Ludovic Courtès

“A Fully Reproducible C Toolchain Rooted on POSIX Shell”, master thesis by Laurent Huberdeau: 📄.pdf Interesting take on #bootstrapping, using POSIX shell as a base layer “taken for granted”. I have my doubts on the argument of “readable shell code”:

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Ludovic Courtès (@civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr)

I also wonder what makes the authors think “pnut can bootstrap these binaries in fewer steps and less code to audit”. The “readable shell”...

… but it remains pretty cool. (Seen on the #bootstrapping IRC channel.)

Anyone knows how to contact the fine people behind notabug.org? There’s quite a few Guix/Guile-adjacent projects there that we should probably migrate to Codeberg, but we can’t do that properly without their help (adding Codeberg IPs to an allow-list on their side would be enough). #NotABug #Codeberg

Question to #glibc and/or #nsncd hackers: how do we get NSS clients to forcefully unmap all database caches coming from nscd? Context: we have a situation where PID 1 occasionally retains memory mappings made by nscd:

Codeberg.org

Seems that root file system is not unmounted properly for some setups

There are people reporting that they are encountering unclean fsck checks on boot. This has been reported 8 months ago and supposedly fixed - the p...

Looking at you, @npub1keue...q2y5 @⠴PicNoir⠦ :-)

#Guile 3.0.11 is out! 🎉

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Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.

With code contributions from 35 people, mostly bug fixes but also nice new libraries!

HRW on the forced displacement of 32,000 people in the West Bank in early 2025, a crime against humanity:

Human Rights Watch

West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity

The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crime...

Je viens de réaliser qu’en anglais le même mot peut vouloir dire « tiroir » ou « dessinateurice ». C’est fou.

Hey #Emacs folks of the Fediverse, The “Accept” and “Decline” buttons in article mode for ‘text/calendar’ MIME parts are great but #Gnus-specific and do no work with #mu4e: ‘gnus-icalendar-send-buffer-by-mail’ assumes the existence of a ‘*Summary*’ buffer. Any known solution to this?

#Guix has already raised half of its annual budget 👇

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Folks starting to realize that “open source” does, indeed, “miss the point” (to paraphrase rms), and that copyleft exists for a reason: https://paragraph.com/@holonic-horizons/the-stallman-paradox-how-web3-became-the-ultimate-open-source-theater

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