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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-09-24 20:42:05

from my link log —
Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0 next year.
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094575
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Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0
The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so cha [...]

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-07-25 15:54:31

RE: fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/116980915648
Interesting in the glibc release notes it mentions the core-math project that does proved-accurate, fast maths routines which are now getting integrated in loads of places, including glibc:

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-09-24 17:03:56

Looking forward to #Git 2.56 — and 3.0
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094575

Looking forward to Git 2.56 — and 3.0
The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so cha [...]

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-09-15 14:42:05

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Stabilizing Rust's never type.
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1091015
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Stabilizing Rust's never type
A function's return type is supposed to indicate the kind of data that it produces. Rust's 'n [...]

@ber@social.tchncs.de
2026-09-03 09:44:46

RE: fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/117197155183
LWN is raising its subscription prices for 20% to make up for the inflation of the last 5 years.
If you don't know it yet:

@janneke@todon.nl
2026-09-02 19:07:12

Grand coverage of on @… by Jake Edge of Timothy Samplet's talk at FOSSY about bootstrappable builds, The Full Source Bootstrap, Trusting Trust, GNU Mes, GNU Guix and Germ.
lwn.net/Articles/1088279/

Bootstrappable builds: how and why
This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference, better known as 'FO [...]

@neverpanic@chaos.social
2026-08-29 10:12:02

RE: fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/117178103363
Some good hard numbers on AI crawlers that show why the small open web (i.e. without a login wall) is dying at the hand of AI companies.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-12 11:42:04

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An update on residential proxies and the web scraper situation.
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1080822
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An update on the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-08-04 23:19:55

RE: fedi.lwn.net/@lwn/117039738998
Wtf were these guys doing running models (with guards disabled!) loose on an internet connected system for a cyber challenge?!
I mean at least in the case of Anthropic and OpenAIs escapes they were screwups; …

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-08-07 08:42:02

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Merkle trees and build systems with OSTree and ninja.
lwn.net/Articles/821367/
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Merkle trees and build systems
In traditional build tools like Make, targets and dependencies are always files. Imagine if you [...]

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-01 11:42:03

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New features in gnuplot 5.4.
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New features in gnuplot 5.4
Gnuplot 5.4 has been released, three years after the last major release of the free-software [...]

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-07-31 11:42:04

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Progress toward compiling Rust in the Linux kernel with gccrs.
lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1083202
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Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
The gccrs project, which is creating a Rust frontend for the GCC compiler, has spent the firs [...]