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federicomena

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Co-fundador de GNOME, ciclista, carpintero, cocinero, cartógrafo, jardinero, él. :flag_bisexual: :flag_pansexual:

Trabajo en #gnome, #svg (mantengo librsvg), infraestructura de #accesibilidad.

GNOME co-founder, cyclist, woodworker, cook, cartographer, gardener, he/him. :flag_bisexual: :flag_pansexual:

I work on #gnome, #svg (maintainer of librsvg), #accessibility infrastructure.

Xalapa, México.

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glyph, to random
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New Blog: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

federicomena,
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@glyph Oooooh, this is so good.

When I was a kid in the 80s, I remember the first proto-techbro I met, a twenty-something rich dude who touted the first laptop I ever saw as opposed to a desktop PC. He was all over expert systems.

categulario, (edited ) to random Spanish
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Hola seguidumbre, hoy les vengo con la encuesta del día

federicomena,
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@categulario yo conocía las salamandras. Pero mi mamá y mi abuela decían "fulana y sus tlaconetes" para referirse a una señora con sus hijos.

federicomena,
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@categulario mi abuela era de Los Mochis; mi mamá nació en la CDMX.

federicomena, to random
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Hey friends, my rear tyre's sidewall has developed a hernia. Is this salvageable? (Compass 52mm smooth tyres)

rimu, to random
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@glyph That's interesting. I moved from Mac to Linux because as a programmer I feel more free and empowered there. But I see now that only some people would have the time, interest and skill to exercise that.

What about a Mac gives you agency? Is it the usability?

federicomena,
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@glyph I like the way Fred Brooks explained this in The Mythical Man-Month - https://www.chau.cc/blog/the-truly-useful-thing-a-programming-systems-product

Making a system programmable, and fully tested/documented/etc. is 9x the work of making just "a program that works". OSS is under-resourced for application work.

Then, implementing the sort of thing you want is a lot of work. Do you include a language runtime in your app? Do you use DBus or something else and assume the scripting is done "outside"?

federicomena,
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@glyph How do you keep long-lived references that the DBus glue or the scripting can use? Can you GC them? Do you write manual glue to each piece of functionality in your program? Do you need to refactor to extricate UI code from business logic? Do you promise any sort of API stability in the scripting interface? Do you need extra validation code for data incoming from the interface, since presumably the plain UI code wouldn't let you enter invalid data? It's all doable, just takes work.

federicomena,
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@glyph And at the risk of sounding pithy - if you complain for years and years that something is not being done in open source, well, that's your cue to maybe do it yourself.

(This is the rhetorical "you" - it can be "convince people to pay for that work", not "go and write that code".)

federicomena,
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@glyph can I DM you / mail you?

federicomena, to random
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You are excused from debugging anything today. It's the geomagnetic storm. Go have a drink or a nap or something.

federicomena, to random
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TESTS ARE GREEN

kornel, to random
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It's surreal how slowly time moves in the world of C compilers.

Today there are still active projects that are hesitant to move past C89, and C99 is still the "new" standard.

The C99 standard has been released before the first public Mac OS X and Windows XP. It's older Itanium and the x86-64 instruction set. It predates iPod, Game Cube, first ever Xbox, and Nokia 3310.

Entire platforms lived and died in the meantime, while C programmers still can't be sure if they can rely on the new C99.

federicomena,
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@kornel Our technical debt is measured in centuries.

federicomena, to random
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Poster de el Gran Om.

federicomena,
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@categulario sip! Me invitaron ayer, no conocía. Rico el pulque. Vamos un día, ¿no?

federicomena, to photography
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friends, are these lenses any good? https://brightinstar.com/ The prices seem ridiculously low? 35mm f/0.95 for 190 bucks?

federicomena, to random
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New bookrest is pretty great.

federicomena, to random
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JazzWomenAfrica: "Bull Door" | International Jazz Day 2023 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThIDIThOPQ

federicomena, to random
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I am slowly starting to understand how fontconfig's configuration works... and getting this urge to REWRITE ITS FUCKING DOCUMENTATION.

vwbusguy, to GNOME
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Is there a way in to make the right Super (aka "Windows") key behave like the left one? It would be nice to be able to lock the screen with one hand. Besides, I have zero idea what the "right Super" is even supposed to do on Gnome, because it doesn't obviously do anything except not act like a Super key.

federicomena,
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@vwbusguy Look in gnome-tweaks, Keyboard, Additional Layout Options. I think what you want is "Alt and Win behavior" / "Hyper is mapped to Win", but I'm not 100% sure.

federicomena, to random
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Just think of all the CVEs safely stored in GitHub's Arctic Code Vault. If we need to reconstruct civilization from it, we'll at least have fun fixing them again.

federicomena, to random
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Librsvg 2.58.90 is out! This is the first release that uses Meson instead of Autotools.

This a very early ALPHA release so that distros have time to change their build scripts.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/-/releases/2.58.90

federicomena, to Mexico
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Gente de - si quieren algo con qué darle lata a su ayuntamiento, acaban de publicar la NOM 004-SEDATU-2023 ESTRUCTURA Y DISEÑO PARA VIAS URBANAS.

La gente de la Liga Peatonal ha hecho un choooooorro de trabajo para que esto sea posible. 😎

https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5723137&fecha=12/04/2024

marcioaleks, to random
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Traditional Japanese joinery 🙂

video/mp4

federicomena,
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@categulario yo sólo veo palos duros que se penetran entre sí, no veo el problema.

federicomena, to random
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Slack has the audacity to pop up a window titled, "Want a productivity boost?" 🙃

federicomena, to random
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At some point the code is more or less Done(tm), and you spend the rest of your life fucking with the build system, as people's opinions change on how it should work.

federicomena,
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@Di4na @msw There's an uncomfortable amount of Python to build symbol lists on Windows. Meson needs a duplicated list of source files, even if cargo detects them automatically. Meson's concept of the build configuration needs to be translated to cargo's concept, and the cargo-wrapper script has subtle differences when called for "build" vs. "test".

On Windows, when FreeType builds don't provide pkg-config, they fall back to cmake. And librsvg's meson foo needs to adapt to that.

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