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  • Sami Tikkanen on Rust, and on the dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils in it (without the GNU license)

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  • How will we stave off ecosystem takeover if not by taking its early signs seriously? At the start of every case of "Stallman Was Right" was a lot of presumption that, in the eyes of many, did not make a solid conclusion.

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Shares Video Advocating for a Ban on Gay Sex

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  • They really want people to stop talking about the Epstein files, huh?

  • The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

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  • As the saying goes, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think @floofloof@lemmy.ca summed things up pretty well here.

    Also, from my reply to that comment:

    As for the off-putting statements about ‘Rust people’: Since the article was published on March 19, I wonder if much of it, revolving around what the author saw as indications of authoritarianism, came from heavy disquiet in the face of authoritarianism’s recent gaining hold of the White house. I’d even consider it likely that people who post on Techrights have an above-average sensitivity for this kind of thing. It could be that the author has since arrived at a more differentiated and just view. Of note, since the time of his writing, the Rust project did remedy things that he criticized about their website.

  • The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

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  • Agree on everything. (As for the off-putting statements about 'Rust people': Since the article was published on March 19, I wonder if much of it, revolving around what the author saw as indications of authoritarianism, came from heavy disquiet in the face of authoritarianism's recent gaining hold of the White house. I'd even consider it likely that people who post on Techrights have an above-average sensitivity for this kind of thing. It could be that the author has since arrived at a more differentiated and just view. Of note, since the time of his writing, the Rust project did remedy things that he criticized about their website.)

  • The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

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    1. Your criticism omits the passages about usage of the MIT license over the GPL (the ones I quoted in the post). I haven't quoted the other parts of the article because they are not as substantial, but their being opinionated and questionable in what they say about 'Rust people' does not mitigate the recklessness of those who strive to create MIT-licensed replacements for GNU coreutils.
    2. Discord on the website of the Rust project: That's not a lie at all: it was the truth at the time of publication on March 19, and even as late as May (having been there for at least four years). So it appears that the Rust project has decided to drop Discord as an officially advertised channel. Good move. I would think that vocal criticism like the author's played a role in this.
    3. Rust forum telling users to use Firefox, Chrome or Safari, and refusing to be accessible by other browsers (however circumventible this may have been): How was this not a sign of flagrant disregard for free software and for people's right to use the web however the fuck they want to use it - or how they need to use it, in case of disabilities? (This antifeature doesn't seem to be in place anymore, but compare point 2.)

  • GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

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  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

    techrights.org /n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

    techrights.org /n/2025/03/19/Sami_Tikkanen_Explains_on_Rust_Language_and_Its_Goals.shtml
  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    The dangerous push by Canonical to rewrite GNU coreutils as Rust code without the GNU license

    techrights.org /n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml

  • About to throw my first install party, any tips?

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  • You can encourage your target audience to back up their important data upfront in order to save them a couple of hours at the beginning of your party. But also try to bring plenty of external drives as others here have suggested already.

  • Summer of Making: a temporary rewards program sponsored by GitHub to get minors to make coding projects

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  • "The only requirement is that you share your progress and log your hours." So participants are free to choose how they log their hours?

  • Google is only free if your time has no value

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  • Very specifically for learning about GNU/Linux and Unix, I highly recommend the book Classic Shell Scripting by Arnold Robbins and Nelson Beebe (O'Reilly Media, 2005).

    ISBN: 9780596005955

    I recently wrote the following about it in a post:

    This book is extremely readable and gives a very good introduction to the various standard Unix shell commands (grep, sed, awk, tr, sort, to name but a few) and how to tie them together to do useful things. It’s very suitable if you have some experience with the command line at the level of individual commands but now want to see how to do construct more interesting pipelines and scripts. It includes an introduction to regular expressions. The fact that the book is already 20 years certainly means that some explanations and approaches are outdated, but since shell programming is at the core about text processing, almost all contents of the book are still highly relevant today.

  • OSHW - Open Source Hardware @scribe.disroot.org
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    Researchers launch open-source robotic exoskeleton to help people walk

    techxplore.com /news/2025-06-source-robotic-exoskeleton-people.html
  • Web Development @programming.dev
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    Things I would like every young web engineer to learn (Toot by Alex Russell)

    toot.cafe /@slightlyoff/114734591135486998

  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • Or get a used thin client (e. g. HP T620, T630, T640 or Dell Wyse 5070). Cost: ~40-100$. Biggest advantage: Passive cooling, i. e. they're absolutely quiet.

  • OSHW - Open Source Hardware @scribe.disroot.org
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    Reviving the Spirit of Open Science Hardware: Highlights from the 2025 Open Hardware Summit

    gerritniezen.com /reviving-the-spirit-of-open-science-hardware-highlights-from-the-2025-open