As a non-programmer who works very closely with a programmer, I was doing a bit of reading and found this little piece of text that made me laugh, hard.
"Python and Go pick up your trash for you. C lets you litter everywhere, but throws a fit when it steps on your banana peel. Rust slaps you and demands that you clean up after yourself."
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Attached: 1 image #FOSDEM 2025 🇧🇪 - here we come! This weekend, we’ll keep a stand at FOSDEM’25 event in #brussels to connect & chat ! Free event at the @ULBruxelles@mastodon.online.Mastodon
When love is in the air, it's time to put it down on paper. If you ever find yourself having trouble thinking of Valentine's Day or anniversary gift ideas, how about sending your sweetie pie a billet-www.merriam-webster.com
Bývalý švédský premiér přirovnal Trumpův telefonát Putinovi k mnichovské zradě v roce 1938
Evropští politici nesouhlasí se zprávami o komunikaci mezi americkým prezidentem Donaldem Trumpem a ruským prezidentem Vladimirem Putinem o mírovém urovnání na Ukrajině. Carl Bildt, bývalý švédský premiér a spolupředseda Evropské rady pro zahraniční vztahy, identifikoval telefonický rozhovor mez...
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Evropští politici nesouhlasí se zprávami o komunikaci mezi americkým prezidentem Donaldem Trumpem a ruským prezidentem Vladimirem Putinem o mírovém urovnání...Britské listy
Once seen as the man to oust Trudeau, voters are now looking for someone to take on Trump.Craig Wallace (Metroland Media)
Actions have raised concerns among immigration advocates, who argue that policies lack transparency and could violate due process rightsAline Barros (Voice of America (VOA News))
The Trump administration blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event. It's part of an ongoing terminology dispute over the Gulf of Mexico.DAVID BAUDER (AP News)
Amid the U.S. trade war with Canada a new app has rocketed up the Canadian App Store charts to make shopping for Canadian goods easier.Brad Bennett (MobileSyrup)
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The Netherlands relies heavily on American IT service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon for the storage of government data.IO+
📢 Great News: Walmart Access Pilot Extended!
Explorers, we have exciting news—the Walmart Access Pilot Program has been extended! 🎉 That means you can continue using both location-based and online Walmart offers until further notice. This program has already made a huge impact, helping Explorers across all 50 states shop with greater independence and ease.
Your participation can help shape the future of inclusive programs like this one. Let’s keep the momentum going and show why #AccessForAll matters! 🚀
Partnership Details: bit.ly/airaxwalmart.
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
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A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.aresluna.org
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Volg de debatten van de Tweede Kamer live met extra debat- en sprekersinformatie via Debat Direct.debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl
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@prav is on Google Play Store!
Thanks to @VishnuSanal and @mj for all their efforts to get this on the Play Store.
You can see an incomplete list of all the people who contribute to Prav at prav.app/credits/ (if you are missing or know someone else is missing in the list or your information is incomplete, feel free to send a pull request).
#prav #xmpp #FreeSoftware
Oh geez
"The DOGE website is wide open and vulnerable to hackers, according to reporting from 404 Media. Two coders had already infiltrated the site and left their own messages on it at the time of 404’s reporting on Thursday evening: “THis is a joke of a .gov site,” said one, and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN -roro” said another." yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-…
russia vilely invaded the territory of my native Ukraine. Their soldiers are killing children, women, old people. They are destroying cities and villages. Help to defend my Motherland, donate to Ukrainian Armed Forces: savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en
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Come Back Alive Foundation raises funds to help Ukrainian Army. You can donate to Ukraine Army from anywhere in the world via card payments, wire transfers, swift or crypto.savelife.in.ua
I served with some “high speed” women over the course of my 21 1/2 years in the Army Guard that included a deployment with female troops to a pretty “hot” combat zone in Iraq during 2004. This REALLY pisses me off.
“The Army and Navy just deleted web pages honoring women’s military service—falling in line with Trump’s DEI purge.
This isn’t about readiness. It’s about erasing the contributions of women who served and sacrificed for this country.
Shameful.” - VoteVets
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In an attempt to align with President Trump’s termination of DEI initiatives, the Army and Navy have taken down web pages highlighting women's service.Claire Barrett (Military Times)
After years of hard work, countless reviews, and tons of community testing, we're happy to share that dynamic buffering has landed in Mutter for GNOME 48!
This improves the smoothness of GNOME across a wide range of hardware and software setups.
