Notices by Bojidar Marinov (bojidar_bg@mastodon.social)

@moses_izumi As someone who hasn't dealt with WINE code or DOS, I would still say... borderline impossible, but you can maybe reuse pieces.
WINE depends on there being a Linux kernel underneath for forking processes, scheduling threads, and dealing with inter-process communication. None of that exists on MS-DOS, so you'd need to, at minimum, supply a whole kernel-like part that does these things, and then also patch it all across the WINE codebase.

@moses_izumi That said... the "DOS subsystem for Linux" /https://github.com/haileys/doslinux by @hailey might be a promising approach: if you could run a whole Linux kernel on DOS, then you could run WINE on top of that. Wonky, but hey, it is called a _tower_ of abstraction, after all 😂

@evan Yes, but, it's typically empty when I sleep.
(Also, it's a pitcher, because you seem to like collecting more words for water-containing-glassware 😇)

LibreOffice's codebase is absolutely massive (~50M lines according to cloc?), and it very much got me beat the other day, when I "speedran" a scant 2 bugfixes in 7 hours.

So today, I'm going for a rematch! Let's see if better tools (rr, ctags) and better understanding of #LibreOffice code is going to be enough for me to get a bugfix in under 2 hours for #BugsDoneQuick! 😂

Watch me (in 1h 15min, at 8 UTC) at: https://watch.bojidar-bg.dev/w/8iSEAiZVLyqsh3Qgkos555?z=2

#livestreaming #freesoftware #opensource

Hm... you'd think there is a plugin for that already, but apparently there's none! 😅
I think you could perhaps repurpose some of the code of a TOC plugin; e.g. looking at https://github.com/JordanShurmer/eleventy-plugin-nesting-toc/blob/master/toc.js#L70 it seems like querying the produced HTML with selectors isn't too hard. 🤔

@Sirs0ri @nikitonsky Say.. maybe it's ""4x faster"" because it needs to render even less text now? (though it's hard to imagine 20-25 lines of text in that field) You might be onto something there... 🤔😂

@morph Sayy... that looks a lot like my post for this week! (https://mastodon.social/@bojidar_bg/114420922582844249) 😂 Almost as if we used the same place-stuff-around-center algorithm, but with slightly different tiles! 😁

@awoodsnet The magic is in the package managers: redis moving to AUR means that anyone using e.g. `yay` won't feel the difference, while users of `pacman` that stick to official repositories would just get a warning that the package doesn't exist, yet nothing would be deinstalled.

...that said, still somewhat surprised at the move, given that obviously-proprietary software like Discord exists in the `extra` repository. 🤔

@krisfreedom @awoodsnet Okay, I checked 😅; here's the relevant issue for redis: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/redis/-/issues/1/ - apparently the same happened with MongoDB, when they adopted SSPL.
The main issue at hand seems to be licenses that limit the _distribution_ of the software, in ways that make package maintainers potentially liable. Discord is in only because Arch got permission to distribute it (https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/discord/-/blob/main/Permission_to_Distribute.mbox?ref_type=heads), and Vivaldi likewise partners with Linux distributions (https://vivaldi.com/partners/linux/).

@eliseo01 No offense, but, even if I did stay away from Arch for those reasons, my admiration would still go to software that makes life easier and bearable for humans - even humans that end up using proprietary software.
As of today, free software package managers like pacman, chocolatey, or homebrew deliver a thousand times better experience than any competing proprietary solution, and I'd rather celebrate that win, than bemoan the fact that it also makes proprietary software easier to use.

The addition of dark mode in #LibreOffice 25.2 earlier this year took me by surprise at the time, but today I opened a Google Sheets document and... I'm honestly appalled that it still doesn't have a dark mode! 😂
Good job setting a higher bar of user expectations to the @libreoffice team, and long live #opensource going where even large companies are too afraid to! 💚✨
#libremonday