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sligor··on RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
So, why the bug triggers only with muslc and not other libc ?
sligor··on I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
I never understood how running a car, even electric one, in such small tunnel was considered safe.
sligor··on EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay
Aside of the fees, another important goal is political freedom against any US sanction on our citizen.

We saw recently that ICC judges were excluded of Visa/Mastercard/... payment system

source: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

sligor··on GitHub cancels Actions price change for self-hosted runners
Is there good self hosted alternative to github action ? Jenkins should be still good even if old ?
sligor··on Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene
it was greener (grassland, savannas) but definitely not a rain forest. And in fact it was also the same for Arabia. More grassland and savannas than today.

But it was only partial: there was some desert area too. They were just not a large and mostly very dry desert like today.

sligor··on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him
Well, Russia itself is oil founded (huge part of the budget)
sligor··on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him
Who needs argument in 2025 ? Just say it is "woke".
sligor··on US to rewrite its past national climate reports
revision based on new findings is how science works revision based on ideology is how fascism works
sligor··on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow
well after a quick search it exists: it's called tmux control-mode https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode

So terminal clients just have to implement this protocol... it's already implemented in iTerm2

sligor··on You might not need tmux
Yes the clean and efficient alternative would be a session manager "server" running on the server and communicating with the terminal "client" (like kitty) using a more efficient protocol for handling panes/windows/drawing etc...

AFAIK this doesn't exist, so I'm using tmux...

sligor··on Org tutorials
What makes org mode tied to emacs ? I really need to try org mode to understand it. If only I had time...
sligor··on AI's energy footprint
I would like also that devs run their site/apps on downgraded machine/VM so that they can early detect performance issues.
sligor··on Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003)
what's wrong with luajit ? (I never used it)

edit: sorry I should have searched, Luajit only supports up to Lua 5.1

sligor··on Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges
True ! that's why I said medium sized car. :) And I don't use it for commuting to work or go to groceries. So what's remaining needs a car with descent size and range for 2 persons. Best alternative for me would be that a fair car sharing/rental system develop even more so I can ditch my car and only rent the car size I need for the trip.
sligor··on On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers
> If certain people cannot contribute to the Linux kernel

You don't need at all to be an official maintainer to contribute to Linux

sligor··on On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers
People should stop to use the term "Russian developers", this attracts a lot of people complaining about Russophobia (either innocently or not...)

They were removed NOT because of being Russian but because of their link to Russian state owned company (also, either legitimately or by mistake...)

sligor··on Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges
I have no problem with families buying large cars. But it's a minority. For example in my country people that buy huge SUVs are mostly retired.
sligor··on Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges
Compared to my medium sized early 2000's European car it is still a monster But yes, sure that compared to an average 2024 american car it is small.

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-206-2009-5-...

sligor··on Kia will ramp up EV3 output as demand for its affordable electric model surges
So the future of electric cars is only huge SUV ? It feels like green washing
sligor··on A Compiler Bug (2023)
Volatile were buggy in old compiler: https://llvm.org/pubs/2008-10-EMSOFT-Volatiles.html [2008 paper]

Even if compilers are better now, if possible it is better to wrap any IO memory access into ioread/iowrite inline (no cost) functions. This can then be implemented in a way known to be safe for the compiler used. And that can be changed easily in case the architecture or the compiler changes ( yeah abstraction ! )

As linux does for example: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/driver-api/device-io.h...

sligor··on How CERN serves 1EB of data via FUSE [video]
That's exactly how we were able to go to the moon in 55 years ago. And why it's complicated today. It was of course lot of money. But it was mostly a lot of highly skilled, motivated devoted people doing for an ultimate common goal. Money would not have been sufficient by itself.
sligor··on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
garbage in, garbage out ?
sligor··on Cron Jobs on Linux – Comprehensive Guide with Examples
Yes ! that is what I do for personal use for years ! (mainly for backups)

Sadly Jenkins is nowadays less and less popular and I'm concerned that it will become an abandon-ware at some point.

If anyone knows good open source alternative it would be great.

sligor··on Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight
Is the cost difference mostly due by design or also due to much higher production volume and launches for Falcon 9 ?
sligor··on Oldest white wine in the world found in a first-century tomb in Spain
Not sure if it is geo-related but from western europe it redirects to elsevier.com + login
sligor··on They make USB-C cables with displays now
If only device vendors clearly displayed the rate of charge making such cable useless...
sligor··on New details on F-16, drone collision in banned Arizona airspace
https://aviationhumor.net/journalists-guide-to-aircraft-iden...
sligor··on Debian on xz-utils: revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor
In what I understand: we don't know for sure, but the suspicions are so high that it more important to act quickly and revert the changes. The community will analyse later what the changes are exactly doing ( less urgent than reverting the changes )
sligor··on Bedbug panic was stoked by Russia, says France
Bedbugs were spotted in touristic area of France since many years and were slowly growing. Bedbugs were already a real problem and in 2023 became a real concern Mainly due to olympics games coming. But there was absolutely no reason to "panic", just to be concerned and fight the problem. The reason of the panic was social media. And manipulation of social media is just one step ahead.
sligor··on YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads
The problem is that big companies don't want to broadcast their serious ad along scam ads¹. That is a serious treat for Youtube revenues.

¹ At least I wouldn't if I was doing ad campaigns of a big company, but maybe I'm naive...

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