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From: Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:33:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-15, vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:11:52 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
><ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vm75h8$2lnf2$3@dont-email.me>:
>
>> On 15 Jan 2025 01:37:09 GMT, vallor wrote:
>> 
>>> Have a real problem with snipping.
>> 
>> I wonder why ... considering that the entire thread is still available
>> for you not just to read, but also to copy/paste from.
>
> Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence -- take a look around.
>
> You snipped again, removing all Linux content from the post,
> so you could make a meta-point.

Snipping can be good or bad. Long threads usually drift, and the thing I
want to follow up on may be far removed from most of the (by now
obsolete) text cluttering the top. And also from the subject line, ion
which case it is imperative to change the subject and strip out what is
not related to the current subject.

My newsreader these days is /slrn/, and getting back to the posts read
in past sessions is a fairly combersome distraction, while in
Thunderbird it is super-easy. So I see both sides.

> Wouldn't it be nice if we could talk about Linux in the Linux
> newsgroup?

We do, occasionally ;-) but this group overlaps with
alt.folklore.computers as a social medium for septugenarian nerds. Much
of that chatter would probably be better in a group of its own, but then
our fellow auld farts would never find it.

I used to think that a Quora space would be the best place for it, but
Quora has mostly lost the good guys due to bad housekeeping and
overblown monetization. Maybe BlueSky can get there?

> ObLinux:
>
> I was running Linux 6.13-rc7, but have gone back to 6.12.9.
> Turns out Microsoft screwed the pooch on a patch submission
> to the new kernel:
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/microsoft_linux_change_pulled/
>
> h/t to rbowman for posting about that in cola.

While reading that, I came about this article,
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/the_end_of_absolute_linux/
which ends up talking about the tradeoffs between static linking and
shared object libraries.

I recently had one of my photo management program scripts break.
In iOS 18, Apple made some subtle changes is their use of the .HEIC
file format, causing libheif to fail. I had to go out and find
the Fedora Rawhide version of the fixed libheif, and all is good
again. Kudos to .so libraries. But when I build programs to give to
others, it would be much easier if I could link them statically
rather than track down all the dependencies to make sure to help
my "clients" find them before they can use my program.