Do We Need a Replacement for C? I found this old draft that cites Zig programming language… time to undraft it… 🙂 C is a widely used language used to program anything from OS kernels to cryptography libraries. Is it time for a replacement? Erik EngheimNov 25, 2020·5 min read The C programming language is…
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Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot
It seems too good to be true. Let’s hope they will be able to tackle it somehow. Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature ….. the researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric…
Hardware, Proprietary hardware
HP Outrages Printer Users With Firmware Update Suddenly Bricking Third-Party Ink – Slashdot
HP Outrages Printer Users With Firmware Update Suddenly Bricking Third-Party Ink – Slashdot Dear HP, I’ve been a loyal customer but when reading such news I doubt I will want to buy another HP device. Let’s keep supporting Linux and other free-as-freedom operative systems and I will keep supporting you
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
Of course, they don’t need it
WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it! Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp. How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no…
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Robert Parr
Games, GNU/Linux, Proprietary software, Videogames
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux Elite Dangerous is a space flight simulator game developed and published by Frontier Developments. In the game, the player takes control of the
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I’ve just read the interesing “Replace PowerDNS by Knot DNS and Knot Resolver+supervisor with DNSSEC, DNS over TLS and domain name spoofing” from ….
I didn’t knew KnotDNS. It may be a wiser choice than MaraDNS
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Miniscule cross-platform eventing, networking & crypto for async applications
Tricks
Top 7 Must-Read Books for Developers
Top 7 Must-Read Books for Developers — Stay Ahead of the Game Briefly:
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Robust Arithmetic in Computational Geometry / Volodymyr Agafonkin | Observable
What an interesting piece! Robust Arithmetic in Computational Geometry / Volodymyr Agafonkin | Observable Every developer should know that floating point numbers implement approximations. During my master thesys in Civil Enginineering (twenty years ago!) I learned that professor Jonathan R Shewchuk wrote almost perfect C code about this, and used in its Delaunay triangulation. At…