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Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own
In his typical fashion of replacing perfectly working software with
useless broken-by-design crap, our dearest Lennart has decided that
the time has come for systemd to gain an email program. He determined
that the GNU libc was insufficient for the task of a dbus-enabled cpu
hogging email client, leading to the new systemd libc: "
Technically, this move makes perfectly sense, too. We are sick
of supporting unstable glibc APIs and ABIs, and we believe that we
greatly benefit from the fact that we now finally have everything the
OS userspace consists of in one single repository. Of course, this new
libc is not available to Ubuntu and other Linux distributions that
have not yet adopted systemd. However, after deliberately choosing a
home-grown display server (Wayland) over the generally accepted one
(Mir) we decided creating an incompatible libc would be the best
approach to create a strong platform following a strict release
cadence."
On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."
Deleting Slashdot bookmark in 5, 4, 3...
Fbhaq yvxr nabgure ornhebpeng gb zr!
Systemd creator jumps off bridge. Apparently the guy couldn't take terminating his strings any more with \0.
What is the world coming to?
Down with the C stdlib.
-Hack
Got Geometrodynamics? Awe, too hard to figure out? Too bad.
Do people really get fooled by these "jokes"?
What the hell? Seriously.
Seriously sucks. If you're going to rot, rot 26.
Nq bgnyy encuvpf Pbtfjryy HMW srngherf cebprffbe QPOJFT !!!
The first was mildly amusing. Very mildly. Now it's starting to suck hard.
In fact, it was never funny. Whoever suggested this "joke" should be fired as it's ruined Slashdot for the day.
I tried posting in binary, /. complains with this:
Lameness filter encountered.
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
BUT BUT BUT, I think the entire /. is lame right now and they have the gall not the remove the 'lameness filter'?
You can't handle the truth.
Drink more Ovaltine.
Tvira gur nzbhag bs fcvevgrq qvfphffvba naq snpg-fgergpuvat gung vf varivgnoyl n cneg bs nal flfgrzq qvfphffvba, V'z hafher jurgure be abg guvf vf na Ncevy Sbby'f wbxr - gbqnl'f qngr or qnzarq...
-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
My id is 153153, but I almost never log in because I prefer to browse anonymously. If slashdot really has that much of a problem with ACs, why not just require logging in to view or post instead of this silly passive-aggressive whining about it?
This ROT13 is stupid, I'm not signing in to read April Fools garbage....TURN IT OFF...all you're doing is pissing people off...it's NOT funny.
It's lame. It was never funny. It is completely stupid. If I wanted to read stupid things on the internet, I would read Reddit.
sudo make me a sandwich
How 2 piss your users off, do something stupid. This better be back 2 normal tmoz. I read slashdot daily as an awesome news feed. April fools or not, I'm not amused. Will go somewhere else if not sorted.
I've been living haqre n ebpx
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
print unicode(open(sys.argv[1]).read(), 'ascii').encode('rot13')
I'm just amazed that the groupthink around here hates Facebook and its ilk for compiling data about them, yet is against people making anonymous posts.
never implemented rot13.
This site was never very interesting, just part of the vast wasteland of the internet. Now the stupidity has encrypted itself.
rinse wash repeat ad nauseum.
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
If you click on the link, you will find out that this isn't just a made-up Slashdot story; it was Lennart's joke. He said they are doing a replacement libc now, they plan to make systemd into an email client (a clear reference to Zawinski's Law), and they figure they will add an OS kernel someday, a gentle poke at GNU/HURD (it was right there in that post).
I'm not the biggest fan of April Fools humor, but at least in this case it was someone poking fun partially at himself.
Does adding a nasty, flamebait summary make the joke better?
Really? Really, Unknown Lamer? Did you actually think this vitriol is funny?
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
...in case anyone actually sees some of this, knock it off or go fuck yourselves. It's not amusing. Lots of us are going to log in from work and apparently that doesn't work anyway. It's not a joke if no one is laughing.
barada nikto
Gur vebal vf gung Cyna9 npghnyyl qvq gung.
Slashdot editors at their finest!
Now that was a memorable Apr. 1st
Ixnay on the otray irteenthay.
Have gnu, will travel.
Did the second-to-last word in the summary slip through in plain text? Full disclosure please.
The worst part is that this almost sounds like a good idea.
'On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."'
And there was much rejoicing.
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
In all seriousness, I'd put up a lot of money to have Lennart go to college and learn some other trade besides code.
I truly honestly hate April the 1st . Totally unnecessary . Sometimes overdone like in this case . and many a times outright irritating ....