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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 Montreal French
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À 18h30 ce soir il y aura l'assemblée générale annuelle du Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (#CCGV), votre lieu de pratique artistique du #SOMtl, dans la #PetiteBourgogne (#LittleBurgundy) à proximité de #Griffintown + #SaintHenri + #PointeSaintCharles.

L'événement est relax et ouvert au public de #Montréal (et même d'ailleurs), je vous invite à y être présent(e)s pour rencontrer le staff, le CA et la communauté. J'y serai !

https://www.ccgv.ca/2024/04/aga-2024/

nekohayo, to UX
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I made the "route itinerary change" operation 10 times faster with This One Weird Trick™ (i.e. utterly cheating for perceived and , as I do), because who has time to watch lengthy animations, this is not a Mamoru Oshii public transit scene 😏 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-maps/-/merge_requests/426

nekohayo, to random
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Hi @k9mail, your blog's Atom syndication feed is broken/invalid, so feed readers like Liferea cannot read it.
Proof: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https://k9mail.app/feed.xml

nekohayo, (edited ) to houseplants
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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,
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@Natalie @dartily
Bingo! Turns out that was exactly it!
The funniest part, besides the fact that neither me nor the neighbor had a clue what it was… is that I had in my todo list to "Try to find cuttings of a ZZ plant, I heard these things are indestructible like sansevieras" 😆 So, side-quest accidentally completed!

nekohayo, to MountainBiking
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While I only wear at -30 to 0°C, and from 0 to 10°C, on this 19°C sunny day while in , 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.

sirber, to linux
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It's odd... under X11, I use 10W more on my battery than on Wayland. Same usage...

#linux #wayland #battery

nekohayo,
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@sirber Not surprising at all: X11/Xorg is layers and layers of inefficient roundtrips. As in, multiple hundreds of blocking function calls for every operation, and sometimes creates latencies of 1.5 seconds instead of 0. See this part of Daniel Stone's talk specifically: https://youtu.be/GWQh_DmDLKQ?t=1255 (I recommend watching the whole talk from the beginning. It's fantastically entertaining, really).

I'm relieved to hear your measurements showing that Wayland already provides big power savings.

nekohayo, (edited ) to random
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#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 🤦‍♂️

nekohayo, (edited ) to UX
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are lucky that I'm basically married to their "source-available" SaaS at this point, and that I care enough about "encouraging them to remain somewhat open" to file a bunch of UX papercut bug reports… Reported 8 new ones here today: https://github.com/invoiceninja/ui/issues/created_by/nekohayo

I just hope this keeps them in the "openness has value" mindset. How many companies out there can count on SaaS clients like me doing free professional for them in production, for what boils down to basic bloopers?

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

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

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

nekohayo, (edited )
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@VincentTunru Oh for sure the translation work would need to be done by native folks, or at least people who have studied the language pretty extensively! But it would be pretty nice to see it happen. I'm sure it is not the only minority language in that situation, either.

hecladus, to Montreal French

Des gens de #Montreal pour prendre un verre ce soir ou demain pm ? (poke @jacouzi)

nekohayo,
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@hecladus @jacouzi Est-ce que vous seriez encore dans le coin mardi (ou plus tard dans la semaine)? 🤔 J'y retourne ce jour là pour une soirée d'infos d'aménagement/travaux publics de la Ville, entre autres.

pieq, to GNOME

I have a #CalDAV server running on my NAS. I want to access the calendars on it from #GNOME Calendar. How to achieve this? I haven't found anything neither in Calendar itself nor in "Online Accounts" section in the Settings.

I found an old blog post from 2016 mentioning having to install #Evolution to do this:

https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/gnome-caldav.html

Is this still the only way to do this?

cc @gnome

#FLOSS #FOSS

nekohayo,
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@pieq @sonny @vixalientoots @gnome
According to my testing while debugging, if your server provides URIs for every CalDAV calendar, you can just tell GNOME Calendar to add one of them as a calendar, and it will prompt you for username and password (there's a bug where it will create a duplicate local calendar, I have a patch for that waiting to get merged).

