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.
  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    2 months

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

    😐

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
    2 months

    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.luEnglish
      2 months

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

  • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    2 months

    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

    • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
      2 months

      Happy cake day!

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

    • sureshot0@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2 months

      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.

  • GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
    2 months

    tldr; it’s the filenames again

    Kamila traced the freeze back to the way E16 handled overly long file names.

    • NotSteve_@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      It’s not DNS filenames

      There’s no way it’s DNS filenames

      It was DNS filenames

  • schema@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.worksEnglish
    2 months

    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.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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 ?