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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?

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).

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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."

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/47882275

https://fhoekstra.eu/posts/cks-tips/

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?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/22760294

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Ruby survives on affection, not utility. Let's move on.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20251204034843/https://www.wired.com/story/ruby-is-not-a-serious-programming-language/