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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!

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21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug!

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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories.
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    POLAND MENTIONED

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    Why are the polish kicking so much Foss ass in the past years?

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      Polishing the code just comes naturally to them, see

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    You could say she added some Polish to it.

    I’ll see myself out.

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      30-some years ago while driving around town, one of my buddies sees a car wash sign and completely seriously is like “What the hell is a car Polish?” We all just about died from laughter and still bring it up regularly.

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      She Polish-ed it off.

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      Please sign my T-shirt!!!

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    Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006

    😐

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    tldr; it’s the filenames again

    Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names.

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      It’s not DNS filenames

      There’s no way it’s DNS filenames

      It was DNS filenames

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    After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

    Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

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    I imagine her being annoyed as a baby but being taken from the computer by her parents. Thus a lifelong resentment of computers and Linux had formed until she finally was able to overcome it and fix the bug.

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      The foss equivalent of getting hired to fix a bug and resign immediately

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    Her blog is worth a read: https://iczelia.net/

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    Not kernel

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      Happy cake day!

      lol, down voting someone who is trying to be nice to someone else. Oh, Internet, you’ll never change 😄

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        I guess if the account is created today it’s still a cake day !

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          Yaay, mazel tov!

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    I wouldn’t call a de bug a linux bug. Enlightenment is so niche at this point I don’t think anyone would have even found the bug if not for her.

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    Legend

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    Man, i remember when I first manged to properly install enlightenment on SUSE. I knew almost nothing about linux. It was just pure trial and error from dependencies to proper drivers. I felt so proud when I finally got it working.

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    I can’t scroll this site without getting floating popups for Comcast in Spanish. It’s so annoying having to turn on Adblock for the shit tier sites

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      Adblock is always on. Why would you have it off by default?

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    Enlightenment was always intriguing to me but man was it buggy and a hog on my “i found this lil guy in a skid” class computers. Has it gotten better ?

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    Anyone know what that theme is? https://itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1000/2026/04/desktop-e16-2.png

    and if there’s a KDE equivalent…

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      It’s WashedBlue: https://iczelia.net/about/#my-setup

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        Attempting to seduce me romantically will end poorly for you. Attempting to convince me to work on your blockchain or webdev projects will end even worse.

        Based

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      I didn’t, but I spent 5 minutes to research, and it’s the BlueSteel theme.
      It isn’t available on KDE.

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