You’re totally valid and right to share this. This is 100 times better than a lot of corporate chill content.

We should talk, use developers, about our craft and push for FOSS and the free access to everyone to technology. And this is very political, human interactions always are. I don’t believe a world of big tech hoarding everything is desirable and it seems not even long-term viable anyway.

So many people are jailed into the narrative of mainstream about AI. While so many issue are know and so blatant everyone become blind to them just because they feel powerless about it and prefer trying their best to profit of the situation instead of fight back.

• Why are all source files in the root folder (kinda unnecessarily messy)?
• Am I reading correctly about the benchmark being way bellow C here ?
• Limitations of the language feel not attractive for application development

a dynamically allocated array is a typed memory area without intrinsic length information […] no threads in the language, no WCHAR

• I haven’t read about the module/import mechanism because it is buried too deep in the documentation, if this is a strong point this should be talked about. Also a “Getting started” is very attractive to me.
• Bonus : getting away from Github would be a big W to me.

Agreed, this is a kind of hegemony in which I grew up with the FSF and GNU being the good guys and the best we have so I can’t imaging better.

To their credit they exist and their contribution is the best we have so far. Despite full of engineers the western communist movements can’t build anything. So W for the libertarians for that one. For now.

Good… This is called karma.

We needed a serious alternative since a long time ago anyway. Enshitification of the Linux Foundation hopefully will trigger the rise of a less fascist, maybe even antifascist, organisation.

I don’t get it but why not.

I would love page screenshot though, not just what is visible but the whole rendered page as one, in a PNG.

isn’t the whole case hot? Usually motherboard has sensors for monitoring the case temperature and control case fans. If the whole environment is above 45°C it makes everything hotter.

If you can check that an easy test would be to disable you CPU boost. I always do this anyway as boosting is a temporary way for a CPU to squeeze some extra performance at a huge energy/temperature cost. On my stress test this “only” get 10-15% more performance but without boost the CPU temperature never get above 50°C.

Because the CPU is not warming the case anyone everything is cooler, how much I don’t know though. Hopefully this could also reduce I/O on the SSD in general too but a cooler case is definitely better for every component.

The way to disable boosting depends on the CPU model as a starting point you can check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Configuring_frequency_boosting.

It is possible, but it is not a wayland limitation per-say but a compositor one (aka the wayland server), and I say “limitation” if the compositor doesn’t have multi-display option.

Technically wayland is not the issue:

If you look at your /run/user/[uid] (uid is probably 1000) you will see the wayland “displays” (socket here), usually named wayland-X. The /run[...] is usually set from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR while the wayland socket to be used is set in the environment variable $WAYLAND_DISPLAY. So running an application in a 2nd session would just require setting the $WAYLAND_DISPLAY to an other value (that exists).

It seems that Sway is able to do this with the output command.

How could you tell? For me only the things I found fishy were the pace of commits and the constant useless comments but it cannot always be a 100%.

Also there is a ton of red flags : private company using .org, blusky/Twitter/discord, bloated home page, rust 🙂…

Wait, I was hinting at this because I was hoping to get noticed as the creator of the most popular style for this site 🥲 : https://userstyles.world/style/933/lwn-dark-breeze-enhanced

but I just realized I don’t have the extension on mobile yet the theme is dark. What’s going on? they did update the website and you still have light theme?

do you know the stylus extension?

Yes and no, I said “devs” and you come saying “actually […]” but really people “integrating” software “usually” are developpers. If you want to start a web server you will have to deal with systemd. If you want to check logs, you will also. If you need to debug an application that crashed (in C at least) in a production/test environment (not in “my machine”) you might want to get into core dumps.

They are choosing to do that because it helps them

Really? In what universe are you living? Any piece of software I built, professionally or not, had to run on debian-based or arch-based linux hence systemd. Did I choose or any fellow developers of my time? No, maybe people 20 years ago, maybe… That really reminds me of conservative views on “social contract” like we all chose the society we are living in.

As a user you probably don’t know, and maybe don’t care.

This is more for developers, technology is not magic, vendor/technology-locking can be problematic. It’s not like systemd was made by bad people with bad intention. You may have heard of X11 too. The list could go on, there is a big amount of legacy in our technology, some would just keep it that way. But some argue for changes thus discussing (and criticizing) those legacy, why it fails on some points and what to do/build from that.

So right now if you’re a desktop user, I don’t see why you would bother indeed. This discussion are still interesting to some devs, for instance here I learned about dinit, and it’s code is damn small and clean, hence it was informative and I will definitely try it.

I am pretty sure this is from 30th of July 2026 (and not 2025 as the article says, the blog menu seems correct). Did I miss something about it being 4 years old?

Same here, also all embedded system on linux + smartphone. I guess the author meant desktop usage. Still I am very unsure about the world at large. This is north-American take.

I am not the author (I am asking him right now if I should tag him). I didn’t know about dinit but this looks like a nice alternative.

I would have been fine with just systemctl/journalctl , I really dislike the locking of homed, network, etc. This is very much unnecessary and remove any future possibility of improvement/innovation.

I didn’t care about coredumps as it is part of my setup to disable the dumps to avoid unnecessary garbage on my SSD while activating for debugging with gdb (it is kind of awesome to load the program state from core dumps, also coredumpctl felt like magic).

Can I suggest?

• Fix publish date : it is written Jul 30, 2025
• Add prefers-color-scheme
• if you use css variables (cutsom.css -> :root) might as well not hard code background-color and color in body.

Your post was nice and well written, was it shared somewhere?

I long for something different than hacker “fascist” news and their AI-filled website.

Can I say: Karma?

It’s been a while now that the Linux “Foundation” has been big tech lapdog and corrupted, Torvald first. For me the eviction of Russian maintainer for their nationality was the last straw (of course it was initially done in full opacity) and now the AI chill is cherry on top. Under a fake cover of “community-based” FOSS this is consortium and the enshitification is just the logical consequence.

are you trolling?

I checked your history and you seems to genuinely interact but you’re sentence makes no real argument (more like a joke).

But maybe you haven’t read the rest of the conversation so here some points:

• You can and are encourage to download and use free software. Same with comments.
• You are not allowed to monetized free software (hence the GPL v2 vs v3 debate). To be honest also with my comments.
• The term stealing could indeed be confused with the modern usage of fascists who want to fight against piracy but it was used for a good century by communist to talk about capitalists stealing surplus value made by workers.

you talked about labor theft, why do you think the boss should pay you? An I am not saying “should” as society should be like that, I agree with no private property and no money -> should as right now is it OK or not to make money from other people works : this is exploitation.

I argue that the “steal” of today’s LLM is the same exploitation of worker as usually described, here outside the social contract of librism and free software.