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nekohayo

@nekohayo@mastodon.social

Free & #OpenSource software contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Currently co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo you can find (https://fosstodon.org/@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar), as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of https://mastodon.social/@ideemarque + https://mastodon.social/@atypica, and mercenary CMO https://mastodon.social/@regento.

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️

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nekohayo, to python
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Did you know there's a cool little + forecasting native desktop application for , called ?

Seems like it was started a year ago. I just discovered it now, and am somewhat impressed by how much detail it provides (including Air Pollution / Air Quality Index).

So of course I filed my ponies-on-rainbows enhancement request to suggest an interactive stacked graphs representation (like a certain website I use, shown below)… 🤞👀

https://github.com/amit9838/mousam/issues/130

Junicast, to linux German
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Why is it that in modern OSes we have to stick with the original format when saviing files with the OS dialogue?
Isn't it an easy task to convert say a JPEG to PNG? I'm a user btw.

nekohayo,
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@Junicast It is not the FileChooser's job to be a transcoder. It is complex & unmaintainable enough as it is (nobody wants to touch that code)… now imagine needing to bundle the equivalent of ImageMagick+Poppler+GStreamer across multiple OS platforms 🤯 That'd be a technical, security, and legal nightmare.

File format export/conversion is the apps' job, and it's a specialized job, as every encoder has tunable parameters. The FileChooser just lets you pick a location for the app to write to.

nekohayo,
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@Junicast For example, the default JPEG encoder found almost everywhere is utter shite compared to MozJPEG, or now JPEG-LI. I explicitly have to use specialized apps when encoding JPEG because of this. Same goes for PNG if I want a PNG with -30% filesize in exchange for much longer encoding times, but some may favor speed over size efficiency; don't even get me started on video codecs…

nekohayo,
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@Junicast Over 37 years of image and video codecs history, patents, and broken standards.
Have you ever looked at the number of available parameters for H.264 / H.265 / etc.?
Even common still image codecs typically have at least 5 to 15 parameters, multiple operation modes, etc.

nekohayo, to GNOME
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On top of the performance optimizations that Milan has done in some months ago, I'm proposing my one-liner search performance trick for the software center app store thingy that people love to hate on , to reduce the jankiness and improve performance further for most practical purposes.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/2032

nekohayo,
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@pethil It waits 500 miliseconds instead of 150 miliseconds after you stopped typing before actually triggering a package manager search, because 150ms is a bad default for expensive operations. It's like doing this to your backends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoLf1Jh6SQ

nekohayo, to random
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Indeed there is nothing quite like a 15-thousand pages document to serve as a loading & rendering performance benchmark, profiled with 🧐 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1485

nekohayo,
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@hub
"Show me thine bloated documents,
and I will judge them" 😏

pwithnall, to random
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Why does growth always have to be ‘explosive’?

nekohayo, (edited )
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@pwithnall How else are we to stimulate growth? Brawndo? Only plants crave that, it has not been FDA-approved for gnomes! 😏

The "let's combine/reduce all those conferences into a single somewhat greener one with satellites attendance" approach and "tiered fee structure for attending the central and local events" official tactic is somewhat intriguing. Kind of a first part of a policy on carbon impact, among other things?

nekohayo, (edited ) to random
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Found yet another aluminium road abandoned by some uncaring person: all rusted, busted grip shifters, no tape, brake levers in bottom position, flat tyre, some broken spokes, bent rear dérailleur, etc. Dual-pivot caliper brakes though! 👌

Shop owner has no idea whose it was, so we claimed it. I cleaned it up, removed most of the rust. Could look decent. Weighs ~16kg. Wondering if I could easily convert it into a light single-speed for cheap? (new ones are 400$)

nekohayo,
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@craftyguy but but but all that extra weight of the front and rear sprockets, derailleurs, etc! 😳

nekohayo, to photography
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Whoa, the Government of Canada has an incredibly detailed page on the dark art of scanning photographs with a flatbed scanner. It is full of practical & theoretical info, incl. color theory (color space, models, gamuts, accuracy, distance, illuminance, bit depth, dynamic range, etc.), common scanning issues… and you can even the (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus screenshots 🤯

https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digitization/scan-reflective-objects.html

nekohayo, to Montreal
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There's something incredibly enjoyable about my neighbourhood in the summer on a sunny "long week-end" when construction stops; you can hear the wind, birds chirping, playful children in the area…

