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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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ebassi, to random
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Oh, nice: the first SEO spam comment filed by an AI has hit the issue tracker of a project I watch on GNOME's GitLab instance

ebassi, to random
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TIL that Jenkins switched its own internal XML files to version 1.1, a spec that was declared DOA pretty much on the day of its publication, 20 years ago.

This has the hilarious side effect of preventing validation of XML files generated by Jenkins from anything that parses XML that is also not Jenkins. Well, it's one way to get people not to poke at your state files, I'll give them that…

amgine, to Software
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Y'know, something which has been bothering me for years…

reporting is super useful. It highlights in . On with this can be set up to such issues.

GNOME assures me the report is .

In order to submit the report, I must register, using verified personally identifying information.

No.

Everyone is held to the same standards. If I cannot submit with , or you lie about it, you do not get my support.

ebassi,
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@amgine GNOME does not have any crash reporting tool or service, so I assume this is Fedora-specific.

ebassi,
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@amgine @gnomelibre it is indeed odd; may be worth pointing out on the Fedora issue tracker or on their discussion forum: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/

ebassi, to random
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The real reason why design teams should document a decision process in a shared space, instead of documenting the final design, is that so they don't end up asking the exact same questions 5 years down the line.

If I have to document the reason why I wrote something the way I did into a commit log, designers can cope with writing down a text file with what they were thinking at the time.

ebassi,
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It's called "iterative design", not "designing in circles".

robindlaws, to random
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    ebassi,
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    @robindlaws @cstross hey, it worked for the Apollo 13 command module, didn’t it?

    cassidy, to Taskmaster
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    If there was ever another attempt at Taskmaster US, it should be handled by Dropout/CollegeHumor folks. Their shows are so good, and feel way more in line with the tone of Taskmaster than what you would get from broadcast TV and most American comics.

    ebassi,
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    @cassidy lately YouTube has been pushing Dropout shows in their shorts pretty hard, so I feel like I've seen entire episodes even without subscribing…

    wjt, to random
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    Because I am listed as a contributor to an Android frontend to Snapdrop, someone emailed me to tell me about a problem they're having with Pairdrop on an iPhone. “Can you please provide a fix for this.”, they stated.

    (My contribution to that Android app was to remove an apostrophe from the word “its” in its README.)

    ebassi,
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    @wjt time to add "Android developer" to the list of skills on LinkedIn…

    brooke, to random
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    they made a sequel to chicken run?

    last year?

    ebassi,
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    @brooke yes, and it's not at all bad

    ebassi,
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    @brooke they even nailed the casting changes, which was unexpected

    forteller, to GNOME
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    Is there any work being done in Gnome to have the search in Overview be aware of the folders you have bookmarked in Files?

    It drives me a bit crazy now that there's no logical integration here. If I bookmark a folder, that's a pretty good sign that I use it often, and I want that to pop up first in search results, I think.

    ebassi,
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    @forteller search in the Nautilus issues, or open a topic on Discourse and tag nautilus.

    ebassi, to NieR
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    Went to see the NieR Orchestra Concert, and guess who made an appearance on stage at the end…

    Yoko Taro, masked as usual, on stage
    J'Nique Nicole in a red dress, and Emi Evans in a blue dress, on stage
    Yoko Taro, Yosuke Saito, J'Nique Nicole, and Emi Evans holding hands on stage for the NieR Orchestra Concert in London

    ebassi, to random
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    Had to go to Milan for a couple of days for bureaucratic matters, and I was greeted by the worst air quality I’ve experienced in years. I immediately got hit with massive cold-like symptoms that made me worry I got a third round of COVID even if I masked on every public transport—but all tests were negative and I got slightly better when indoors.

    It’s amazing just how better the London air quality is, compared to Milan’s.

    ebassi,
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    The sad part is that, while London is actively working in improving the air quality, Milan seems to be stuck in the ‘90s: very little green spaces, no trees providing cover, lots of cars and mopeds, no bicycle paths. The city itself offers so much to visitors, these days, but it’s not good if you end up with lungs like a miner in the ‘70s

    ebassi,
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    @ross could have gone definitely better; we're going for round two in a few months

    ebassi, to random
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    London always knows how to welcome you back after a few days away; for instance, by shoving you into a rail replacement bus because of technical issues on the DLR

    alice, to random

    The urge to open Builder rn instead of doing things like preparing for sleep

    ebassi,
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    @alice I think we had a bunch in a demo for gthree, once. The hard limit is usually in the amount of FBOs your GPU and GL driver can juggle before throwing the towel

    ebassi,
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    @alice you can still use shaders, and in theory with shaderc in the SDK we can ship shaders for both GL and Vulkan; but it’s hard to support both with a generic API without inventing our own shading language

    ebassi,
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    @alice basically reimplementing what GLArea does, and using GL directly, without a wrapper API

    ebassi,
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    @alice yeah, understandable

    ebassi, to random
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    A possibly helpful note to people who want to contribute to free and open source software, and go to the extent of submitting code for review: write down what problem you're experiencing, and why you chose the solution you implemented. We can see what you're doing, but if we're missing all the context then your contribution is just throwing spaghetti to the wall, and doesn't have a chance in hell of being integrated.

    ebassi,
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    @doctormo in various projects it’s in the contribution guide, but not every project has them; GNOME projects usually do: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit-messages but this is not a GNOME project

    ebassi,
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    @doctormo the project I was referring to when I wrote that toot was not GTK

    forteller, to GNOME
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    Would it be possible for to make Shift+F3 work system wide, not only in LibreOffice?

    ebassi,
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    @forteller this is really application territory, because only an application knows about its contents; so it's either a feature of the toolkit, or implemented straight into the app. It could be implemented, say, by the GTK text widgets, but then everybody else has to do the same, and everyone has to decide to use the same key shortcut. Introducing new shortcuts onto unsuspecting apps may end up colliding with existing shortcuts, as well.

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