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Re:Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @07:44AM (#49020027)
JetBrains is and has always been a Czech (and, thus, EU) company, not a Russian one. Yes, the founders are Russian, but that does not make the company so. They did have Russian offices, but closed them after the start of the Ukraine war [1].

The only confirmed link to the SolarWinds attack seems to be that SolarWinds was using TeamCity (JetBrains' CI/CD product) and that this was alledgedly used as a "gateway" to SolarWinds' systems - which doesn't require any cooperation from JetBrains, just an unpatched security issue. In fact, a patch by JetBrains for the exploited issue seems to have been available, but was not installed [2].

So while any company deserves scrutiny, these particular allegations against JetBrains smell like FUD to me.

See also JetBrains' own statements on the SolarWinds thing: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2021/01/06/statement-on-the-...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains

[2]: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa...

Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:39AM (#48279754)
Pretty sure that they wanted to write "this", typed something different by accident, and auto-correct struck.
Re:Wasmtime 1.0 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:37PM (#32915084)
What you linked to is WASI-libc, which is a C standard library implementation on top of WASI - which itself is more low-level and less POSIX-like. https://github.com/WebAssembly/WASI
There is RFC 3339, which is essentially “ISO 8601: The Good Parts” and, like all IETF RFCs, freely available: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339
Re:BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement on Sunday September 05, 2021 @06:05AM (#28422945)
In the German-speaking world, LovelyBooks [1] is quite popular. It seems to be strongly focused on fiction, though.

[1]: https://www.lovelybooks.de/

Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:57AM (#25830987)
This point was recognized quite early. there is an influential article by Jack W. Reeves from 1992 [1] that looks at the manufacturing analogy and argues that "the code is the design" whereas the "manufacturing" is just the compilation and packaging (that is, super cheap and automated). I believe it‘s this line of thinking that inspired Agile practices, where software developers are seen as engineers rather than code monkeys.

[1]: https://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/reeves_design....

Re:Show HN: InstaNote – notes in a simple chat interface on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:05PM (#24262712)
Telegram has this built-in. The chat list contains an entry called "Saved Messages" that is basically a one-to-one chat with yourself.
Re:Cool URIs Don't Change (1998) on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:28AM (#23867735)
To be clear, the difference is that an URI generally only allows you to refer to a resource ("Identifier"), whereas an URL also tells you where to find and access it ("Locator").

For instance, `https://example.com/foo` tells you that the resource can be accessed via the HTTPS protocol, at the server with the hostname example.com (on port 443), by asking it for the path `/foo`. It is hence an URL. On the other hand, `isbn:123456789012` precisely identifies a specific book, but gives you no information about how to locate it. Thus, it is just an URI, not an URL. (Every URL is also an URI, though.)

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