werdl

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werdl··on How do we prevent mathemathics from devolving into the Medieval Era of secrecy?

Seems rather a dramatic notion for a single incident...

The simple short-term solution is just don't feed all your work into the IP theft machine?

werdl··on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils

I don't understand - I thought sudo-rs was supposed to be a drop-in replacement? If it implements a subset of features how can this be the case?

werdl··on Late night pizzeria nearby The Pentagon has suddenly surged in traffic

Venezuela?

werdl··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://github.com/werdl/qforj

Open-source theatre tech cueing software (I don't want to use MacOS to run QLabs)

werdl··on Quad9 DOH HTTP/1.1 Retirement, December 15, 2025

probably not - it can be quite poorly defined in places and the edge cases can be very fiddly. by pushing for http/2 it encourages more users to pick it up imo

werdl··on Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups

Another day another right-wing FOSS attempted takeover

werdl··on A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution

Interesting to see the decisions they took regarding which flavours they chose to include.

werdl··on Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers

"teach kids to hack" "available for iPhone, iPad and Mac"

You need to understand your market better!

werdl··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

Looks like a DNS issue - dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com is failing to resolve.

werdl··on Free software hasn't won

Free software has been killed by all the companies offering 'open source' solutions...

werdl··on Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant

It is concerning how internet censorship seems to be increasing, even in socially liberal developed countries (UK, Australia, US and now Canada)...

werdl··on Qualcomm to acquire Arduino

Interesting, but I do wonder if Arduino is close to the peak of its market share. Basically every hobbyist already knows about them - opportunities for growth would seem limited. Still exciting though!