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ebassi

@ebassi@mastodon.social

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

You may remember me for my work at OpenedHand, Intel, Endless, and the GNOME Foundation. Otherwise, you heard about me being a scary person on the Internet.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

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saagar, to random

Technically some of these are different names for the same thing but that just makes it even more of a meme

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gnomon, to random
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A very happy Miette Day to all who celebrate

https://twitter.com/TriciaLockwood/status/1108102037072433153

brendangregg, to random
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New blog post: The Return of the Frame Pointers (Fedora, Ubuntu) https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-17/the-return-of-the-frame-pointers.html

tante, to random
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In tech-related discourse "decentralization", "Open Source", "democratization", "federation" have become weird terms. Not because of the specific architectural or technological concept they are describing but as a way to hide the fact that the speaker thinks that "markets" are the cure-all to anything.

Anything is seen as an issue of needing "more competition", "more choice" which - given how many of us have been trained all our lives - might sound like a great idea. But for a lot of things in life competition is wasteful at best and toxic at worst. Competition in healthcare is what drives the race to the bottom of quality of care and working conditions for the workers for example.

Decentralization for example can be very useful to create more technically robust systems (one node going down isn't that big of a deal) but it always comes with costs: Moderation of decentralized systems is really hard and takes so much work. Also: The need to choose a service provider/node is a significant burden on users who might not even have enough knowledge to make an informed decision leaving them with a bad feeling. "Open source AI models" sounds great but for many of them nobody can audit the training data (too big) and can't reproduce the training (too expensive due to them requiring hyperscalers).

The terms I pointed out (and a few similar ones) have become kind of "magic", they imbue a system or structure with positive vibes while making the relevant discourses on power, fairness, etc. invisible or harder to have. So you always have to wonder are these words used in their technical or their magical meaning when someone throws them at you.

(I'm not even gonna get into how "Open Source" was invented as a term to depoliticize the free software movement and turn hobbyists into voluntary laborers for big tech)

Snowcat, to random
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jennzycos, to random

Wipes a tear from her eye.

ebassi, to random
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On the one hand, it’s nice that people equate GNOME to something designed and built with a specific purpose; on the other hand, not everything you see is the result of a conscious decision: some times a bug is just a bug

raven667,
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@ebassi One thing I picked up from Day9, a Twitch/YouTube streamer, is that once you get a certain level of audience that people slip into the thought patterns of narrative fiction, everything must have a narrative purpose, must be intentional and designed, it's all a show and artifice, it all means something.

In reality it's just other people doing shit, who aren't galaxy brained super-geniuses and are making normal human mistakes with normal human feelings.

GTK, to accessibility
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Emmanuele Bassi details the improvements for accessibility in GTK 4.14:

https://blog.gtk.org/2024/03/08/accessibility-improvements-in-gtk-4-14/

deobald, to random
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https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

"We have the $270 Brother MFC-L2750DW, which adds a sheet-fed scanner, because my wife is a lawyer and scans things for judges or whatever she does with it. It doesn’t matter."

this is probably the best article i've ever read on the verge

mjg59, to random
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RIP to everyone killed by the borrow checker for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the borrow checker

Lana, to random
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For the last time:

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss we are not insured for that

sophie, to random
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Pika Backup 0.7 is now out and available on Flathub. More details in my blog post.

https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2024/03/03/pika-backup-hopping-through-milestones/

sophie,
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I'm also soft-launching my Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/sophieh

delan, to random
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how to design a timeless website for your basketball movie without any css in 1996

• <center>
• <table width=500>
• <td> colspan= and rowspan=
• <td> align= and valign=
• sprinkle some <br> to taste

space jam website in servo, with image bounding boxes highlighted, outlines around the table cells to show align and valign, and

timClicks, to random
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Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently.

mia, to random EN
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I unironically love when people do this (from conversation on Twitter).

Twitter conversation screenshot; link to the conversation is provided in the post.

cerealkella, to random
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Hewlett Packard Lovecraft

berto, to random
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Now I have the perfect emulation station

Two Steam Decks side by side showing the split-screen Game & Watch Donkey Kong II game, with one screen on each Deck

thomasfuchs, to random
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Having programmed computers for almost 40 years now the best advice I have for programmers is: what you’re doing is primarily a social job, not a technical one.

collinsworth, to random
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Finally hit publish on a draft I've been working on for a while now

"I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind."

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/copilot

lqd, to random
nash, to random
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holding the website down with my foot & pointing my sword at them as I check this box:

tchx84, to random
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After three months of development, Gameeky reaches its first public release.

This project is the result of nearly fifteen years of experience contributing to education projects and mentoring young learners.

I am happy to share it everyone!

https://blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2024/02/08/gameeky-released/

hailey, to random
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im a desktop developer now

video/mp4

fasterthanlime, to random
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“the software industry has managed to negate all the advances the hardware industry has made in the last 30 years” is a wrong and boring take.

the hardware industry did that largely on its own by taking insecure speculative shortcuts after moore’s law stopped holding up.

have you fucking read the JavaScriptCore write-ups about JIT? Have you kept track of the democratization of thin LTO, PGO, BOLT? have you noticed the uptake in language like Go, Swift, Rust over their interpreted brethren?

katenepveu, to random
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holy shit: "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole," by Isabel J. Kim. (the title is the content warning)

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

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