I've been subconsciously traumatized by the last 10 years of uninterrupted roadworks & building construction noises; it's why in the past 2 years I often escaped the city during weekdays and come back to it on week-ends.
I hope to spend time there more often in 2025; is lovely when quiet.

nekohayo, to RSS
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Welcome @lwindolf who has just joined the fediverse now!
While they appear to be a regular red squirrel, they actually are a nice human who has been benevolently maintaining the feed reader for the last 20+ years (among other things), for y'all who are still reading / Atom feeds with a desktop application.
You should follow them if you're interested in Liferea, devops or sysadmin topics 🐿️

nekohayo, to GNOME
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For the past 10+ years, I was unable to daily-drive the #Wayland version of #GNOME …
…until version 45.2+, where performance improvements landed for my specific usecases.

Since then, for the past 6 months, I've been running 45.x on Wayland.

This week, when I went back to the Xorg/X11 version for 1-2 days, I was surprised to see it now feels unbearable to me from a performance standpoint! Even with animations disabled.

I guess I can't go back after having used a no-delays no-jank version 🤷

nekohayo, to email
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It took me a while to realize what felt problematic with @EvolutionGnome's handling of signatures for users, but I think I figured out the issue: it probably should be expanded to allow defining per-format signature variants... https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2753

badrihippo, to random
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Does not display cover.jpg as a folder thumbnail anymore when you put it inside a folder? 📁 🧐

nekohayo,
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@badrihippo Pretty sure it never did, I've never seen it do that in 20 years.

nekohayo, to accessibility
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There's a nice article out there by @jzb summarizing @matt's recent presentation on his work on and "Newton", the new architecture for and the future of & for assistive technologies: https://lwn.net/Articles/971541/

nekohayo,
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@AxelTerizaki Ceci devrait t'intéresser ☝️

nekohayo,
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@AxelTerizaki

https://toot.cafe/@matt/112458574152494768
et
https://toot.cafe/@matt/112458588870956510

forteller, (edited ) to linux
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I really feel like Linux distros should come with ddcutil preinstalled, and Gnome should build in some sort of functionality to control it, like this: https://github.com/daitj/gnome-display-brightness-ddcutil

Isn't having an external monitor really common? And when all laptops come with dedicated buttons for changing the display brightness, doesn't that suggest that people like to be able to easily adjust the screen brightness? Then why wouldn't we want to do it also on external screens?

nekohayo,
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@forteller It's on the wish list: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1209

nekohayo, to random
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With 17.0 (stated to be released on May 16th), the operating system theme preference is now respected, as there is now an opt-in setting to enable "Auto (Experiment)" support in your user preferences panel.
It can finally switch between light & when your OS or desktop environment requests it at various times of the day! I tried it; it works.

You can find it under "User Settings > Preferences > Appearance" when running that GitLab version (it is already the case on gitlab.com)

nekohayo, to MountainBiking
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A quickie ten minutes #biking ride around Montréal to get some air and reset the mind, after spending two whole days trying to do color calibration for 4 scanners on Linux, a maddeningly tedious and confusing #colormanagement process 😌

gregorni, to GNOME
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I contributed to GNOME Shell! It's just a one-liner, but still, it's a contribution!

I added touchpad gestures so you can now change workspaces not just with a 3-finger swipe, but also a 4-finger swipe (or any amount of fingers larger than that, if you're feeling really adventurous).

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3275

nekohayo,
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@gregorni I never realized the number of fingers was limited! Nice improvement.

What has been driving me nuts is the jerky motion during slow multi-finger swipe "and release mid-way", particularly when "Reduce Animations" setting is enabled; it not only feels stuttery, it also jumps into place in what feels like a very broken way. Haven't had the energy to file a ticket to make the whole argument that physically-induced motion should do at least some animation… @TheEvilSkeleton can't unsee it

thomholwerda, to random
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At least my choice to ditch GNOME for KDE turns out, once again, to be the right choice.

nekohayo,
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@dusthillperson What have I ever done to you, exactly?

I don't recall having interacted with you before this one line toot above where I imply that GNOME developers take pride in making useful software, and that we are a collective of individuals, not a single-consciousness organism.

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