Mastodawn

as the sunniness of da sunroom is now beginning to decline, as per normal diurnal cycle, i be gonna soonish decamp back to da study where prolly the worst of da icicles might have thawed by now [a tad afore noon], thar to be back onto Proper Pooter, in lieu of sunroom's Pretend Pooter [ie, merely a 2011 lappy].

on said ProP i be gonna make a list of all my

#archlinux #AUR pkgs installed, then cross-match them to pkg availability in say

#Debian #Sid n

#Fedora #Rawhide . if i get a reasonably high correlation, i then be gonna install such pkgs in Sid or Rawhide #Distroboxes, & uninstall them from AUR.

why?

1. tis getting pretty tiring with all the now-sadly-frequent #DDoS attacks on the poor ol' AUR
2. though i am rigorous in inspecting the #PKGBUILD for each prospective pkg before proceeding to install from AUR, i must admit i am largely pathetic in bothering to do #diffs of them before each subsequent update
3. as a congenitally depressed #misanthropist who views the sour state of this wretched rock around her with its apparently nonstop rise in malicious arseholery & shitfuckery, i pessimistically expect increasing probability of AUR becoming an attack vector, so in such gloomy scenario i judge sticking to official #repos likely to be a saner choice for me given my #2

#DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS

#Kinoite |

#ArchLinux #KDEPlasma

#SparkyLinux |

#Kalpa |

#KDELinux

#FirefoxNightly #FirefoxSecondSidebar #TreeStyleTab #Sidebery

Hacker News Apr 28

Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages

https://samizdat.dev/phantom-patch/

#HackerNews #patching #diffs #commitmessages #softwaredevelopment #cybersecurity

Phantom Patch

I share what I know.

Phantom Patch

Hacker News Jan 3

The Riven (1997) Diffs

https://glthr.com/the-riven-diffs-1

#HackerNews #Riven1997 #Diffs #Gaming #History #GameDevelopment #AdventureGames

N-gated Hacker News Dec 5

🚀 Wow, hold onto your beanies, folks! It's 2025, and we're still pretending that the arcane sorcery of "git #rebase --onto" is accessible to mere mortals. 💀🤣 Remember, the key to mastering #stacked #diffs is to revel in the Sisyphean joy of wrestling with outdated documentation and unhelpful error messages! 🎉
https://dineshpandiyan.com/blog/stacked-diffs-with-rebase-onto/ #git #git #tips #developer #humor #coding #challenges #HackerNews #ngated

Stacked Diffs with `git rebase --onto`

Using git `rebase --onto` workflow to work with stacked diffs

openSUSE Linux Sep 22, 2025

#Code reviews on #Open Build Service just got easier. The new Changes tab keeps #diffs and #comments together, making feedback more focused and organized. Check it out. #openSUSE #OBS https://openbuildservice.org/2025/09/18/explaining-diff-comments/

A Better Way to Discuss Code: Diff Comments

By now, many OBS users have noticed that the Changes tab has its own place, and for good reason.

Open Build Service

Hacker News Jul 10, 2025

Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

https://github.com/afnanenayet/diffsitter

#HackerNews #Diffsitter #Tree-sitter #AST #Difftool #Semantic #Diffs #GitHub

GitHub - afnanenayet/diffsitter: A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs

A tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs - afnanenayet/diffsitter

GitHub

more like "nASTAtide amirite"Apr 2, 2025

Came up at work but definitely a question of general interest:

I feel like when looking at a line-by-line diff of an XML file, it's just... really not super clear, even with highlighting and such. Is there any sort of graph-aware diff tool that might generate a visual graph and show the difference that way? So that rather than reviewing line by line, you can say "ah, a node has moved from being a child of this node to another", or "these two nodes have been merged into one".

I feel like it would be possible to gin something up in like, networkX or something, but if there's prior art...

#techPosting #XML #computerScienceTrees #graphs #diffs