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Thanks to WINE, Proton, and Valve's hardware, a significant milestone has been achieved with 90% of Windows games running on Linux, making nine out of ten Windows games accessible on a new Linux installation. Users are flocking to other platforms during the transition from the Windows 10 to 11 eras. Thank you Microsoft once again for enabling the age of Linux gaming, you are our biggest marketing partner πŸ˜‰
I saw people getting upset over Rust bugs causing issues in Ubuntu for replacements for sudo and base utils. Let me tell you, all SDKs and languages have issues. Rust, by default, avoids many issues, especially memory safety. As long as they are fixing those bugs and compatibility issues, you are good to go. This is why using an LTS release is important, and they provide an easy way to switch between GNU and Rust utils
You can now use OCI Containers on FreeBSD. Here is a quick introduction to Containers on FreeBSD operating systems using Podman which is a fully featured container engine that is a simple daemonless tool. Podman provides a Docker-CLI comparable command line that eases the transition from other container engines and allows the management of pods, containers and images. Give it a try FreeBSD users and developers. You no longer need Linux server or desktop for dev work.
End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation. The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support. This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry. Source Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it image
What is a programming language you learned and mastered, but that is now completely obsolete in your work?
Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems. image
Despite generating $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported a net loss of $13.5 billion. In other words, ignore all sugar coating. They, are losing money heavily They abandoned the goal cancer cure to produce only rewritten text, images, and 10 second meme videos. They're burning capital on millions of GPUs. The classic VC model. Outspend rivals and use others' copyrighted work without solving a single critical problem. No human suffering solved
which one are you? depending upon the correct choice you may be able to join my Grill / Barbecue else we can’t be friends 🀣 image
What’s the most disturbing, scary linux or unix command you’ve seen or executed ever?
junior dev: can you please give me an example of useful comments in my code? Me: sure, good comments look like this ‡️ image
oryx is a TUI for sniffing network traffic using eBPF on Linux that can do: + Real-time traffic inspection and visualization. + Comprehensive Traffic Statistics. + Firewall functionalities. + Metrics explorer. + Fuzzy search. A good tool for sysadmins, developers and IT folks. image
Paperless-ngx is a community supported opensource document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive so you can keep, well, less paper. It is a free and opensource app
UK users of Reddit, X, Insta, FB, Bluesky, TikTok, and many other popular platforms are now facing problems. They are being forced to verify their age using government issued IDs and a selfie. All of these for-profit corporations may use this information further for profit or may not even store user information securely. This is a nightmare scenario for many, and I wouldn't be surprised if other governments adopt similar laws.
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