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Ada actually trades blows with C in Debian shootout game. It is the language of choice for automotive and aviation safety certification. You cannot get safer than that. and it does…

Game streaming technology has been ready for a long time now. It is not the technology or leadership of companies that make game streaming; it is the game studios that block game s…

Briar has been translated to Persian 100%. This is a good indicator that is must be in widespread use in Iran

This is the first time I hear about Ada package manager. You can always download GNAT, an Ada fronted for GCC, and start coding in terminal and a text editor. You don't need packag…

Apple could solve this problem in Webkit. But Android is more complicated. On Android, third-party browser engines are allowed. Google cannot prevent an app from shipping its own b…

As the tidbits article says, only the client is proprietary. I am sure that eventually a fully open-source Linux version of this is going to be developed and integrated into Seahor…

rclone already provides such a client and it is fully open source. In general, to have a zero-trust system, you need to have client and server developed by independent parties.

If it is output of some other tool, then it is a build artifact and there is no need to check it in. I have this argument with people all the time and the conclusion is always like…

Apple is already in [casual] gaming, they have Apple Arcade and hundreds of high quality games on app store. They also have "console" called Apple TV. Evey Apple store sells Playst…

Rosetta's biggest flaw is lack of AVX support. We had to put so much effort to just run things on Rosetta because all of our compiled code had AVX enabled. We also needed to chase …

This sounds like a hype that is going to die at some point. SQLite has its own uses in client devices and small webservers, but it is not built to scale to millions of transactions…

After reading the paper, I see that it is not built on top of SQLite, but shares some components with SQLite.

I always use Ethernet at the office because Wi-Fi sucks when everyone is connected to it at the same time. Even though they use commercial grade routers. At home switching to Wi-Fi…

This kind of initiative could take off. Only if it is backed by a big player. Basically Apple Google and Microsoft. WebAssembly is not a stand-alone application development package…

The physical attack Microsoft worried about is hacker extracting information from a stolen laptop. It only takes a single laptop (out of thousands) to infiltrate the company networ…

One of the main advantages would be hardware accelerated encode/decode, but because every manufacturer supports it differently most software refuses to use it. And once you go to s…

These are only hard problems in Unix world. VisualBasic and Delphi always had really good auto-complete.

Next time someone asks me why you are writing a function yourself instead of using a library, I will show them this.

I cannot figure out if Bellard’s creations are hobby projects or serious production libraries. This one has a couple of issues: browsers have already settled on AVIF. And HEVC is p…

It is just the simple fact that the user land API of all current operating systems is C. A programming language need to support at least C ABI for this purpose.

I thought the phrase "COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" in most open-source licenses would make it clear. But obviously no one reads licenses or EULAs. However, I would let people…

This looks pretty secure to me. Most of the time, I just have to click forgot password and it is basically the same thing.

Most blog post miss a critical point in OSS software: OSS authors can't charge royalty for the use of their software, but they can charge money for maintenance of said software. An…

The problem with Linux has always been lack of support for newest hardware. I keep going back to Windows because I just want all the cool features of the hardware like webcam, fing…

One of the main problems is that Linux is just the kernel, not an operating system (FSF has always been vocal about this with their GNU/Linux branding). A minimal Linux system requ…