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In what cases are they mandatory? I've been leaving them blank for decades.

Wasn't Voice of America just a propaganda tool? Why are we happy that crap is back?

> Why are we happy that crap is back?

Don't you want to hear the voice of freedom and democracy ?


> Even non-atomic Linux distros have you reboot after updates.

It depends. Some of them have smart enough tooling to let you know if an update requires a reboot.


Alacritty shows me that it's http://evil.com when I hover over it.

gettext took over 30 years to get to 1.0 last month.


Tcl is great


Unironically, tcl is great as an upgrade from shell.


EulerOS was certified UNIX some years ago.


Huh, TIL. Thanks.


It is not obsolete. It's also useful for other things.


> Swap files are a pain

Easier than partitions:

    mkswap --size 2G --file swap.img
    swapon swap.img


Yeah, until you need to hibernate to one. I understand that calculating file offsets is not rocket science, but still, all the dance required is not exactly uninvolved and feels a bit fragile.


KDE has already created a browser engine, a browser, and a JavaScript engine.



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