bero

Linux/Open Source developer, and the 2-legged pet of 2 dogs.

[bero @berolinux]

@xtheeq @awesomekling No, people who vote for Qt over GTK tend to be the ones who have read the code of both.

[bero @berolinux]

@piyush784066 https://t.co/Z26GAxWPrQ -- the one that even removes spyware from browsers.

[bero @berolinux]

@LundukeJournal Don't forget: Tomorrow is People-who-believe-there-are-only-two-genders-and-you-are-what-you-are-born-as visibility day.
Thanks to contributors of all groups; those of tomorrow's group are too big to list.

[bero @berolinux]

@the_ev_juice @LundukeJournal What safety? By not supporting proper shared libraries and instead copying specific old versions of microlibraries everywhere,Rust is the worst security nightmare I've come across. No more "library fixed, .so file updated,problem solved." With Rust, you have to rebuild the world

[bero @berolinux]

@xapt33 We'd definitely like to hear of any problems

[bero @berolinux]

@Joes1Neuron @LundukeJournal https://t.co/Z26GAxWPrQ -- We never joined the madness so we don't have to revert it. Having a master branch in a repository is roughly as racist as having a master's degree means you're qualified to have slaves.

[bero @berolinux]

@xapt33 @LundukeJournal https://t.co/Z26GAxWPrQ -- we won't get into the whole CoC mess.

[bero @berolinux]

@Existsindeath @LundukeJournal Rust is not fine, because it (currently) has no concept of shared libraries, potentially causing massive security problems (fix a security bug in a core library and it'll only be fixed after you rebuild the world). But the kernel is the one component where this doesn't matter.

[bero @berolinux]

@LundukeJournal Nice! Looks like another project to borrow code from if and when more core projects become too rusty.
I wonder how they'll deal with Rust creeping into Mesa and the likes.

[bero @berolinux]

@beakbang @LundukeJournal He isn't wrong, but he is probably looking in the wrong direction. It is indeed scary: Like Hitler, some elements in Germany like shutting down dissenting opinions. Or planning war with Russia. But the ones doing that are often not the ones getting (mis?)labeled as "Nazis"

[bero @berolinux]

@LundukeJournal The guy is not entirely wrong - but he isn't seeing the danger where it actually is. A real danger to Open Source comes from political entities like the EU or the Bidenists who impose sanctions that e.g. shut out contributors for the "crime" of living in Russia. LF went along.

[bero @berolinux]

@Vasen_Kasi @LundukeJournal Open Source works great in today's Russia (which is not the tyranny many Western media wants to paint it as, even if it's not perfect) - it wasn't really around in Soviet times because the connectivity needed for it to really allow contributing didn't exist.

[bero @berolinux]

@OpenMandrivaOrg is pleased to announce the launch of the most expensive marketing program in history at #FOSDEM

[bero @berolinux]

Demos at @OpenMandrivaOrg 's #FOSDEM booth: OpenMandriva on regular PCs, @Arm v9 boards and @AMD BC-250. @risc_v and Loongarch64 are in the works and should be ready for next FOSDEM.

[bero @berolinux]

After a few years of not getting a booth, @OpenMandrivaOrg will be at #FOSDEM in Brussels today and tomorrow. Drop by of you're in the region!

[bero @berolinux]

@kakarPathan_ There's multiple valid answers.
At least 95 (previous number*2+1) and 83 (5 is the 3rd prime number, 11 the 3+2=5th, 23 the 5+4=9th, 47 the 9+6=15th, 83 the 15+8=23th)

[bero @berolinux]

@LundukeJournal Funny how this is becoming reality -- just last year, we were talking about making an April Fools announcement saying OpenMandriva will drop all desktops in favor of "wine explorer.exe" and running as many non-free M$ applications from there as possible.
Reality beat us to it.

[bero @berolinux]

@PedroTFilosofia @LundukeJournal Greg is the likely succesor.They're probably not naming names because the chances of Greg being hit by a bus earlier are not 0. (Or, for those more conspiracy minded: They want Linus to believe it'll be Greg to get him to agree, but when the bus comes, will hand it to Bill Gates)

[bero @berolinux]

@Cenkerzkan2 @LundukeJournal Plus, it is all about big business and does exactly nothing to rise awareness of Linux for home users (any real Linux foundation deserving the name would at least try to take care of the grassroots and big business at the same time).

[bero @berolinux]

@Cenkerzkan2 @LundukeJournal It rakes in a lot of money, but spends little on development and other things Linux needs. And it is common for "Linux" foundation execs to tell others they should be using Linux - in a presentation done with MS PowerPoint on MacOS. Eat your own dogfood!