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gregorni

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Hi, I’m Gregor Niehl, a tech enthusiast from Germany born in 2007. I am generally interested in all things #Linux and #OpenSource.

I write apps for the #GNOME desktop, and am part of the GNOME Foundation and the GNOME Circle Committee.

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gregorni, to programming
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My browser when I'm programming in OCaml…

#OCaml #tooManyTabs #programming

gregorni, to Bulgaria
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Folks living in the European Union, don't forget to vote today!! 🇪🇺

#EU #EuropeanUnion #Vote #Voting #Democracy

gregorni, to GNOME
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Are there any users of Adwaita-Swift by @david_swift? I'd like to chat a bit about the what the developer experience is like using those bindings. Feel free to DM me on Matrix!

#AdwaitaSwift #Adwaita #Gtk #Gtk4 #libadwaita #GNOME #Swift #Swiftlang

ElleGray, to random
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ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

gregorni,
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@ElleGray Regardless of the mockery, I actually think it's a good job advert as well 😄

gregorni, (edited ) to random
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Letterpress now has a nightly Flatpak, available from the GNOME Nightly repository!

#Letterpress #GNOMEApps #GNOMENightly #Nightly

mcepl, to Bash Czech
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Back from outing: getting out of is really hard. Tried going back to (even with ), tried and none of them really work (failed bug reports). Sad. Anybody know about actually working POSIX-compatible interactive shell which actually works and at least from distance can compete with fish?

gregorni,
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@mcepl I've heard good things about nushell, although I've never tried it.

gregorni,
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@mcepl Of course, zsh is also always an option. More conservative than fish, but more innovative than bash.

gregorni, to random
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My first two brainfuck interpreters are up!

https://gitlab.com/gregorni/rustfuck
https://gitlab.com/gregorni/gofuck

#brainfuck

gregorni, to random
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When will I learn to only use rm -rf if rm -r fails?

#rm #commandLine #Terminal #rmrf

gregorni, (edited ) to random
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I learned by accident today that you can change your working directory in Fish shell using Alt and the left/right arrow keys. It basically keeps track of the history of your directory navigation, and flips through your history.

#Shell #fish #fishShell #pwd

gregorni,
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Also discovered accidentally, the same keys in a normal text field move the word that the cursor is on to the right or left, swapping it with the word next to it.

Also discovered accidentally, the same keys in a normal text field move the word that the cursor is on to the right or left, swapping it with the word next to it.

gregorni,
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@herrbischoff Oh, right, I should add that

gregorni,
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@lw64 I really enjoy using fish, it's full of random little niceties like this, but still manages to be really intuitive and easy. The CLI tools that I use that need some form of shell integration all provide first-class support and documentation for fish.

Especially autocompletion and command suggestion I find really helpful.

gregorni,
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@lw64 I guess I meant auto suggestion, not autocompletion. Fish can tab-complete commands, but it can also suggest commands based on autocompletion data, as well as your command history. So yes, it's a lot better than bash. Kind of intelligent, almost.

Atuin and starship are special tools for modifying the shell, they have fish support.

Homebrew and cargo somehow need to tell the shell to include their respective bin directories, and they also provide instructions for fish.

gregorni, to ai
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I'm surprised such a thing actually exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_stupidity

"Artificial stupidity is a term used within the field of computer science to refer to a technique of 'dumbing down' computer programs in order to deliberately introduce errors in their responses. "

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialStupidity

FineFindus, to random
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#Moshidon community: We are currently experimenting in @moshidon nightly with removing duplicate settings that can already be controlled from the system preferences. Specifically this time the haptic feedback/vibration setting.
Does your phone have an option to disable it in the system settings (called Touch feedback, usually found under Accessibility > Vibrations & Haptics)?
If not, please reply with your Android version and phone brand so we can take this into account, thanks!

gregorni,
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@FineFindus @moshidon I have the option, and it's in the in the expected location. If it somehow helps, I'm on Android 12L, on a vanilla AOSP GSI ROM.

nekohayo, (edited ) to ADHD
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/ / / folks, plz compare:

In your experience, would UX from the 2nd link distract, overstimulate or bother you in a way that represents an issue?

Note: I'm not the one proposing this, I'm not even affected. I ask for the sake of others; polling for statistical sample size.

gregorni,
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@nekohayo I don't have ADHD or a similar disorder, but I wanted to say prefer the left-aligned scheme.

jsparber, to GNOME
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Working on notification grouping

#GNOME

Video of laptop showcasing nested GNOME Shell with the work in progress notification grouping by app.

gregorni,
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@jsparber The background music really makes it 😁

gregorni, to rust
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Me:

  • sees a new GNOME project that is set to replace an older one
  • checks out what language it's written in…

…aaannd it's Rust 🦀

#Rust #GNOME #GNOMEApps

gregorni,
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@FineFindus I actually posted this in reaction to https://hachyderm.io/@matzipan/112508954361116717

I also had Loupe in mind.

gregorni, to programming
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Somehow the following pseudocode:

if not condition:  
 return;  
do_stuff

feels much more intuitive to me than

if condition:  
 do_stuff;

Anyone else feel that way?

#programming #ifStatement

gregorni,
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@rdbende In that case an else-block makes sense, yes. I was thinking of a case where there is no else-block, in which case I prefer the early return.

gregorni, to random
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I wrote a working Brainfuck interpreter! 🚀

I might rewrite it in a couple of programming languages, and then publish the bunch.

gregorni,
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@bragefuglseth 🧠💥

gregorni, to ai
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I feel like the Nothing company went from "Let's make phones less distracting" to "Let's push AI down everyone's throat!" 😢

#Nothing #NothingTech #AI #smartphones

gregorni,
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@GalacticBox I feel like that too 😢 It's too bad, I felt like they had a lot of potential, but they've just attached their whole brand identity to hype.

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