QT is a cross platform UI development framework, its goal is to look native to the platform it operates on. This video by a linux maintainer from 2014 explains its benefits over GTK, its a fun video and I don't think the issues have really changed.
Most GTK advocates will argue QT is developed by Trolltech and isn't GPL licensed so could go closed source! This argument seems to ignore open source projects use the Open Source releases of QT and if Trolltech did close source then the last open source would be maintained (much like GTK).
Personally I would avoid Flutter on the grounds its a Google owned library and Google have the attention span of a toddler.
Not helping that assessment is Google let go of the Fuschia team (which Flutter was being developed for) and seems to have let go a lot of Flutter developers.
Personally I hate web frontends as local applications. They integrate poorly on the desktop and often the JS engine has weird memory leaks
The PC gaming industry (AAA and such) seems more sensible the economy of money around the Apple Platform, for sure. But we're talking about iOS gaming... not exactly what keep the industry busy with complex technologies like RayTracing, cutting edge PBR textures and gigallion of cinematic rendered Quadruple-A art assets....
I know a couple game devs and absolutely blasted them for that take.
We have had quite a few indy devs make the point that the "Linux" bugs are generally cross platform issues and Linux users are more likely to raise a bug report and tend to raise more useful bug reports.
Which means avoiding Linux due to higher bug reports is just hiding from technical debt.
You do, but considering the scales they process data I suspect Google would be better building Go tooling (or whatever the dominate internal language is).
A few years back I was trying to teach some graduates the importance of looking at a programming language ecosystem and selecting it based on that.
One of my comparison projects was Apache OpenNLP/Camel vs Flask/Spacy.
Spacy is the go to for NLP, I expected it to be either quicker to develop, easier to use, better results or just less resources.
I assigned Grads with Java experience Spacy and Python experience OpenNLP.
The OpenNLP guys were done first, they raved about being able to stream data into the model and how much simplier it made life.
When compared with the same corpus (Books, Team emails, corporate sharepoint, dev docs, etc..) OpenNLP would complete on 4GiB of RAM in less than a second on 0.5vCPU. Spacy needed 12GiB and was taking ~2 seconds with 2vCPU. They identified the same results...
Me and a few others ended up spending a day reading the python and trying to optimise it, clearly the juniors had done something daft, they had not.
Data was to be dumped into a S3 bucket (minio), this created an event and anouther team had built an orchestrator which would do a couple of things but eventually supply an endpoint a reference to a plain/txt file for analysis.
For the Java devs they had to [modify the example camel docs.](https://camel.apache.org/manual/rest-dsl.html) and use the built in jackson library to convert the incoming object to a class. This used the default AWS S3 api to create a stream handle which fed into the OpenNLP docs. .
The Python project first hit a wall in setting up Flask. They followed the instructions and it didn't work from setup tools. The Java team had just created a new maven project from the Intelij but the same approach didn't work for the Python team using pycharm. It lost them a couple days, I helped them overcome it.
Then they hit a wall with Boto3, the team expected to stream data but Boto3 only supports downloading, there was also a complexity issue the AWS SDK in Java waa about 20 lines to setup and a single line to call, it was about 50 lines in Python. On the positive side I got to explain what all the config meant in S3.
This caused the team anouther few days of delay because the team knew I used a 350MiB Samsung TV guide to test the robustness and had to go learn about Docker volume mounting and they thought they needed a stateful kubernetes service and I had to explain why that was wrong.
Basically Python threw up a lot of additional complexity and the docs weren't as helpful as they could have been.
Let's say we don't care about the backendfrontend interconnection we see in most JS frameworks. We just want to program the backend. What would be the language of your choice?
My expectation is whatever the solution it needs to dockerise and be really easy to deploy via docker compose or Kubernetes so people can quickly and easily set up their own.
The front end is effectively static files so I would probably choose Apache or Express (whichever gives me a smaller docker image)..
For the backend I would choose Java for Spring Boot. An Alpine image with OpenJDK and the app is tiny. Spring has a library for every kind of interface making them trivial to implement but the main reason is hibernate.
Hibernate (now Spring Data) was the first library for being able to switch out databases without having to change code (its all config). A lot of mastodon instances struggle with the resource requirements of elastic search so letting small instances use something like postgres would seem ideal.
I have noticed Go/Rust still expect you to write or manage a lot of stuff Spring gives away for free. Python is ok if your backend is really tiny but there is a lot of boilerplate in how Python libraries work so complex projects get hard to manage and I assume interacting with the fediverse will add complexity.
