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    Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software · Issue #929 · RsyncProject/rsync

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  • People use this community, among other things, to stay informed about what's happening with open source software. rsync, possibly among the top 0.1% of software used for system administration in Linux land, starting to use AI in its development is certainly noteworthy. Linking to an issue where people can voice their (anti-AI) opinion, contained within that one issue, is hardly worth getting upset over. Unless.. you know.. you'd rather people stand by and let it happen.

    I think it's better to try and convince the developers to pivot away from AI. Only if that doesn't work out, does it make sense to consider a fork. Forks do mean more work overall, still done for free, and the new maintainers will not have the same experience, as you said yourself.

  • How does iodéOS (iodé-tech) work?

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  • Yeah, but it had a locked bootloader before that. So I was just adding that some phones have a procedure for that. (I had to get a unique unlock code from the Fairphone website, as far as I remember.) Not many, but they exist.

  • How does iodéOS (iodé-tech) work?

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  • Well, to be fair, I did in the past unlock my Fairphone's bootloader, and then re-lock it as per the iodéOS instructions. But, presumably, that only works with certain devices and certain OSes?

  • Developer makes the same game twice in Unity and Godot after struggling to choose an engine, delivering detailed comparison of the pros and cons

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  • Unity firing up a full modern toolchain

    It's funny you say that because Unity's C# tooling is soooo many years behind. They're still using Mono. (Godot also used it in the past.) And apparently only some time this year (end of 2026?) will they have proper modern C# with all its performance benefits.

    edit: Actually I just found this in a related article (unsure about whether it's slop or not, so not gonna link it) but apparently the horrible compile times is from something called "Domain Reload" and is caused exactly by that ancient tooling being used.

  • Developer makes the same game twice in Unity and Godot after struggling to choose an engine, delivering detailed comparison of the pros and cons

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  • In Grové’s tests, Unity took 15.4 seconds to compile scripts, while Godot Engine took just 0.31 seconds, which is a significant gap. This is likely due to Unity’s standard use of the compiled language C#, whereas Godot uses its interpreted in-house language GDScript, allowing for much faster iteration times.

    Both C# and GDScript are (typically) compiled to bytecode, so they are probably more similar than they are different when it comes to the compilation step. (C# does get compiled to native machine code by the .NET runtime, the GDScript bytecode is likely still running in an optimized interpreter.) There is no excuse why Unity should be taking that long to compile its scripts. Certainly that's not a failure of the language used.

  • Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996

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  • Xenia will forever be the true Linux mascot in my heart.

  • Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996

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  • be the change you want to see in the world

  • huh. didn't expect that

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  • That makes sense, but what's the alternative here? Linux is freedom, so that means freedom to run / install anything you want, including malware if you're not careful. Maybe if you discourage people from using the AUR, they will install it through other means, like a developer-provided Flatpak or AppImage. But if that's not available or doesn't work, then it's nothing (= sad user), or you're back to "Google, then download an .exe the first thing you can run" or just curl | sh. Is that better? (Assuming we're still talking about the kind of people who would skip vetting what they install.)

  • huh. didn't expect that

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  • If I learned anything with Steam it's to never install it as a Flatpak.

  • huh. didn't expect that

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  • I keep hearing this claim online but the Arch bible (which you really should be familiar with if you use Arch) and pretty much everyone that knows anything will tell you that the AUR is useful, but not something to blindly use. I recommend everyone check the PKGBUILD, verify the source URLs are correct, and check the diffs when updating. It's not that much effort.

    And since it comes from a single (user) package repository, you'll probably have hundreds of people doing the same, or even going a step or two further and looking into the code, reporting the package if anything bad is going on. Still miles better than downloading .exe files you find from a Google search, even if you were lazy and didn't do the aforementioned checks. (But if you don't do that, you should probably just use Flatpaks or similar.)

  • Benefit of AI?