Thanks to everyone involved in this collaboration! Special thanks to author Daniel van Vugt from Canonical and reviewers Jonas Ådahl and Michel Dänzer from Red Hat.
Read more in This Week in GNOME: thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
#GNOME #OpenSource #Linux
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.thisweek.gnome.org
So you fixed and replaced all your constant error messages with something actually useful, right?
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great!
How about dropping all and anything AI and start implementing some very basic programming practices, such as removing all constant error messages? Offering declarative configuration? Exporting configuration. Expose internals and offer a programmable, hackable UI?chaos.social/@Natanox/11393991…
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What an incredible week! Shell notification grouping, Mutter triple buffering - and so much more! 🥳
Check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!
#187 Triple Buffered Notifications
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Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from February 07 to February 14.thisweek.gnome.org
Welcome to the RB family, PObY-A 🥳
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PObY-A (Privacy Owned by You - Android) is an application which aim to help Android users to improve security and privacy of their devices.
Thanks to the help of its author, A-YATTA, this app finally is RB 
RB stats: 447 apps (35.8%)
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
scanner to help improve privacy and malware detectionIzzyOnDroid App Repo
We Need to Talk About Anti-Web Coding Assistants
It's time. We can't ignore this massive threat to the continuing health of this platform we all love.
@vale has done a deep dive into what the bots think is the state-of-the-art of #WebDev and…uh, it's alarming. 😬
We can, *and we must*, expect better of the tools being thrust in our faces as the future of “whatever”.
#ProCraft
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It’s time. We can’t ignore this massive threat to the continuing health of this platform we all love.That HTML Blog
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Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕
Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.
Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.
This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.
Without further ado, THANK YOU to:
Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.
I am super sorry if I forgot someone!
#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz
Information and insights concerning the configuration and maintenance of Tommi’s server.Tommi (Tommi’s mind)
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The world needs secure communication more than ever, as a bulwark against the surveillance, authoritarianism, and oppression increasingly enabled by Big Tech. Matrix seeks to meet that need, as an open source, decentralised, encrypted comms protocol.
But Trust & Safety is more difficult in a decentralised environment. How are we building a safer Matrix?
matrix.org/blog/2025/02/buildi…
#Matrix #Security #Privacy #TrustAndSafety #OpenSource #FOSS
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJim Mackenzie, VP Trust & Safety — The Matrix.org Foundation (matrix.org)
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Jinak hlásím, že dorazil nový monitor z reklamace a na reklamaci odjel Pixel 8 u kterého se po měsíci používání vypálil pixel.
Do toho oprava Octavky za 16 tisíc a to je teprve únor. 😀
Na autě to byla oprava volící páky.
Happy feast day of Cyril & Methodius, everyone!
We celebrate their day every year as a non-denominational Feb 14 alternative of languages, learning, and books. Want to learn a new alphabet or tell a linguist you appreciate their work? Today's the day!
Find out more:
exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?…
#CyrilAndMethodius #CyrilAndMethodiusDay #ValentinesDay #linguistics #language
@tardis Yes, we're using the Catholic/western feast date rather than the Orthodox one (not out of any particular bias towards the western church, just because this whole thing for us started when someone on our forum went "hey what other saints are there for alternatives to Valentine" about 10 years ago so we started from the day!)
There's also multiple different May dates on which they're celebrated and Czechia & Slovakia have a bonus day in July apparently! They hop around the calendar a fair bit :)
@badger's video on the delightfully low-tech release process of curl is a great friday morning watch.
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Daniel makes the curl 8.12.0 release. Shows how a curl release is done. This is the 264th curl release. Shows the scripts, the procedures and the general pro...YouTube
This Is the Age of the Coward
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The Age of the Coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind.Joan Westenberg (The Index.)
> The Joy of Capitulation: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Boot.
😂
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in reply to Jamie Teh • • •@jcsteh Interesting perspective. I think it's fair to say that, in cumulative working hours, you've spent more time immersed in C++ than I have. In my Serotek days, I used C and C++ as little as possible, and yes, System Access's performance might have suffered some as a result. I admit that when I joined Microsoft, I was a bit incredulous that Narrator really was written all in C++, and interns even prototyped new features in C++. So maybe I was more open to learning the Rust way?
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in reply to Jamie Teh • • •@jcsteh To actually answer your point though, yeah, I guess the rules around ownership, borrowing, and mutability required some relearning, though certainly not relearning how to program from scratch. I feel it's been worth it, but I know others may not.
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