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I search with duckduckgo and the first results seem reasonable

Here’s a signature and description https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Creating_an_OpenGL_Context_(WGL)#Create_Context_with_Attributes - khronos is publisher of OpenGL

here’s the function I presume without attributes, so should be helpful to relate and compare https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf-wingdi-wglcreatecontext

Yeah, I agree with that, and also feel like that. That’s why I called it “obsolete”, not wrong or an outdated assessment.

Most people who know Sourceforge probably feel like that. And those who don’t know it have no reason to get into it.

“splitting on end-of-sentence punctuation” would not split on 8.9 though!?

I hate when apps use my number formatting setting to determine display language - despite Windows having a display language as well. Even Qt does (did?) that.

I think it’s an interesting idea, and I’d see it as fine for simple host + fetch. But as soon as you start interacting, I see it as far worse.

A personal support email may work, but as they write by the end, ticket tracking and collaborating on a platform with a shared web interface is much superior for information sharing and but also iteration (they talk about back and forth emailing earlier).

Self-hosting yet another platform/forge with its own account system is not viable to me either. (I’m still hoping for forgejo federation for a centralized account. Until then, GitHub seems like the best choice purely because it’s the biggest and everyone has an account and can contribute and post without account barriers.)

The idea that it could be a hosted repo with an integrated mailing list (and potentially bug tracker) is interesting, but ultimately, almost/actually a full forge then anyway.

and Sourceforge now has a pretty bad reputation

The bad reputation is largely obsolete. The owner had changed to a bad owner with bad practices, but that owner was eventually replaced by a better owner again.

I still hate the UI though. We have much better alternatives today, which is why I don’t see any reason for anyone to go back to (or start) using Sourceforge. It’s no longer an issue of owner and bad practices, but solely of the platform itself with its UI/UX.

Package managers may distribute and manage libraries as dependencies, but may also manage tangential files like documentation, debug symbols, or source code for those libraries. They may also package build files to integrate into the build system, executable programs, or executable instructions. So it is a superset. Distributing libraries is the main, but only one aspect of them.

A packaged library is distributable through the package manager.

APIs, application programmable interfaces, are a standardization of callability - of names, parameters, returns, and behavior. Libraries may practically offer a non-standardized interface, or they may explicitly define an interface that they promise to follow (a more stable interface that you can depend on), or a library may implement an interface that is defined independently of a library.

With a standardized interface, multiple libraries can implement the interface, and they become inter-operable and inter-changeable.

OpenGL is an API that is defined as standards. The various graphics driver developers implement the interface. (Their driver makes the implementation available as libraries.) And there’s even software-implementations that implement a translation layer rather than “directly” talking to hardware. This for example allows you to play Windows games on Linux where the Windows APIs get translated to Linux equivalent API calls or implementations.

Frameworks typically offer a broad[er] architecture and functionality of things. You do not interface with them, you integrate with them. For example, in C++ you may use the Qt framework for UI. Rather than using a UI library that you interface with and call, you implement UI the Qt way, and call Qt to render that. This does not only work for UI of course.

The new Stack Overflow will be one built to feel like a personalized homepage—your own technical aggregator. It might collect videos, blogs, Q&A, war stories, jokes, educational materials, jobs, all these formats (or maybe others, we would love to hear your ideas!), and fold them together into one personalized destination.

oO

reaching for that stack overflow

I’m skeptical. We’ll see how they implement it, and whether they can gain enough contributors for it to be useful.

There’s a !python@programming.dev community more appropriate to python specific questions

According to an email LinkedIn sent to its users last year, it has not enabled user data sharing for AI purposes in the UK, the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

Setting the “opt-in” without consent would certainly be illegal in the EU.

Codeberg published a blog post yesterday. They suspect (or know?) that it’s a broadened attack because Codeberg hosts liberal and human projects.

In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers. We have been monitoring the situation closely and have tried to clean up the content as quickly as possible.

Often, content remained available only for a few and up to 30 minutes. Due to constrained personal capacities, some rare cases have remained online for longer. We appreciate all your reports to abuse@codeberg.org that help us identify abuse quickly.

On 12 February 2025, an abuser has escalated the attacks to a next level. Instead of targetting individual projects, they have started to create abusive content and mentioned Codeberg users in chunks of 100 each.

(emphasis mine)

The server sidebar has an uptime stat. Could also have a simple monthly costs covered percent stat.