Martin Uecker

@uecker
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Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering
Graz University of Technology
Institute of Biomedical Imaging, TU Grazhttps://ibi.tugraz.at/

Im ICE unterwegs. Zugbegleiter ruft über Lautsprecher nach Unterstützung durch med. Notfallhilfe/Arzt.
Innerhalb 2 Minuten stehen 8 Leute, davon 3 Ärzte da.

Auf unsere Zivilgesellschaft ist manchmal doch noch Verlass! 🤩

After some tests, I saw that some packages will take up an unreasonable large amount of time to build. As those are typically not C packages, I decided to filter the list first. I build all packages with a non-sensincal -Wfoobar in CFLAGS and a timeout of one minute. The failing packages (not counting timeouts) give me all (more or less) packages that use C and correctly use the supplied flags: This gave me 12035 packages to work with. (32%).
Ok, let's see whether I can rebuild ca. 40.000 Debian source packages.
I am switching all my projects to Rust. Or C++. I haven't decided yet. Build times are a major motivation. Although we tried with macros, C is simply not able to keep up in this regard with these more modern languages.Also it is impossible to build proper abstractions in C, so it will never be possible to implement complex software such as a kernel, a compiler, a sophisticated editor in C.

Wanna meet us in person? In 2 weeks you'll have the chance at @linuxtage from 10th – 11th April 2026.

https://www.linuxtage.at/de/infostaende-2026/#privatecoffee

Post by @NE555

Grazer Linuxtage

Eine Liste aller Infostände auf den Grazer Linuxtagen 2026.

We can remove strncpy() from the Linux kernel finally! I did the last 6 instances, and dropped all the implementations:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/log/?h=dev/v7.0-rc2/strncpy

Over the last 6 years working on this, there were 362 commits by 70 contributors. The folks with more than 1 commit were:

211 Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
22 Xu Panda <[email protected]>
21 Kees Cook <[email protected]>
17 Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
12 Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
4 Pranav Tyagi <[email protected]>
4 Lee Jones <[email protected]>
2 Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
2 Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
2 Marcelo Moreira <[email protected]>
2 Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
2 Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
2 Jaroslav Kysela <[email protected]>
2 Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
2 Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>

Thank you to all of you! (And especially to Justin Stitt who took on the brunt of the work.)

kernel/git/kees/linux.git - Various feature branches

Things #musl libc will never do (broad but not comprehensive):

- Nag you to update.
- Phone home to check it if should nag you to update.
- Tell you a CVE can't be fixed without updating to the latest version.
- Try to force you to switch from glibc to musl.
- Get other software you depend on dependent on musl.
- Rant against "wokeness" or "DEI".
- Integrate "AI" into your libc.
- Give you up.
- Let you down.

#fotomontag #586

Zum diesmaligen FotoMontag muss mal wieder das Grazer Wahrzeichen herhalten. Ich war im Auftrag der 52-Wochen Foto-Challenge unterwegs und dabei habe ich auch diesen Blickwinkel von unserem Wahrzeichen gefunden.

Canon EOS R6M2 – Canon RF24-105mm […]

https://norberteder.photography/fotomontag-586/?mtm_campaign=mastodonblog #Fotografie #fotomontag #Graz #Uhrturm

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

A few months ago I threw this question out into the void - “what if you could access the fediverse through your Usenet reader??” and got almost no response. Still, the idea had lodged in my brain and wouldn’t go away so this weekend I caved in and built the thing. Hat tip to the author of the excellent nntpserver package that did all the hard stuff.

I look forward to seeing someone’s screenshots of fediverse posts on a Commodore 64, some day.

This will be released as a part of PieFed 1.7, coming soon.

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