Serving displays since 1984

Formerly xorg-official. I have been reborn and will live unto eternity

[hannahmontanalinux-official]

Mark Shuttleworth's wikipedia page, specifically the section about him GOING TO SPACE

(founder of canonical, the for-profit company that makes Ubuntu)

[piratesexmachine420]

Learning to program is the process of learning to think like a computer. If I respected computers, that might come across like bit of a tortured "rotting deer god"-style poetic metaphor, but I don't and you shouldn't either. You're not gonna become Lieutenant Commander Data.

What you learn to do is to look at a problem, solve it in two seconds in your head because -- unlike your i9-15900k -- you've graduated 3rd grade; then you figure out how to describe the steps to solving every permutation of that kind of problem, in all circumstances, forever, to someone without much understanding of anything besides integer arithmetic.

This can be very rewarding as you (re)discover the beautiful fundamental properties and relationships at heart of logic itself (sometimes that's "wow, this whole problem space is reducible to a pushdown automaton because p is congruent to q is right-adjoint to F" and sometimes it's "wow, the letter 'I' is a prime number") but just as often it means hours and hours writing menial glue logic to plug other peoples' rewarding insights into each other. "This png code wants data formatted like X, and this font code produces data formatted like Y, time to pathetically dig for any beauty underlying 'hey 4head: RGBA and ARGB are different orders of numbers'".

[canmom]

a wizard's guide to programming

been teaching @nechronica (<3) programming after nefariously drawing her in with demoscene stuff. with our shared interests, this has led to thinking even more than usual about the conceptual overlaps with 'magic'... and this has resolved somehow into a new series tentatively called the 'wizard's guide to programming'.

the idea is: a guide to the conceptual frame of programming, and writing Rust in particular, in a slightly perverse and unconventional way with a lot of philosophical digressions. if we're lucky, maybe it can interest people who already know a thing or two about programming, as well as people who don't want to program anything but want to know how computers work a little better.

part 0 is a little discussion of the concept of "magic" and the history of "science", of course...

Before we talk about computers, we must talk about the world that contains computers.

part 1 discusses what a program even is, and whether they're real, which is probably important to know for writing them.

When we say a program is running on a computer, what are we even talking about?

part 2 introduces the act of creating things by naming them:

We introduce the most fundamental magical act.

and part 3 gets us started on our main magical tools, "functions" and "types", as we start on building a little micro-roguelike dungeon game.

We learn how to name and give form to our wishes.

more to come soon~

[depsidase]

[haunted-hideaway]

I’m glad that OP:

1) Figured this out.

2) Shared so others can learn from their mistake.

[zahlenfreak]

yes, this is exactly what I'm trying to explain to the people in my work-life: you have to understand what you are coding and for this you have to do the work and make a lot of mistakes - understanding only comes while fixing all the mistakes

[debian-official]

Phones are just computers that have something deeply wrong with them

[plasmodiophora]

Why is this so exciting?

What's next? base64 obfuscation? :D

[opendirectories]

[parabo1ic]

Theming KDE makes me want to immediately ditch KDE for Budgie or Gnome because I waited like 20 minutes for it to let me download the theme that doesn't work

[rackmount-official-my-ass]

Ongoing attack against Arch Linux AUR orphaned packages

You can stop reading if:

You don't use Arch Linux

You haven't updated packages in the last day or two

You don't have any AUR packages

Looks like 400+ orphaned packages have had commits today (2026-06-11) adding a dependency on npm and a call to a bad npm package, atomic-lock, which was uploaded yesterday.

[1] AUR mailing list discussion: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/L2JXQNYBGWOQQQXDEPEAICBHKFEFANUC/

[2] AI-written preliminary malware analysis: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/

[3] Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1u358xm/aur_supply_chain_attack_npm_atomiclockfile/

[x11-official]

This kind of thing is why I really do not recommend updating the AUR alongside the rest of your packages.

When you want to update with minimal thinking, just run pacman -Syu even if you have an AUR helper. Avoid running "yay" or "paru" unless you have a good half-hour or more to sit down, read PKGBUILDs, read any included post-install scripts too.

It's fine if that only happens once a month—if you're using AUR packages that need to be updated urgently on a regular basis, you better make sure you have a very good reason for doing so.

[retrofps]

[serigel]

@i-love-linux-and-need-cat-ears haiiiii :3

[ms2253]

Literary Machines: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertect, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow's Intellectual Revolution, and Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom.

[fundgruber]

Talmud page layout vs. Wikipedia browser extension "Who wrote that"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Labeled_talmud_HS.tif?page=1

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/31/who-wrote-that-reveals-authorship-on-wikpedia/

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[isuggest-linux]

I have a suggestion

[enfinizatics]

i spread linux propaganda as if my life depended on it

[electronicintrovert]

Pro tip for learning about makefiles for the first time.

Do not under any circumstances look at the master Linux Makefile on github.

[xx-hexed-xx]

i feel the power of the terminal coursing through my veins (i watched a 10 minute "easy beginners guide to using the terminal!" video) and i fear i have become so powerful that my fate is sealed and soon it shall be vanquished by my own hubris (i'm going to try and learn how to use vim)