The Lunduke effect.

It only checks mirror latency every transaction if you enable “fastestmirror”. Repositories are only synced if the local cache is out of date or the metadata timestamp has changed. There might be a way to prevent dnf from refreshing repository metadata at all, but I really don’t think that’s a good idea.

In my experience, dnf has pretty good mirror selection by default. Setting “fastestmirror=true” replaces the more complex mirrormanager2 heuristic, which tries to select an appropriate mirror by available bandwidth, with a simple latency check that runs before transactions. In most cases this has no effect or worsens dnfs performance. They changed the description in dnf5 to better reflect the behaviour.

Having said that, it’s worth giving a try in a case like this. I just want to make sure that people realize that there is a reason this was never enabled by default, since this is a popular configuration tweak suggested all over the internet, whose actual function very few seem to know.

Good marketing or influencers perhaps? I’m not sure but I’ve been wondering myself.

If you use omarchy, you have bad taste.

The default paste action is pretty much the only thing preventing anyone from picking a different function for the button. That’s the the biggest reason for reversing the default behaviour.

There are programs that use the middle mouse button but also support pasting from clipboard. I’ve been annoyed at work plenty of times when I’m trying to translate across a canvas but accidentally paste a random node of text. Bonus points if it contains some kind of password that was still in your clipboard. I don’t think it’s a good default.

The choice of programming language for new projects almost always comes down to the existing ecosystem and its popularity in the space you’re working in. Some of the most popular languages also have the advantage of being deeply embedded in the academic pipelines educating newcomers to the field, which obviously includes C++. Being one of the worst choices for a first programming language to learn hasn’t stopped C++ yet and likely won’t for a long time to come.

Asking for help online just gets you a “lol, RTFM, noob!”

Depends heavily on what place you ask for help in. There are plenty of spaces explicitly meant for community tech support. In OPs case, I’ll say the title doesn’t help and asking an LLM for advice on a topic you’re unfamiliar with (and not second-guessing the commands you paste into the terminal) is such a bad idea that it really can’t be understated. I regularly catch some of my colleagues making AI-assisted mistakes and they’re professionals who genuinely know better. This shit shouldn’t ever be recommended as a learning tool for beginners without some kind of supervision or guard rails to ensure you’re not being gaslit.

I like the '89 and '93 Patlabor movies.

KHTML and WebKit is a historic mess but it’s debatable at best if Apple actually violated license terms. In any case, it shows just how ineffective LGPL is at enforcing the intended contributions from corporate licensees. I’m not getting into this historic mess of a topic with someone who has yet to give a reason why Rust needs to be singled out for being MIT licensed when it was already the de facto default choice for most open source projects before it ever became popular. It’s quite clear to me from the endless brain-dead comments in Lundukes YT channel or in the Phoronix forums, that a vocal minority of the Linux community has a massive hate-boner for Rust and is desperately trying to come up with a valid reason for it. None of these people are actual experts from what I can tell, but boy do they have strong opinions about the programming languages used by the people who do all the work.

Really excited to see how this relates to Rust or MIT.

Yes, just like most things Lunduke or his tinfoil hat army of illiterate conservatives preach, it’s horseshit. You can license your own code in whatever way you want, Rust doesn’t prevent that. Neither does Zig, just in case you weren’t aware that Rust isn’t the only MIT licensed language ecosystem. In fact, there are very few that use a copyleft license.

Do you know how much software in the Linux ecosystem is MIT (or Apache) licensed? Why hasn’t X11 “hollowed out free and open source”, despite being included in damn near every desktop linux installation? Have you ever taken a look at other language ecosystems? It’s absolutely full of MIT licensed libraries everywhere. There is a reason that MIT and Apache licenses are by far the most popular choice at the moment. If you really want to be concerned about that choice, be my guest, but stop blaming Rust for it for fucks sake. And you people can fuck off with those “soy” comments too. Come back when you’ve actually written a single line of productive code, instead of pretending to be a concerned expert about a topic you can barely grasp.

Yes, hello? Is this the Bryan Lunduke comment section?

The more I scrolled through the comments, the more I longed for the familiar comfort of the braindead phoronix forums. It’s one thing to be convinced that C is the peak of programming language design (sometimes without having ever written a productive line of code), but it’s another thing entirely to be convinced that Rust is some sort of figurative (or even literal) trojan horse pushed by a global woke conspiracy and/or connected to the “planned release” of COVID-19.

His YT comment section is an experience. They’re breeding a unique kind of right-wing, tinfoil hat Linux extremist, whose software usage is determined solely by esoteric association and “suspicious timing” like seeing widespread adoption during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.

I don’t think that’s trivial to filter.

Linus Torvalds is the last person to extend an olive branch to anyone contributing kernel code. Anyway, big news: https://lwn.net/Articles/1049831/

Putting aside the ideological discussion about software licenses, saying that “they” are forcing Rust into the Linux kernel is a bold claim when Linus Torvalds clearly doesn’t mind the inclusion and even encourages it for example in driver code, at least as an experiment.

The internet would be a much quieter place if people were forced to have a minimal amount of insight into the topic they’re posting about. I guess what really annoys me is when popular blogs like this one deliberately frame something they don’t like in a way that makes it look worse to people who don’t know any better. There are very few people calling this shit out, be it on lemmy or the comments of the article itself. They even lied about FL1 being “bullet-proof” and “unaffected” by this bug, when it clearly wasn’t, according to Cloudflare - the primary source of this shitstain of an article.