

I’ve heard the younger generation tends to prefer 21 or 67 long functions instead.


I’ve heard the younger generation tends to prefer 21 or 67 long functions instead.


Many of their TOCTOU issues are something a type system can help with. Require operations to execute on a fd handle directly rather than using convenience functions.
let fd = FileDescriptor::new(path);
fd.delete()?;
fd.create(mode)?;
let is_root = fd == FileDescriptor::new("/"); // does (dev, inode) comparison internally
// etc
The uutils devs would need to create that themselves, but OpenOptions seems to get them part of the way there at least.


More than C would.


open blah.json | get foo.bar.2 just works. It also just works with yaml and any other formats I want to support (you can define custom commands to support any extension you want).z myproject saves enough time and effort to justify using it over cd most of the timegit directly a lot, but Gitui’s interface is more convenient for staging changes

You’re right, I should buy from Apple instead.
Patel hasn’t made any statements towards being a Nazi. Fuck Omarchy, and fuck him for supporting the development of it, but that itself doesn’t make him a Nazi. Framework still makes a damn good laptop, and it has forcefully pushed laptop development in a positive direction. Lenovo sort of did too with Thinkpads, but that’s the closest equivalent that comes to mind, and even that’s a stretch. So, unless there’s someone better out there, I’m still recommending Frameworks to people.


Last time I tried scanning and printing on Windows, it took me over an hour to get the device recognized, the right drivers installed, the printer to actually receive the print job, and so on. Printers are just shitty pieces of hardware, Linux or not.


This wouldn’t be “illigal”, but if that’s the case Annas Archive should be “fine”… (I know that they are distributing, and this is the fight)
I don’t know much about European law, but redistribution changes things a lot here in the US. At least here, it then gets into copyright law, and you’d be reproducing copyrighted works without authorization (the Internet Archive attempted to get around this with books by getting legitimate copies of the books, digitizing them, then “lending” the digital copies of those books).
So if I prefer to download the Anna’s dataset instead of scrape myself, would this be illigal?
No idea in Europe. In the US, it might be, depending on what the contents of the work are. I believe Anna’s Archive would count as piracy in this case, though scraping directly from Spotify might not be because they are redistributing the music with authorization from the copyright holder. It gets pretty confusing, honestly.
Regardless, if you aren’t doing things at large scale, even if you are breaking a law by downloading pirated content, it’s unlikely anyone will care. People usually only really start caring if you start redistributing stuff, so as long as you aren’t hosting what you’re scraping, you’re unlikely to run into any trouble.


There’s no obvious answer to your question without more information (for example, where are you?) but I’m not aware of scraping being illegal anywhere, with some exceptions. For example, in the US (where I am), as long as you’re not doing “illegal hacking” to scrape your data, you’re probably fine.
There are TOSs that websites like to impose as well. If you have to agree to one to access any data, you should follow it. Breaking the TOS isn’t really “illegal” in a criminal sense (in the US), but you may expose yourself to anything from being blocked from the site to a lawsuit. Bypassing blocks might also be illegal, though you’d have to speak to a lawyer to know more about that.


It’s illegal
Sauce? Also, where?


Seems like that might just be curl. I’d guess it’s because they ended the bug bounty program for curl.
It’s good to see that the reports they get now are high quality bug reports now!
Skills Are the New CLI
4th paragraph:
Skills don’t replace CLIs.
Great start.
Anyway, skills are basically an alternative to tools. I believe Anthropic made a big deal about them. They come with all the same downsides using an LLM at all comes with, which means they’re fallible, nondeterministic, and possibly even an attack vector. But hey, it saves you remembering a few flags for git so whatever I guess.


Wtf?


(Clojure is (parentheses (diluted with (Java))).)


A quick search might answer your question, but at its core, it treats people as the vulnerability rather than anything software related.


People talk about security here occasionally, though there are places to discuss it. Also, bugs are the most common source of vulnerabilities (though social engineering is a much more common type of attack), so the response seems reasonable to me.
Regarding hacking, for white hat I believe there are communities, though I’d imagine there’s overlap with cybersecurity communities. I don’t know of, nor would I recommend, anything black hat.


working as a web dev, 8+ hours at a keyboard. by evening my hands are tired and i just want to zone out.
been trying to do 20 min before work instead. it’s not much but it’s consistent. any other devs who play — how do you manage it?


You could put it into the
archinstallscript and just never finish the installation if there is no age set. You could also prevent a user from logging into an account that has no age set, this could be achived by modified core packages in thebasepackage.
My (rather limited) understanding is that Arch can be installed both without the archinstall script and without a user. Also, the rest of your comment covers how stupid it is to require a value anyway since people can put whatever they want.
Outside of that, it’s all open source. It’s possible to fork and remove the field entirely from an install script, distro, or even systemd itself.
Nobody can enforce this in the open source world. This is honestly the strongest argument for an open source exemption in these laws. It cannot be enforced on open source OSs.


Alpine is less obscure now because of containers, but I haven’t considered running it as a desktop OS.


No, it wont. I wasn’t suggesting someone should use rustc directly. You’re already using Rust, so using cargo isn’t adding to the supply chain.
That being said, there was one time I needed to use rustc directly. We had an assignment that needed to be compilable from a single source file. I couldn’t bundle a Cargo.toml, so I gave a build script that used rustc directly.
It’s only enforced because of Rust’s strict type system. Python, on the other hand, lets you do whatever you want by comparison, and complains only at runtime. I’ve seen far too many
**kwargsfor my liking.My example would be a thin wrapper around these, most likely. It’s only an example of what I’m trying to convey, though.