Lol. It’s not the groundhog we should be watching, then?

They probably mean Open Container Initiative (OCI), the protocol shared by Podman and Docker.

Yeah. The idea of an automated C to Rust replacement of the Linux kernel is fascinating. As you say, there’s probably stuff in the Kernel that Rust’s compiler won’t allow.

I imagine it wouldn’t work at all, out of the box, but it might reduce the cost curve enough to make a dedicated team of very clever engineers able to cross the last mile, given time.

As cynical as I am of both Rust and AI generated code, it honestly feels like trying an automated conversion might be less of a long shot than expecting the existing Linux kernel developers to switch to Rust.

And I’m sure a few would kick in some thought cycles if a promising Kernel clone could be generated. These are certainly interesting times.

Lol. If Rust fans want a Rust kernel, no one is stopping them from building one.

I setup a mail forward, and check the ‘to’ address to all incoming messages for about a year.

and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Yep! But that’s only until they decide to enshitify, which they (Valve) will, because they (the humans making the correct choices today) will sell or retire.

Makes sense. I only really replied there to help anyone reading along.

There’s many very basic features of vim that VsVim does not have (like… almost all command line commands), basic features which regular vim users use all the time.

! is supported:

https://github.com/VsVim/VsVim/blob/master/Documentation/Supported Features.md

It sounds like you haven’t tried VsVim in a long be time, or had an unusually bad experience with it.

(Edit: My responses to your other points were my old man energy, and not worth anyone’s time, so I removed them.)

It’s simply false to claim that vscode has more features than vim

Holy shit. I would never claim that. Lol.

Not sarcasm. I’m genuinely satisfied with VSCode’s Vim emulation, and you’re the first person I have heard say otherwise.

I just meant - that means you’re using features that most of us aren’t.

Fair point about evil mode for Emacs being better, but that requires using Emacs, which I have found un-usable, so far.

Also, the vim plugin for vscode is kind of a joke compared to what vim can do.

Dang. Hot take! I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else say that.

You clearly actually completed VimTutor.

I have several complaints about the VSVim plugin, but it’s easily the most feature complete Vim-like plugin I’ve ever encountered.

I’m trying to pay you a compliment, but I am doing it poorly.

As a legend among my Vim using peers, I can see how VSVim can be frustrating, to someone who truly leverages Vim.

Your annoyance with VSVim outs you as one of the true power users.

Thank you. Sometimes when rational thought and optimism are at ods, I choose optimism.

• The largest e-commerce platform in latin america and the most used in my country requires FR to use it.

I minimize my use of the largest eCommerce platform in my country. It’s a pain, but it can be done, and I feel good about my money going to organizations that better match my values.

• The bank is now pressing me to use their app with FR as a 2fa when using homebanking from its website, something that wasn’t necessary up to some weeks ago.

Sounds like a great opportunity to check into joining a credit union. All banks are predatory. There’s lots of other great reasons to minimize your exposure to banks.

• The telecoms demands FR from now on if you want a new SIM card in case you lost your phone or it’s been stolen.
• The government is in the same direction as it’s moving to digitalizing many burocratic procedures and also requires FR.

I imagine you may be stuck with these. Sometimes we can’t win them all.

I wouldn’t take that as a reason to give up. Having your face on file in fewer places is very lively to save you future headaches.

Ideally this will be less of a concern in the future, when the vast majority of organizations no longer have utter shit for Cybersecurity.

But that day is not today.

I mean, it has, a bunch of times. And they haven’t so far.

But I agree, in principle. When they’re impacted, in a way they actually understand, things may get better.

I regularly recommend configurations to peers that are arguably impossible for normal humans. (Not on purpose! Sorry Dave!)

I love to run stuff on Raspberry Pi, and I fear no gcc compile flag. (Ok. That’s a bold faced lie, even I fear a couple of them.) So I frequently forget the bullshit I had to do to get something weird running on a random Pi.

Yeah. Good point.

What we have for open hardware and firmware, on phones, in particular, is very slim pickings.

Open hardware has open source firmware.

We don’t have all that much of it yet, but it exists.

It’s nice. I use it to communicate with peers who weren’t afraid to set it up.

Support the people, not the country.

I agree wholeheartedly.