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GNU Tools Cauldron 2025 (youtube.com)
Like VLC but for images? (Win11) in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Firefox (or some derivative). But I guess the real solution is to make that Linux switch.

Anyone using a Linux Smarphone? in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish Ununtu Touch switched name, since its neither Ubuntu nor Canonical any longer.

New home server, NixOS vs Proxmox vs Arch in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Debian and then maybe Guix on top of that. Rootless Podman for services.

There is no good reason to choose Arch in 2025. If you want to feel special, NixOS or Guix System is the way to go.

I think Guix is way more coherent than Nix. It also has better documentation and a more friendly community. And you use Scheme instead of Nix lang.

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ELPA mirrors? (programming.dev)
 

Lately I've been experimenting with my emacs setup, which has led to a lot of extra ELPA (gnu and nongnu) requests. Unfortunately, ELPA is very slow nowadays, which makes experimenting inconvenient. Also, I don't want to contribute to the already high load on the official GNU servers.

Are there any "official" mirrors for ELPA? How can I activate them? If not, how can I activate and validate non official mirrors?

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

New non-copyleft Rust implementation. While we're at it, let's throw in some blockchain and AI as well. The eccentric South African billionaire CEO will be pleased.

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is what it's all about. We all know this.

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver – Dmitry Brant in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure bugs were accepted into the Linux kernel well before the existence of LLMs.

What are your favourite ebook reading apps? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Readest. But I'm looking for a free app with good TTS and (maybe this breaks the free) which is able to handle DRM content from Adobe digital editions (Or is able to remove the DRM). Unfortunately, my library only provide books through ADE.

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

How dare you!

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up in c/programming@programming.dev
[–] snikta@programming.dev -1 points 1 month ago

How dare you! Can't you see there's a circle jerk in progress?

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up in c/programming@programming.dev
Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard in c/emacs@lemmy.ml
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Fil-C (fil-c.org)
Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard in c/emacs@lemmy.ml
[–] snikta@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I vote for guilemacs. However, I wish C remains. There's nothing wrong with C. And it feels like people are starting to realize that (again).

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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model (news.epfl.ch)
 

First "modern and powerful" open source LLM?

Key features

  • Fully open model: open weights + open data + full training details including all data and training recipes
  • Massively Multilingual: 1811 natively supported languages
  • Compliant Apertus is trained while respecting opt-out consent of data owners (even retrospectivey), and avoiding memorization of training data
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Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model (news.epfl.ch)
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