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Oracle won't relinquish JavaScript trademark, so the JS community prepares for court battle

techspot.com

In a nutshell: JavaScript is about to become a matter of legal proceedings between competing parties....
In a nutshell: JavaScript is about to become a matter of legal proceedings between competing parties. Oracle claims ownership of the trademark, but the company will now have to defend its questionable position in court as the community argues it needs to be genericized. The initial attempt to cancel Oracle's ownersh...

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Advanced Python Development Workflow in Emacs

serghei.pl

Emacs is not just an editor — it’s an extensible platform for crafting highly personalized development...
Emacs is not just an editor — it’s an extensible platform for crafting highly personalized development environments. With tools like company, yasnippet, lsp-mode and dap-mode, Emacs transforms into a feature-rich Python IDE capable of competing with PyCharm or VS Code. This guide explores how to evolve Emacs into a ...

emacs lsp python
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Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv

treyhunner.com

I frequently find myself writing my own short command-line scripts in Python that help me with...
I frequently find myself writing my own short command-line scripts in Python that help me with day-to-day tasks. It’s so easy to throw together a single-file Python command-line script and throw it in my ~/bin directory! Well… it’s easy, unless the script requires anything outside of the Python standard library. Rec...

python
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Hands-on graphics without X11

substack.com

Look at these two consoles:Side-by-side comparison of the NetBSD console right after boot vs. the EndBASIC...
Look at these two consoles:Side-by-side comparison of the NetBSD console right after boot vs. the EndBASIC console.Same font, same colors, same… everything? Other than for the actual text they display, they look identical, don’t they? But the one on the right can do things that the one on the left cannot. Witness th...

netbsd
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Learn Yjs by Jamsocket

yjs.dev

Welcome to Learn Yjs — an interactive tutorial series on building realtime collaborative applications using the...
Welcome to Learn Yjs — an interactive tutorial series on building realtime collaborative applications using the Yjs CRDT library. This very page is an example of a realtime collaborative application. Every other cursor in the garden above is a real live person reading the page right now. Click one of the plants to c...

distributed web
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Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution!

youtube.com

hardware networking science & technology video
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Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak - Hanno's blog

hboeck.de

A few days ago, a download link for a leak of configuration files for Fortigate/Fortinet devices...
A few days ago, a download link for a leak of configuration files for Fortigate/Fortinet devices was posted on an Internet forum. It appears that the data was collected in 2022 due to a security vulnerability known as CVE-2022-40684. According to a blog post by Fortinet in 2022, they were already aware of active exp...

cryptography security
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Logical replication in Postgres: Basics

enterprisedb.com

In this post we'll explore the basics of logical replication between two Postgres databases as both...
In this post we'll explore the basics of logical replication between two Postgres databases as both a user and a developer.BackgroundPostgres first implemented physical replication where it shipped bytes on disk from one database A to another database B. Database B would write those bytes right back to disk. But thi...

databases
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FOSDEM 2025 - Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025

fosdem.org

culture event
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Prototyping in Rust | corrode Rust Consulting

corrode.dev

Programming is an iterative process - as much as we would like to come up with...
Programming is an iterative process - as much as we would like to come up with the perfect solution from the start, it rarely works that way. Good programs often start as quick prototypes. The bad ones stay prototypes, but the best ones evolve into production code. Whether you’re writing games, CLI tools, or designi...

rust
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Linux KMS testing improvements · Maxime Ripard's Blog

mripard.dev

Graphics support in Linux has gone a long way. When the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) framework...
Graphics support in Linux has gone a long way. When the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) framework was first introduced, its main point was to allow concurrent submission of rendering jobs to a GPU. Since then, it gained: A display API and framework, Kernel Mode-Setting (KMS); Memory management capabilities through Tr...

linux testing
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Deploy code faster: with CI/CD and Kubernetes | Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) | Google Cloud

google.com

Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. SCENE 2: Jason on...
Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences. SCENE 2: Jason on a beach, dressed in ancient greek armor. Sword in hand, he battles skeletal warriors and a flying harpy. NARRATOR: In ancient times, he battled gods and monsters with his mighty band of argonauts... SCENE 3: Jaso...

devops linux
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What are you doing this weekend? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help...
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!

ask programming
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How I think about Zig and Rust

lewiscampbell.tech

Zig and Rust are the two great systems languages of our time, and discussions of their...
Zig and Rust are the two great systems languages of our time, and discussions of their respective merits generate a lot interest. But the usual arguments leave me wanting: "Rust is safer, but Zig is simpler" "Zig is a C replacement, Rust is a C++ replacement" "Zig is for super pragmatic people who want to get things...

rust zig
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Earthstar

earthstar-project.org

distributed
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A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter

jamesbvaughan.com

I received a surprising scammy email today, and I ended up learning some things about email...
I received a surprising scammy email today, and I ended up learning some things about email security as a result.Here’s the email:I was about to mark it as spam in Gmail and move on, but I noticed a couple things that intrigued me.At first glance, this appeared to be a legitimate PayPal invoice email. It looked like...

security
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core.async/doc/flow.md at master · clojure/core.async

github.com

clojure
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Improve Rust Compile Time by 108X

burn.dev

Before you get too excited, the techniques used to reduce compilation time are not applicable to...
Before you get too excited, the techniques used to reduce compilation time are not applicable to all Rust projects. However, I expect the learnings to be useful for any Rust developer who wants to improve their project's compilation time. Now that this is clarified, let's dive into the results. Results We started wi...

rust
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Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1) — 2025 — Blog — GNU Guix

gnu.org

community linux lisp nix user survey
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Packaging the Multipass Flutter GUI for NixOS

jnsgr.uk

The very first application I ever packaged in nixpkgs was Multipass. Multipass is, according to the...
The very first application I ever packaged in nixpkgs was Multipass. Multipass is, according to the website:a CLI to launch and manage VMs on Windows, Mac and Linux that simulates a cloud environment with support for cloud-init.I wrote in some detail about how I use Multipass and LXD on my workstation to create and ...

nix
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How do I internationalize my CMS?

dz4k.com

Denizen is a CMS for personal websites. I want to work on multi-language support – people...
Denizen is a CMS for personal websites. I want to work on multi-language support – people should be able to make websites and posts in any language they want. (My own blog is in English, Turkish, and Toki Pona – so this is a blocker for eating my dog food). Every aspect of this feels like something other people must...

ask web
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Laptop archeology – or – how to install NixOS 24.11 on a 25 year old laptop

mynacol.xyz

Earlier this year I brought an old laptop to my home my grandfather once gave. It...
Earlier this year I brought an old laptop to my home my grandfather once gave. It is a relict from roughly 1999, with which I’ve already played around some nine years ago.Prior to 38C3 I had the idea to bring it to the congress so people could mess around with it. In the end, I was the one messing around with it, fi...

nix nixos retrocomputing
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jwz: Exterminate all rational AI scrapers

jwz.org

ai
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Creating MIDI Music with Perl

perl.com

perl
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