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nekohayo, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

Found yet another aluminium road #mastobike 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$)

#bicyclemaintenance

nekohayo, 3 days ago to photography

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 #Coloraid (Wolf Faust) "IT 8.7/2" color calibration target referenced, plus #GIMP screenshots 🤯

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

#photography #arts #digitizing #colormanagement

nekohayo, 4 days ago to Montreal

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; #Montreal is lovely when quiet.

nekohayo, 6 days ago to GNOME

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, 7 days ago to accessibility

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

nekohayo, 13 days ago to debian

The attitude shown by the #Debian packager who insists on going against the will of @keepassxc devs, in this comment: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10725#issuecomment-2104401817 is… wow 🤦

This "packagers thinking they know better than the developers, and unilaterally patching things" mentality, along with distros often shipping outdated versions, is why many upstream software developers dislike dealing with Debian (& any LTS distro), and now ask users to test/run #Flatpak versions of their applications first and foremost.

nekohayo, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to GNOME

I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.

Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.

#GNOME #productivity #gratitude

nekohayo, 22 days ago to random

Found an interesting #LibreOffice Calc scrolling performance bug report in Bugzilla some days ago, that was reported to be more visible with HiDPI screens, so tonight I grabbed a 4K laptop with Wayland and ran #sysprof to try to capture at least partial performance profile information on this issue: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154602#c16

nekohayo, 23 days ago to random

My parents' crappy unreliable Internet connection is making me file bug reports about novel ways to break @EvolutionGnome's handling of #NetworkManager again: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/2734

nekohayo, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago) to fedora

How do I report an issue on the #Fedora NetworkManager connectivity check ("/static/hotspot.txt") being "patched to be located on a US server that refuses to respond to any embargoed countries' IP addresses", in a way that it would get taken seriously?

This is essentially breaking that whole #Linux distro's desktop networking even if you're just a traveller passing through (ex: on vacation, visiting relatives, etc.), and in my view this is unacceptable for #security. Ubuntu has no issues there.

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to houseplants

My neighbor is throwing a bunch of #houseplants at me to care for during her absence this summer.
Among them is this wonderful mystery plant is. She did not remember what it is. Apparently it does fine in the shade, not even next to a window.

Update: turns out it's a zamioculcas zamiifolia, and it just so happens that I was looking for one too! Talk about coïncidences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamioculcas
#plants #plantsofmastodon

nekohayo, 1 month ago to MountainBiking

While I only wear #cloaks at -30 to 0°C, and #capes from 0 to 10°C, on this 19°C sunny day while #biking in #Montreal, I encountered someone on the cycleway who:
✅ …wore a blue velvet cape
✅ …with a cat-ears motorbike helmet
✅ …on a Segway.

So of course I shouted, « Merci de normaliser les capes! 👍 » ("Thank you for normalizing capes! 👍") as I passed them.

nekohayo, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

#InvoiceNinja, a dedicated timesheets and invoicing web application, being somehow unable¹ to consistently support #ISO8601 for timesheets, gives me very strong #KRAZAM "Microservices vs ISO timestamps" satyre sketch² vibes.

I wish this was a joke on the part of the InvoiceNinja people, but apparently they can't figure out how to have their settings for YYYY-MM-DD dates & 24-hour times actually apply consistently for input in the UI 🤦‍♂️

• ¹: https://github.com/invoiceninja/ui/issues/1717#issuecomment-2068264904
• ²: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?t=7

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

I sometimes wonder why on #Linux / the #FreeDesktop, champion of underrepresented languages & locales, we still don't have the #ScotsLanguage to facilitate cultural preservation in #Scotland : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

I for one would love to set it as my display #languages in #GNOME but it is not among the choices.

Aboot that, #Firefox has #Scots available fur ye tae wale, and is the most awesome leid in the settins ye can stert yaisin richt noo! 👌 Ah dinnae find #Shetlandic though.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to GNOME

Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in #GNOMEPapers to fix one of my long-time performance annoyances with Evince: a potential 2x speedup by… avoiding rendering everything twice (due to the sidebar's thumbnails).

