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Which language is it written in and with which framework?
No. Libraries will always be useful. Not everyone has the credits to generate the tokens necessary to rewrite every lib in existence.
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Linux@programming.dev•Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong
21·5 days agoWhy do you need to do research for GPL? It’s the OG opensource license AFAIK that forces users to also opensource their stuff. MIT let’s anybody close source your code and make money with it.
GPL isn’t perfect as it doesn’t solve the funding problem, but MIT is about the worst thing one can do for opensource: do the work for companies, for free, and be OK with never contributing back to the opensource ecosystem.
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Linux@programming.dev•Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls WrongEnglish
31·6 days agoBut why MIT? How come that became the default? Why not GPL? Is Microslop Github suggesting MIT by default?
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Linux@programming.dev•Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣
19·6 days agoOr maybe not so curious…
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Linux@programming.dev•Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong
51·6 days agoI don’t understand what’s going on with the rust community insisting on cuck licences. Do they love writing on their Mac books so much?
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Linux@programming.dev•Not Kidding! Bash Shell Manual is Part of Epstein Files 🫣
43·6 days agoAre they just dumping stuff into the Epstein files, hoping that it will artificially bloat its size and scare of potential readers? “OMG, 3 million pages? There’s no way I’m reading that”.
Wouldn’t that be like an obstruction of justice?
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
2·7 days agoIt’s been a while since I left the forums, but there always seems to be drama and something going on. I didn’t the community to be very helpful and inviting. It left a very bad taste in my mouth and in mostly avoid it. Now I ask LLMs to whip something up when in need it.
At least as long as you don’t really need WiFi of course…
I thought that was a solved problem on Linux. Is it the reluctance to use binary blobs?
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
1·7 days agoFor some reason, stuff like libre wolf isn’t in the guix repo. Not even Firefox. It’s very confusing.
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
21·7 days agoI’m not that much a fan of brackets and jumping through hoops to install anything non-GNU.
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
2·7 days agoWell, I’m not in Microslop platforms, so that’s going to be difficult.
Second, the way things work in the current nix/nixos community make it easy to create a PR but very difficult to get it merged. Attempts at writing documentation are nitpicked to death, unless you belong to the privileged class of the documentation team or have merge rights on Microslop’s Github.
A fork would also give an attempt at forming a new community with different rules and focus.
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
3·7 days agoI haven’t yet found out where its major differences lie. And it seems like they haven’t taken a firm stance on flakes (yes or no). They also only forked the interpreter, not nixpkgs. A good step, but their documentation wasn’t good, the last time I checked.
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
2·7 days agoIf only the battles were about software. They are about unrelated beliefs and political ideologies. I’d very much prefer ideological battles about software trust me.
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Programming@programming.dev•Senior Software Engineer job (various languages)
1·7 days agoThis is a good question. It isn’t clear from the job ad.
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Linux@programming.dev•NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh
401·10 days agoDamn right. And the Nixos community forums are full of people unwilling to accept this. They will gaslight you into thinking you’re the problem. “Just do this”, as I’d it’s completely obvious and you’re dumb for not realising that. Of course if they find out you have some ideological incompatibility with them, you’re out anyway.
NIXOS really needs a fork. One that embraces or rejects flakes outright. One that stops inviting ideological battles. And one that embraces documentation.
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Linux@programming.dev•cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp
2·10 days agoI just looked it up and - x means one filesystem. But does - v give you a progress bar or just a lost of stuff copied?
IIRC rsync also treats the trailing slash in a special manner that I always have to look up.
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Linux@programming.dev•cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp
2·10 days agoHow do you get the progress bar?
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Linux@programming.dev•cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp
182·10 days agoIt’s a damn pain to remember all the flags. How many flags can a program friggin have? I’m always afraid that some flag I enter will reverse the sync and delete everything in the source folder because the target is empty.
I use rsync only when all params have been reseasrched and tested. cpx presumably just requires
cpx - r source targetinstead of 5 rsync flags.
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Programming@programming.dev•FOSDEM 2026, one of the world's largest software meeting will start in 2 days in Brussels 🇧🇪. This edition features 1176 speakers and 1063 events
3·10 days agoWill they finally be uploading their talks to peertube? Or will I need to use YouTube again?










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