Hello Lemmings,

My 5 year old gaming laptop finally needs to be replaced. I need a new laptop for programming and light gaming. I no longer game on a laptop but a desktop. Though being able to play even outside would be nice so the laptop should be able to play at least Team Fortress 2. I'll be installing a Linux distro on it. My budget is around 800-1000€. The screen should be 14 or 15 inches. The battery should last at least 6 hours while not doing anything heavy as video editing or gaming.

For those unaware, YaCy is an open source indexing software with some p2p search capabilities. However, if you've run it yourself, you'd know that the search results are very bad. Therefore I am wondering if this is a resources issue or a YaCy software issue, or both.

Had YaCy had really huge resources for the crawling and indexing, would it have been a good enough search engine to replace google/ddg?

InspectorBoat uses godbolt to analyze a Zig comparison routine for SWAR (SIMD-within-a-register) vectorized operation.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/12343454

Hello all. I am giving a talk next week about making the most of the Fediverse, particularly for dotnet/MAUI developers. The first speaker is talking about creating a MAUI app from scratch. Of course, I shall be talking about our Lemmy MAUI Community, :-) but also other things, like accounts to follow, how to use Lemmy from Mastodon (follow/reply/post), etc. You can attend online. The times shown are GMT+11, and work out well for those in Europe but not so well for the U.S. (first speaker on at midnight-ish PST). I believe there'll be a recording available afterwards, but of course watching live gives you the opportunity to ask questions at the time. Hope some of you can check it out.

Oh! I guess I should also say SMASH THAT DOTNETMAUI SUBSCRIBE BUTTON! 😂

F.A.B. - Fediverse Adventure Begin...

'File > New > MAUI' and 'Finding your way around the Fediverse'

More investigations on the xz bash attack script.

Just a progress update on a fun open-source project I'm involved with. Biome.js is a web toolchain written in Rust, and it provides a great excuse to play around with parsing technologies and other fun challenges :)

This is something I have thought a lot recently since I recently saw a project that absolute didn't care in the slightest about this and used many vendor specific features of MS SQL all over the place which had many advantages in terms of performance optimizations.

Basically everyone always advises you to write your backend so generically with technologies like ODBC, JDBC, Hibernate, ... and never use anything vendor specific like stored procedures, vendor specific datatypes or meta queries with the argument being that you can later switch your DBMS without much hassle.

I really wonder if this actually happens in the real world with production Software or if this is just some advice that makes sense on surface level but in reality never pans out. I personally haven't seen any large piece of Software switch to a different DBMS, even if there would be long term advantages of doing so, because the risk and work to retest everything would be far too great.

The only examples I know of (like SAP) were really part of a much larger rewrite or update rather than "just" switching DBMS.

I heard about the repl.it bounties idea a while ago. I decided to check it out. The basic idea is you do programming tasks in exchange for "bounties" which are paid in some kind of repl.it token, which you can use to rent virtual servers or convert to cash.

I was shocked first by how bad the offers are and second how every post has multiple applications.

For example, one project I looked at involved setting up a custom analytics dashboard connecting to some random software, supporting multiple users, a few paragraphs of requirements - the pay was the equivalent of 90 USD. I guess the move is to hope that there is some out of the box software you could setup and configure for them in a few hours - but, realistically, this seems like days of work and multiple meetings to iron out requirements. For 90 dollars? This project already had many applications.

Another example was a bounty for a twitter bot that posted content from json. Seems straightforward enough. The offer was 4.50 USD. 3 people had already applied!

I could almost see the twitter bot making sense - assuming nothing about the new twitter/X has broken tweepy, then posting from a json file is trivial and should only take a few minutes. But, of course, there is all the overhead of applying for the job, interviewing, I guess, to get it - how else could they pick from one of many applicants. Ironing out the details and probably a little back and forth to demonstrate you're done. The hourly wage here seems below 1 dollar.

I'm curious if anyone has tried doing repl.it bounties or has insight into how well this system does or doesn't work.

Microsoft employee:

Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help

Maintainer's comment on twitter:

After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.

This is unacceptable.

And further:

The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won't get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years.

But try selling that to a bean counter

Qt 6.7 is out with lots of large and small improvements for all of us who like to have fun when building modern applications and user experiences. Several additions are released as technology previews, and we are looking forward to your feedback so that we can get everything ready for the next LTS release!

Theres been some weekly posts in some communities for people to share updates (weekly thread in !rust@programming.dev and screenshot saturday in !gamedev@programming.dev ) so figured would try to run a generalized version in the main programming community!

If youve worked on something this week feel free to share it below. If you have a project to show off in general we also have the !showoff@programming.dev community in the instance that you can post in

I was talking to my manager the other day, discussing the languages we are using at $dayjob. He kind of offhandedly said that he thinks TypeScript is a temporary fad and soon everything will go back to using JavaScript. He doesn't like that it's made by Microsoft either.

I'm not a frontend developer so I don't really know, but my general impression is that everything is moving more and more towards TypeScript, not away from it. But maybe I'm wrong?

Does anyone who actually works with TypeScript have any impression about this?