Lmst

On June 27 2025, I will be in Rotterdam at Joy of Coding and talk: "Accidental world domination for fun"

Come say hello.

https://joyofcoding.org/index.html

Welcome DoI as #curl commit author 1382: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17572

Welcome Fabrício Canedo as #curl commit author 1381: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17654

Welcome Ethan Alker as #curl commit author 1380: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17690

Welcome Bartosz Ruszczak as #curl commit author 1379: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17616

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@bagder with wcurl that's not even that bad

Ubuntu Server discusses dropping wget in favor of #curl in 2026: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-server-seed-changes-for-25-10/61552

When is #curl right for my Internet transfer needs? A flow chart.

A flow chart for when to use curl to do internet transfers.

Can curl do it for me? yes
Change conditions so curl works? yes
Can I add the missing feature? yes

Otherwise "rethink" and go back to the initial question.

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can i tell some corporate employee who makes a burdensome request to get lost? sure, and i have before.

can i tell some corporate employee who makes a burdensome request required for compliance with a regulatory framework like the CRA that i won't do it and they have to do it themselves? sure.

note i ask "can i" here, and the answer is yes.

that's not the point though. the reality is more complicated. do maintainers *actually* have the psychological safety to reject these requests?

what is the actual psychological cost of saying no?

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The Wayback Machine managed to capture a Linux Journal article about the Arch Linux distribution's plan to switch to "rye-init" before whatever human intelligence remains there figured out that "rye-init" does not actually exist.

The Linux Journal predates LWN by some years and was, for a long time, the definitive read for Linux users. The Don Marti ( @dmarti ) years were especially noteworthy. It is sad to see where it has ended up now.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250618001301/https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-linux-breaks-new-ground-official-rust-init-system-support-arrives

@jajo I eventually got it: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/11/09/a-us-visa-in-937-days/

@eliasr that one, yes

I was invited to the open source thing arranged by the UN this week, but I spent a week off with my family instead.

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bitsets are cool.

My favourite addition to curl this year, by far. We use them to track and iterate over thousands of transfers.

They are very cheap (memory and cpu) and great for cache locality. Also, they can be iterated over safely while being modified.

The latest addition is the „dirty“ set: transfers that need to run without external triggers like a socket event or timers.

A bitset for 1000 transfers has a 125 bytes array memory footprint.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/17662

@alwayscurious yes exactly, that might change things around...

@alwayscurious my guess: neither. Things will remain as they are because the companies can get away with it.

The foundations never save us.

No more embargoed security issues for libxml2: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

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