Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. The quotes make me wonder, whose definition are you using?
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  2. Ditto. Overpriced, shiny gadgets made for morons. A fun fact I keep bringing up, the same year that Steve Jobs died, so did Dennis Ritchie, who unarguably contributed significantly more to the computing landscape, yet hardly anyone even knows who he was.
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  3.  @JodyBruchon  If you're not on Windows then I'm confused as to why you'd need to parse INF files. I'd assume it was a typo for INI, in which case I wouldn't classify them as Windows files since it's just a file format. But if you're on an embedded platform, I'd just use C for all of it. That you can run shell scripts makes me wonder how powerful this device is because most embedded platforms I've dealt with had no shell nor OS. Hopefully you've got a personal library of code you've been building up or know of one. There's probably a couple dozen hundred INI file readers in plain C on GH, if you're feeling lazy.
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  4. Agreed that the Win32 API is the most stable API on Linux and I've even taken advantage of that a few times. About 5 years ago I would've said X was, but Wayland is slowly squeezing the life out of it and supplanting it everywhere so it's not such a clean target anymore. I would suggest that the only reason to use WINE to run old software is for games. Libre Office is good enough, so unless you need compatibility with MS Office formats I'd just use that. I've been playing Unreal 1 using WINE and it works better than it did on my Win98 box from 20 years ago. After I get tired of playing it again I may install UT. I have a native installer somewhere for UT, but last time I tried it 20 years ago it didn't quite work and WINE more than likely will.
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  5.  @terrydaktyllus1320  It used to be based on merit. Write good software and your software gets used more than others. Now it's based on how much kissing of the derriere of the rainbow brigade that you do and if it's not enough then you get DDoS'd off the internet. This has given us inferior programming languages and inferior programs with massive quantities of propaganda pushing them over better languages and programs, and people on the right being silenced for dissenting to the rot. Surely you understand that a meritocracy is a superior system that we desperately need to go back to.
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  6.  @googIesux  It's not the only jurisdiction that has made it illegal to collect rainwater. Look to any leftist controlled city, county, state, and you'll see tons of such "laws".
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  7.  @BenQ.-ys4kp  I've been learning it for the past 3 or 4 years and let me tell you, it's not a good language. I keep watching videos on it and they're nearly all filled with lies. They allude to or insinuate that it'll prevent every error and then sea lion on you if you call them out on it. Fact of the matter is, the types of errors that the language tries to prevent aren't actually prevented wholly by the language nor in combination with libraries that you'll inevitably have to use if you don't rewrite literally everything in Rust. The biggest source of errors is failure to check user input and it doesn't actually make that any easier. If a Rustacean tells you that memory misuse is the biggest source of errors, they're either spreading propaganda or being facile because that's only how things end up when you fail to check user input. If you want a few examples of what's wrong with the language, look at strings, lifetimes, constructors, mutability, references. Certain keywords irritate me, but I'll admit that that may just be a personal opinion. Things like fn, let, pub, impl, mut. I abhor Java-style singular use keywords like pub and fn. If I have to use a keyword to declare a group of functions as public, then it should allow me to collectively refer to those functions instead of requiring that I use pub for every single function. I just hate function keywords in general. Look at C++ lambdas for an example of doing it mostly right. No keyword at all, though I do have issues with the array of captures component. If anyone tries to claim anything about "the most vexing parse", I'll point out that you can and should use braces to invoke constructors in C++ now and that eliminates that weird self-imposed problem. I say now, but it's been since C++11, so it's not exactly a short time and in fact has been usable since before Rust existed. Anyhow, if YouTube doesn't shadow or delete this and you do happen to actually read it, I'd suggest C if you don't already know it, and just ignore newer languages, but if you must have classes, operator overloading, templates and RAII, then sure, go for C++.
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  8.  @sigurdss4  I disagree. I've used a lot of programming languages, and I feel like Rust's designers went in a completely wrong direction with nearly everything. The way I figure it, a programming language's job is to get out of your way and let you do the work you need to do, but Rust constantly gets in the way, even when you use it the only way you can. I think the biggest part of the problem is too much and too inconsistent of syntax.
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  9. LGR has a video on his channel.
