Yes

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart

But not with march=native?

The distirbuted binaries use two standard instruction sets for x86-64 and one for arm like “march=x86-64-v3”

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_binhost/Available_packag...

You can have your own binary host or even just compile packages on another host on demand. -march=native is a concern in both cases.

Conscription is slavery.

This checks out: all the confederate flag wavers view conscription just like they view slavery: it's great when it happens to someone else.

If Apple is distributing modified vlc binaries without releasing the source of the changes when requested, is that a potential legal problem?

As always, it depends; VLC "the iOS app" is not the same as VLC "the binary compiled from source". The article itself says they couldn't find any code changes, and the theories are that a certificate was updated.

I don't believe an iOS distribution specific certificate falls under the license you're referring to, but I'm no expert on these matters.

As a developer of the VLC-iOS app, I can confirm that the binary itself is completely unchanged. It is indeed the signature that was updated.

It does that, depending on implementation.

In what cases are they mandatory? I've been leaving them blank for decades.

Their existence is mandatory (see:/etc/passwd format).

You're free to ignore them/leave empty unless your server's policies say otherwise.

> Even non-atomic Linux distros have you reboot after updates.

It depends. Some of them have smart enough tooling to let you know if an update requires a reboot.

Alacritty shows me that it's http://evil.com when I hover over it.

gettext took over 30 years to get to 1.0 last month.

Tcl is great

Unironically, tcl is great as an upgrade from shell.