TIL #erlang / otp comes with wxWidgets bindings. From what i've seen so far it actually fills in a lot of the annoying gaps that i've seen in other languages. Like the event system connects very well to the established actor model..!
How is it after so many years #Linux still manages to totally fuck up the most basic and common use of #Bluetooth (audio)?
Every Bluetooth device I own connects to my Android phone without a hiccup. Every Bluetooth device I've tried (a subset of the first group) works without a hitch on the Windows machine at work.
But my main Linux box at home? About half of them don't work.
It should be a fucking embarrassment, but it seems the F/OSS crowd doesn't "grok" shame.
@stuartl@qqmrichter I don't get the tone towards free/libre software devs - they don't get to choose the standards corporates present to users as a fait accompli.
Bluetooth and its Linux stack seems bad enough that a distro (Hyperbola) announced they have ripped it out - millions of lines of code, apparently.
BTW, Hyperbola sounds very off-beat. They don't want PHP or Rust or Chromium, they even want to rebuild on top of the OpenBSD kernel.
I've been reading about #Erlang lately. I'm a little disappointed. Erlang seems real good and powerful, but it's not nearly as weird as I thought. I had somehow gotten the impression that it was #Prolog-level weird, but it's only #Lisp-level weird, which is not actually all that weird these days, since everybody else added some functional elements to their languages.
So I was ready to have my mind blown, but instead I only got it expanded.
@MegaMichelle
I don't know. A busy loop, or a wait on a connection that went down, not hanging the system is still uncommon and overly engineered. That is pretty mind-blowing. @ids1024
As a code reviewer, I'm really good at finding subtle but critical flaws in code. I'm not so good at remembering to say positive things. I am trying to improve at this.
@hexbatch@kboyd how does Facebook's pfff tool on Github do? PHP is one of the main languages it supported? Its no longer developed, but I am not sure that is relevant for such software.
#Electric#bikes are more than 10x more efficient than electric passenger #cars, meaning the same amount of battery needed for a 20-mile commute in an electric car could power an e-bike for over 200 miles !!! 🤯🤩
The US Department of Energy confirms that around 50% of all car trips in the US measure less than three miles, meaning electric bikes could replace a serious amount of vehicular traffic. 😇
@mars1024 how much more efficient than petrol cars are petrol bikes? Maybe it is a function of vehicle weight, two-wheelers are about ¹/10 the weight of cars.
"Urban forest restoration by trial and error is costly, and resulting failures are both discouraging to practitioners and condemning of future funding approval. Instead, we propose an evidence-based approach developed with partners and practitioners, informed by, ecologists and applied through practice oriented principles."
@strypey ID should be separate from services. In the age of Git hosting services making an #SSH certificate required to interact with them via Git, it should be worth a try getting academics to use #GPG keys like some computer practitioners do.
What’s the current state of the art for self-hosted “tools for thought” (knowledge base / notes.) Particularly, looking for the server component and a backup story, that then can work with some frontend mobile app like Logseq/Roam/Obsidian?
The Ethical Source campaign, against both Software Freedom and Open Source licensing, is now spreading to use-restricting licensing of code, weights and training data for MOLE (Machine Operated Learning Emulators)
"We believe that normalizing the use of behavioral restrictions via licenses will encourage responsible use of powerful AI tools and systems by downstream users, while recognizing that there are limitations in enforcing such terms."
Looking for recs: #selfHosted photo collection to replace Google photos??? Dont need any of the fancy neural net stuff (though I mean being able to do search would be a plus), mostly looking for backup and albums. I have tried piwigo but pretty dang janky. I can/will search more myself so mostly looking for any personal experiences ❤️❤️.
Does anyone know of any simple #selfhosted file drop software?
Not to be confused with file transfer such as transfer.sh. I want anyone to be able to upload files but only authorised users should be able to download them, not even the person who uploaded the files.
「 A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers!
SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix.
This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like 」
👋 Which software do you recommend for allowing guests to easily upload their photo after a party?
Something easy to use, maybe password protected for upload but open to see.
I tried #Lychee but it works with user accounts. Feels a bit hacky to have everybody sharing the same account, that allows people to delete pictures of others,...
The year is 2023. It's the future and people still can't sync their contacts and calendars directly between the email clients on phone and computers, without going through "the cloud".
I don't understand why #thunderbird doesn't do this, or any other foss email program
For NZ$5 I can get a 1L tetrapack, sold as "coconut milk", containing 8% coconut cream, and 92% water. That's 920ml of water, and 80ml of plant cream. If we round it up a bit, that's $5 per 100ml of cream.
For $3 I get a 400ml can, containing just over 80% coconut cream. That's 320ml of plant cream. If we round down that's $1 per 100ml.
Your vote matters if it contributes to aiding your preferred representative getting into office. Since we're in full understanding that only two parties are allowed, you're devoid of choice: you have to pick to avoid being a social pariah (despite that said level of accountability is virtually never held to those in office - Biden admitted thirty years ago that sinking my home country would be of no consequence and today encourages repressive migration policy that most Democrats applaud) or being a complacent citizen (which has gotten trans people, queer people, gay people and frankly no one but white cishet man anything outside of more protections pulled back in favor of American Christo-fascism).
When people say your vote is important, it's important to barely maintain the existing status quo. It does not equate to progress (without direct action, which is what has directly caused all change in America) nor can it equate to a demonstration of democracy (because we have no input over the policies that are used to jail, evict, disenfranchise or otherwise defang the harms caused - those are the core tenants of this country).
So no, vote as you fucking please. Then get involved in actual action in your community.
#ShowerThoughts: Imagine political parties that were global, instead of per-country, and never had to face elections in which they're accountable to the public. Social media platforms are pretty much that.
"83% of UK citizens believe personal conversations on messaging apps such as Element, WhatsApp or Signal should have the highest level of security and privacy possible.
It’s also notable that private conversations are more important to women than men, and that the appetite for privacy increases with age."
When National says "we'll ease congestion by building more roads" they're talking about highways.
This will have ZERO EFFECT on the daily traffic congestion most people face - gridlock in towns & cities. And that's never going away UNTIL FEWER PEOPLE DRIVE.
Mind you, the Nats HAVE helpfully promised to urban kneecap public transport too. And reduce Aotearoa's already puny spend on cycling infrastructure grrrr.
@JeffHowell I am not an Aoterean resident. But I don't think reducing the human environmental footprint needs much spending, and government is all about spending.
#Pharo#smalltalk geeks. I've seen a few things lately which refer to "pharo language"
Have the Pharo people actually changed / added to the Smalltalk language, or are people just conflating the pharo environment with the language that powers it?
@masukomi I think it is the official line that Pharo is its own language, initially forked from Squeak #Smalltalk. I don't know how much it has "outgrown" Squeak, couldn't install it.
Couldn't install #CuisSmalltalk either, to see how much Squeak flab it has shed. But it sounds like the one with which to build software for/by oneself. #DrGeo is being rebuilt with it.
@Zenoka
Online #video itself is not sustainable, and required special deals and #cronyism. That's mostly what breaking #netNeutrality was about — and its wrong.
We talk about an ethical #streaming video-format that can combine higher resolution stills with 12 fps video max.
@dsfgs
old, old, post to reply to, I know ...
Stills + captions + some audio/video is exactly what ComPhone Story Maker does (SMIL format). @Zenoka@jeffcliff@mangeurdenuage
