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refalo

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  • 2026 is THE year of the linux desktop

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  • lol, lmao even

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • What I've seen lead to success:

    • Arrogance
    • Overconfidence
    • Schmoozing with the right people
    • Doing flashy work, whatever that means in a given situation

    What I have seen lead to failure or, at best, being undervalued and ignored:

    • Caring about teammates and your future self
    • Caring about the end user and the business itself, when it conflicts with something sales, marketing, or a PM want
    • Creating resilient, well-engineered systems

    It's the same problem as anywhere else. Well-crafted systems are invisible and taken for granted. Saving the day by putting out a fire is applauded, even when you're the one who laid out the kindling and matches. Managers at all levels care about their own ego more than the company, product, or team.

    Maybe I just spent too much time with ex-Microsoft hacks.

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • Sorry but I have no idea what you're talking about... and I wasn't referring to any specific company

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don't know.

    I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people... you don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

  • Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

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  • Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed

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  • Still no full-duplex?

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  • No idea it was just a possible theory

  • Better than JSON

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  • I find it surprising that JSON is so omnipresent when there are far more efficient alternatives

    Do you also find it surprising that different types of food exist? /s

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  • If Firefox dies then they don't have to pay their anti-monopoly bribe money.

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  • Sega Channel was also available in Canada through Shaw Cable, in some parts of the United Kingdom on certain cable services, in Chile on the defunct Metropolis cable company, and in Argentina on a national TCI branch, Cablevisión TCI, and in Australia on Austar and the now defunct Galaxy.

    https://www.avid.wiki/Sega_Channel

    Also parts of The Netherlands.

  • PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP

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  • Is Signal safe?

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  • It is best to assume that any private US company is compromised in this way

    I would say that's ridiculous for most people, but I guess it entirely depends on your threat model... if you're legitimately worried about state-level boogeymen, you've probably got bigger problems and already know all of this.

  • New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

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  • So then it's not really a blanket "no-AI" rule if it can't be enforceable if it's good enough? I suppose the rule should have been "no obviously bad AI" or some other equally subjective thing?

  • GUI library for C?

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  • I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful

    I found the Qt documentation to be quite excellent, with tons of examples and a huge community.

    But for C I typically use nuklear. There's also microui.

  • Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro

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  • It's not, labels were always written that way. They went into a box where the slide was facing down so the label was always visible at the top.

  • Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro

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  • besides uncompressing itself, there will be other info that is needed at runtime that requires dynamic memory allocation beyond the size of the kernel itself, like hardware/memory maps, framebuffers, filesystem/networking stuff, caches etc.

  • New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

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  • How is AI-generated content detected and what is the process for disputing such claims?

  • US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal

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  • Besides the fact that I highly doubt this will ever pass...

    I think if it did, it would greatly increase the adoption of decentralized platforms.

    If websites become responsible for user-generated content, they will just refuse to allow user-generated content in the first place, leading to an explosion in alternative services that are not beholden to the actions of one company that could be compelled to act a certain way.

  • Is Signal safe?

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  • If your worried about us intelligence monitoring traffic then it’s not a good fit

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