anlumo @ anlumo @lemmy.world

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Sorry, I meant the Underhanded C contest. This is a contest for code that looks benign, but does something completely different.

http://www.underhanded-c.org/

Cops, at least in the US, are also a violent street gang.

At least any spy shit that we know of. Just look at the obfuscated C contest what’s possible in that abomination of a language.

Think printers, factory machines and so on. If they run Linux and not Windows CE, it’s always an ancient kernel.

When the came for the squares, I didn’t say anything because I’m not square…

There are many new technical papers that are only written in Chinese these days, especially in AI.

Your Zigbee light switches won’t do anything unless the machine running Home Assistant is on. Being able to control your lights while the computer isn’t running is really convenient.

In my company’s product, we allow users to place images into a composition and alter the colors (like tinting/colorize in Photoshop, so only globally). When doing that, the outline of the drawn image should not change color, and also there might be multiple color areas (think an image of a house where the walls have a separate color from the chimneys).

To do separate full-image manipulation, we need multiple layers. Right now they’re just a tilemap with the layers next to each other, but that doesn’t work for repeating patterns.

Rust has the turbofish: ::<>

No layer support? Or can that be faked by using 4 channel-chunks?

Lemmy is also more of alpha-quality software. The admin tools are pretty much non-existent. On my own instance, I've had to go into the database to fix issues a lot using straight SQL, and I have like ten users on the platform. One of those issues caused my admin account to no longer being able to log in, another caused the whole instance to be down.

The biggest impact is on indies that may have very few devs. If you’re not making AAA or even AA games, it could mean closing down.

Yes, but striking doesn't help small devs at all.

Futurists are people who cosplay as scientists predicting stuff they have no clue about.

Game developers don’t have unions. Besides, this is a B2B conflict. Workers don’t care if it’s more expensive to publish a game.

People in the airplane industry were already wondering where Russia gets all of the replacement parts from.

They tried to revoke a perpetual license.

In addition to a very xenophobic culture that doesn’t allow the addition of missing working-age people via immigration.

Still, nothing comes close to a native UI experience.

That's not really well defined on Linux. It feels like every application comes with its own toolkit and its own behavior. Even on Windows, there is a mixture of three different generations of Windows UI systems (Windows XP-style, Windows 8-style, Fluent) that are completely different.

Unity doesn’t give out perpetual licenses any more, it’s a subscription model. If you don’t like it, you can leave at any point in time, but then you also don’t have a license to distribute their engine along with your game.

The problematic part (for Unity) is that they used to have a clause in the contract that said that you could keep using the old license terms as long as you didn’t update the engine. They removed that last year, but developers who are using an older version than that should be able to have a chance at the court. The problem is just that small indie devs don’t have the money for this multi-year legal battle.

On ArchLinux, many Electron apps use a central installation of Electron that is kept up to date by the package manager. That works pretty well.

Of course, snap-based distributions like Ubuntu and other systems without a proper package manager like macOS and Windows can’t do it like that.