per day) Mbpd = thousand barrels per day, MMbpd = million barrels per day

In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google. I also used to receive massive amounts of spam from Azure and Sendgrid but this eventually stopped. Now 80% of the …

The law says all men aged 17 and older, not military-aged. https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__3.html

I think a revolution caused by this war is more likely in countries like Egypt. The Arab Spring was triggered by a rise in food prices after all.

In this case, the name is already so generic that you might even be denied a trademark in the first place.

On top of that, all these spam and phishing emails are sent through Google servers. About two thirds of spam I receive originates from Google, 12x more than AWS and 20x more than M…

Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.

You can do amazing things with only a single SID channel. One of the most impressive examples is the in-game music of Hawkeye [1] which allows to use the remaining two channels for…

The majority of Germans is completely biased towards Zionism because of their history, so it's more of a cultural than a personal thing.

First of all, you have to realize that it's impossible to measure inflation and purchasing power objectively. It always depends on a highly subjective (and gameable) basket of good…

Just start with "Step 13a: Finding a Tax Advisor" and they will help you with the rest.

Reminds me of an old April Fools' prank in German c't magazine. They offered a defragmentation-like tool for HDDs that claimed to distribute 0s and 1s more evenly on the drive to m…

Depends on the jurisdiction. In Germany, practically every photo is copyrightable.

The dietlibc author is a different person but with a very similar name.

About a day after I resigned as maintainer, SUSE stepped in and is now maintaining the project. As announced here [1], I'm currently trying a different funding model and started a …

As soon as you start paying individual maintainers, it stops being nonprofit OSS they work on. If you direct your funds to other charities, you're only shifting the tax issue to th…

Concrete examples: GNU software, musl C library, everything from x.org and freedesktop.org. Just have a look at the top 1,000 projects from the Debian popularity contest and you'll…

> any project important enough to matter will have at least a GitHub mirror That might be true, but many of the mirrors are unofficial.

Do I get this right that you can only nominate projects on Github? It should be known by now that a centralized platform like Github is the complete antithesis to open source.