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TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them

Because… there’s moderation on lemmy that doesn’t like certain words :P

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in And then you get hooked on it and start using it for real

• Using Linux to access religious websites that have been proven more likely to hack you than porn websites:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ec73ed37-69b0-4d9b-988d-7257636ae3b8.png

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them

Indeed 😂😂

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Easily find program name from context menu/without terminal?

So much for…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7d3a242e-206b-4671-9af5-f746c4918f08.png

The Linux desktop is amazing, it does all the annoying things Windows does while not delivering anything Windows does right.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to linux in Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them

“if you can’t parse tabs as whitespace, you should not be parsing the kernel Kconfig files.” ~ Linus Torvalds

This is what we got after people sent him into PC training. The OG Linus would say something like “if you’re a piece of s* that can’t get over your a** to parse tabs as whitespace you should be ashamed to walk on this planet let alone parsing the kernel Kconfig files. What a f* waste of space.”

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in Did you ever try Bedrock Linux ?

What about RockSolid Linux, I mean, Debian?

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

Also that’s besides the point. I’m trying to learn if the developer said they’d publish on the App Store, not the AltStore.

From what I see his fediverse accounts it doesn’t seem like it… there are multiple people asking him to publish on the App Store and he seems to be conveniently ignoring all of them.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

That’s besides the point here. Riley Testut is bitching when he should’ve been the first to submit and have his own app approved.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

Read his post again: “Delta has been **APPROVED for distribution with @altstore **”. There’s no App Store here.

I believe you may have missed that apps distributed using alternative stores still need to be summited and approved by Apple.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

Yes, and why isn’t he publishing Delta to the App Store then? He’s clearly leveraging Delta to popularize his AltStore. I’m using “greedy” in a sense that he wants to gain something (that may or may not be monetary) by leaving Delta to be an AltStore exclusive.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to linux in Canonical and Qualcomm Collaborate to Bring Ubuntu to Qualcomm Devices

The problem with the Ubuntu phone wasn’t the lack of drivers or support from Qualcomm, the real problem was just lack of strategic foresight, I mean, common fucking sense from Canonical.

Canonical was always very bad at strategy, they tried to enter the mass market of personal computing with a product full of indecipherable error messages and an ugly UI. I’m pretty sure Microsoft, Apple and Google already proved people value simplicity and a great design on their computers. They followed the trend with useless phones that never got anywhere because people wouldn’t even adopt a phone that doesn’t have an App Store with their favorite apps. And no, web based shit isn’t enought.

Here’s a quote from their CEO (Shuttleworth):

I had dreamed of Ubuntu sort of going mainstream (…) better focus on the things [our customers] care about (…) that required some changes in the business. Those are, at an emotional level, challenging changes…

The first rule of business: the purpose of any company is to make money. It doesn’t matter your business type or products; if you’ve to change the core of your business to make more revenue you just do it without emotional attachments – if you can’t handle this do not launch a business, ever.

The problem now is Google and Apple have taken such a deep foothold on the market, it may be a bit too late

This was also a problem “then”. When Ubuntu Phone launched the market was already consolidated into iOS and Android and Uber, banks, facebook and whatnot wouldn’t develop alternative versions of their Apps for an half assed platform not backed by a serious player, ever.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

GBA4iOS was never on the App Store, was it?

No, and it will never be because Riley Testut seem to be as greedy as Apple.

Look he was right, but he’s kind of bitching, he can just release GBA4iOS on the App Store and people will use it instead of that crap filled with ads. What if he just had summited GBA4iOS to the App Store before this developer? Oh I know why, because he’s trying to get his AltStore approved and wanted to have GBA4iOS exclusively there to drive people into it.

TCB13 , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to technology in Apple Removes Game Boy Emulator iGBA From App Store Due to Spam and Copyright Violations

The original emulator is still up.

What are you talking about? GBA4iOS is NOT in the app store.

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Supreme leader mad

• github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-gui
• github.com/scorninpc/php-gtk3

TCB13 , 3 months ago to linux in What distro should I use on my potato?

“systemd is always better, no matter the situation” is absolutely dangerous for the entire FOSS ecosystem: both diversity and rationality are essential.

I agree with this, however the rest is more open to discussion.

Systemd might make sense for most people on desktop targets (…) “embedded” targets, simpler and smaller is always better.

A few years ago I was working on a bunch of “embedded” devices (4 x ARM @ 800 Mhz + 256MB of RAM) and whatever we the popular alternatives and the truth is that only with systemd we were able to boot and have a usable system (timers, full dual stack DHCP/SLAAC networking network time, secure DNS) without running out of resources for our daemons later on.

The issue with sysvinit and OpenRC etc. isn’t that they aren’t good, it is that they’re simply init systems and nothing more. In order to have just the bare features above we would have to depend on tons of other small packages and daemons that would all eat up RAM and deal with all the integration pain because they weren’t designed to work together. Are you aware of the pain and number of things you’ve to setup to just have dual stack networking? With systemd you cut a lot of those smaller daemons and end up a few that have a much smaller RAM footprint and are actually made to work with each other.

Systemd also providers very useful features like socket activated services in that can be leveraged to have the system wait for incoming connections and once it gets one launch a program. Without systemd it would’ve been one more constantly running daemon. It also provided us the ability to monitor if all required services were running, kill things going over the line, restart on specific conditions and even trigger alerts.

Yes, you can do all of the above without systemd but the amount of stuff it required didn’t fit our 256MB target, nor the power budgets - we tried it, trust me. Besides all that without so many moving parts and by relying on systemd our solution was way more robust and easier to develop / debug.