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  10. I've been using their browser since before it was even called Phoenix, and I would gladly switch if every single one of their competition weren't Chromium based, but that alone actually makes it worth the effort to use FireFox. However, that said, surely I'm not the only one to not want what they're currently calling "AI" to be anywhere near my computing experience. Don't get me wrong, I've written a few neural net programs and experimented with them as toys, but people shouldn't use this garbage for serious work. It's going to lead to a lot of problems in the future if we don't cut it off. Truthfully, if it weren't for certain organizations requiring me to access the internet from time to time, I would have given it up years ago.
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  11.  @mytech6779  Everything is known to cause California to the state of Cancer.
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  12.  @82andymac  If it looked right when run through WINE I'd totally be using that as well. At least that is assuming that it would obey the media keys. I use Audacious right now because it's one of the few that has all the options similar to WinAMP but also obeys the media keys. It doesn't look too bad either.
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  13.  @Manley410  If you were old enough to use the internet back then, you'd get it.
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  14.  @Hofer2304  What I'm saying is that if the project is taken over by malevolent forces, then the only real option is to abandon it. This is why projects all need to have a BDFL, so that they actually get maintained and continue to be useful.
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  15.  @Hofer2304  Getting a group of cats to agree on a direction to move is just about impossible, and with some projects, that's what it's like if you try to organize them in certain ways. This is why the BDFL system is still the best for open source, but again I stress that the leader of the project must be benevolent. If it's an MDFL then the project is ruined, and if it's run by committee and that committee is taken over by a bunch of malignant personalities, you get Rust. A constitution would be much the same as running it by committee, only the rules would be more enshrined.
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  16. As they say, a broken clock can be right twice a day.
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  17.  @Sean_6008  Unfortunately for you, you're a broken word a day calendar. You won't be right for another 7 years, unless there's a leap year in 4 years, then it'll be 11.
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  18. Ditto. When I'm working for someone else I can be super fast, but when its for myself I bikeshed it all day long.
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  19. What you're trying to ask as a question is, who determines what the truth is? If those on the left get to determine truth, then we'll never have it again. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, but we don't need to worry about AGI acquiring sentience and deciding to wipe us all out, the technology already exists for a truly evil person to put the pieces together and do it now without any actual intelligence needed, and I don't just mean computer intelligence, but human too. You could literally fit the pieces together today even if you're a numpty, and believe you me, the people that would do it are definitely numpties. I know, it's futile to say anything because if YouTube doesn't shadow or outright delete this post no one will read it anyway and even should one or two read it, none will heed the warning inherent within, and even should one heed the warning they'll lack the power to do anything about it.
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  20. It's truly amazing to me just how many brain damaged peopled there are in this country who believe all the lies of the media. Truthfully, it's hard for me to think of you as media because you keep telling the truth, but I guess that's just a modern day thought based on their past history and it'd be nice if the MSM could be trusted again like they were 40 years ago. I don't think any politician has good policies for tech because none of them understand it. Their advisors are such awful garbage that they never hear any good policy suggestions. So if anyone thinks that voting for either of them will improve the internet, forget it, because nothing will change there or it will get worse, and it really doesn't matter which one you vote for because that'll be the case for either.
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  21. Two possibilities here, either it's the leftist mind virus eating itself, which is by far the most likely scenario, or, conspiracy theory, it could be influenced by closed source companies trying to destroy their enemy, open source, from within. Now, obviously, if you really hate Microsoft, then you're going to automatically assume the latter given their EEE initiatives, but unless you can find concrete proof, you should probably consider that it's the former. Occam's Razor, after all.
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  22.  @drownthepoor  I knew people wouldn't understand the point, but let's see if I can rephrase it so it's easier to understand. GNU then was basically the equivalent to the Rust Foundation now. They manipulate people in some subtle, and some not-so-subtle ways to get them to use the GPL, not that I'm saying the Rust Foundation wants people to use the GPL, but using their rewrite everything in Rust objective as a contrasting point. Once a project is stamped with the GPL, you can't just do whatever you want with it willy-nilly. Had the license of choice been BSD, MIT or some other non-restrictive license, or had they not gone after people with rabid lawyers, then things would be drastically different. Most would argue that the difference would be that nothing would be open source, I posit the exact opposite that we'd have a wealth of open source. Of course, people that are fully inculcated in the cult won't ever agree with me, like Rustaceans won't ever agree that Rust is the wrong choice. And more pointedly you won't see my response because YouTube will likely filter such a long response when I have neither clicked like nor dislike on your post. I guess we'll see in a day or so, or 5 months if I can expect a similar response time.
