I can share my experience with college, which it took me a while to appreciate but eventually I realized that while it wasn’t apparent at the time, it did make a difference. But of course, your mileage may wary, it’s just my personal experience.

I felt like I’m forced to go through a lot of bloat I’ll probably never need - why do I have to learn stuff like Prolog, Lisp, Smalltalk and other obscure languages that I’ll realistically never need? Why force so much in-depth math, I’ll probably never need to be able to formally prove the Big O of a Hashtable…

After spending few years working after/during college in offensive cybersecurity, where most of my colleagues did not have a degree, I’ve eventually realized what was the point of all these classes. I noticed that people kept reffering to programming as in “I’m a python programmer”, or “I’m a java programmer”, but I never really felt like that - when someone asked me if I can write something in any language, it didn’t matter what it is, I can just relatively quickly pick up the syntax and write anything I need in whatever you need, and I eventually realized that that’s exactly thanks to the college - the point was not to make me a Smalltalk or Prolog programmer, but to give me a PTSD from every different style of languages, from OOP through functional to whatever Prolog is, and while I do not remember almost anything, I still have the basic understanding of how does that style works, and when I look up any new language I need to use for the job, I’ve already seen and was forced to once learn and understand (well enough to pass exams) something with similar concepts.

And that’s a really big advantage that people without degrees don’t usually have (at least from my experience with my colleagues). It will teach you how to relatively quickly pick up different technologies and use new things, and that is a really valuable thing. And it’s the same about data structures and other math - you will probably not remember it, but the feeling that “wait a minute, this problem sounds familiar, isn’t there like a obscure tree-thing structure that solves exactly this efficiently?” or “wasn’t there some magic with stacking trig coeficients for this?” will stay with you, and give you a headstart in looking up the concrete details that would be pretty hard to find otherwise.

So I’m really glad I went to college. And in addition to that, it was amazing for networking - I had a masters in Gamedev and while that didn’t teach me almost anything new, it gave me a lot of friends and an amazing community of passionate people that I keep on making games with.

“Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service”

Dotnet Foundation is independent non-profit organization, it should not advertise random bullshit products that are not related to the foundation - which Copilot is not, because it’s Microsoft - or at least include options. If you want to include AI usage into your docs, why isn’t JetBrains IDE and their AI mentioned?

I’d say a much better point is raised by this comment.

Dotnet Foundation’s whole point is to be independent from Microsoft. Why is it then pushing it’s AI slop? Even if we take the point of “there are people using it”, then why doesn’t it talk about JetBrains and their AI, or Claude?

I don’t think you need any active sabotaging in this regard. I’m not really worried about the future of LLMs, because we are already at a point of feedback cascade where thanks to LLMs, more and more of content they steal from the internet has been AI generated by them anyway, which will eventually cause the models to collapse or stagnate. And besides, you wouldn’t be able to sabotage at a scale required for this. Thankfully, the spread of fake AI generated websites and content it has enabled is so massive, that it works as well.

I’m looking forward to that.

On one hand, I’m really glad they had something like this ready, espeecially as someone who did work in cybersecurity.

On the other, I really hope they move it outside of the US jurisdiction. As it is now (based in Washington, as mentioned in FAQ), the US has basically won - CVE continues to function, they don’t need to pay for it, and they can still exert power over it since it is still in the US. Fuck that.

This. The whole discussion about “tinkering with immutable distros” fells like it misses the point and literal meaning of atomic and immutable.

Rebuilding the whole OS to layer another immutable read-only part into it isn’t tinkering. Of changing one OS file has you rebooting, then that’s not tinker-friendly.

Atomic distributions are by definition something you don’t tinker with, and it stays the way you need it.

And no, having bundled distrobox or rollbacks doesn’t make it tinker friendly, you can do both on normal distribution.

But once you have done tinkering and want the system to stay the way it is - that’s what atomic means and is for.

Snapshots and rollbacks already exist in other distros, so the (only?) advantage you are mentioning is kind of a weak point.

Everything is a bother, since you can’t just easily dnf install what you need, without actually rebooting or dealing with containers. I wasn’t able to get a Win11 VM and work VPN properly working for long enough that rebooting to windows and just doing the RDP there was easier for me. (Because getting TPM to work simply wasn’t feasible on atomic, and no - FOSS rdps didn’t work)

If an app doesn’t have Snap or .App file, it will be a bother. Having to enter a container just so I can edit something in a properly set up nvim just sucks, adding bloat to something that could have been one easy command.

There’s a learning curve that gets in your way a lot, and since there are no actually payoffs for going through it, why bother?

I currently have Bazzite on my desktop as a daily driver, and it has been way worse experience than I had with Nobara, debugging any issues with I.e audio or drivers is awfull because the resources about it are a lot sparser, and so far I simply don’t see anything it does better. I did rollback my Nobara few times with brtfs and it never was an issue.

One thing that may be worth it, if it’s the case - can you actually export your layers into a VCS that you can then simply clone, just like you can with NixOS? Because if not, then following your logic, there’s really no point in choosing atomic distro over NixOS. Sure, it has a slight learning curve, but you get a system you can not only rollback, but also easily clone anywhere you need it. What are your reasons for not using NixOS?

That said - there is one use case where atomic distros are amazing - if you have a, well, atomic environment you don’t need to change often. Bazzite on SteamDeck or LegionGo being the best example, I’m using it there and it’s been amazing experience.

