No, I wod say scaling is any diagonal matrix and thus even includes mirroring.

As far as I understand it the funds were previously part of the so-called Digital Europe programme which includes funding for a wide range of sectors in the tech industry. The €27 million for free software projects are not included in the latest proposal for renewal. I don’t know why that decision was made. If the money was diverted, then probably towards investments into semiconductor fabs or some AI stuff.

Alright, but seriously: IPv6.

Now that’s the kind of industry secrets I opened this thread for.

No, you absolutely don’t need to care at all about the memory management when using Linux. This rabbit hole is really only relevant when you want to work on the Linux kernel or do some really low-level programming.

I would say the most obscure thing that is useful to know for running Linux is drive partitioning, but modern installers give you a lot of handrails in this process.

I would love for the UK to rejoin the EU, but the survey results mentioned in the article don’t really support the claim that there is a general desire to do so. A shift from 52% against to 52% in favor of EU membership is really not that significant.

Can we just take a step back and admire how completely bizarre this title sounds out of context?

Monaco got stung by a wasp.

The really crazy thing about the graph is that there are 433 fucking datapoints!

man -k to the rescue: mbsrtowcs, strxfrm and wcstold are C functions.