I recently started watching Grian's hermit craft season playlists and watching them back to back, it feels like Grian is burning himself out as he repeats the same mistake....
I have listened and as the seasons go on I get increasingly worried about him. He is increasingly showing signs of burn out so clearly his flow isn't working for him.
Listen to season 7 as he talks about the back of the mansion. He is feeling self pressure to complete the back and he is getting fustrated at himself.
Its the same with the Ally, you can hear how excited he is at the start and as the season progresses anything to do with the ally he talks about like an unpleasant chore.
With the stones other hermits try to intervene to help him, his reaction there really doesn't seem a bit. It sounded a lot like the panic caused by burn out.
He clearly loves being on the SMP and his shenanigans and ideas are fantastic and clearly a lot of fun for him. I want him to stick around and think unless he learns how to break up work so he can find joy in all his builds he will loose that joy
I am currently working my way through Mumbo's S6 and the best episodes so far have Iskall and Grian in them.
The thing I have noticed it Mumbo isn't really pressuring himself on a build. He has just kept focus on the storage system because he is finding it fun.
I thought Grian was at his best with the barge, his episodes had a flow where he would resource, stock the bardge, do a "small" build/project and then shenanigans.
I am not sure that flow is sustainable but he was clearly having fun.
At the moment it just seems he is increasingly beating himself up on being a builder and needing to build the most epic base ever.
It looks like the upcoming Lower Decks season will be the last one 😭😭 I didn't have any expectations for this show but it has quickly grown to be one of my favorites. I'll miss it
While there is nothing wrong with trying something new, the point of using a franchise is to leverage the existing fanbase.
If you can't get the fanbase enthusiastic you have a problem. Since you aren't leveraging the existing fan base and the franchise will alienate some of your new target fan base.
Replying to every comment that expresses an ambivalent or pessimistic view about a new show doesn't change that. It just makes this space seem hostile to discussion.
Debian would be a Volvo Estate, its the boring practical family choice, the owner is soneone boring like an architect or a financial advisor.
Arch is a Vauxhall Nova, second hand battered owned almost exclusively by teenage lads who spend a lot of time/money modifying it (e.g. lowering so it can't go over speed bumps, adding a massive exhaust to sound good but destroys engine power).
Fedora is something slightly larger/more expensive like a Ford Focus/VW Golf/Vauxhall Astra owned by slightly older lads. The owners spend their time adding lighting kits and the largest sound systems money can buy.
Slackware is clearly a Subaru Impreza, at one point the best World Rally Car but hasn't been a contender for a while. Almost all are owned by rally fans who spend fantastic amounts of time tinkering with the car to get set it up an ultimate rally car. None of the owners race cars.
OpenSuse is a Nissan Cube, its insanely practical. It should be the modern boring family choice, but it manages to ve too quirky for your architect while not practical enough for van drivers.
Ubuntu is a Ford Focus, they successfully stole the volvo estate market (Debian). The car was fun, good value and very practical. It was everywhere. Then Ford started increasing the size, weight, price, etc.. killing the point of the Focus.
So along comes Kia trying to make a competitor in the Ceed.
In theory the Ceed is a great car, its super cheap, lots of cabin space, nippy, the inside has every modern convenance, but....
It plays engine noises via speakers that aren't aligned with what you are doing
The boot space is rubbish, so 5 people can happily travel in the car you barely fit a suitcase in it
There is an steering sensitivity button that stays on at 70 MPH with no indication on the display
A Vauxhall Nova just out accelerated you
Your left wondering why anyone is bothering with hot hatchbacks these days as you climb into your volvo
Lays is called Walkers in the UK and the Sensations brand is still sold.
Here there are in my local supermarket. Personally I prefer the Sensation Thai Sweet Chilli nuts, they are the perfect thing while you wait for food to cook on the BBQ.
Every big UK company I have worked for doesn't own its building. They will typically agree to rent a building for 5-20 years at a fixed rate (longer times if its being purpose built for them) .
So I would expect this is paying out the rest of the rental agreements for a building to escape the building lease.
It is to do with financial reporting and the way asset and operational costs are reported.
The title says it all: How can we grow the Rust community here on Lemmy? Many users fled Reddit or are here for different reasons. But compared to it’s commercial big brother, the Rust community here, feels more or less dead. I would like to discuss ideas, on how we can changes that and make Lemmy the default for Rust related...