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  • I already left !programming@programming.dev because I was sick of seeing AI related posts. I would appreciate it if this didn't also become a place where people talk about AI constantly, whether it's related to FOSS or not. My ask is: Move the AI related posts to an AI-adjacent community or create one. Perhaps I'm not the only one who shares this wish.

  • Separate community for AI coding?

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  • Not a perfect analogy, but as far as a lot of people's sentiment goes, it would be more in line with a world in which only vegan cooking methods existed, but some people discovered that you could also eat animals. In which case it would be very understandable that recipes involving meat should not be discussed in existing cooking related communities.

  • Separate community for AI coding?

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  • I've been tempted to make my own thread on this. There's too many AI related posts and I, personally, really don't want to see them. So for me it's really a question of whether to introduce a rule to disallow AI related posts (and move them to a dedicated community), or me having to stop participating in this community altogether.

  • Hytale has arrived in Early Access with Linux support

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  • And according to their own server manual, they might be supporting in-game pay shops for servers in the future.

    Future Additions – Integrated Payment System

    A payment gateway built into the client that servers can use to accept payments from players. Optional but encouraged.

    So I'm happy to wait to see how hard they're going to be pushing this and MTX in general ...

  • If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop?

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  • While it's nice to just avoid the clickbait while enjoying potentially genuinely good videos, I ended up uninstalling the extension. I want to explicitly avoid clickbait, and focus on encouraging and supporting creators that don't use it. Also, if I end up unknowingly interacting with too many clickbait-y videos, I worry the algorithm will push me more of that.

  • It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"

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  • Nice straw man.

  • why the code is not working?

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  • My recommendations would be:

    • Do not rely on GC.Collect() in any real program code. Just let the GC do its thing.
    • If you need guarantees about when the destructor (or equivalent) is called, use the dispose pattern and use a using statement or declaration explicitly so Dispose gets called as soon as possible.

     cs
        
class DestructorDemo : IDisposable
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public DestructorDemo(string name)
    {
        Name = name;
        Console.WriteLine($"demo object {Name} constructed");
    }
    public void Dispose()
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"demo object {Name} disposed");
    }
}

using var obj1 = new DestructorDemo("obj1");

using (var obj2 = new DestructorDemo("obj2"))
{
    Console.WriteLine("Press key to dispose 'obj2'");
    Console.ReadKey();
    // obj2 goes out of scope at the end of the block
    // this will automatically call `.Dispose()` on it
}

Console.WriteLine("Press key to dispose 'obj1' and exit");
Console.ReadKey();

// obj1 goes out of scope here

    Note that this code is just to showcase the using keyword (in relation to IDisposable). If you want to implement the disposable pattern properly you should look at the help article I linked. Such as making sure that Dispose is called even if the object is naturally garbage collected, that is if you forget to use using. (I also didn't check the validity of the code but it should get the idea across.)

  • Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

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  • I can understand that way of thinking, but

    • you're at risk of becoming dependent, and not building the understanding you'll need to make something that matters
    • many things start out as hobby projects that end up mattering after all

    Computers have become more complicated than when he learned to code and was "typing in programs from computer magazines." Vibe coding, he said, is a great way for people to "get computers to do something that maybe they couldn't do otherwise."

    But the equivalent would be to take tutorials, examples and small open source projects and tinkering with them, rather than asking a machine to do it for you, no? I guess we'll have to see how this affects young / beginner programmers going forward. I'd rather be careful than just hoping it all works out fine.

  • xkcd #3163: Repair Video

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  • Or worse, "nevermind, fixed it".

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    P2P WhatsApp Clone

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  • Selhosting and a vpn are optional depending on your use case; the app works with niether to help users try it out and get started. Like all secure messaging apps, its better to selfhost given the option.

    I'd say self-hosting is done for control over your data, not security. A typical end user will not know how to self-host, how to pick a privacy-respecting VPN, let alone secure their system. If your aim is to get to that same level of security, then I feel like the current direction is flawed, at least from what I took away from the readme.

    Or, in other words, "self-hosting is more secure given the option" sounds kind of like "writing your own software is more secure".

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