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“Microsoft says its (vibe working mode) in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets”
Imagine being a hiring manager and hiring somebody to use Excel who says they do their job wrong about half the time. Welcome to AI.
@kornel I have developed some in Rust, it's good for certain things like end user applications, but not suitable for Git or coreutils in Ubuntu for example. If there are no performance benefits, why change something which works and has been battle tested for decades?
We are fully capable of handling several programming languages, there's no need for one language to fit all situations.
Sure, there are some benefits of future development regarding “memory safety”, but security wise you have already increased the attack surface significantly with the Cargo package manager system, supply chain attacks are on the rise.
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If #git makes #Rust mandatory it will block future git versions to be ported to our niche platform. While this would not immediately lock us out of repos (the current version will likely continue to work fine some time) it eventually would complicate access (all git work would need to be circulated via some proxy setups or similar).
Needless to say I'm not thrilled by this idea.
I am not against Rust. I am against breaking change that leaves everyone not embracing Rust behind.
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250904-b4-pks-rust-breaking-change-v1-0-3af1d25e0be9@pks.im/
@chainq @harrysintonen @kornel I think the Rust problem will go away eventually, or we end up leaving anything it touches. When you tear down bridges to implement something by force it doesn't last very long.
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@harrysintonen @kornel A couple of years back, there was a even proposal to change the m68k Linux ABI to cater for the internal limitations of Rust and LLVM that was ill equipped to deal with the requirements of this - admittedly, historic - architecture.
Being a compiler hacker myself, to me this meant: it is seriously immature, not ready for prime time. But for people pushing Rust, throwing away 4 decades of compatibility was completely justified, because fixing the world was more important.
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We've got an exciting lineup for the #FSF40 celebration, including a panel featuring leaders from #EFF #FDroid #SugarLabs: https://u.fsf.org/48s
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How Many Phones Sport A 5 And 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.
"It all started with a sarcastic comment right here on Hackaday.com: ” How many phones do you know that sport a 5 and 1/4 inch diskette drive?” — and [Paul Sanjay] took that personally, or at least thought “Challenge accepted” because he immediately hooked an old Commodore floppy drive to his somewhat-less-old smartphone."
https://hackaday.com/2025/09/27/how-many-phones-sport-a-5-and-1-4-diskette-drive-this-one/
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radare 
🚀 radare2 6.0.4 released!
After a month of development with 202 commits thanks to 18 contributors.
Learn the highlights below 👇
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.0.4 #reverseengineering
@loke If you want to upgrade to FreeBSD 14.3 using 'freebsd-update', this procedure worked for me: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.3R/installation/
@bubakuyateh Sometimes the police are the most violent participants in plain clothes.
@yogthos Try 'fzf'.
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Today is Everything curl's tenth birthday. 115,000 words of #curl documentation for free: https://everything.curl.dev/
@loke I've used Usonyx in Singapore long ago, back when VPS was a new thing, they were good. Hmm, maybe you wanted something in another country (besides Singapore)? If you can manage everything yourself, and don't need much support, then this is a cheap alternative: https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en/
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@cmconseils Hmm, how about provocative and aggressive?
@taviso I think my ASUS motherboard finally got the AMD microcode patch to remove this CPU "feature" in a BIOS update (2025-09-18). Now I feel sad about not playing around with it when there was still time.
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Help us share the word about #FSF40 with our flyer designed by our intern Miles Wilson: https://u.fsf.org/48w #FreeSoftware #FSF
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@peterdrake I think he is reminding us to touch grass once in a while.
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If travel vlogs are to be believed, Singapore has nothing but the glitzy Marina Bay area and Newton food centre.
If anyone is coming here, feel free to ask me for tips.
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