Michael J. Gratton @mjog@octodon.social
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Going to just leave this here, because frankly, everyone deserves to see this lovely bike.
Upgraded work laptop to Bug Sur, and its both gratifying to see Apple copying all of GNOME's interface features like headerbars and round windows, and horrifying because of the iPhone look-alike widget theme they started they started using. pretty sure there are better-done jobs on gnome-look.org.
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@mjog ‘s brackets are done! Have to find a suitable box to ship them in now.
tfw a debug symbol package that's "only" 80MB seems like a reasonable size…
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@mjog True. 🙂 But, too, we are missing out on either culture or process to come to a consensus of what we use to replace these decades-old legacy. At this point, we're currently far off from what seems the strength of FLOSS (collaboration over competition). 😐
Why does Glade add `can_focus` to *every widget*? 🤔
I have to say that after having to use MacOS at work for the last four months, it makes GNOME on a decent distro look pretty good.
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Forged out the bevels for the brackets I’m making @mjog today.
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Every piece of electronics in your house has a cost, not just in currency but in blood. Often the blood of children. Sometimes the blood of slaves. Our appetite for cheap electronics subsidized by nightmarish misery and indignity is environmentally, financially and morally unsustainable, and it's shockingly easy to forget that. That's why I fix things, that's why I buy secondhand whenever I can, that's why I won't stop banging on about the evil idiocy of unleaded solder and planned obsolescence.
Lucky the commit bot is down so maybe no one will notice? 😅
The read danger with having commit rights to the mainline branch is that sometimes you do actually push commits to it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thinking about writing an ICU word segmentation dictionary for single and multi-byte emoticons… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dear Lazyfedi, Is there any way to disable the `Type` field in GitLab for new issues? It's pointless and confusing.
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An important message for hackers:
It is imperative you understand, and come to understand the implications of, that the lead server developer of Parler had/has the following phrase in his profile on the site:
Hack the Planet
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There are a fair number of you who have that phrase in your own profile, yet hate Parler and everything they do, and everything they represent.
It should give you pause and cause for introspection, that digital fascists arrived where they are, largely, from the same information and choices that y'all have learned and made. What "firewalls" do you have in place, in your own cognition, that ensure you won't be "infected," living life in a way so close to that way the fascists live it?
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I bring it up because last week, I lost an ally, and in part of their argument why I should trust them, they quoted their own microblog profile at me: "Hack the Planet"
The phrase clearly means something important to them. It is a phrase they orient their actions and beliefs around. But... it also is the phrase the fascists use to discuss their reshaping of the world.
Y'all talk about the dangers of open-source, how Microsoft might use your script for converting video formats.
Do you think about the dangers of your hacker culture, how a belief in entitlement to shape the world is nothing but pursuit of Christian-style creationism, a desire to impersonate Gilgamesh in the Great Cedar forest, might help fascists argue their legitimacy?
“By building our cooperative upon these principles, supplemented by our politics and dedication to social and economic justice, worker-owners at tech coops are able to shape our own deeply rewarding careers in technology, unrestricted by the constraints and bitter compromises that characterize more traditional careers in the industry.”
— Worker Coops: A Better Way to Make a Living in Tech https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/worker-coops-a-better-way-to-make-a-living-in-tech
“Security by listening on IPv6 only”
I'm writing a bog-standard Unicode tokeniser to replace the crap one SQLite ships, and I'm wondering why I'm wasting my life writing C code again.
In the same vein of the old post I re-tooted, is there a Rust guru out there that can tell me if:
* Decent ICU bindings or equivalent Unicode normalisation, case folding and word-break analysis exists for Rust? (the latter being key)
* Decent SQLite FTS5 custom tokeniser bindings or equivalent exist for Rust?
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Surely the only reason to learn C these days is to port existing C code to Rust?
Glade not being maintained by GTK developers seems a lot like not wanting to eat your own dogfood.
But to be fair, I'd never want to maintain an app written in C either.
Pretty sure I'm at Phase Six with Geary: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-nine-phases-of-open-source-project.html
Why demonstrate the CSV parser parsing a string literal or filesystem stream when you can generate the CSV using your fancy (otherwise useless) CSV generator and hook it up in a way that's incompatible for the common use case?
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