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I'd appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please.

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Okay, who's giving odds on this one coming anywhere close to living up to its billing?

Self-censorship working a little too well.

It can be done with simple regex of the kind proposed in various answers there iff the html is known to be limited to the subset of html where that sort of thing can easily be made to work. The question does not tell us whether or not that is the case, so everyone is free to make their own assumptions and argue as if they know what's going on.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/06/msg00041.html

I was wrong, it's 1024 not 256. It's a soft limit, so easy to adjust once you're aware that you need to.

Using a regex on html is like eating wild mushrooms that you found in the woods. There are times where it's appropriate and safe, other times where it's completely insane and possibly deadly, and it takes considerable experience to know how to tell the difference.

Where is it? It's in the 1970s. Tempted by Lucifer to get brighter and brighter, we collectively chose to leave it behind.

I would certainly advise everyone to choose a phone with that in mind.

The desktop client is not great, but it works. There certainly are things Signal could do better. Its phone-centric nature is ridiculous and I have no idea why they cling to it. But it's easier than trying to get everyone to use Matrix or whatever — mainly because more people have heard of it.

Be paranoid in your estimation of how much privacy you have, but diligent in your efforts to get more of it for everyone.

Yeah, Signal is good enough. If people use shitty operating systems like iOS or Google's version of Android that's another problem and not really one that it's my job to care about that much. What matters is the network effect and every user who moves moves from Whatsapp to Signal is one more person who gains the freedom to easily improve their digital lives further if they someday choose to do so without it costing them the ability to chat with all their friends.

Horse experts: "Realism and Practicality"

Skyrim:

It's stairs we didn't have before 2014. Everyone just used ladders.

Added a warning that appears in Proton Log for systems that have low file descriptor limit

I'm glad to see that. There are reasons why debian didn't choose to increase their default limit beyond 256, but some games require it and if you happen to find one it can be tricky to figure out what went wrong.

What they need to do: Ban the practice of showing ads to people based on surveillance data, for a start.

What they will do: Demand that more data be collected to determine which users are children and therefore worthy of protection.

I took notes for the benefit of anyone who doesn't like their info in video form. My attempt to summarize what Linus says:

He enjoys the arguments, it's nice that Rust has livened up the discussion. It shows that people care.

It's more contentious than it should be sometimes with religious overtones reminiscent of vi versus emacs. Some like it, some don't, and that's okay.

Too early to see if Rust in the kernel ultimately fails or succeeds, that will take time, but he's optimistic about it.

The kernel is not normal C. They use tools that enforce rules that are not part of the language, including memory safety infrastructure. This has been incrementally added over a long time, which is what allowed people to do it without the kind of outcry that the Rust efforts produce by trying to change things more quickly.

There aren't many languages that can deal with system issues, so unless you want to use assembler it's going to be C, C-like, or Rust. So probably there will be some systems other than Linux that do use Rust.

If you make your own he's looking forward to seeing it.

If most pirates are the kind who sail around drinking rum and chasing booty, patent trolls are the kind of pirates who blow a big hole in the side of a supertanker to steal a few barrels of oil and let the rest drain into the ocean.

It might contribute in some small aesthetic way to deterring them, which seems a much better ambition.

If that is a big problem, one alternative is to get a post office box.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Doorbell.JPG/500px-Doorbell.JPG

Mozilla 2012: We're winning the browser war and saving the web. You're welcome.

Mozilla 2017: Competing with Chrome is hard. What if we break all existing extensions and never let people replace them all?

Mozilla 2021: Through inclusiveness and the power of positive thinking we will facilitate leadership towards in-depth studies of what we can do to improve social media.

Mozilla 2024: Running a small mastodon instance is just too hard, we give up.