I don't know if that's how it actually is how CalDAV users do things normally.

nekohayo,
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@pieq
Inputting URLs in the "Add calendar" dialog should have started working again since GNOME Calendar 44 if my memory is correct, though of course you should be using 46 at this point because we fixed a hundred other things since last year and every previous version is by definition insufferable 😏 the Flatpak version lets you be GNOME-version-independent.

forteller, to GNOME
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I have never in my life had a computer with more than one account on it. Yet, every time I have ever turned on any PC the last I don't know how many years I've had to choose an account first, before I can type my password. And I frequently forget this thing I've done every day for many, many years, and just start typing my password without choosing the account first!

So I have questions:

  1. What is wrong with me?
  2. Why can't the only account on the PC just be pre-selected?

#Gnome #Linux

nekohayo,
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@forteller https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4392

nadim, to random
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New blog post: We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop https://nadim.computer/posts/2024-04-18-calendar.html

nekohayo,
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Bonjour @nadim,
GNOME Calendar improves measurably every 6 months.
The road ahead remains pretty long; I eagerly await your merge requests to bugfix/improve the app's remaining issues. Come talk to me in the Matrix chatroom if you want guidance.

Pour ce qui est du multiplateforme: en tant que bénévole, je n'ai aucun intérêt à rendre les usagers Windows et Mac confortables dans leurs prisons, vs créer une application de grande qualité sous Linux, la seule plateforme qui nous appartient.

nekohayo,
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@nadim
Before calling my view (that FLOSS devs have no interest in supporting unsustainable, non-auditable platforms that we don't use) "arrogant", I'd suggest you re-read your blog post from the perspective of a maintainer of such apps. Your depiction (a "complete disaster", "dismal", "insane", etc.) and your claim that we need to create "a new open source calendar project" (see you in 15 years), is a peak of arrogance and hubris.
How about helping instead of shitting on those who do the work?

nekohayo, to GNOME
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Alright people, time to seize the opportunity in 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 backend renderer performance issues, this should help have a noticeably faster and power-efficient reader app 🤞 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/issues/119

nekohayo,
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@hub If I am not mistaken, I believe @pabloyoyoista did not make an official stable release yet to avoid setting expectations too high for GNOME 46, but there is a package in GNOME's Nightly flatpak repo, that's what I'm daily-driving. That said, maybe the readme file should hide the flathub button until this thing exists there…

nekohayo,
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@hub The two key selling features so far (until more land) are "It's GTK4" and "A new, very active community has formed around it".

Also, some parts are being rewritten in (on which I hold no opinion, but I hear it's all the rage these days):

nekohayo,
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@hub I'd be curious to know whether that would be considered in scope (vs better PDF forms filling and annotations support), when there are specialized apps out there for document pages rearrangement, like https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.jeromerobert.pdfarranger for example 🤔

Personally, the lack of complete annotations & forms support has been my number one pain point. On Linux, we have nothing to replace Adobe Reader on that front.

wjt, to random
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Food £200
Data £150
Transport £800
Fairy-related stuff on Etsy to leave out overnight for my kids to find in the morning £3,600
Utility £150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this.

nekohayo,
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@wjt That "Food" cost is ludicrous... have you tried eating less avocado toast? As they are not locally grown, clearly that must be the main issue visible in your budget 😏

swetland, to linux
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Anyone have a recommendation for a scanner that works reliably with Linux (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for preference), ideally using the scanimage commandline tool?

My goal is to scan some old photos at 1200 DPI. I picked up a CanoScan LIDE 400 and it is extremely fussy, stopping responding until I unplug/replug it every now and again (dunno if that's the scanner, the driver, or what, exactly).

Nothing's larger than 5"x7". Flatbed seems preferable.

#Linux #Photos #Scanning #Questions

nekohayo,
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@swetland Your issue might be: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/simple-scan/-/issues/256

nekohayo, to random
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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, to firefox
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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, (edited )
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@gnomelibre Bah non, je veux pas un navigateur complètement amnésique 😅 sinon je serais toujours en navigation privée...

L'idée serait juste que les sites devraient avoir à me demander la permission de faire du "Local Storage" (pas la même chose que les cookies), et qu'il faudrait un outil qui permet de purger le stockage local "autre que les cookies" pour tout sauf une "liste autorisée" de sites… présentement, la suppression est "tout ou rien".

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