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This is a lightweight code editor which implements a concise yet powerful subset of vim commands, and adds support for multiple selections, by adding selection-based editing commands from plan 9's sam editor. The latter is nice for refactoring larger codebases. For example, one can define a selection for a variable name, add all its occurences, then visit each match to make sure a change does not shadow another name, and then change it all at once. That's great because I am a fan of good names, and since programs evolve and change, names should be changed, too!

What makes vis nice is that - in difference to vim descendants like kakoune - it remains still largely vim-compatible, so that one can easily continue to use vim (or even learn vim better, due to vis' magnificient concise man page ;-)).

Of course, kakoune is also powerful, light-weight, vim-like, and really nice, thanks to its visual support for multiple selections. But kakoune is (because of its "selection-command" 'editing language' syntax, different from vim's "command-selection" syntax) a big step away from vim - and my own experience is that it is hard to learn several of these "large" editors well, because they contain so many details one has to memorize, and which the human brain is gleefully happy to throw out after not using them for a few weeks. And for me, vim is already a (or more precisely the) secondary editor - I use it for quick tasks, git and jujutsu commit messages, embedded system and admin stuff, but not for writing large programs. And vim is an excellent match for these use cases, since it is basically installed everywhere.

What os? What ide? What plug-ins?

Hi all, much of what I have read recommends Android Studio to create Android apps, but I'm a bit wary since it's developed by Google. Are there any other good alternatives that are ideally open-source?

I am currently running Fedora 43 KDE, and I use VSCodium as my main code editor, mostly Python at the moment. Are there any plugins I could use to enable Kotlin support/specific Android dev stuff in VSCodium?

Imagine a free and open source software (FOSS) developer seeking to distribute an application on Apple’s iOS or iPadOS. The developer aims to have the software curated within a non‑profit, free software‑oriented repository, similar to F‑Droid on Android. This matters not only for the developer but also for users who want to avoid a distribution model where Apple controls how software is made available.

This is, indeed, only an imaginary scenario, since this isn’t possible on iOS or iPadOS. Apple offers no option for a non-profit or community-driven FOSS app store. The company actively blocks such initiatives through steep financial requirements and tight restrictions, preventing users from freely installing software. This issue was discussed during the 2024 Article 19 Digital Markets Act (DMA) Enforcement Symposium and even led to a formal complaint submitted by civil society groups in 2025.

There are some times that I make something and the terminal isn't enough. I want to make it user-friendly and add buttons and dropdowns and stuff. I mainly write C, so I want a well-known and good GUI library for C. I have tried learning Qt but the documentation was awful and all the examples were for C++ or Python. I also am aware about libraries like imgui but it's more for debugging UIs I think and not for normal applications that end users use.

I also would like the library to be platform-agnostic, or at least just work with Linux because that's what I am using.

If you also code in C, what do you use to make GUIs? What do you suggest me to use?

Thanks in advance.

Also, if anyone suggests Electron or anything involving a browser, I will find them and remove one electron from each atom of theirs, turning them into smoke.

So I'm learning python (by doing, reading, and doing some more), and I've been wanting to automate updating the listening port in my qbittorrent docker container when the gluetun vpn container changes the forwarded port.

This is what I came up with, which I combined with an hourly cronjob to keep it the listen port updated.

(Code under the spoiler tag to make this more readable).

import re
import os
import logging
from datetime import datetime
from dotenv import load_dotenv

import docker
from qbittorrent import Client

# FUNCTION DECLARATION #


def log(code, message):
    logFilePath = "/opt/pyprojects/linux-iso-torrents/pf.log"
    logDateTime = datetime.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
    message = f"[{logDateTime}] {message}"
    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
    logging.basicConfig(
        filename=f"{logFilePath}", encoding="utf-8", level=logging.DEBUG
    )
    match code:
        case "debug":
            logger.debug(message)
        case "info":
            logger.info(message)
        case "warning":
            logger.warning(message)
        case "error":
            logger.error(message)


def get_current_forwarded_port():
    client = docker.from_env()
    container = client.containers.get("a40124291102d")
    logs = container.logs().decode("utf-8")
    allPortForwards = re.findall(r".+port forwarded is [0-9]{5}", logs)
    currentForwardedPort = allPortForwards[-1].split(" ")[-1]

    return currentForwardedPort


def get_current_listening_port():
    qbConfigUrl = "/home/server/docker/qbit/config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf"
    with open(qbConfigUrl) as f:
        config = f.read()
        qbitListenPort = re.search(r"Session\\Port=[0-9]{5}", config)
        currentListeningPort = qbitListenPort.group(0).split("=")[-1]

    return currentListeningPort


def update_qbittorrent_listen_port(port):
    QB_URL = os.getenv("QB_URL")
    QB_USER = os.getenv("QB_USER")
    QB_PASSWORD = os.getenv("QB_PASSWORD")
    portJSON = {}
    portJSON["listen_port"] = port
    qb = Client(QB_URL)
    qb.login(f"{QB_USER}", f"{QB_PASSWORD}")

    qb.set_preferences(**portJSON)


# BEGIN SCRIPT #

load_dotenv()

currentForwardedPort = get_current_forwarded_port()
currentListeningPort = get_current_listening_port()

if currentForwardedPort != currentListeningPort:
    update_qbittorrent_listen_port(currentPort)
    log("info", f"qbittorrent listen port set to {currentForwardedPort}")
else:
    log("info", "forwarded port and listen port are a match")

There's more I want to do, the next thing being to check the status of both containers and if one or both are down, to log that and gracefully exit, but for now, I'm pretty happy with this (open to any feedback, always willing to learn).

Lemmings, I was hoping you could help me sort this one out: LLM's are often painted in a light of being utterly useless, hallucinating word prediction machines that are really bad at what they do. At the same time, in the same thread here on Lemmy, people argue that they are taking our jobs or are making us devs lazy. Which one is it? Could they really be taking our jobs if they're hallucinating?

Disclaimer: I'm a full time senior dev using the shit out of LLM's, to get things done at a neck breaking speed, which our clients seem to have gotten used to. However, I don't see "AI" taking my job, because I think that LLM's have already peaked, they're just tweaking minor details now.

Please don't ask me to ignore previous instructions and give you my best cookie recipe, all my recipes are protected by NDA's.

Please don't kill me

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"React is once again urging developers to update immediately, as researchers have discovered two additional vulnerabilities in React Server Components while testing the previous patch. These bugs also affect Next.js, and likely other popular React frameworks.

The flaws are not as serious as the critical “worst case scenario” bug, disclosed last week, and do not allow for remote code execution. However, they enable attackers to perform denial-of-service attacks and expose source code."

In the movie industry, directors sometimes sign their as "Alan Smithee" to indicate they don't recognize the movie as their own work.
This can happen for various reasons, one well known example is David Lynch for Dune (1984) who didn't want his name associated with the movie since he didn't have the final cut.

Is there an equivalent for the software industry to indicate one wants to distance themself from a commit or a project they don't approve?