He’s 18, contributed to the Switch emulator Ryjunix, alongside some other projects while also doing school. His reasoning is that he along with Whisky doesn’t have the capabilities, manpower and skill to properly contribute to the Wine on MacOS, just like Proton is doing for Linux, and that he’s worried that if Whiskey would make CrossOver unsustainable (who do have the resources to do it better), that it could kill Wine on MacOS.

I’d say that’s fair, and anyone allegeding blackmail or buying off is insulting.

This… Is actually unironically the best argument I’ve heard in favor of AIs so far, that I haven’t thought about.

Still - the thing you’d be doing instead is feeding money and attentention to AI bros, and that’s probably even worse than any job you could be micro sabotaging.

How’s PostmarketOS doing recently, anyone using it as a daily driver? I have a PinePhone in a cupboard that I bought more than a year ago that lasted like a week as my daily before I quickly gave up on it (or rather, reinstalled it to Kali Nethunter and just have it in my pentesting bag. Not that I ever used it :D), since it had too many issues.

I highly recommend looking into vertical ergonomic mice. It’s really easy to switch to (took me around an hour to get used to it when I randomly decided to get one), I regularly switch between regular and vertical for work/gaming and I don’t even notice any difference, and they are reasonably cheap (I’ve been using one for 15EUR).

If you can’t stand anything else, I highly recommend giving vertial mouse a try. It took me around hour top to get used to it and forget that I switched mouse types, and I also regularly switch between vertical for work and regular for gaming and it’s effortless.

The point is that the mouse is, well, vertical, so you don’t have twisted wrist. It’s a pretty small difference and it’s super easy to get used to it, and the mouse costs basically the same as a regular mouse. I have been using one for 15EUR for years now, and am pretty happy with it - I don’t see any reason why not to make the switch, if it has a health benefit.

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I have randomly decided to buy a cheap vertical mouse when I needed a new mouse in my office, and it has been suprisingly easy to get used to. I didn’t struggle with it, and after a few hours I didn’t even notice any difference, so I highly recommend giving it a try.

I still use regular mouse for gaming, but for any office work or programming, as well as in a laptop bag, I have this mouse. I haven’t really looked into any research behind it, and since I’m fortunate to not have issues with my wrist (so far), I can’t really rate the health benefits, but I assume it should be at least slightly better than a regular mouse.

And since the transition was effortless, the mouse is cheap and works for daily programming and web browsing perfectly, even if the health benefit was actually small, I don’t see any reason why not use it instead of a regular mouse.

I didn’t know that LINQ had more usages than just me being lazy to write a for loop, I have something to look into, thanks. Judging by the first documentation page I found, I wouldn’t even recognize the syntax as the LINQ I’m used to. I really need to catch up on new C# stuff.

Saying LINQ produces garbage is uncalled for when it’s a different use case and supports other or more use cases.

I don’t think I understand why would it be uncalled for, though. At least in the context of game development, where even small allocations can be a problem, it feels ok to generalize, especially if most people probably only encounter LINQ in it’s basic form instead of the other use cases. Mostly for the sake of new programmers, who may fall into a trap of over-using it.

Unless you are talking about using the term garbage, which now I realize may sound degradatory. That wasn’t my intention, and I don’t have any negative connotations with that word, so it was not meant in a negative way - I though it’s the correct terminology for allocations that need to be collected by garbage collector later, which is an issue in performance critical applications.

Has anyone tried any of them? I’ve recently discovered one of their libraries, and I wonder if they are reliable and production-ready. Some of it does look cool!

I started as part time without any experience durring my college. I was studying gamedev software engineering, but we had one voluntary class about Ethical Hacking.

I just asked my professor if he can reffer me to someone in the field, followed OWASP Web App Testing guide to the letter when testing the interview homework website, and landed the job without much prior experience (I did attend a few CTF competitions, though).

Just following the checklist in OWASP testing guide made my results comparable to, or even better to some of my colleagues, and I’ve slowly learned the rest (especially internal domain pentesting) from our internal documentation or shadowing seniors during pentests, and simply being interrested in the field, having initiative and looking up new tools and exploits eventually got me to a Red Team Lead role (not a very good RT, though, but it did improve eventually).

The pay was pretty good compared to what’s usuall here in Czech, too. I could comfortably pay rent and get by even with part-time, during college.

I’ve never heard of them, but a colleague told me he recognized the name and thought that they do middleware that’s extremely expensive. Haven’t looked into it, but their FOSS stuff looks nice.

Have you worked with their other/older projects? I’d be interrested in someones experience with this developer, if it’s something that can be reasonably trusted.

I can imagine a few use cases, sorting or selecting or filtering a list is something that does pop up from time to time. It’s nothing major, and definitely not a must have.

From the top of my head it can be finding a closest enemy to the player, while it doesnt have to be done every frame, you’d want to do it often enough.

Sure, you can just for loop it (as with any LINQ calls), but I’d say that LINQ is more readable.

I’ve picked the first example article I found, which was really old (Unity 2018), since I wasn’t sure if the question was about what’s garbage or how much, so I just wanted to illistrate the concept more than concrete numbers.

The ZLINQ repo does have a benchmark screenshot in readme and it does shows that LINQ still does allocations. It’s not clear what the benchmark was ran on, but it shows mean of 200b of allocations, so LINQ probably still does them in some capacity.