Full title: "Drew DeVault Can Still Redeem His Reputation. Revisiting His Attacks (and Attack Site) on Richard Stallman Might be a Good Start."

It turns out that a "lifetime" is only about 5 years.

If Hacker News allowed full-length titles, it would be: "Jumping Up and Down on the Shoulders of Giants, Never Talking About What Bill Gates Did"

Update: RC6 fixes an implied declaration that was missed in RC5. (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnutrition/2026-06/m...)

A test release of GNUtrition, 0.33.0rc5, is now available.

GNUtrition is free nutrition analysis software. The USDA Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) is used as the source of food nutrient information.

This release fixes bugs from 0.33.0rc1-rc4, removes inaccurate algorithm constants, removes additional unnecessary dependencies, improves reliability/usability on non-GNU systems, among other general improvements and bug fixes. Version 0.33.0 (the first ftp.gnu.org release of GNUtrition since 2012) is expected to be released by June 5th. Any and all testing for the upcoming release will be greatly appreciated. Please use the bug-gnutrition and help-gnutrition mailing lists for your bug reports and/or other questions.

More information about GNUtrition may be found on its home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutrition/. This test release can be obtained from the alpha.gnu.org server at one of the following:

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/
    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnutrition/

Please report any problems you experience to the GNUtrition bug reports mailing list: [email protected] (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnutrition).

clugstj is correct (https://lwn.net/Articles/1068851/)

> Why were web sites ever able to access your local network without your permission? This seems like it was always a bad idea.

Came here to post this as well.

Suspiciously few people care enough to notice such things and then put 2 and 2 together.

The only explanation I have, has to do with the suspiciously numerous people who care suspiciously much about the necessity of calling you names when you do identify some glaring contradiction, security hole, or the like.

"How dare you perceive what is right in front of your eyes! You must instead perceive the imaginary things that everyone is talking about (or, shh, be destroyed, hehe)" is a common enough token sequence that human languages usually have got it compressed down to 1-2 words.

Followup: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutrition-devel/2026-03/...

Al Chatbots officially allowed for all aspects of Linux Kernel development. “Kernel contributors have been using [Al tools] to generate contributions for a long time.”

53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.

Rust protects you about memory use error, on all the other errors you are on your own. I once wrote

> something_something(a, b, 0)

instead of

> something_something(a, b, 1)

No compiler will detect that. Maybe an AI review, but it was like 10 years ago, before the AI era.

Wherein we explore word processing and spreadsheets on the 8-bit.