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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 129 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You could say she added some Polish to it.

I'll see myself out.

[–] J92@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

She Polish-ed it off.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago

30-some years ago while driving around town, one of my buddies sees a car wash sign and completely seriously is like "What the hell is a car Polish?" We all just about died from laughter and still bring it up regularly.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 3 weeks ago

Please sign my T-shirt!!!!!

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's her pierogitave.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 92 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, not a Linux bug in the kernel, but one that has existed in the Enlightenment window manager E16 since 2006

😐

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 66 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I imagine her being annoyed as a baby but being taken from the computer by her parents. Thus a lifelong resentment of computers and Linux had formed until she finally was able to overcome it and fix the bug.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 points 3 weeks ago

The foss equivalent of getting hired to fix a bug and resign immediately

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 54 points 3 weeks ago

After digging through the codebase, Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names. When a window title was too long and needed to be truncated, the algorithm responsible for doing so had no iteration limit. So it would spin indefinitely, locking up the desktop entirely.

Ah, no wonder it went unfixed for so long, most people would just rename stuff and carry on

[–] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 49 points 3 weeks ago

Her blog is worth a read: https://iczelia.net/

[–] gru54777@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Bananskal@nord.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Happy cake day!

lol, down voting someone who is trying to be nice to someone else. Oh, Internet, you'll never change 😄

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess if the account is created today it's still a cake day !

[–] Bananskal@nord.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yaay, mazel tov!

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago
[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sureshot0@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago

Should I move to Poland? My government keeps publicly threatening to send me to an extermination camp and moving to Poland worked out for one of my relatives in this exact circumstance once before.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why are the polish kicking so much Foss ass in the past years?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 weeks ago

Polishing the code just comes naturally to them, see

[–] schema@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Man, i remember when I first manged to properly install enlightenment on SUSE. I knew almost nothing about linux. It was just pure trial and error from dependencies to proper drivers. I felt so proud when I finally got it working.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't call a de bug a linux bug. Enlightenment is so niche at this point I don't think anyone would have even found the bug if not for her.

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I can’t scroll this site without getting floating popups for Comcast in Spanish. It’s so annoying having to turn on Adblock for the shit tier sites

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 3 weeks ago

Adblock is always on. Why would you have it off by default?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] graynk@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] mech@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't, but I spent 5 minutes to research, and it's the BlueSteel theme.
It isn't available on KDE.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Enlightenment was always intriguing to me but man was it buggy and a hog on my “i found this lil guy in a skid” class computers. Has it gotten better ?