ebassi

unclepj, 2 months ago to random

I read somewhere that Fitbits are just modern day Tamagotchis and the stupid animal you’re trying to keep healthy is just you. I think about that a lot.

andrewt, 2 months ago to random

Nasa are currently working to fix a computer error aboard Voyager 1. The probe's computer system runs at around 8000 instructions per second and has about 68kB of memory. Due to the interplanetary distances involved, even at light speed it takes 45 hours to send a signal and get a response. When asked about the unique challenges this poses, an engineer said "that's actually about average for a modern CI system".

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

My article for The Guardian just dropped.

"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation

rmader, 2 months ago to GNOME

What I really like about #GNOME46 is that it turned out to be a really good release for old and low-end devices. One of my test devices is Thinkpad T400. That hardware is over 15 years old and is has actually got faster over the last few years - especially this release.

One of my favorite improvements here, headed by Christian Hergert, was the boost to VTE. Terminals using #gtk4 are now much faster and responsive. I mean, damn, even switching tabs doesn't trigger a full redraw!

#gnome

A video of Gnome-Console running on a Thinkpad T400. The Mutter damage overlay is enabled, showing that updates to the content only updates the areas that actually change - even when switching tabs.

Temmy, 2 months ago to retrocomputing

I was there, Gandalf. I was there forty years ago. I was there when magenta ruled the world.

#retrocomputing #CGA

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Migueldeicaza, 2 months ago to random

Build Gnome apps with Swift:

https://swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

david_swift, 2 months ago to swift

Check out the latest blog post on the #swiftlang website about the #adwaita for #swift package!

https://www.swift.org/blog/adwaita-swift/

You can find the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift

#linux #libadwaita #gnome #gtk

lowqualityfacts, 2 months ago to random

Trump has less than a week to arrange a $454 million bond. There are 331.9 million US citizens. If each American spends only $1.37, then we can all buy a cheap chocolate bar to enjoy while we watch the State of New York seize Trump's properties.

gnome, 2 months ago to GNOME

We're excited to announce the release of #GNOME46! This release brings many updates and improvements thanks to the hard work of #GNOME contributors. 🎉
https://youtu.be/r_QyRJf3rtQ

Read all the details in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/46/
and in our official announcement: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46-released/20066

saagar, 2 months ago to random

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

video/mp4

gnomon, 2 months ago to random

A very happy Miette Day to all who celebrate

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

brendangregg, 2 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to random

jennzycos, 3 months ago to random

Wipes a tear from her eye.

ebassi, 3 months ago to random

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

GTK, 3 months ago to accessibility

Emmanuele Bassi details the improvements for accessibility in GTK 4.14:

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

#gtk #gtk4 #accessibility

deobald, 3 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to random

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

Lana, 3 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to random

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/

delan, 3 months ago to random

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, 3 months ago to random

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

mia, 3 months ago to random EN

I unironically love when people do this (from conversation on Twitter).

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

cerealkella, 3 months ago to random

Hewlett Packard Lovecraft