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by collinfunk 19d ago
Note that STF did not fund GNU coreutils. They funded uutils.
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by collinfunk 27d ago
> Is there any effort from the GNU organization to solve long-standing issues and pain points such as locales? Most GNU projects don't have a large overlap, if any overlap at all, between their active contributors. I suspect they be
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by collinfunk 28d ago
Note, I am a co-maintainer of GNU coreutils. Whether that makes my opinion relevant, biased, or both, you can decide. :) I really wished the documented their benchmarking methodology here, or at least cautioned the reader not to jump to con
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by collinfunk 2mo ago
When did this occur? I am a GNU maintainer, and have never heard such a thing from the FSF. The GNU Coding Standards and other similar texts leave the decision to support non-free platforms up to the maintainer.
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by collinfunk 2mo ago
I co-maintain GNU coreutils and wrote the Neon 'wc -l' code, for reference. Based on my quick look at the source code, it looks like this program can handle ASCII whitespace. GNU coreutils uses iswspace, which is locale-aware. Tha
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by collinfunk 2mo ago
The others and I, working on GNU coreutils, frequently use 'yes' to generate a bunch of garbage input for testing programs. It is nice that it can do so quickly.
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by collinfunk 3mo ago
The author states that they are not a lawyer, which is all good and okay. However, immediately afterwards they seem to claim that they know the law better than GNU, the FSF, and their lawyers. It confuses me how the author does not see that
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by collinfunk 3mo ago
> Why would you mention the labs in connection to a question specifically about bio weapons? Which situation do you think looks worse, admitting to having biological research facilities (unrelated to weaponry), or having Russians invade,
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by collinfunk 3mo ago
> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry? Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim? > to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested directly next to a
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by collinfunk 3mo ago
The whole "biolab" thing is pretty common Russian propaganda [1]. Unsurprising to hear Gabbard parroting it yet again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_...
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by collinfunk 4mo ago
Well, they have held back some slop in CPAN (a surprising place to find slop) [1]. Some of said slop recently caused GNU coreutils test suite to fail [2]. Surely the bot will get it right one day, right? [1] https://bugs.gentoo.o
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
This came up again recently when I added SHA-3 support to 'cksum'. I think the conclusion was that OpenSSL was still faster. All of Assaf's points are good too, though.
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
At the current moment I would be against it. The language and library is changing too fast. Also, Rust has some other things that make it hard to use for coreutils. For example, Rust programs always call signal (SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN) or equival
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
No need to apologize at all. Doing it in one cd invocation would fail since the file name is longer than PATH_MAX. In that case passing it to a system call would fail with errno set to ENAMETOOLONG. You could probably make the loop more eff
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
Hi, I am one of the maintainers of GNU Coreutils. Thanks for the article, it covers some interesting topics. In the little Rust that I have used, I have felt that it is far too easy to write TOCTOU races using std::fs. I hope the standard l
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
> There are some pretty substantial differences. Russia is on the strategic back foot here trying to figure out a way to stop NATO's advance. His rationale for invading Ukraine was to "demilitarise and denazify" it. The NA
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
You see zero similarities between Hitler invading Poland and Putin invading Ukraine?
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
Another maintainer and I follow issues and pull requests on a GitHub mirror. But email works fine for us and many other projects. Regarding poor UX, it is difficult to dispute with that claim without a specific example. Note that a lot of t
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
Well the TOCTOU issues do not require you to run untrusted scripts to be exploited. Another user on your system can use a legitimate command that you may run to make changes to files they shouldn’t be able to, or further escalate privileges
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by collinfunk 5mo ago
I am one of them. The title of the substack seems fine since it mentions "if you use iTerm2". The tweet has no mention of iTerm2 which makes it sound like an issue in 'cat', which is mildly annoying [1]. [1] https:&#x2F
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by collinfunk 6mo ago
fileutils-1.0 was released in 1990 [1]. shellutils-1.0 was released in 1991 [2], and textutils-1.0 was released a month later in the same year [3]. Those three packages were combined into coreutils-5.0 in 2003 [4]. [1] https://gr
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by collinfunk 7mo ago
The bar for adding new options, especially short options, is quite high for coreutils. We have a (likely outdated) page of rejected requests [1]. Some of the changes people have strong feelings about... [1] https://www.gnu.org&#x
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by collinfunk 8mo ago
I don't think this addresses the main point of my question, though. Do you know any prominent Democrats, e.g., representatives, senators, or presidents, who have called for a Republican to be killed?
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by collinfunk 8mo ago
Even if one grants that it is a small minority, aren't they still voting for someone who advocates for jailing and killing political opponents?
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by collinfunk 8mo ago
Trump appointed him. Do you put not blame on him for choosing "uniparty birds" and "shades of grifters"? Or do you live in his colon.
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by collinfunk 8mo ago
It seems like they learned a lot from the Letitia James and James Comey cases, which are going great (not in the way they intended).
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by collinfunk 9mo ago
Haven't read it since it is down, but based on other comments, it seems to be an issue with cleartext signatures. I haven't seen those outside of old mailing list archives. Everyone uses detached signatures nowadays, e.g. PGP&#x2F
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by collinfunk 9mo ago
MacOS's utilities are really just FreeBSD's with some patches. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/text_cmds https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/system_cmds https:/&#
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by collinfunk 9mo ago
FreeBSD 6.0 added 'env -S'. They have adopted a few different GNU inspired options recently, which I am happy about.
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by collinfunk 11mo ago
Yes, linking LLVM takes up a lot of memory. The documented guidance is to allow one link job per 15 GB of RAM [1]. [1] https://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html#frequently-used-llvm-relate...

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