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On Android, Termux ( https://termux.dev/en/ ) has packages for the Rust toolchain, wasmtime, and wasmer. This might be enough to run wasi containers, but might not have the sandbox…

One line of my family's four lines is affected. Rebooting the phone does not help. The affected phone sees the network, but shows "No service" error. It seems like some kind of aut…

Recklessly discarding OpenSSL errors is really bad and could lead to security vulnerabilities. Calling ERR_clear_error before operations is widely recommended: https://github.com/o…

stdx is on crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/stdx But it seems to be a placeholder crate of sorts and is not Kerkour's stdx. It does re-export several other crates, but has not b…

Here is a nice setup that works well: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/use-workshop-to-run-opencode-...

>> Something that I had heard is that it is because Mormons use a different baptism, which is not Trinitarian. However, it seems that it is Trinitarian, although this trinity is di…

Really? What are some major Linux distributions that are only headless? What is the market share of those Linux distributions compared to Linux distributions that have a GUI deskto…

Most Linux server distributions would be expected to be headless. "General purpose" Linux distributions (not "server") typically would include a GUI desktop.

This looks like a really nice feature to see what goes into Rust binaries. This post says that it is experimental, but does not say where it is used. On my Ubuntu VM, it works with…

If you like psy electronic music, there is 'The Mystic Didgeridoo': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhhLhb3zc8

Greg Kroah-Hartman has been maintaining Linux for decades. If he says that Rust is helping Linux maintainers to do their work more effectively, that is great news for Linux. I am e…

It is also available as a snap: https://snapcraft.io/space-cadet-pinball

Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu Linux) has remote software engineer jobs: https://canonical.com/careers/6707824 Their hiring process is a bit strange compared to other tec…

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Newbie is similar. rosettacode.org also has other tasks: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks

>> should not be rolled out in an LTS edition. The Rust coreutils were first rolled out in the previous release which was not LTS: https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubu…

>> Vegetarianism is such a bad label lol Agreed. I was expecting to find AI-generated vegetarian recipes. Actually, I wonder if they would be any good.

I fear that you are correct. Perhaps if people become desperate enough something might happen, but keeping people divided is a strategy to prevent resistance. It seems like we are …

>> Why? And also: What can be done to change this in the future? Two corrupt political parties that are owned by monied interests thanks to Citizens United, decades without campaig…

> if Rust can't do OOP (assumption) Rust handles basic OOP, but not all of the characteristics seen in C++ or Java: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch18-01-what-is-oo.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRImYairm1A There is not a good way to "guard ships on the sides" against hundreds of Shahed drones or small seaborne drones. They would overwhelm a…

George's personal home page (seems to be a mirror: https://www.bkinzel.de/misc/ghg/index.html ) with the grill lighting video and the TWINKIES experiments (original site gone, but …

Maybe the Ubuntu transition from GNU coreutils to uutils coreutils is going well?

After working with C and C++ for many years and handling the problems associated with such software, Rust solves many of the difficult problems and makes nearly impossible problems…

Ubuntu recently added a more specific target for AMD64v3: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/introducing-architecture-vari...