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@Dendrobatus_Azureus
It's usually the warranty that gets in the way, tbh. That said, I'm a Windows user with Linux in the VM/ Container/ Alt. Boot, so I don't mind either way for now.

Stacksocial sells licenses for US$10 for Win11, if it matters, though 🙂

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Dendrobatus_Azureus/116069410151775696

Tough! When Lenovo charged everyone for Windwws, people complained that they would have to pay the Windows "tax" even if they intended to use an Open Source OS. OTOH, if they make it an option, they're being greedy.

Anyway, I think the default "no OS" / "open source OS" is probably country specific - we don't get this in Singapore at least.

"The greatest risk a man could take is never to take a risk"
- From Professor T, Season 4 Ep5.

#TV #RandomThoughts

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

And the future with libraries like Charm or Ratatui having wrappers for Ruby I think the future to build TUI with Ruby is getting closer.

See more examples here https://allaboutcoding.ghinda.com/essential-ruby-gems-for-working-with-agent-skills-files

RE: https://mas.to/@Canadian_Eh/115993376621520335

The original famous Gosling

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

Is there a program that can find every #DLL required by an #EXE, recursively, except DLLs inside C:\WINDOWS, and hardlink/symlink/copy them all into the folder that the EXE is in?

Because the way dxx-redux is doing it right now https://github.com/dxx-redux/dxx-redux/blob/57b933783bf16c178b722604114aa50f34579be7/contrib/packaging/windows/build_package.sh#L30 looks fragile af. If any of those DLLs is in a path with a space or newline in it, that script won't work right. Among other issues.

There's gotta be a better way to do this, but I have no idea what.

#programming

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

TIL 🫣 #ruby

$Me: Is there a "cleaner" way in Ruby to check if a String is valid UTF-8 other than calling e.g. =~ /./ on it and checking for ArgumentError with message "invalid sequence in UTF-8"? GPT: Yep — there is a cleaner, more explicit, and more Ruby-ish way 🙂 And it doesn’t involve regex abuse or rescuing mysterious ArgumentErrors. ✅ The canonical way str.valid_encoding? That’s it. That’s the answer. Example: s = "hello" s.valid_encoding? # => true bad = "hello\xFF".force_encoding("UTF-8") bad.valid_encoding? # => false This is *exactly* what it’s for.$

@kerrick looks cool, great work!

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

Is that Tauri, running a Roda app locally as a desktop app without exposing it to TCP?

Almost! It's my experimental Ruby port of Tauri... Tokra!

Write desktop software in Ruby, with an HTML and CSS interface. You can use JS frameworks, too. Plus: it's Rack-compatible!

Rubygem: https://rubygems.org/gems/tokra
Code: https://git.sr.ht/~kerrick/tokra/tree/stable/item/examples/verify_ping_pong/app.rb

#ruby #rust #tauri #tokra #desktop #software #programming #gui #webdev #html #css #javascript #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #PreRelease #PreAlpha #SeriouslyNotFinished

An application called "Tokra Ping-Pong" shows a Verification Test. The message from ruby says: "Who helped the Tau'ri fight the system lords?" This message matches the command line argument the ruby app was launched with. The form beneath that question has "The Tok'ra!" filled in, and three buttons: Send IPC, Submit form, and POST to API. Success messages are visible.

In the terminal behind the native app web view, the ruby command used to launch the app is visible, along with its debug output. You can see that each button has been clicked, with three different answers: "The Tok'ra!" was sent via IPC, "Bra'tac" was sent via form, and "The Asgard" was sent via the API. You can also see that the application is a Roda app.

@mfowler
Whenever everything is bold, nothing is bold.

RE: https://ruby.social/@onghu/115902901296938509

For future reference: https://notepad.onghu.com/2026/ruby-tips-015-dont-let-utc-trip-you/

Don't let utc trip you up!

#Programming #Ruby

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

Żmij 1.0 released: a C++ double-to-string library delivering shortest correctly-rounded decimals ~2.8–4× faster than Ryū

https://programming.dev/post/44516189

@robbyrussell
"Not every code gets to live long enough to be legacy code"

@elaine
You're right, it will be solvable. I just feel that the innovation that came from people having access to computing personally did a lot.

Of course, I suffer from nostalgia bias 😂

@elaine ya, the death of acceptable consumer HW is my worry

@aa Ya, that's what I fear.. People being priced out of the market, in a manner of speaking

I fear the ongoing crisis in DRAM & SSD prices threatens *personal* computing & related innovation at a great scale cos "cloud" isn't a real option IMO. We can't know outcomes of parallel hypotheticals but I think it'll do long-term damage 😞 esp in developing economies

#RandomThoughts #Tech

@aa
Ah, I see.. That makes sense then

@ilikepi
Took me more than a few min to debug this because I just assumed wrongly.

Mohit Sindhwani boosted:

@onghu Huh, yeah even that short sentence is somewhat ambiguous without also looking at the example. It does kind of feel like this should be the !-version of separate method that returns a new object.

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