ebassi

wjt, 1 day ago to random

Game devs: how do you manage merge conflicts in your projects? A colleague and I were both independently working on the same Godot project, stored in Git, and so we inevitably had a merge conflict when we each modified the same scene. The scene format is plain text so after a bit of trial & error I resolved the conflict. Are there better tools for this in industry? Or is the tool “don't edit scene X, I'm working on it”?

mansr, 2 days ago to random

The Apple M4 CPU, optimised for running autoconf scripts.

melissa, 2 days ago to random

@igalia is hosting and organizing the 2024 Linux Display Next Hackfest, taking place next week at the Igalia HQ (A Coruña, Spain).

We're so happy to welcome so many inspiring people that we decided to share details of the event organization in this post:
https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2024/05/07/get-ready-display-hackfest-2024

DM_Ronin, 4 days ago to programming

explaining pointers like you're 5

#C #Programming #Embedded #CPlusPlus #Software #Firmware

blog, 7 days ago to GNOME

GNOME will be mentoring 8 new contributors for Google Summer of Code 2024

We are happy to announce that GNOME was assigned eight slots for Google Summer of Code projects this year!

GSoC is a program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. A number of long term GNOME developers are former GSoC interns, making the program a very valuable entry point for new members in our project.

In 2024 we will mentoring the following projects:

Project Title	Contributor	Assigned Mentor(s)
Add TypeScript Support to Workbench	Angelo Verlain Shema	Sonny Piers
Port Workbench demos to Vala, build a new Workbench Library, and replace the current code search	Bharat Tyagi	Sonny Piers
Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating a “web IDE” for developing queries	Demigod	Carlos Garnacho
Papers’ small screen and touch support for mobile and tablet	Markus Göllnitz	Pablo Correa Gomez
More durable synching for FlatSync	Mattia Formichetti	Rasmus Thomsen
Port libipuz to Rust	pranjal_	jrb
Improve Tracker SPARQL developer experience by creating “web IDE” for developing queries	rachle08	Carlos Garnacho
Add support for the latest GIR attributes and gi-docgen formatting to Valadoc	sudhanshuv1	Lorenz Wildberg

As part of the contributor’s acceptance into GSoC they are expected to actively participate in the Community Bonding period (May 1 – 26). The Community Bonding period is intended to help prepare contributors to start contributing at full speed starting May 27.

The new contributors will soon get their blogs added to Planet GNOME making it easy for the GNOME community to get to know them and the projects that they will be working on.

We would like to also thank our mentors for supporting GSoC and helping new contributors enter our project.

If you have any doubts, feel free to reply to this Discourse topic or message us privately at soc-admins@gnome.org

#gnome #gsoc

https://feborg.es/gnome-will-be-mentoring-8-new-contributors-for-google-summer-of-code-2024/

wonderofscience, 8 days ago to random

Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)

Timelapse capturing the transition from day to night over a high-altitude desert landscape, from clear blue skies, to sunset hues, then a star-filled night sky with the Milky Way prominently visible, and concluding with the early morning light at dawn.

JuliusGoat, 12 days ago to random

Isn't it interesting that every killing by every cop is just a single bad apple that should never be thought to spoil the bunch, while every protest by and on behalf of marginalized people must be flawlessly perfect, or all participants deserve the brutality the police exist to deliver to them?

alanc, 15 days ago to random

As the maintainer of the xf86-input-mouse driver for Xorg, I promise to never add any LLM/AI prompt generator code to our mouse driver.
https://mstdn.social/@osnews/112322994452930780

davidrevoy, 15 days ago to random

Morning routine

#webcomic #krita #minifantasytheater

unabyssed, 16 days ago to random

downey, 16 days ago to freesoftware

:fedora: Congratulations to the entire @fedora community on the release of F40!

And this is awesome: The "Slimbook Fedora 2" laptop looks like a great way to get more people up and running with #FreeSoftware and best of all, they donate 3% of the proceeds to @gnome.

#Fedora #GNOME #OpenSource #Slimbook

https://fedoramagazine.org/slimbook-fedora-2-new-ultrabooks-for-fedora-linux-40/

carnage4life, 19 days ago to random

Few things bring home how much big tech caring about diversity was a zero interest rate phenomenon like Women Who Code shutting down due to lack of funding.

https://womenwhocode.com/blog/the-end-of-an-era-women-who-code-closing

igalia, 22 days ago to random

Second day of #OSSumit NA & #EmbeddedOSSummit and we continue with our booth E28 (come see us) and more Igalia's talks. Thread 👇🧵

ebassi, 23 days ago to random

In retrospect, we should have figured out that Jia Tan was a plant from the fact that they showed up to do releases. In 20+ years of contributions to FLOSS projects I haven't found anybody willing to do the same.

whitequark, 23 days ago to random

> The Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations are calling all open source maintainers to be alert for social engineering takeover attempts, to recognize the early threat patterns emerging, and to take steps to protect their open source projects.

so what you're saying is that OSS development needs more violence

Migueldeicaza, 24 days ago to random

alice, 27 days ago to random

announcing a voice assistant called chat

sovtechfund, 28 days ago to random

We’re excited to share details about STF’s investment in @gnome to improve accessibility, tooling, and security for the Linux desktop ecosystem. Learn more about the comprehensive plan to modernize the platform and support features in the public interest:

https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/gnome

mjg59, 28 days ago to random

"Is a TV show that makes use of hackertyper.com a derivative work of the Linux kernel" -- the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

brooke, 29 days ago to random

spending a few idle minutes between things devising muxer/demuxer interfaces to wrap around WebCodecs & my wasm codecs

sima, 29 days ago to random

sometimes I wonder whether people genuinely believe you can be a complete asshole in one place and totally friendly in another, with some of the same people in both places, and then expect that your bad reputation doesn't transfer ...

VeryBadLlama, 1 month ago to random

starting a cleaning service for people with ADHD. I won’t be doing any of the actual cleaning, I’ll just be calling you at random times to tell you I’m on my way to your house and I’ll be there in about 45 minutes

jesusmargar, 1 month ago to random Spanish

Mer__edith, 1 month ago to random

I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS culture of shitty behavior and abuse.

Yes, there're other pathologies at work here (the big tech capitalist pillaging of the commons, etc).

But what is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, & that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.

zarfeblong, 1 month ago to random

I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:

If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.