Barring #Poppler backend renderer performance issues, this should help #GNOME have a noticeably faster and power-efficient #PDF reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

I did some testing on a Windows machine and tried out #Bitlocker #encryption for the first time… I'm shocked. This thing is black magic.

How did they manage to do full disk encryption that can be toggled on/off instantly? I was expecting it to rewrite the whole drive, like what would happen with LUKS on Linux OSes/utils, but no: even a whole existing C:\ drive with Win installed, you just enable encryption, it reboots in seconds instead of minutes/hours, and it's done.

What sorcery is this?!

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

"How many of the most popular image/audio/video file formats do you want to include in the #Meld file extensions filters?"

Me: "Yes."

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/-/merge_requests/119/diffs

nekohayo, 1 month ago to firefox

Why does Mozilla #Firefox default to allowing websites to use persistent storage, and thus consume gigabytes of disk space when few websites actually have legitimate reasons to use the StorageManager? Isn't that both an invitation to fill my disk and a #tracking / #privacy pitfall?

Seems like there's no UI to facilitate selectively cleaning this stuff, i.e. nuking the local storage for all websites "except these few websites" (and without touching cookies), nor do I see a way to require opt-in.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to GNOME

Governmental XFA #PDF forms come from some special type of hell.

Surprisingly, some of them do work in #GNOME Papers / #Evince / #Okular. It seems like a few corner cases remain where only some forms refuse to load, so I filed a ticket in #Poppler with a neat reference table and sample files today. In case this is useful to anyone: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1481

nekohayo, 1 month ago to Transformers

Some #Audi drivers in Montréal have got their priorities sorted out. How else do you reconcile your bakemono #waifu with your passion for #Transformers ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ?

nekohayo, 1 month ago to linux

Dear #photographers & visual #artists running #Linux, what are your tricks for #colour -accurate #scanning photo prints on consumer-grade gear (not a film/drum scanner)?

I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).

Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.

nekohayo, 1 month ago to random

Supposing the #xz backdoor was limited to targetting SSHd, then considering I never used my Fedora 40 "trash performance testing" machine as a SSH host (only as a SSH client), nor did it have a public-facing open port on the WAN, and as I have done "dnf distrosync" first thing in the morning, I am presuming the machine doesn't need to be nuked from orbit… but there's always this little "What if…" in the back of the mind, and it'll be hard for me not to feel like this in the coming days/weeks:

nekohayo, 1 month ago to UX

In case anyone else feels like we ought to have some #UX for efficiently "picking and batch replying" for FLOSS chat and #email clients in #GNOME, you might be interested in helping figure out a UI #design pattern for this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/whiteboards/-/issues/238

nekohayo, 1 month ago to productivity

I had a sudden "what if…?" intuition for a potential #productivity speedup in my #opensource bug reporting workflow when tables of data are involved, and… it turns out that it is actually possible.

As you can see in this short demonstration I recorded below, you can paste #LibreOffice #spreadsheet cells into a #GitLab ticket, and it automatically converts it to a proper #MarkDown table. It just works! What is this sorcery!? 🤯 What a time to be alive.

A short video showing a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet with many cells selected, copy-pasted into a GitLab ticket editing form, and the cells get converted to MarkDown table format

nekohayo, 1 month ago to MountainBiking

Me, 5 days ago, while cleaning:
"Ah, my bike keys. Let's put them in a place that is really obvious and #biking related so I can easily find them in a pinch when I need to hurry out to a local event"

Me, today, just before an event:
"…where are these GODDAMNED KEYS?!"

45 minutes later
They were hanging in plain view, on the bike handlebar's brake lever. FML.

When it's not keys, it's the f'ing smartphone. Notebook. Pen.
This shit happens to me when I need to go out. Every. Single. Time.