Posts by chololennon

Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars

Re: Tilde

Edlin, what a nightmare! The worst editor I've ever used.

Re: Sort of nano fan

I agree with you, but Kate (always) instead of Kwrite please! (yes, they share the same core, but as a programmer, Kate is the way to go)

Fitness freaks flummoxed as massive global Garmin outage leaves them high and dry for hours

Ransomware atack

Be prepared for the worst, according to this ZDnet article, Garmin could have suffered a ransomware attack :-O

https://www.zdnet.com/article/garmin-services-and-production-go-down-after-ransomware-attack/

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

Dystopia

Another signal that a dystopian future is near (well... this pandemic is actually a dystopia)

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature

Apache Guacamole

Why not using Apache Guacamole instead of a RDP gateway? It will save you a lot of money.

Microsoft picks up Your Phone – unless you're an Apple fan – in a fresh Windows 10 build

Re: Unless....

"Also with regards to getting smug of the existing features to link iPhone to iMacs... Yeah try doing that with an android phone. Oh you can't without a 3rd party app? "

Well, for the pair Linux/Android the perfect "glue" is KDE Connect (A "native" application for KDE distros if you're worry about 3er party apps). No way to go back to Windows or use those expensive/closed Macs.

Four go wild for wasm: Corporate quartet come together to build safe WebAssembly sandbox

Re: closed source

"I agree I don't really see much need for WASM outside the browser"

For a real world example outside the browser you can see the implementation of EOS blockchain (https://github.com/EOSIO/eos). The blockchain (coded in native C++17) has a webassembly virtual machine in which the smart contracts run. The smart contracts are written in standard C++17. The compiler is clang 8 that targets wasm (see the SDK: https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.cdt). The upcoming EOS 2.0 will feature a new optimized wasm VM (12x faster than binarygen, 6x faster than WABT).

First Python feature release under new governance model is here, complete with walrus operator (:=)

At least in C++ is not always an anti-pattern. What is more, the pattern to use the dynamic_cast operator with pointers is the following:

if (Foo* foo = dynamic_cast<Foo>(some_pointer)) {

// foo usage

}

ReactOS 'a ripoff of the Windows Research Kernel', claims Microsoft kernel engineer

"...AND that File/Folder management (i.e. File Explorer) is FAAAAAAAR superior to what Linux and MacOS have!"

Wow :-O have you ever used Dolphin or Konqueror for example? They are several years ahead of Windows File Explorer (even Konqueror that's very old), and this is just a small example.

Mozilla tries to do Java as it should have been – with a WASI spec for all devices, computers, operating systems

Re: So 30 years (at least) on ...

"Also itll be interesting to see how they deal with pointers, particularly function pointers and accessing the stack, the sort of low level details other sandboxed languages dont have"

For a useful real world example you can see the implementation of EOS blockchain (https://github.com/EOSIO/eos). The blockchain has a webassembly virtual machine in which the smart contracts run. The smart contracts are written in standard C++17. The compiler is clang 7 that targets wasm (see the SDK: https://github.com/EOSIO/eosio.cdt).