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Full title: "Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation. Revisiting His Attacks (and Attack Site) on Richard Stallman Might be a Good Start."

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It turns out that a "lifetime" is only about 5 years.

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If Hacker News allowed full-length titles, it would be: "Jumping Up and Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Bill Gates Did"

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Update: RC6 fixes an implied declaration that was missed in RC5. (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnutrition/2026-06/m...)

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A test release of GNUtrition, 0.33.0rc5, is now available.

GNUtrition is free nutrition analysis software. The USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used as the source of food nutrient information.

This release fixes bugs from 0.33.0rc1-rc4, removes inaccurate algorithm constants, removes additional unnecessary dependencies, improves reliability/usability on non-GNU systems, among other general improvements and bug fixes. Version 0.33.0 (the first ftp.gnu.org release of GNUtrition since 2012) is expected to be released by June 5th. Any and all testing for the upcoming release will be greatly appreciated. Please use the bug-gnutrition and help-gnutrition mailing lists for your bug reports and/or other questions.

More information about GNUtrition may be found on its home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutrition/. This test release can be obtained from the alpha.gnu.org server at one of the following:

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/

Please report any problems you experience to the GNUtrition bug reports mailing list: [email protected] (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnutrition).

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3 months agodiscuss

clugstj is correct (https://lwn.net/Articles/1068851/)

> Why were web sites ever able to access your local network without your permission? This seems like it was always a bad idea.

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3 months agodiscuss

Followup: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutrition-devel/2026-03/...

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8 months agodiscuss

Al Chatbots officially allowed for all aspects of Linux Kernel development. “Kernel contributors have been using [Al tools] to generate contributions for a long time.”

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8 months agodiscuss

53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.

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9 months agodiscuss

Wherein we explore word processing and spreadsheets on the 8-bit.

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9 months agodiscuss

The Em Dash ( — ) has been in use for centuries by some of the most renowned writers — from journalists to classic literature to modern Sci-Fi authors. Not a good way to identify AI output.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

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9 months agodiscuss

Two weeks ago, The Lunduke Journal pointed out how many Leftist Open Source organizations (Rust, NixOS, Linux Kernel, etc.) still used the “Master” branch naming (against their “inclusive naming” rules). Yesterday, Rust changed to “Main”.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

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10 months agodiscuss

Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle, was the final hold-out in reaching a settlement. Which is being kept confidential.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

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10 months agodiscuss

With potential damages upwards of $412 Million USD, the Internet Archive is in last ditch negotiations with Universal Music Group.

More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/

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GNU Gets Back into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus

GNUtrition 0.33

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KDE Linux Is Coming Along Nicely, Ditching the AUR and Tightening Up Security

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What Efforts to Cancel Richard Stallman Ought to Teach Us About the Media

The newest Instagram "exploit" is the goofiest I've seen

GNUtrition 0.33.0rc5

Stop Killing Games

GNUtrition 0.33.0rc4

GNUtrition 0.33.0rc3

GNUtrition 0.33.0rc2 Now Available

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Ubuntu Is Run by "N00bs" (and It Shows)

Firefox 150 Released

Help Wanted: Porting GNUtrition to Python 3 and WxPython

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