Intro

Hello everybody. This is episode 18 of FalseTrue Digest.

Stories

We have two major recent stories for this month

The main story of this week is Linux foundation banning Russian maintainers due to sanctions.

• Removing Russian developers from Linux MAINTAINERS file - This is the commit itself.
• Linux Torvalds replied
• Explanation of the case - Explanation of the case from one of the community member.
• Article from Phoronix long time ago - precedent of everything long before
• Developers are leaving Linux kernel development
• Getting called “Paid Actor” by Linus Torvalds

Nobody explained situation better than Bryan Lunduke so I recommend to watch whole set of his videos on subject

• Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned
• Why Were Russian Programmers Banned From Linux, But Not Huawei Employees?
• Remembering When Obama Declared Linux Users “Extremists”

Internet Archive is dying

Our beloved Internet Archive was hacked, multiple times, and didn’t get up properly, its broken, and nobody understands what is happening.

• The Internet Archive will die - any serious attempts at archiving it? - Reasoning behind that started long time ago
• Internet Archive Data Breach affected 31 million users

Development

• Open Feature - OpenFeature is an open specification that provides a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging that works with your favorite feature flag management tool or in-house solution.
• Open Observe - OpenObserve (O2 for short) is a cloud-native observability platform built specifically for logs, metrics, traces, analytics, RUM (Real User Monitoring - Performance, Errors, Session Replay) designed to work at petabyte scale.
• Fast Storage - Ultra fast key value store (in C btw)
• Toasty async ORM for Rust
• ISO/IEC 14882:2024 Programming languages — C++

  Hard core

• Pretty C - Pretty C is a new scripting language compatible with C.
• Playstation Vita Architecture
• Cat without cat
• Rust based rm

Emacs

• News in Emacs 30
• Native compilation enabled by default
• Native (and faster) JSON support
• use-package :vc keyword
• Tree-sitter modes are declared as submodes
• Minibuffer QOL improvements
• Customize interface for dir-locals
• New mode: visual-wrap-prefix-mode
• New command: replace-regexp-as-diff
• New package: which-key
• New customizations

• A few ELisp changes

• Announcing Emacs Asia-Pacific (APAC) virtual meetup, Saturday, October 26, 2024
• Drawing tools for Emacs
• That Lightbulb Moment with Emacs

UPD

• BTW, I’m launching Remoters.Club, please take a look at Remoters.Club - its supposed to be a community place for people who are working remotely and looking for a job.

That’s it for this episode. Comment and share. EOF