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werdl

Seems rather a dramatic notion for a single incident...

The simple short-term solution is just don't feed all your work into the IP theft machine?

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @03:18AM (#49708925)
I don't understand - I thought sudo-rs was supposed to be a drop-in replacement? If it implements a subset of features how can this be the case?
Re:200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:57AM (#46702482)
oh wow! this looks cool, let me click.

annnd its another XLibre shill proselytising.

Venezuela?
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:50AM (#46272353)
https://github.com/werdl/qforj

Open-source theatre tech cueing software (I don't want to use MacOS to run QLabs)

Re:Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025 on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:07AM (#46131509)
probably not - it can be quite poorly defined in places and the edge cases can be very fiddly. by pushing for http/2 it encourages more users to pick it up imo
Another day another right-wing FOSS attempted takeover
Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution on Friday November 28, 2025 @05:46AM (#46077449)
Interesting to see the decisions they took regarding which flavours they chose to include.
Re:Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:11PM (#45723589)
"teach kids to hack" "available for iPhone, iPad and Mac"

You need to understand your market better!

Re:Major AWS Outage Happening on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:57AM (#45641528)
Looks like a DNS issue - dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is failing to resolve.
Re:Free software hasn't won on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:40AM (#45566169)
Free software has been killed by all the companies offering 'open source' solutions...
It is concerning how internet censorship seems to be increasing, even in socially liberal developed countries (UK, Australia, US and now Canada)...
Re:Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @03:09AM (#45513029)
Interesting, but I do wonder if Arduino is close to the peak of its market share. Basically every hobbyist already knows about them - opportunities for growth would seem limited. Still exciting though!