refalo

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Software engineers should be a little bit cynical in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago

I just want them to stop acting like egotistical know-it-all jerks all the time. They love to speak in black-and-white absolutes and IMO it just shows how much they really don't know.

I think Dunning-Kruger also applies to smart people... you don't stop when you are estimating your ability correctly. As you learn more, you gain more awareness of your ignorance and continue being conservative with your self estimates.

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical in c/programming@programming.dev
Wi-Fi 8 will bring reliability rather than greater speed in c/tech@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Still no full-duplex?

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? in c/Technology@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

No idea it was just a possible theory

Better than JSON in c/webdev@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

I find it surprising that JSON is so omnipresent when there are far more efficient alternatives

Do you also find it surprising that different types of food exist? /s

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? in c/Technology@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If Firefox dies then they don't have to pay their anti-monopoly bribe money.

The Secrets of Sega Channel: Video Game History Foundation(VGHF) recovers over 100 Sega Channel ROMs (and more) in c/Technology@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Sega Channel was also available in Canada through Shaw Cable, in some parts of the United Kingdom on certain cable services, in Chile on the defunct Metropolis cable company, and in Argentina on a national TCI branch, Cablevisión TCI, and in Australia on Austar and the now defunct Galaxy.

https://www.avid.wiki/Sega_Channel

Also parts of The Netherlands.

PhotoGIMP - The Photoshop Like Experience on GIMP in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it's giving me GIMPshop flashbacks

Is Signal safe? in c/privacy@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It is best to assume that any private US company is compromised in this way

I would say that's ridiculous for most people, but I guess it entirely depends on your threat model... if you're legitimately worried about state-level boogeymen, you've probably got bigger problems and already know all of this.

New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev -5 points 2 weeks ago

So then it's not really a blanket "no-AI" rule if it can't be enforceable if it's good enough? I suppose the rule should have been "no obviously bad AI" or some other equally subjective thing?

GUI library for C? in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful

I found the Qt documentation to be quite excellent, with tons of examples and a huge community.

But for C I typically use nuklear. There's also microui.

Can Modern Linux Fit on a 1.44mb Floppy? [19:50] | Action Retro in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not, labels were always written that way. They went into a box where the slide was facing down so the label was always visible at the top.

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Rustdesk Server Pro allegedly violates AGPL license by not distributing source (github.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by refalo@programming.dev to c/opensource@programming.dev
13 comments fedilink
 

The free community version of Rustdesk Server (a competitor to the Teamviewer remote access software) is AGPL licensed.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

The paid, proprietary Pro version builds on top of the community edition by adding extra features such as user authentication and a web backend for administration.

There exists a repo for the pro server: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server-pro

But it only contains install scripts and no actual source code of the application.

The github releases page of this repo however, contains the compiled code of the proprietary pro version and is available for anyone to download for free.

Analyzing the disassembly of the pro and open source binaries shows that the pro version is definitely based on the open source version.

The company previously associated with Rustdesk, Purslane Limited of the UK, is no longer in operation since 2023.

The project has no CLA and so the dozens of previous contributors still hold the copyright to their code and have not given permission for it to be used in a proprietary version.

There have been multiple requests for the source code of this pro version, but either there was no response or the issue was closed without comment.

EDIT: The repo owner has completely deleted the issue, here is a screenshot: https://0x0.st/KaqD.png

To me this just proves they know what they're doing is wrong.

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F-Droid has received funds from US Congress (via OTF), just like Signal (f-droid.org)
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ICPP – Running C++ in anywhere like a script (github.com)
 

Interpreting C++, executing the source and executable like a script.

  • Writing powerful script using C++ just as easy as Python;
  • Writing hot-loading C++ script code in running process;
  • Based on Unicorn Engine qemu virtual cpu and Clang/LLVM C++ compiler;
  • Integrated internally with Standard C++23 and Boost libraries;
  • To reuse the existing C/C++ library as an icpp module extension is extremely simple.

There is also a Qt helper module: https://github.com/vpand/icpp-qt

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403 on API endpoints (lemmy.readme.io)
 

Tried to use several different API endpoints as described in the link, but they all return 403 with a cloudflare "Just a moment..." html reply. Even tried copying an existing jwt token from a working logged-in browser but the same thing still happens.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

curl -v --request POST \
     --url https://programming.dev/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"username_or_email": "redacted", "password": "redacted"}'
...
< HTTP/2 403
...

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment...</title>
...
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Some comments not appearing? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by refalo@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
0 comments fedilink
 

I am noticing that some comments, which are coming from users on other verified (via /instances) federated instances, do not show up on a post. For example: https://programming.dev/post/13648105

Does not show this comment on it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10803786

Any ideas why? I checked the modlog and the comment wasn't removed, and their post history to me does not look like someone that is likely to be banned from the instance, so I'm not sure what else it could be.

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Is there a way to view the frontpage of another server, or get an RSS feed of another server's single community? (programming.dev)
 

My lemmy account is on the programming.dev instance but I use newsboat for RSS reading of some lemmy.ml communities, along with browsing the local homepage of lemmy.ml and some other instances in a regular browser. Is there a way to do either of these things from the programming.dev instance so that I can easily comment on posts without having to manually locate the same post by browsing to /c/foo@lemmy.ml on my own instance?

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