Posts by kennethrc

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire

Re: Code talks

> until I spoke to an USA developer of African heritage about this. He is directly descended from slaves. He said whenever he saw those terms, it sent a shiver down his spine.

You need a bigger sample size. I know several such devs and WE couldn't care less (and usually let y'all go on arguing about it while we get the popcorn)

The price of software freedom is eternal politics

> and intentionally has an empty Code of Conduct file

They've sold me; I should look for a "Donate" link somewhere.

Software should sink or swim on its own merits

Politics and personal feelings should stay out of Software development

Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

This is the scariest part of all this, IMO

> Hector Martin, project lead of Ashai Linux, shared his belief that Hellwig's remarks constitute a Code of Conduct violation

Shameful. Kernel devs calling for disciplinary action 'cause they don't like someone's take on a technical subject?! If you read the thread quoted (https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[e-mail]/) there's no cursing or anything but Christian's dissenting opinion (and his reasons for having it), but nah, let's just cancel-culture a sentiment Hector doesn't like.

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Re: Who writes this stuff? Was it an AI?

Admittedly this is just based on my viewing of British TV, but it was my understanding that being "made redundant" is somewhat akin to "being fired", i.e., a UK-ism?

The batteries on Odysseus, the hero private Moon lander, have run out

OK, this is where El Reg readers point out the obvious that I'm missing, but considering this isn't the first time upside-down(ish) solar panels have prematurely ended a mission, why not put panels on both sides of the panel surface? The extra weight may be a redundancy that's worth the cost maybe?

How the tech toy century has troubled Santa's sack

Re: Galena

> but with a germanium(?) signal diode,

Yeah, as the then-newish silicon diodes had a higher forward(?) voltage so were less sensitive, IIRC

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

Re: ...the people creating NT were poached from DEC

Maybe you'd know, then? I'd heard the name for the "Cairo" codename came from "XP"; "chi rho".