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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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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.

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)

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.

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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?

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