I believe this post would be better if it was rewritten in Rust it would allow more efficent. memory usage compared to; the dynamically typed English language which doesn't have the borrower checker. while allows you to detect when resources are no longer used unlike English's poorly performing 'grammar checking' tools
But seriously there has to be content to engage with and people who respond to the content. I've noticed this community has someone posting really high quality updates but the community appears to be that person.
Posting blogs, or asking questions, etc.. would be a good way to engage.
Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...
You have 3 types of testing unit (descrete part of code), integration (how a software piece works with others) and system testing (e.g. the software running in its environment). Modern software development has build chains to simplify testing all 3 levels.
Debian's change freeze effectively puts a known state of software through system testing. The downside its effecitvely 'free play' testing of the software so it requires a big pool of users and a lot of time to be effective. This means software in debian can use releases up to 3 years old.
Something like Fedora relies on the test packs built into the open source software, the issue here is testing in open source world is really variable in quality. So somethinng like Fedora can pull down broken code that passes its tests and compiles.
The immutable concept is about testing a core set of utilities so you can run the containers of software on top. You haven't stopped the code in the containers being released with bugs or breaking changes you've just given yourself a means to back out of it. It's a band aid to the actual problem.
The solution is to look at core parts of the software stack and look to improve the test infrastructure, phoronix manages to run the latest Kernel's on various types of hardware for benchmarking, why hasn't the Linux foundation set up a computing hall to compile and run system level testing for staged changes?
Similarly website's are largely developed with all 3 levels of testing, using things like Jest/Mocha/etc.. for Unit/Integration testing and Robots/Cypress/Selenium/Storybook/etc.. for system testing. While GTK and KDE apps all have unit/integration tests where are the system level test frameworks?
All this is kinda boring while 'containers!' is exciting new technology
It’s been inaccessible for roughly 24hrs right now and I’m having a hard time finding any group talking about it. Was there a change recently, or some kind of an explanation posted?
The developer behind KBin seems to have issues delegating/accepting contributors.
If you look at the pull requests, most have been unreviewed for months and he tends to regularly push his branches once complete and just merge them in.
That behaviour drove the MBin fork, where 4-5 people were really keen to contribute but were frustrated.
To some extent that would be ok, its his project and if he doesn't want to encourage contributions that is his decision but...
KBin.social has gotten to the size where it really should have multiple admins (or a paid full time person). Which it doesn't have.
The developer has also told us he has gone through a divorce, moved into his own place, gotten a full time job and now had surgery.
Thats a lot for any normal person and he is going through that while trying to wear 2 hats (dev & ops) each of which would consume most of your free time.
Personally I moved to kbin.run which is run by one of the MBin devs
It does but for the 90's/00's a computer typically meant Windows.
The ops staff would all be 'Microsoft Certified Engineers', the project managers had heard of Microsoft FuD about open source and every graduate would have been taught programming via Visual Studio.
Then you have regulatory hurdles, for example in 2010 I was working on an 'embedded' platform on a first generation Intel Atom platform. Due to power constraints I suggested we use Linux. It worked brilliantly.
Government regulations required anti virus from an approved list and an OS that had been accredited by a specific body.
The only accredited OS's were Windows and the approved Anti Viruses only supported Windows. Which is how I got to spend 3 months learning how to cut XP embedded down to nothing.
Technical Leads are not rational beings and lots of software is developed from an emotional stand point.
Engineering is trade offs, every technical decision you make has a pro/con.
What you should do is write out the core requirements/constraints.Then you weigh the choices to select the option that best meets it.
What actually happens is someone really likes X framework, Y programming language or Z methodology and so decides the solution and then looks for reasons to justify it.
Currently the obvious tell is if they pitch Rust. I am not saying Rust is bad, but you'll notice they will extoll the memory safety or performance and forget about the actual requirements of the project.
The team/organisations knowledge is a huge factor but its easy to fall into a trap where no matter what the problem is the solution is X language.
If I have an organisation that knows C# and we need to build a Web Application. I would suggest we need to learn Node.js and Typescript and not invest in a solution that turns C# into web pages.
A university near me must be going through a hardware refresh, because they’ve recently been auctioning off a bunch of ~5 year old desktops at extremely low prices. The only problem is that you can’t buy just one or two. All the auction lots are batches of 10-30 units....
Docker swarm was an idea worse than kubernetes, that came out after kubernetes, that isn't really supported by anyone.
Kubernetes has the concept of a storage layer, you create a volume and can then mount the volume into the docker image. The volume is then accessible to the docker image regardless of where it is running.
There is also a difference between a volume for a deployment and a statefulset, since one is supposed to hold the application state and one is supposed to be transient.
