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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2022
> A very exciting aspect of using the Linux operating system is the infinite number of packages we can install and explore. However, to install and use a package on a Linux operating system, we are presented with two approaches.
> The first approach is to use the package manager associated with your Linux distribution to search and install a targeted application package. The second approach is to download the source code associated with the targeted application package, compile, and install it.
> We don't like AppArmor, in large part because it doesn't work in our environment; the net effect of allowing AppArmor to do anything is that periodically various things break mysteriously (for instance, Evince stops working because your $XAUTHORITY is on an NFS mounted filesystem). We do our best to not install AppArmor at all, and if it gets dragged in by package dependencies, we try to disable it with a heaping helping of systemd manipulation: [...]
> German wholesale electricity prices in August 2022 are extremely high with an average of 397 Euro / MWh (EPEX day ahead prices until 19th of August). That is more than 10 fold the average prices in 2019 (38.3 Euro / MWh) and 2020 (31 Euro / MWh).
> Whether you heard it in person at rstudio::conf(2022) or caught the news through the internet grapevine, RStudio PBC is rebranding itself to â Posit PBC.
> The C and C++ languages offer little protection against programmer errors. Errors do not always show up where you expect. You can silently corrupt the content of your memory. It can make bugs difficult to track. To solve this problem, I am a big fan of programming in C and C++ using sanitizers. They slow your program, but the check that memory accesses are safe, for example.
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