Note that STF did not fund GNU coreutils. They funded uutils.
Note, I am a co-maintainer of GNU coreutils. Whether that makes my opinion relevant, biased, or both, you can decide. :) I really wished the documented their benchmarking methodology here, or at least cautioned the…
I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU coreutils uses iswspace, which is…
The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and their lawyers. It confuses me how the…
> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facilities (unrelated to weaponry), or…
> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested…
The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
Well, they have held back some slop in CPAN (a surprising place to find slop) [1]. Some of said slop recently caused GNU coreutils test suite to fail [2]. Surely the bot will get it right one day, right? [1]…
This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.
At the current moment I would be against it. The language and library is changing too fast. Also, Rust has some other things that make it hard to use for coreutils. For example, Rust programs always call signal…
No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno set to ENAMETOOLONG. You could probably…
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs.…
> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was to "demilitarise and denazify" it. The…
You see zero similarities between Hitler invading Poland and Putin invading Ukraine?
Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with that claim without a specific example.…
Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to files they shouldn’t be able to, or…
fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combined into coreutils-5.0 in 2003 [4]. [1]…
The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have strong feelings about... [1]…
I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Republican to be killed?
Even if one grants that it is a small minority, aren't they still voting for someone who advocates for jailing and killing political opponents?
Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.
It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).
MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds…
FreeBSD 6.0 added 'env -S'. They have adopted a few different GNU inspired options recently, which I am happy about.
Yes, linking LLVM takes up a lot of memory. The documented guidance is to allow one link job per 15 GB of RAM [1]. [1] https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html#frequently-used-llvm-relate...
Note that STF did not fund GNU coreutils. They funded uutils.
Note, I am a co-maintainer of GNU coreutils. Whether that makes my opinion relevant, biased, or both, you can decide. :) I really wished the documented their benchmarking methodology here, or at least cautioned the…
I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU coreutils uses iswspace, which is…
The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and their lawyers. It confuses me how the…
> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facilities (unrelated to weaponry), or…
> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested…
The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
Well, they have held back some slop in CPAN (a surprising place to find slop) [1]. Some of said slop recently caused GNU coreutils test suite to fail [2]. Surely the bot will get it right one day, right? [1]…
This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.
At the current moment I would be against it. The language and library is changing too fast. Also, Rust has some other things that make it hard to use for coreutils. For example, Rust programs always call signal…
No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno set to ENAMETOOLONG. You could probably…
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs.…
> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was to "demilitarise and denazify" it. The…
You see zero similarities between Hitler invading Poland and Putin invading Ukraine?
Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with that claim without a specific example.…
Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to files they shouldn’t be able to, or…
fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combined into coreutils-5.0 in 2003 [4]. [1]…
The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have strong feelings about... [1]…
I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Republican to be killed?
Even if one grants that it is a small minority, aren't they still voting for someone who advocates for jailing and killing political opponents?
Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.
It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).
MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds…
FreeBSD 6.0 added 'env -S'. They have adopted a few different GNU inspired options recently, which I am happy about.
Yes, linking LLVM takes up a lot of memory. The documented guidance is to allow one link job per 15 GB of RAM [1]. [1] https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html#frequently-used-llvm-relate...