Andrew Hughes

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@FireBurn bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/ is the best I can suggest, or maybe against a distro package if you're using one. The former ends up in the OpenJDK bug database, but only after Oracle triaging

Would also love to put this on a bug tracker....

@gnu_andrew_java is there a known native memory leak with OpenJDK 17.0.7? Seeing Jenkins go from 15% to 80% memory usage. Heap looks fine, NativeMenoryTracking not showing any huge increases #weird

@FireBurn Is 17.0.8 working any better? The only one that springs to mind is JDK-8307683 (bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-830…), though that was a JVM crash and the fix causing them was reverted in 17.0.8.

I think that we should all refer to this hellsite as "the platform formerly known as Twitter."

#IcedTea 3.27.0, containing #OpenJDK 8u372 and the latest #Shenandoah, #AArch64 and #AArch32 ports for 8u was released on 2023-04-28 bit.ly/it32700 #OpenJDK #Java

#OpenJDK 17.0.7 was released on 2023-04-18: bit.ly/openjdk1707 with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

#OpenJDK 11.0.19 was released on 2023-04-18: bit.ly/openjdk11019 with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

#OpenJDK 8u372 was released on 2022-04-18; bit.ly/openjdk8u372 with the April 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

@tstuefe @gunnarmorling With help from the OpenJDK community. The whole thing was rewritten from scratch for OpenJDK 8. The original one had to be passed everything via make variables. It's one of the reasons we maintained our IcedTea autoconf wrapper around it for so long.

@gunnarmorling I remember times when building OpenJDK - and its closed-source predecessor - was an absolute pain. The build folks at Oracle put a lot of love into this.

Just built #OpenJDK from source for the very first time myself. A surprisingly smooth experience: just a few packages to install and then run `bash configure` + `make images`. With five min and a bit, also not taking very long. Noice 🤓!

@fightin_fitness @AndrewHaley13 @iambrianjones Yes, and the reaction of most websites to the law was to expose as much of the gory details as possible, so people would be inclined to just click 'Accept All' and keep the status quo. A few sites do a better job, but not very many. Usually the ones you'd kind of trust anyway.

@AndrewHaley13 @iambrianjones You realise it was the Gov/EU that forced them to put it there in the first place, right? Anti-tracking laws and GDPR etc.

Websites use cookies. I get it. I understand what cookies are and what they do. Constantly having to accept or reject them is slowly wearing me down. There's got to be a better way to clear this barrier to accessing a webpage.

@speakjava @edfenergy First time I've heard that. I had both replaced with British Gas early on. Both gave out readings to start with, then one seem to give up. After two engineer visits, we rolled back to older meters & manual readings.

Great job @edfenergy. Last year I had my electricity and gas meters replaced with smart ones. The gas one has never provided remote readings or connected to my "smart hub". I am now told that the gas meter is 'constructed to operate this way'. So one smart meter and one dumb 🤦‍♂️

#OpenJDK 11.0.18 was released on 2023-01-17: bit.ly/openjdk11018 with the January 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

#OpenJDK 8u362 was released on 2022-01-17: bit.ly/openjdk8u362 with the January 2023 #security fixes. Thanks to all those who contributed. #java #openjdk

@epicpizzas @TheJackForge I suspect there's a bit of both. Plus gaming has changed a lot over the years. It's a much more social activity than it used to be.

@gnu_andrew_java @TheJackForge You're right. But do people do it to enjoy life or get away from life?

@epicpizzas @TheJackForge You could say that about a lot of things. Depends if you want to actually enjoy your life.

@TheJackForge Gaming is a stupid waste of time, think about it - you never get those hours of your life back in which you accomplished nothing.

@barryroodt @erichhugo @TheJackForge Can't upgrade them either, can you?

@erichhugo @TheJackForge This is why I converted to consoles decades ago. Sure, they lag behind PCs ito performance, but they make up for it in requiring almost no maintenance. Fire up and play.

@arlomagnini @muchirajunior @epicpizzas @TheJackForge No, the opposite. Doesn't need hand holding from some bloated software.

@kjjaeger @TheJackForge Plenty of games on Android & Steam for Linux these days.

@TheJackForge Work: #MacOS and #Linux Home: #Linux Gaming: What's that?

Linux: Everything Windows & MacOS are for if you want to see an old OS desperately trying to become a POSIX OS, but still failing badly. And you have to buy specialist hardware for MacOS. Change a graphics card and it gets confused, poor thing. 😆

@borland @stufox @TheJackForge Windows, to be fair, has to deal with all manner of commodity hardware, though to a lesser extent than Linux. MacOS has to handle a small set of hardware used in Macs and apparently still can't even manage that.