refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What’s the benefit for them?

Not being targeted by a President.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/29/business/ceos-trump-revenge-nightcap/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/trump-prosecute-political-opponents/index.html

Why they wouldn’t want to please previous administrations?

Those administrations weren't targeting them.

I think it's always about the money, plain and simple. If there is a threat to their gravy train, they will bend over backwards to keep it going. Otherwise, they don't care about you.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

does echo 3 | sudo touch /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches change the available RAM at all when this happens?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They might have pure motives but I have to wonder just how useful that is realistically. The rest of the world does not seem keen on following in their spirit.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The posted link does not appear to contain the same statement as what I read from the SFC:

Steck's work showed that despite being a "Lesser" license than GPL, LGPLv2.1 still guarantees users the right to repair, modify and reinstall modified versions of the software on their device.

This is why I believed that the lack of an anti-tivoization clause was being somehow retroactively applied to v2.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So LGPLv2 doesn't actually allow tivoization in Germany now? Am I reading that right?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You may be right, I don't have enough experience talking to new programmers in order to comment on that part specifically, but I do think a sizeable portion of existing C++ devs who don't want to use rust exist, and this may now be a problem moving forward, especially if the C++ committee keeps dragging their feet and never adopt any new safety extensions.

Personally I think the swift syntax is much more familiar and friendly to existing C++ devs, but its popularity does not seem anywhere near rust's level for some reason, but maybe now that a truly cross-platform version has been released, it might gain some traction... maybe.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

any game I throw at it

easy to say when you never throw demanding AAA titles at it

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

From what I have seen, FSF has their head so far up their own ass that there's no point.

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