There will always be someone who is beating you in a metric (buying houses, having kids, promotions, pay, relationships, etc..) fixating on it will drive you mad.
Instead you should compare your current status against where you were and appreciate how you are moving forward
As for age
During university my best mate was 27 who dropped out of his final year, grabbed a random job, then went to college to get a BTEC so they could start the degree.
It was similar in my graduate intake, we had a 26 year old who had been a brickie for 5 years before getting a comp sci degree.
The first person I line managed was a junior 15 years older than me, who had a completely different career stream. They had the house, kids, had managed big teams, etc.. honestly I learnt tons from them.
A domain name can cost as little as £10, similarly most email services cost ~£5-£15 per person per month. Its normally pretty easy to link a domain to an email provider and doesn't cost anything other than time.
If a company can't be bothered to implement the most basic online branding people will make their assumptions and some will filter your company out because of it. With the cost to implement so low (e.g. £160 per year), even the loss/gain of a single customer would justify it.
The splash screen (boot screen instead of text)used to get me. It provided by an application called 'Plymouth'.
You used to need to install it and configure grub, however I think if you go into 'System Settings' and type 'Splash' KDE has an option to install and choose the screen
Wine attempts to translate Windows calls into Linux, its developed by Codeweavers whose focus is/was application compatibility.
Valve took Wine and modify it to best support games, the result is called Proton. For example:
Someone built a library to convert DirectX 9-11 calls and turn them into Vulkan ones, it was written in C++ and is called DxVK.
Wine has strict rules on only C code and their directx library handles odd behaviour from old CAD applications.
Valve doesn't care about that, they care that the Wine DirectX library is slow and buggy and DxVK isn't. So they pull out Wines and use DxVK.
There are lots of smaller changes, these are 'Proton Fixes', sometimes Proton Fixes are passed on to Wine. Sometimes they can't but discussion happens and a Wine fix is developed.
When talking about the best games of all time people generally mention Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario 64, Halo 3, The Last of Us, Nier Automata, etc. , but dismiss other great games....
I remember trying Pirate Trainer in a Nvidia game booth when VR was new. It was incredible, years later I get a VR headset and its the free game. I don't understand how no one has improved upon it.
Uru was the first puzzle game I thought struck a good balance between physical and mental puzzles. They were set at a level that felt challenging but not impossible and laid out so you alternated really nicely. Myst Online actually went backwards in this
I remember when it was just Hulu for $5 and Netflix for $8. Saved $50 a month from cable. Now it seems we spend more. I have four. Max, Peacock, Paramount and Hulu. Prime doesn’t count because it sucks balls. (Only paying Netflix when next Stranger Things and Squid Game is released). Curious to see what the average...
Plex has been baking in features like that to help you see what is on other streaming channels, etc..
Personally the whole point of Plex for me was it was a container for my existing DVD/Blu Ray collection, while Plex has added some really cool features. Increasingly they keep resetting the dashboard to try and force engagement with new features, it feels a bit user hostile and I've been switching to Jellyfin (same idea but entirely open source and self hosted).
From a discovery perspective, personally I've found good content tends to create its own word of mouth style buzz.
For example at the moment you can't go near twitter, reddit, work, BBC News, etc.. without someone talking about 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'. Recently the risa community kept mentioning Babylon 5 so I picked up all 5 seasons for £20 and watched it through. Similarly the Risa community really seems to love Star Trek prodigy so I'll probably give that a go at some point.
The person is correct in this isn't a Linux problem, but relates to your experience.
Windows worked by giving everyone full permissions and opening every port. While Microsoft has tried to roll that back the administration effort goes into restricting access.
Linux works on the opposite principle, you have to learn how to grant access to users and expose ports.
You would have to learn this mental switch no matter what Linux task your trying to learn
Dockers guide to setting up a headless docker is copy/paste. You can install Docker Desktop on Linux and the effort is identical to windows. The only missing step is
sudo usermod -aG docker $user
To ensure your user can access the docker host as a local user.
I have looked after a few instances of Active Directory and basic user management involved multiple steps through GUI's clearly written at different times (you would go from a Windows 8 to Windows 95 to Windows XP styled windows, etc..)
I much prefer FreeIPA, if I wanted to modify a user account it was two button clicks. Adding a group and bulk applying was the work of moments. You can setup replicas and for a couple hundred users it uses no resources.
The only advantage I could see related to Exchange Integration as it makes it really easy to setup Sharepoint, Skype & Email.
Sharepoint never gets setup properly and you find people switching to alternatives like Confluence, Github/Gitlab Pages or Media Wiki. So that isn't an advantage.