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  23.  @drownthepoor  I don't mean when building against libraries actually. I suppose their manipulations are so subtle that hardly no one can see it, but you'd be right in saying that they don't force anyone to use a particular license. If I had thought the propaganda would have done this much damage I would've been taking better note of examples throughout the years. I suppose it's too late now because the damage has been done and we're worse off for it. I'm only one person, so even though I see history repeating itself with Rust, I can't do anything about that either.
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  24.  @keyboardwarrior6296  That's a false equivalency. Religion doesn't corrupt children. Imparting morals on a child is a good thing.
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  25.  @keyboardwarrior6296  That's not even remotely correct, and doesn't connect as the flasher isn't selling a product, they're randomly attacking someone. It's almost like you think your false equivalencies make a valid argument.
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  26. I agree, don't cancel them, let them keep talking and show the world what evil PoS's they are. They claim anti-Semitism is on the rise, and it certainly is, but not from those on the right, it's from those on the left. But really, if it weren't for double standards, leftists wouldn't have any standards at all.
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  27.  @nandoflorestan  Whether anyone wants to or not, the idea is solid. Improve core components and everything that relies on them improves.
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  28. This is why I cover my cameras and microphones 99% of the time and never play games that require an internet connection.
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  29.  @zwerko  That's a lot of assumptions I'm going to ignore rather than take offense at, but I've often found myself with a stronger grip on reality than most people. I also seem to know myself as a person better than other people know themselves. You probably don't have children and/or don't remember your childhood and wouldn't understand this, but children are little sponges. They absorb all the information you give them, whether you realize you're giving it to them or not, and it's not always you giving them this information, especially if you foolishly let them watch TV.
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  30.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I agree with that so very much, and wish it could be applied in many spheres of knowledge. People should learn more about the tools they're using before they start trying to use them.
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  31. It seems like Bidiot and the Demonrats are hellbent on destroying the world. Russian programmers are some of the best in the world, and I suspect that the reason why is because they have shitty hardware, so banning them is definitely a stupid move. Most Russians, and especially those that are programmers, disagree vehemently with what their government is doing. So that idiotic sanction punishes them for zero benefit when they're not even guilty. The unintended side-effect, which might actually be a good thing, is that US programmers will be banned from non-US-based projects when they have to decide between keeping Americans and keeping Russians. The idealistic me would hope this leads to better programmers in the US, but the pessimistic me knows it'll lead to worse ones. Our only hope is that the EO is reversed by Trump.
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  32.  @goodfortunetoyou  Sounds fair to me, but then I don't play WoW or any such games. My best friend in high school played EverQuest, and it looked boring and lame to me, as have all the rest of the MMORPG's I've seen since.
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  33. I don't have to worry. There's no way that Slackware will ever get this garbage. Any addition of technology they call "AI" will be in individual applications and those I can probably just do without. I'm already looking to replace FireFox because they're pushing this garbage, but LFS exists.
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  34.  @JodyBruchon  More or less the same. If you can't get the normies to put in the effort, then it's kind of pointless. Every extra step required puts them off. It's really kind of disheartening.
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  35.  @Drowsy-All-Day  It's likely this comment will be censored in some way, but if not, you should know that the Palestinians do mean genocide when they use that certain phrase and if you study the history of the region you'll find that they have no valid claim for all the land they want. Modern day Israel started off by purchasing the land that they had and won all the rest in wars that were started by their neighbors just because Israel was predominately Jewish.
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  36.  @Drowsy-All-Day  Maybe not, but it probably should.
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  37. I would've said that FlatPak was a good runner up a couple of years ago, but now that I'm on Slackware 15 and it not only works but I've got several apps that refused to build from source which work as FlatPak's, I like it a bit more now. AppImage's are definitely the best though, because I can just plop it somewhere, chmod +x it and go. No installation, no fiddling or faddling, just run it right after download. Yeah, you have to trust the person that puts it together, but you have to trust a lot of people already when it comes to using any computer. You have to trust that all of the hardware manufacturers aren't putting in backdoors, which we now know they pretty much all do, and you have to trust the OS distributor, which for Linux you mostly can, and you have to trust each of the applications you have running on your system which may or may not be written by and/or maintained by anyone that has your best interests at heart. So unless you make all your own hardware and software, you eventually have to trust someone.
