that’s diabolical

Might I remind you that what you call “socialism” is generally called “basic human rights” in the rest of the developed world?

Europe is not socialist by any means, nor is Japan, nor is the UK, but they all have reasonably priced healthcare and education, varying degrees of help for the homeless, etc.
Not having children starve in school because their family is poor is not socialism, it’s basic decency.
Not being forever in debt because of a medical complication you likely had no control over is not socialism, it’s basic decency.

Providing services that make everyone’s life better is not socialism, nor is properly regulating what corporations and billionaires can and cannot do, it’s a reasonable middle ground with seems to elude you and many of your compatriots.

You Americans need to understand that, despite the decades of propaganda you’ve been fed, your country is woefully behind compared to the rest of the world. If you want it to get better, you need to set aside your prejudice towards “leftist” (and I mean it in the lightest sense of the word, even the right-most of right-wing parties abroad doesn’t wish to eliminate public healthcare) policies, or you’ll be stuck being the richest third world country for the rest of time.

If you think I have any interest in personal squabbles over 8 lines of code, I don’t.
That meme at the start was directed at your argument, not you in particular; those are not the same thing. I apologise if it came across as personal to you, but it wasn’t meant to be. Notice how I immediately went to discuss the actual topic with no further “personal attacks” until you decided to get pissy with your next comment. Had you just shrugged and actually wrote your counterpoint instead, that would’ve been the end of it. You didn’t. Just… you know, if you wanna go around being snarky on the internet, be prepared to receive some snark back as well.

With that said, I think the argument about uutils’ license is a much more sound one. As a matter of fact I expressed the same concern a over year ago, albeit in a much less elaborate fashion: https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23171431/13400085 (Which of course I didn’t expect you to dig up because that’d be absurd)
I’m not a big fan of uutils, believe it or not. It’s not nearly as stable as they tout it to be, they broke cp recently as an example, and it’s is generally not a step in the right direction IMO. Still, the fact that uutils may be ill conceived doesn’t invalidate the fact that relying on public, official, C APIs is perfectly reasonable. Both can be true.
Had this post been about the license instead of “oh look the hypocrites use C APIs in the end” as if there was any alternative, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.

Still not my kind of jam

there’s only one person here being butthurt about this whole situation and trying to be confrontational and it ain’t me.

coreutils has lots of stuff in it, there’s going to be trivial stuff in it as well, which has to be programmed if one wants to make a full rewrite. I don’t get what the big deal is. how is that sabotaging free software in any way?

Okay this is definitely a side effect I won’t be having…

Mine was more of a general statement. There’s definitely some actual business logic in coreutils that can benefit from being written in a memory safe language of some kind. I find complaining about getting a simple string using C APIs on a C based OS to be a pointless critique. That’s not cannibalizing C APIs, it’s making use of the only thing that’s available.

I’m sorry but you sound like this:

(Not a Rust zealot to be clear, if something works and is fast enough idc what it’s written in)

To be fair, I doubt there’s much that can be done about having to use C interfaces when interacting with Linux itself.

that’s not what I’m called

afaik it is. I haven’t tested it thoroughly but it looks stable enough for general use. some games don’t work though, so I don’t know if maybe some applications might have the same issues

nvk looks promising but there’s still a lot of work to do. it’s getting better, still it’s nowhere near the NVIDIA’s proprietary drivers in terms of performance: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-70-nouveau

Frankly I think Audacity was in dire need of polishing. People may not like this redesign but the original one wasn’t great, especially for new users. With that said, the new icom looks absolutely hideous imo. It has no personality whatsoever.

Nooo release the blahaice cream

The dragon on the left are two halves, each speaks independently.

Edit: wow autocorrect really butchered it huh

BREAKING NEWS: GNOME developer cannot accept people doing things differently than the GNOME team. More at eleven.

JavaScript doesn’t have a few bad decisions baked into it, it’s an absolute minefield. It was made for one thing and one thing only: making simple scripts for web pages. Anything beyond that and it becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. I honesty have no idea why devs are so hellbent on using it everywhere. Putting such an unreliable dynamic language, with absolutely no safety guards when it comes to type checking and serialization, on bare metal hardware is not something I’d ever consider in good conscience. Maybe it could be used for some IoT devices, but that’s it, definitely not for something that interfaces with machinery or anything more than something like a display. TinyGo sounds like an infinitely better pick if someone wants to use a garbage collected language on an embedded device.

Impressive, but we should stop trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. If there’s one thing the world doesn’t need is JavaScript in more places.

No but I can close the air duct just above my soft palate (not really sure what that part is called), so effectively I can’t breathe through my nose but if I were to go underwater water would still get in, if that makes any sense. I’m not sure if this is common. I know that that part is supposed to close automatically while swallowing to prevent food from going up in the nasal cavity, but idk how common it is to be able to control it separately. It’s handy to avoid smells without using my hands though :)

It sure is