She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories.
  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    361·
    2 months 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

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      It’s not DNS filenames

      There’s no way it’s DNS filenames

      It was DNS filenames

  • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    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

  • schema@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months 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.

  • sleepmode@lemmy.world
    English
    2·
    2 months 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 ?