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  38.  @drownthepoor  You're describing one particular license. Look into BSD and MIT.
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  39.  @sillymesilly  No. Not tolerating contradiction is a very incorrect view. In fact, the lack of tolerance that the left has is a very bad thing. If you can't tolerate someone disagreeing with you, then you should be aware that your viewpoints are probably evil.
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  40. I don't understand why people still use Apple products. They have been restrictive pieces of excrement for at least 15 years. Shiny gadgets made for idiots by evil megalomaniacs. Oh sure, good hardware, and the software works well with it, but it still restricts you more than Windows, and that's saying a lot. Of course, I use Linux, but I also use boring and predictable hardware so I never have hardware incompatibility issues. Plus, you can't beat the freedom that Linux gives you.
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  41. You know what I miss, elinks. Back when Yahoo chat was a thing, that's what I used for nearly all of my web browsing needs. If, and that's a mighty big if, I needed a proper GUI browser for something, I would use Firefox, and at that time it really was the best browser. There was also a time when I would use Opera for all my browsing needs, before they swapped to using Chromium, and at that time, Opera was far better than Firefox. Like all things in tech, the more they change, the worse they get. I can't even use elinks now because it won't work at all on the modern web, and I can't stand to use any Chromium based browser, even Brave which people keep recommending. Firefox is the last browser standing as far as I'm concerned, and I'm getting to the point where I hate even that. If Ladybird doesn't drastically improve things over Firefox, I can't see switching to it. Ultimately, I may be forced to write my own browser from scratch and that's a multi-year project to even get something off the ground, unless the internet fundamentally changes. If we could get rid of HTML/CSS/JS, then the world and browsers would be far better off.
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  42. Have you not tried Blender for 3D printing designs? Also, what's the polite half of the planet?
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  43.  @Turjak_art  Do you really believe that? Because if you do, then you've been brainwashed quite thoroughly. If you don't, then you're just evil.
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  44.  @Mankepanke  Weird, because I see it more from Europeans, Canadians, Australians and Brits (they're not really European). Here in the US, it's less than half, they just happen to be super vocal.
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  45.  @j-twd930  I'd say that only around 48% in the west are such hypocrites. All the rest are intelligent.
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  46. And Embrace, Extend, Extinguish comes full circle. If Linus dies or quits, Linux is toast. Time to fork a pre-6.0 version and oust the zealotry from the kernel.
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  47. Some of the people under that FreeDOS video are complaining that you somehow got it wrong because they don't seem to understand that the initial state should work and not require fixes. The video even goes over everything you need to do to fix it and they still don't realize what they're saying. I'm inclined to think they're a bunch of Tim Paterson's. I get the arguments that people are making regarding whether it's even necessary, but the thing is, it should be part of the historical record, and part of that should mean unmodified. So the fact that they removed someone's name from an insulting comment is, in my opinion, a destruction of a piece of history. They probably had an intern upload it and they borked the encoding scheme, but modifying the historical record on purpose is just egregious. Non sequitur here, but it kind of gave me a chuckle when at the time of my watching this video the view counter was 8.3K views. Just a neat coincidence for a video on DOS.
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  48.  @chralexNET  You say that as if `gcj` and other native compilers don't exist. You're just spreading FUD like every other MS fangirl.
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  49.  @chralexNET  And yet, you dishpit, it still exists, still works and isn't the only example of a native compiler. Since you claim to not know what FUD means, you're either a liar and I can expect more BS arguments from you, or you were born this decade and don't know squat. If you want to make the absolute zygote argument that it won't handle the latest version of Java, I'll inform you that it's an open source project and could be picked up by anyone at any time but that yet again, it's not the only one and others are still being worked on.
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  50.  @chralexNET  Since YouTube keeps shadowing my posts I'll say it again in a different way for a moroff like you. Discontinued doesn't mean that it no longer works and as it's open source it could be picked up and continued by anyone to work with modern versions of Java too. You say you don't know what FUD is, but as you're an MS shill I find that statement dubious.
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