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grimmy

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Pidgin Lead Developer/Maintainer, Democratic Socialist, Twitch Affiliate, My opinions are my own. 🐥🐦🐧

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elb, to random
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I had a nightmare that I was reading my mastodon feed, and a full page ad popped over the content.

grimmy,
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@elb You just gave me an idea for a silly pidgin 3 plugin.. fake ads..

grimmy, to opensource
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Greetings Programs! We're back tonight working on @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1! Come on by!! https://twitch.tv/rw_grim https://youtube.com/ #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #LiveCoding #C #GTK #IRC #IRCv3

rasterweb, to random
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We’ve succeeded in making computers more like humans!

Years ago if you wanted to tell a computer what to do you wrote code it could understand, and it did exactly what you told it to… You had to get it right of course.

Today you just tell a computer what you want by talking to it like a human… and it responds like a human, making mistakes, giving you what you don’t want, or just lying to you.

Is this progress?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb lots of people say yes! And as we all know the crowd is never wrong!

rasterweb, to random
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Is kbin dead? Is mbin dead? Is anything with one letter followed by 'bin' dead?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin seem to all be okay...

mathiasx, to Games
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Is there a modern game on itch.io (ideally with MacOS or Linux versions) that’s nostalgic for Command and Conquer: Red Alert and games like that? I don’t know why I suddenly have a hankerin’.

#games

grimmy,
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@mathiasx there's always openra as well.. https://www.openra.net/

grimmy, to opensource
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Greetings Programs!! We're back at it today working on @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1! I am running Pidgin 3 fulltime for #IRC now and yep we've got stuff to fix! Come on by!! https://twitch.tv/rw_grim https://youtube.com/ #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #LiveCoding #C #GTK #IRC #IRCv3

rasterweb, to random
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@grimmy Okay well... I ordered an AMS. I see enough possibilities at work that I think I can put it to good use.

grimmy,
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@rasterweb nice!

grimmy,
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@rasterweb eh whatever works for ya. I'd assume that the automatic switch over to a new spool of the same color would be useful to you too

grimmy,
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@rasterweb yep. It should auto switch although I've had issues where the same color was slightly different so it didn't auto switch, but then I just put the new spool where the old one was and hit play/continue/whatever on the display.

rbreich, to random
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Expect Trump's response to his criminal trial to be the same as his response to the election — declaring victory even if he loses.

grimmy,
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@rbreich "fake jury"

grimmy, to opensource
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Greetings Programs!! It's that time again! Time to work on @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1! Come on by!! https://twitch.tv/rw_grim https://youtube.com/ #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #LiveCoding #C #GTK

grimmy, to opensource
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Greetings Programs!! Bit of a late start tonight, but we'll be continuing the @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 work so come on by! https://twitch.tv/rw_grim https://youtube.com/ #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #LiveCoding #C #GTK

drewdevault, to random
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I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

Day 3

grimmy,
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@drewdevault since you mentioned ncurses in another post, if you get glib working, we should be able to get finch, the ncurses front end to libpurple, or @pidgin 's cousin should be pretty easy to get going..

grimmy,
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@drewdevault @pidgin hah yeah that might be important there 😅

swelljoe, to linux
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I know people love hating on #systemd but there are so many things that are great about it. The journal is among the best (and the one that people seem to hate the most for reasons I find hard to relate to). Building a service with good logging is literally free, no code required, STDOUT/STDERR goes to the journal, you're done. Ingesting those logs into something like Loki is also free. #linux

grimmy,
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@swelljoe I'm sure a big part of it is the change with lack of documented replacements or people just not finding them. For example, I finally learned a few months ago about using journalctl -u <unit> to just get that unit's logs. That along solved my biggest gripe with journalctl...

grimmy,
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@swelljoe I've been administrating linux systems for nearly 25 years.. during the systemd transition I saw no simple guides of how to adapt.

However, this is a common problem for all tech, not just systemd, not just open source, literally all tech, and we all need to do better.

grimmy, to opensource
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Greetings Programs!! We're back at that @pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 work tonight! Come on by!! https://twitch.tv/rw_grim https://youtube.com/ #OpenSource #OpenSourceLive #LiveCoding #C #GTK

rasterweb, to random
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If you wanted to explain to a 10 year old how a button or switch can change between two things, like AM or FM on a radio, but didn't want to use a radio because it may be outdated... what example might you use?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb there have to be switches in minecraft right? and presumably all 10 year olds know minecraft or roblox or something right?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb i mean they're conceptually the same? 🤷

rasterweb, to random
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Why do we have so many programming languages!?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb and forks like that do tend to bring in new eyes and ideas although not always.

Aside from that, why do you need to find common ground? Especially since the scad stuff should be able to output an stl which would be a common ground...

grimmy,
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@rasterweb Seeing as the current dev team for pidgin is <= 3 I don't find that "joke" funny...

grimmy,
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@rasterweb yeah the reason was that their target developers weren't programmers so it made more sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#History#History)

grimmy,
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@rasterweb But popularity is a horrible metric. There's no objectivity to it, but people still use it as a defacto standard and many confuse it as a constant because status quo is all they know/care about.

grimmy,
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@rasterweb eh, it's just a design decision. And you can learn things by learning that it's a 1 based index. So I'm not sure where the problem is here?

grimmy,
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@rasterweb of course. Due to the things I do and tools I use, people are constantly "curious" about my choices. And many times insist that I'm doing things wrong by not using the popular thing. As you may have guessed, this gets exhausting quickly.

Me choosing different tools/whatever doesn't mean I'm obligated to define why I chose to use said tools to anyone.

Even when I've tried to be like "personal preference" someone wants to debate me on it..

Let people do their thing.

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