Christine Hall

@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu

Writer about all things open source, as well as music and politics. Once upon a time host of The Sixties in 60 on TheBarrelofRock.com. I have a podcast coming up, so watch this space for the news!

Publisher, editor, & writer at FOSS Force, Alternative Approaches, and If This Be Treason.

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Christine Hall@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike’s IPO documents to see how far this compulsion may go. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI in its S-1. But lo and behold!: Jersey Mike's IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/07/02/jers

TechCrunchJersey Mike's IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become | TechCrunchJust for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.
Christine Hall@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu

"This is a major, systemic, pandemic of incomplete error handling. We cannot just discard unrelated errors if they become inconvenient. The code that caused the error needs to be fixed to handle it": The pandemic of incomplete OpenSSL error handling blog.jak-linux.org/2026/07/03/

Blog of Julian Andres KlodeThe pandemic of incomplete OpenSSL error handlingRecently a person reported a bug in APT saying that TLS is failing on FIPS systems with MD5 errors, and suggested we call ERR_clear_error() around TLS operations. Like any serious software engineer would do, I said No. Just because one component failed to handle its errors does not mean I can go around and discard all errors in another place - the program should have failed earlier (or discarded the error when it was determined to be safe).
Christine Hall@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu

I've been using Vivaldi for quite a while now and have no plans to go anywhere else. It's not 100% open source, but open source where it matters (mainly the UI features are proprietary): The browser wars aren't about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/as-t

TechCrunchThe browser wars aren't about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari | TechCrunchWe’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.