Today my archlinux system crashed during a package upgrade and I learned that paccheck is a thing you can use to find corrupted files.
Wasn't fun, but at least it wasn't that hard 🤷

JB on native Wayland Soon 👀

TIL that the DCIM directory is not some de-fecto thing that just every camera (and phone) manufacturer does, but an actual codified standard! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system

Normal people: make panoramas of buildings
Me: make panorama of my table (this is stitched using SIFT features from five images)

The number goes up 😎

Wow, nightly does have bugs indeed...

UPD: it's not nightly the same error on stable

The diagnostic isn't really wrong, but it's confusing: the Rgb struct itself is private (it's imported from the wrong place), and so is it's constructor. But not due to the fields being private

Don't mind me, just reading an article on how the tty subsystem on linux works

C418 also made soundtrack to cookie clicker??? that was unexpected

https://c418.bandcamp.com/album/cookie-clicker

Документация/10

Wow, the compromise of xz-utils is wild

main affected distros - debian sid (unstable) and fedora 40 and 41

and like... It's almost certainly a result of malicious actions from the developer... coming to the C world from npm and pip land

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/xz-vuln/
https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27

TIL that std::collections::BinaryHeap is a thing

why do we even have that collection?

Why does go's println print to stderr??

FLIP: Faster Than Light Protocol

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc9564.html

Another one converted to the church of the crab 🦀

(context: https://github.com/ikatson/rqbit/issues/110#issuecomment-2031086927)

В расте так долго ждали never-тип (!) что стали вместо него зачастую использовать std::convert::Infallible

Ну а чобы и нет

Every day I discover fun new ways for my system to fail

Custom emojis in fediverse are something else...

(this is not a sticker, it's built out of 6 emojis, I have no idea how it works)

tessellations are nice

The forbidden buttons 😭