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maxloh commented on Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils   github.com/uutils/coreuti... · Posted by u/maxloh
bgwalter · 10 hours ago
Who is declaring the compatibility percentage? Given that GNU coreutils is GPL and Rust Coreutils is MIT, they must implement clean room development practices.
maxloh · 10 hours ago
They test Rust coreutils against the GNU coreutils test suite, with 87.75% of the test cases passing.

https://uutils.github.io/coreutils/docs/test_coverage.html

maxloh commented on Go Proposal: Secret Mode   antonz.org/accepted/runti... · Posted by u/enz
maxloh · a day ago
> The new runtime/secret package lets you run a function in secret mode. After the function finishes, it immediately erases (zeroes out) the registers and stack it used.

I don't understand. Why do you need it in a garbage-collected language?

My impression was that you are not able to access any register in these language. It is handled by the compiler instead.

maxloh commented on An SVG is all you need   jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/sadiq
bflesch · 3 days ago
I still wonder why PDF remains so prevalent and why it can't just be a single SVG file for each page of the PDF.
maxloh · 3 days ago
There are many things that are missing with SVG. For example, putting all the pages in a single file, encryption, forms, etc.

Also note that different browsers might render and print the same SVG differently, which is not ideal for a print-oriented format.

maxloh commented on IBM to acquire Confluent   confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12
m4rtink · 7 days ago
Well, there is CentOS Stream:

https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

And Fedora is still the upstream of RHEL, nothing changed there.

maxloh · 4 days ago
No, it is a totally different distro.

CentOS Stream employs a rolling-release model, which is much less stable than RHEL.

The previous main selling point of CentOS was bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL. Red Hat is just killing the distro by moving their focus to a non-existent market. Enthusiasts will choose RHEL, while enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL, which Red Hat could earn money from, or alternatives like Alma or Rocky.

maxloh commented on IBM to acquire Confluent   confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12
worthless-trash · 6 days ago
> no longer an official "public" distribution of RHEL

What do you mean by that, like "centos/stream" (aka https://www.centos.org/download/ ) ?

maxloh · 4 days ago
CentOS Stream employs a rolling-release model, which is much less stable than RHEL.

The previous main selling point of CentOS was bug-for-bug compatibility with RHEL. Red Hat is just killing the distro by moving their focus to a non-existent market. Enthusiasts will choose RHEL, while enterprises would choose the more stable RHEL, which Red Hat could earn money from, or alternatives like Alma or Rocky.

maxloh commented on IBM to acquire Confluent   confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12
JeremyNT · 7 days ago
I'm not sure this is bad? It's still maintained, and it isn't like there are frequent revolutions in UI design - if it works, it works.

Slow and boring is a pretty nice place to be.

maxloh · 4 days ago
It doesn't really work for me. The first thing I always do with it is installing a taskbar extension.

u/maxloh

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