Everybody loathes Skype and your asked to setup an alternative (Mattermost, Slack, Zoom, etc..). I am not sure how integrated Teams is.
Which really only leaves Email and I just can see the one off pain of setting up Dovecot as worth the ongoing usability pain of AD's user control.
im gonna build a desktop application(daw). i need advice/opinion
greetings,...
Steam HW survey: Mac are 1.35%, Linux 1.90%... but is the industry reacting to this? ( store.steampowered.com )
The PC gaming industry (AAA and such) seems more sensible the economy of money around the Apple Platform, for sure. But we're talking about iOS gaming... not exactly what keep the industry busy with complex technologies like RayTracing, cutting edge PBR textures and gigallion of cinematic rendered Quadruple-A art assets....
Theming Storybook ( kbin.run )
I have been building several react components as libraries to use as part of a bigger idea....
CD Copy Protection & WINE ( kbin.run )
Recently I have been trying to play my old games (Worms, Sims, Black & White, etc..) on my Steam Deck....
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
If you were to create a Fediverse server, with frontend being plan simple HTML only, what programming language and stack would you choose?
Let's say we don't care about the backendfrontend interconnection we see in most JS frameworks. We just want to program the backend. What would be the language of your choice?
Lets talk about Grian.. ( kbin.run )
I recently started watching Grian's hermit craft season playlists and watching them back to back, it feels like Grian is burning himself out as he repeats the same mistake....
How are you making services remotely accessible? ( kbin.run )
I need help figuring out where I am going wrong or being an idiot, if people could point out where......
Star Trek Lower Decks S4? ( kbin.run )
I have been waiting on Star Trek Lower Decks Season 4 to be released on Blu Ray for months, does anyone know where I can buy it?...
Star Trek: Lower Decks to Conclude with Fifth and Final Season ( www.startrek.com )
It looks like the upcoming Lower Decks season will be the last one 😭😭 I didn't have any expectations for this show but it has quickly grown to be one of my favorites. I'll miss it
Distro's depicted as vehicles ( lemmy.world )
What discontinued foods do you miss?
EA will spend over $125 million laying off 5 percent of its workforce ( www.gamedeveloper.com )
Meta: How can we grow this community?
The title says it all: How can we grow the Rust community here on Lemmy? Many users fled Reddit or are here for different reasons. But compared to it’s commercial big brother, the Rust community here, feels more or less dead. I would like to discuss ideas, on how we can changes that and make Lemmy the default for Rust related...
I dislike wayland
Quite the unpopular opinion, but I just wanted to post this to show the silent majority that we still exist. We have reached a point where voicing criticism against wayland is treated like the worst thing ever and leads you to being censored and what not. The red hat funded multi year long shill campaign has proven to be quite...
What's going on with kbin.social?
It’s been inaccessible for roughly 24hrs right now and I’m having a hard time finding any group talking about it. Was there a change recently, or some kind of an explanation posted?
Why do so few Industrial product come with Linux support ?
I was thinking about the recent story about the DB looking for windows 3.1 administrator....
What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?
Has anyone here built a Beowulf Cluster? ( spinoff.nasa.gov )
A university near me must be going through a hardware refresh, because they’ve recently been auctioning off a bunch of ~5 year old desktops at extremely low prices. The only problem is that you can’t buy just one or two. All the auction lots are batches of 10-30 units....
GitHub - Asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs: A lemmy bot written in Rust to send summaries of wikipedia articles mentioned in user comments ( github.com )
NOTE: Bot is currently down...
People who had a quarter-life crisis in their 20's, did you do right to stress?
Without going into too much detail…...
Posteo email considered unprofessional?
Have any of you heard up Posteo being flagged unprofessional? I recently heard someone say that I am curious if there is truth to it.
Switched from Ubuntu to Debian yesterday
Why switch?...
GloriousEggroll announces new project to unify Proton runtimes ( files.catbox.moe )
github.com/GloriousEggroll/ULWGL...
What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?
When talking about the best games of all time people generally mention Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario 64, Halo 3, The Last of Us, Nier Automata, etc. , but dismiss other great games....
How Many Streaming Services Do You Have?
I remember when it was just Hulu for $5 and Netflix for $8. Saved $50 a month from cable. Now it seems we spend more. I have four. Max, Peacock, Paramount and Hulu. Prime doesn’t count because it sucks balls. (Only paying Netflix when next Stranger Things and Squid Game is released). Curious to see what the average...
What are some things that Linux can't do, but Windows can?