I’m guessing, those people are worried that it will be removed. It’s already somewhat on the line since Wayland started replacing X11, because individual desktop environments can now decide to implement it or not.

Reminds me of pingfs, which stores data in in-flight ICMP packages: https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/

Wikipedia says:

Dust in homes is composed of about 20–50% dead skin cells. The rest […] is composed of small amounts of plant pollen, human hairs, animal fur, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, burnt meteorite particles, and many other materials which may be found in the local environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust

(I would know that there’s dead skin cells in there, because I’m allergic to dust mite poop. And dust mites feast on dead skin cells…)

It’s kind of a double pun.

So, it is supposed to be (C++)++, i.e. an increment on top of C++ (even though the core of the language is virtually identical to Java).

But it’s also supposed to be C♯ which indicates in musical notation that a note should be incremented in pitch by a half-step. That’s where the “C sharp” comes from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)#Name

Hell yeah. 😎

Okay, less joking about, I think it’s partially like an autism thing? It just really does not sound pleasant to me, to be smoke-bombed by some pungent smell, especially if I cannot choose and especially if it’s gonna stick to me for the whole day.
Might as well have a machine where you put coins in and get slapped in the face. You might consider it sad, but I’m not sad at all, that I’m not getting slapped.

I have no idea. I mainly just wanted to break it down as some smelly fluid, because “perfume” makes it sound like more than that…

Sure, but those exist for scamming stupid rich people, do they not?

At least, there is no coin small enough that I would pay for a singular splash of smelly water.
Mainly because you’d have to pay me, if I don’t know what the hell I’m gonna smell like afterwards. 🫠

Whut? Are you supposed to pay money for a singular splash of smelly water?

Yeah, would not surprise me. I imagine, the most susceptible to the marketing are teenagers, who have not yet developed partner preferences beyond superficial attractiveness and who may not feel as secured yet in their manliness or beauty or whatever.

Convincing them that it’s a spray which gives you +1 to manliness/beauty, is a surefire way to print money. And since they have little experience what manliness/beauty actually entails, just giving your products stereotypical branding is the easiest way to do that.

Ah, good point that it might be a plant after all. Apparently, it’s native to South Africa: https://kumbulanursery.co.za/plants/lycium-oxycarpum

No idea, if they’d actually brand a fragrance with such a relatively unknown plant, and that webpage unfortunately doesn’t say whether the plant is citrusy or sweet, but another name for it is “honey-thorn”, so…

I also enjoy how it’s apparently “sweet citrus scent”. I was expecting “wolf thorn” to smell like a lot of things, but neither sweet nor citrus was one of them…

Same here in Germany, but only for the German word “Ingenieur”. You can call yourself “engineer”, no problem. 🥴

A few years ago, a colleague had the title “software craftsman”, because he thought it was utter bullcrap to call our profession “software engineer”.
And yeah, now that I’m part of a project for a few years, I’m definitely feeling “software mechanic”. I might install half a spoiler every so often, but aside from that, it’s mostly just repairs…

I always just do ss -ltnp | grep <port-number>, which filters well enough for my purposes and is a bit easier to remember…

I guess, those don’t work for hidden/minimized windows.

Perhaps worth considering a bspwm-like workflow. Rather than minimizing windows, you put them onto another workspace. Just absolves you from dealing with the whole concept of minimized windows…

It was so funny, too, because even back then, they had already set an end-of-life date for 2025.

Lots of “modern” languages don’t interop terribly well with other languages, because they need a runtime environment to be executed.
So, if you want to call a Python function from Java, you need to start a Python runtime and somehow pass the arguments and the result back and forth (e.g. via CLI or network communication).

C, C++, Rust and a few other languages don’t need a runtime environment, because they get compiled down to machine code directly.
As such, you can call functions written in them directly, from virtually any programming language. You just need to agree how the data is laid out in memory. Well, and the general agreement for that memory layout is the C ABI. Basically, C has stayed the same for long enough that everyone just uses its native memory layout for interoperability.

And yeah, the Rust designers weren’t dumb, so they made sure that Rust can also use this C ABI pretty seamlessly. As such, you can call Rust-functions from C and C-functions from Rust, with just a bit of boilerplate in between.
This has also been battle-tested quite well already, as Mozilla used this to rewrite larger chunks of Firefox, where you have C++ using its C capabilities to talk to Rust and vice versa.

The description in the ticket isn’t too bad:

allows users to make a window disappear and keep only its title bar visible.

It really just hides the window contents. In effect, it is similar to minimizing a window, except that it doesn’t spring into your panel and rather stays in place as just the window title bar without the contents.

It is a niche feature, if you couldn’t tell. But it isn’t some KDE specialty feature; various other desktops and window managers also support it. I think, it was more popular in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when we were still working out, how we want to do panels and such.

And conversely, I do think it makes more sense as a feature on big screens like you can have today, where your panel might be quite a bit away.
Don’t think, window shading will make a big comeback just yet, but yeah, probably enough existing users that use it, so that it would be cool to support that workflow.

It also makes for an easy conversation topic to complain about stuff…