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Open source project contains hidden instruction for "AI" agents: delete my code
1+ hour ago (107+ words) No more. Things are escalating, and we need to look no further than jqwik, a library that brings property-based testing to the JVM. Hidden in its code is the following instruction, prepended to stdout whenever the test engine is invocated:…...
On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
3+ day, 9+ min ago (254+ words) Anyone who's written C knows that full ISO C standard-adhering code is an impractical rarity. Most real world C code out there relies on non-standard behaviors and language extensions to varying extents, and a lot of this isn't for extra…...
Flatpak will depend on systemd
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1309+ words) If you visit the Flatpak website today, it lists, as the very first advantage of the project: "Build for every distro: create one app and distribute it to the entire Linux desktop market." If you then move on to the…...
Twelve ways to be wrong about "AI-assisted coding
6+ day, 18+ hour ago (195+ words) Suppose your manager asks you next week to demonstrate that the AI coding tools your company signed up for are worth the subscription cost. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a…...
You can now run Windows CE 2. 11 on the Nintendo 64
1+ week, 3+ day ago (318+ words) I've seen some wild projects in my day, but this one is definitely up there as one of the more ambitious. Stock Microsoft Windows CE 2. 11 running on a real Nintendo 64. A custom HAL drops the unmodified nk. lib kernel onto…...
Haiku gets basic SMP support for ARM64, and unveils its GSo C projects: Bluetooth improvements incoming
2+ week, 18+ hour ago (415+ words) The months, they don't stop coming, so here's another progress report for Haiku, our beloved successor to Be OS, the best operating system ever made. This past month the team's added basic support for SMP on ARM64 (enough to use it…...
Open BSD and slopcode: raindrop to a torrent?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (197+ words) Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that Open BSD already contains slopcode in its base installation, with the project's leaders and developers remaining oddly silent about it. My friend and OSNews regular Morgan posted this on Fedi a few days…...
Git Hub is sinking " OSnews
2+ week, 2+ day ago (231+ words) Microsoft acquired Git Hub and applied their unique brand of enshittification. Amongst their achievements was the spawning of the Copilot circle of hell. Now they're effectively DDo Sing themselves with slop. I won't dwell on what else went wrong. I…...
Debian embraces reproducible builds
2+ week, 3+ day ago (274+ words) Big news from the Debian release team: Debian is going for reproducible package builds. Aided by the efforts of the Reproducible Builds project, we've decided it's time to say that Debian must ship reproducible packages. Since yesterday, we have enabled…...
Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
2+ week, 3+ day ago (305+ words) ymawky is a small, static http web server written entirely in aarch64 assembly for macos. it uses raw darwin syscalls with no libc wrappers, serves static files, supports GET, HEAD, PUT, OPTIONS, DELETE, byte ranges, directory listing, custom error pages, and…...