The touch screen in my 2013 laptop has been working fine since… 2013, running only Debian and Debian-derivatives.

Maybe im wrong

Correct.

Some similarities but the main difference in my eyes is that Linus doesn’t have a permanent victim complex.

Unsurprising. You don’t have to follow Hector Martin on social media for very long to learn that he’s a petulant, indignant, self-righteous drama queen.

This is the SelfHosted community.

how do you know they are safe? who is auditing the binaries?

For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement

You’re posting this on the Fediverse and still recommending centralized corporate social media? We can do better than make the same mistakes again and again.

Try Mastodon as a Xitter replacement.

Friendica as a Facebook replacement.

And if you’re able and have transport, support your local businesses by buying products locally (especially independently owned stores), instead of ordering from Amazon.

If you have a Facebook, X or Amazon account, I hope you can find it in your heart to switch to one of their competitors. It’s worth a try.

I’ve been typing with 10 fingers for 3 years

That’s 30 finger-years!

For the most part, large open source projects are worked on by adults not children.

This is irrelevant to Linux kernel development.

The article seems like a rebuttal to a strawman argument to me.

You’d have to be pretty oblivious (or a non-software engineer) to express the premise of this article as an opinion.

The only interesting part to me was asking specifically what types of functionality are being delegated to libraries instead of (re-)implemented in the program itself. The author should ask this same question of some Rust and Javascript programs of similar size, so we can see if left-pad in Javascript is just a meme or if programmers armed with convenient package managers are delegating trivial one-liners to external libraries.

Stop recommending Ventoy! It’s a huge security risk and the author has not responded in 8 months.

sadly I pissed of some Gentoo devs on IRC #gentoo :(

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Informative and interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Quite a few of these POSIX improvements were new to me, even though it turns out that they already exist in the GNU versions of the tools.

Gentoo users in shambles

The binary blobs match which checksums? The ones provided by the ventoy developer?

GLIM is an alternative that’s much simpler (it just uses Grub configs) so it is easy to audit:

https://github.com/thias/glim

Please don’t continue to recommend Ventoy. It has serious and unanswered security questions hanging over it, and the developer seems to be completely AWOL.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

https://lemmy.ml/post/20404494

The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.

Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)