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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...
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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"?
I prefer to simply rot13 twice... much more secure than a single rot26!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
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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.
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-- Sometimes you have to turn the lights off in order to see.
I had a hard time finding the entertainment value in this until somebody mentioned Bill Cosby in another post somewhere. Now all I can hear is "Va uvf glcvpny snfuvba Jello Puddin Paaps!" It has made today fairly more tolerable.
Because taking 10 minutes to learn how to write a quick Greasemonkey script is too much effort.
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
never implemented rot13.
"ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
"2", "tmoz"... what kind of encoding are you using?
Slashdot social media options: AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber and Mobile Text. Why no MySpace?
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
Slashdot editors at their finest!
Absolutely. The point of a news portal such as Slashdot is that it makes it easier to find news. There should be a switch on the front page to turn off the encoder for all summaries, rather than having to go in to a summary and click the link each time.
Apparently wizard is not a legitimate career path, so I chose programmer instead.
tr '[A-Za-z]' '[N-ZA-Mn-za-m]'
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Ixnay on the otray irteenthay.
Have gnu, will travel.
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.
motion/visual selection + g? in Vim.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam.
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
I truly honestly hate April the 1st . Totally unnecessary . Sometimes overdone like in this case . and many a times outright irritating ....