Comment by Marco Alka on "Share at least one cool project you've discovered recently"

Stumbled upon bcachefs recently.

Bcachefs is an advanced new filesystem for Linux, with an emphasis on reliability and robustness. It has a long list of features.

tl;dr: it aims to be what BTRFS wants to be, but instead of an early release puts a lot of planning into the architecture and now moves to implement it in a solid, clean and stable way. It builds on top of the stable bcache implementation and is said to be quite speedy (at least compared to BTRFS). In certain benchmarks, it nearly keeps up with EXT4, which is rather nice. I hope it will be merged this year!

Even though it's old news, Let's Get Arrested is a project which restores my faith in humanity.

In Japan, a [13 year-old] schoolgirl was caught by the police for putting a link to a website with an endless loop of alert in JavaScript

for ( ; ; ) {
  window.alert(" ∧_∧ ババババ\n（ ・ω・)=つ≡つ\n（っ ≡つ=つ\n`/  )\n(ノΠＵ\n何回閉じても無駄ですよ～ww\nm9（＾Д＾）プギャー！！")
}

// which prints:
//  ∧_∧ ババババ
// （ ・ω・)=つ≡つ
// （っ ≡つ=つ
// `/  )
// (ノΠＵ
// 何回閉じても無駄ですよ～ww
// m9（＾Д＾）プギャー！！

// which means, translated to English (sans ascii-art):
// no matter how many times you close this, it's useless lol lol

I think, at one point, we all did this intentionally. Today, it might happen accidentally. However, the crass reaction by the police, namely arresting the girl (sic), is way over the top and a clear sign that politics and laws are far lagging behind tech, even in developed countries. Imho, this girl is more than welcome to play around with programming and might become one hell of a developer later on by doing so!

Edit: also, by now, the project has 1234 forks, which is rather epic in more than one sense!

Aaaand, of course, a bit of advertisement, for my fav game framework, Amethyst! The Amethyst foundation started a demo game, dubbed Evoli. It should be a demo for the framework, but also a proof that Amethyst is ready to create a real-game.

Imagine a 2D terrarium. A tiny ecosystem enclosed in a sealed container. Inside this closed ecosystem exists (for now) three types of living creatures: Plants, Herbivores and Predators. The goal of the player is to maintain the balance of the ecosystem, not letting any entity type go completely extinct.

Best indicator that the DX will be game-dev-focused!

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