Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Also, for dropping FTP support in firefox, I'd like to wish mozilla a very fuck you

@nadiyar
> why would you use ftp? It's been obsolete for years afaik

"Obsolete" is a word someone usually uses to dismiss something that still works without having to think of technical reasons why they should not use it. It is usually a marketing tactic to convince people they need to constantly re-invent stuff that already exists and works to make people spend more money. Obsolescence is a state of mind.

And in a much more real sense, also because IBM's website still hosts some downloads over FTP only (gives you FTP links).

The move to 64-bit only computing is steadily underway: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Change-No-i686

Retro computing needs to look away from #Linux as "always being there" and maybe focus more on more manageable OSes like #HaikuOS, #AROS and whatever that #Rust based OS is called (I think there's several?)

#retrocomputing

The net is full of articles and pictures about Linus Torvalds meeting Bill Gates. They all gloss over the fact that Dave Cutler was also there — to the point of cropping him out of the picture. Somehow, it seems, the guy who did RSX-11, VMS, and Windows NT is relevant too...?

So much focus on development speed and being "productive". The fastest, cleanest, and most reliable and error-free code is the code you never write. There's no metric or KPI for unnecessary code not written, productivity gained by not perturbing a dependable system, maintenance avoided by refactoring. You don't get promoted for building systems that don't need constant care and feeding, that don't change week to week, day to day. There's no concept of software being effectively "done" - doing just what it's intended to do and no more. Projects and features get abandoned as teams move from one Shiny to the next. Move fast, keep one step ahead. There's always another green field ready to be turned brown and left behind.

Updated by one of our Haiku users and one of it's developers Alexander V. Wolf, Stellarium 25.2 for 64bit Haiku.

https://stellarium.org

#HaikuOS #haikuports #Stellarium #software

#privacy #backup

@catsalad Lemmy is in rust and I'm not a fan of that language.
Also pixelfed is a divine product, like litteraly made by a self proclaimed god

God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

Happy Summer Solstice y'all. 😊

@pete @ploum fixed it for you, nothing prevents in some years for Signal to take the same path, it is time to realize once and for all that the problem is centralization instead of jumping from one centralized silo to the next until it also becomes a shitshow

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

"Internet is becoming more and more centralized in the hands of a few evil tech companies. Our project aims to change that! Join our discord and…"

"This is open-source software written by hobbyists, maintained by a single volunteer, badly tested, written in a memory-unsafe language and full of security bugs. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data. As such, we treat security issues like any other bug. Each security report we receive will be made public immediately and won't be prioritized."
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913