I work at Red Hat on GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection. I spent most of the past year working on how GCC emits diagnostics (errors and warnings) in the hope of making it easier to use. Let's take a look at 6 improvements to look forward to in the upcoming GCC 15. ... read full post
Most open source projects are important alternatives to escape pilitical and commercial control/limitations/censorship existant in commercial products, driven by commercial interests. With the current situation all US-based companies are even more subject to political pressure. ... read full post
Qt 6.9 is here! This release brings exciting innovations, enhanced graphics performance, and new platform capabilities to help you build exceptional applications. ... read full post
I got some mp3s with cyrillic id3 tags that didn't decode properly on my machine. I decided to ask DeepSeek to write a script to fix that, and it just worked on the first try. Around a 100 lines of code. ... read full post
Hey everyone! I'm looking for some comments / discussion on a peer to peer encrypted messaging protocol I'm developing called Mariposa.
It functions on top of TOR, using hidden services to hole punch through firewalls and to provide anonymity.
a quick rundown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjE8JkIVoQ
I used to hate web frontend development. But now I'm realising I just hate JavaScript. Python is also interpreted meaning it can be hosted in a sandbox, also dymically typed, has dicts which baiscally use JSON syntax, supports multiple paradigms, etc. Instead of a language whose creators probably said "let's make this language we named after Java a million times worse than Java"
The GNU C Library version 2.41 is now available. ... read full post