Look, a Gentooman is up for dating.

A lot of people call set -euo pipefail the “strict mode” for bash programming, as a reference to "use strict"; in JavaScript.

In other words, always add this if you want to stay sane unless you’re a shellcheck user.

Linux Foundation (of which Linus is an employee) is an US entity. RISC-V International foresaw this and chose to incorporate in Switzerland.

An update:

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

(direct link)

That’s more like his opinion or a post facto justification. Turns out it is a US thing.

If your company is on the U.S. OFAC SDN lists, subject to an OFAC sanctions program, or owned/controlled by a company on the list, our ability to collaborate with you will be subject to restrictions, and you cannot be in the MAINTAINERS file.

So to get back, you have to basically prove that you have no relations with OFAC SDN companies.

This update is from https://lwn.net/Articles/995186/

POV: you’re Macbeth

This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, “HUGE SUCCESS”.

Haha, but it’s really a pack of tools, more like a toolbox.

The problem with these token activism is that it’s hollow in content. The intent might be good, but the action is almost pure virtue signalling.

Slavoj Zizek pointed out in multiple interviews that there’s a pervert self-reflectiveness in the self-censorship: privileged people “enjoy” being guilty of their privilege, so it’s more about themselves rather than the people they claim to represent. “Sorry, but you were naive and unaware of people being racist when they use these words, so let me stop them and now you are protected (by me) in an inclusive atmosphere.”

A related radical freedom situation as an inverse to the above is that when friends get really close, even using racist slurs is treated as a gesture of intimacy, rather than racism. In an ideal world, the context in the public discourse would be so strong that even racist words lose their racist meaning (“oh, so you are joking as well”) rather than the opposite (assuming there’s ubiquitous “hidden” racism in the use of a word, even when there’s clearly none).

Another critique is that it presents itself as a substitute of real solutions. Instead of addressing real problems, it provides a simple “everyday” solution, very much similar to the recycling movement. Of course we need to recycle, but we should be aware that it’s not a substitute of radical real actions (e.g. stopping the big oil).

Yeeter/Yeetee

For true immutability, burn something like tails on a read-only CD.

Figma is the complete opposite of free software. It’s a cloud-only proprietary software.

They are already invented: 😱 and 😱😱😱

Crowdstrike is a cyber security company, so some kind of live update is needed. The fault is not catching the crush before pushing the update.

Maybe I’m missing something, but shouldn’t the benchmark be a good approximation to the real workload? I don’t see how the measurements reflect the performance difference in real life usages.

Why would I need 100MiB/s processing as opposed to 20MiB/s processing, when I can only read maybe several lines per second?

It depends. In really high-end and authentic sushi restaurant, there is already wasabi between the fish and the rice. You are supposed to dip the fish side in the soy sauce only.

On the other hand, it’s okay to mix the wasabi if the sushi is not prepared that way. People do this even in Japan.

Use NixOS

• Do you push the tip of the solder down into the pad, draw it up along the pin, or pull it away as it melts?

According to what I remembered, you don’t move the solder at step 2, but when you are almost finished (step 3-4), you should pull it up along the pin.

Password manager is the way. It’s recommended for all password related things anyway.

This, but unironically used as a marketing trick:

There was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison “knew no one would want to buy version 1”

That’s why the first Oracle database is v2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database