Thanks for the archive link, even if I prefer Techdirt for these kind of news, it was nice of you to save me from visiting Wired.
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No I'm sorry, I pull my feeds manually using a barebones reader. I'm guessing your best bet is one of the web-based readers as it would require a client with a TCP port that's reachable from the web. I have never seen a feed who provided the rssCloud feature though.
Have they resolved the issues with poop?
The C compiler or third party libraries can provide support for parallel execution and SIMD. That article is just used by people in an attempt to argue that C's strength in being a good low level abstraction is false, which it isn't. C is the best portable abstraction over a generic CPU that I know of. If you start adding parallel features and SIMD like the article suggest, you'll end up with something that's not a portable low level abstraction. To be portable those featues would have to be implemented in slow fake variants for platforms that doesn't support it. We can always argue where to draw the line, but I think C nailed it pretty good on what to include in the language and what to leave up to extensions and libaries.
C is not a perfect abstraction, because it is portable. Non portable features for specific architectures are accessed through libraries or compiler extensions and many compilers even include memory safe features. It's a big advantage though to know Assembly for your target platform when developing in C, such that you become aware fx. that x86 actually detects integer overflow and sets an overflow flag, even though that's not directly accessible from C. Compilers often implement extensions for such features, but you can yourself extend C with small functions for architecture specific features using Assembly.
For your photo needs, you could try out RawTherapee and Darktable. They have builds for Windows and MacOS.
A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click
Timo Tamminen
One day a Linux user using KDE Plasma decided to download a generic theme for his desktop environment. This is possible with Plasma's built-in tool, through which you can download anything from themes to icons and wallpapers.
Installing themes using Plasma's tool is easy and fast. It practically only requires one click. This time, however, the user in question certainly wishes that that one click had not been completed.
Namely, installing the theme called Gray Layout wiped the machine completely empty of the user's personal files. Without asking anything.
Although the theme developer's intention this time was apparently not malicious, the accident was a clear indication that installing third-party themes without careful supervision can be a bad mistake. With the theme, almost anything can be installed in the user's home directory.
The Gray Layout installation script ran the rm -rf command, which normally removes all files from the device, making the command particularly dangerous to use. However, without root access, it can only cause limited damage.
Reddit user Jeansen Vaars says that he lost all his games, settings files, browser history and other contents of his home directory in a crash.
The unofficial face of KDE, Nate Graham, apologizes for what happened. He promises that the matter will be thoroughly investigated. The theme in question has also been removed from the theme store.
Do what you want. It's your computer.
The fork Tenacity