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FizzyOrange

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  • How Ruby Went Off the Rails

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  • I hope this encourages the remaining Ruby devs to move to languages that aren't quite so awful to work with. Even Python is significantly better at this point, now that uv has mostly solved the tooling disaster.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • I think it should support desktop computers too, but yes it's not really unreasonable in this day and age to expect working age people to have access to a smartphone or desktop. You need lots of other things to get a job anyway e.g. a bank account, postal address. Those are actually significantly worse requirements.

    "Think of the OAPs" is why it took literally decades to get online NHS appointments.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • Wait you want a physical card with no record of it? Like a deed from the 1800s or something? What?

    The government already has plenty of databases with the PII of every person in the UK. This wouldn't change that.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • We already have plenty of disparate digital IDs they can use for that. This won't change anything.

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • Exactly the same thing as if your phone breaks now and you want to access any of the government's online services. You have to buy a new one (or use a computer).

  • BritCard ID Now Mandatory — What Happens if You Refuse?

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  • Because the year is 2025 and we have this thing called "the internet" now. Why would you want a physical ID?

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

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  • No, an example where a modification to coreutils was open sourced by a commercial company that might otherwise not have.

    The GPL has been reasonably effective in some cases like the Linux kernel and KHTML at getting companies to release their modifications. But I don't see that as being significant for coreutils because a) most companies would have zero need to modify them, and b) they could just use the BSD versions if they really wanted.

  • The Finnish Marticulation Examination to move away from Linux-based exam enviroment due to perceived threat of dwindling support on student devices

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  • *matriculation

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

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  • Tell me one time when GNU coreutils being GPL has had any effect whatsoever.

  • Artix Linux drop support for GNOME

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  • Wow are there still SystemD naysayers? Mind boggling.

  • Open Source Infrastructure is Breaking Down Due to Corporate Freeloading

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  • I have. It just goes nowhere. The number of people you need to sign off what is essentially a donation is just too high. You always hit someone who says "why do we need to do this?" and the answer is "we don't".

    You need some actual benefit before most companies will actually pay money. It doesn't have to be huge though. Sometimes support is enough (as long as you don't also offer free support e.g. via GitHub issues). Phabricator did that and it seemed to work.

    Open core also definitely works. My company pays for GitHub premium because we need the features - primarily merge trains.

    They're very rarely going to donate out of the goodness of their hearts, and if you expect them to do that because you think they are morally obliged to then you're going to be disappointed.

  • When speaking up for Palestine gets you put on a list

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  • Pretty shocking. I don't think it's a surprise that there's more women on the list though. Probably just that women are more likely to protest this sort of thing. Same reason far right protests are all male.

    racialized people

    Is that the new "of colour"? Sounds a bit like something is being done to these poor people. Stop racializing them!

    Anyway good advert for the podcast. Goes to the top of my list.

  • Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo

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  • Yes but why will it take market share away from Google? I can't see why anyone would use it. It's going to be slower, less well supported and not even any more secure.

    Servo at least has potential upsides: better security and performance. But another C++ engine is never going to have either of those.

  • Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo

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  • Does it need another C++ browser engine though? I don't see what advantage this will possibly offer over just using Blink or WebKit.

  • The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200

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  • I think when they're just a bit faster (like twice as fast) they'll be viable as a desktop computer for most people which is pretty cool.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • Indeed, but there's no need to shit on people using floats because in almost all cases they are fine too.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • That is default IEEE behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Rounding_half_to_even

    This is the default rounding mode used in IEEE 754 operations for results in binary floating-point formats.

    Though it's definitely a bad default because it's so surprising. Javascript and Rust do not do this.

    Not really anything to do with determinism though.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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  • That doesn't make any sense. As you say, in that case you have to "spread leftovers", but that isn't really any more difficult with floats than integers.

    It's better to use integers, sure. But you're waaaay over-blowing the downsides of floats here. For 99% of uses f64 will be perfectly fine. Obviously don't run a stock exchange with them, but think about something like a shopping cart calculation or a personal finance app. Floats would be perfectly fine there.

  • We need to talk about your Github addiction

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