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whynothugo

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Software Engineer. Passionate about open source and sustainable, ethical software.

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whynothugo, to random
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@pine64eu Any idea when the Pinephone Pro Keyboard (SKU: PPHONE-KEYBRD) will be in stock again?

whynothugo, to random
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In an alternative reality, people prefer comfort to status symbols, so they ride public transit instead of each one buying and piloting their own cars.

whynothugo,
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@vixalientoots In places where public transit is not the most convenient/comfortable, it is usually because people invest in private cars instead of the (much cheaper, scalable and sustainable) public transit.

(the obvious exception being outside cities)

whynothugo, to random
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Pop-up windows were a mistake.

diana, to random
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@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

whynothugo,
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@rhapsodos @lanodan @diana @yvonnezlam I heard and used the term "housekeeping" before "technical debt" became popular.

whynothugo,
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@rrwo I don't know what you mean by "not agreeing". In sharing an experience that I lived. There's no agreeing or disagreeing.

rustnl, to rust
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Looking back at a wonderful conference: 10 cool things at RustNL 2024!

Part 1 of 10: @Mara and Niko had a booth gathering input (problems!) from the community.

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whynothugo,
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@rustnl @Mara Can we add a lack of compile time reflection to that list, please?

blinry, to random
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Got collaboration working between VS Code and Neovim today! Really exciting! \o/

What features would you like to see in a tool like this? 🧑‍💻

A VS Code window and a Neovim window are open next to each other. When you type in one window, it is reflected in the other window!

whynothugo,
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@blinry How are they communicating? Source? Is it usable over the network?

fleckenstein, to random
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Spaniard sounds like an insult ngl 🥴

whynothugo,
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@fleckenstein In a few countries it is (mostly victims of Spanish colonialism).

nikitonsky, to random
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Say what you want, but there’s something immediately obvious about aqua-style controls. They stand out. You can see what’s interactive and what’s not in an instant. You can see what’s expected from you

Compare to modern flat design, where you have to look very closely just to understand what’s what and which parts you are supposed to touch

That’s not progress

Modern flat UI

whynothugo,
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@nikitonsky I don't like aqua's aesthetics, but I cannot deny that it is really good UX.

whynothugo, to random
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The "if you don't like some software just don't use it" mindset completely misses the point.

Software that you don't use still shapes the entire ecosystem.

Just look at how many modern APIs are designed to behave more like Windows "to make software easier to port" or "to make cross-platform development easier".

Julf, to random
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"Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram."

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1789687898863792453

whynothugo,
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@Julf The link you posted says exactly the same thing as your post here.

When making this kind of accusation, please do provide SOME information on it.

whynothugo, to mastodon
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Can I disable this behaviour on #mastodon where it jumps to the next post when I press the Down arrow key?

It's infuriating, because every time I press the down arrow key, I actually want to just scroll a bit (usually to read the next line of the currently visible post). Like on pretty much any other webpage since the mid-nineties.

whynothugo, to random
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Why doesn't my laptop have a back camera? Kinda like a tablet.

whynothugo, to random
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Why do I need to unmount on shutdown? Just sync writes and kill everything.

Long live crash-only software!

samurro, to random
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Why is it so hard to get working on ? https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/blob/master/docs/Sway%20and%20wlroots%20support.md This is ridiculous and I have no clue how to achieve it while using instead of . Are there any simpler alternatives?

whynothugo,
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@samurro I could never get it to work (there's a many year old issue somewhere where nobody knows what's going on). I ended up writing my own screenshot tool instead and press a key on it when I want to open the screenshot in an editor.

https://shotman.whynothugo.nl/

Shotman talks to the compositor directly. Using the portals is way too slow because the screenshot needs to be encoded, written to filesystem, re-read from filesystem and decoded again into the original format.

whynothugo, to random
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@drewdevault epoll(7) and poll(2) don't allow implementing non-blocking I/O on a filesystem. Is implementing such a thing under the radar for Bunnix or Helios?

arch, to random
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Choice paralysis looking at #XMPP server options

whynothugo,
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@arch Prosody is lightweight and well documented.

whynothugo, to random
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"Considered harmful" considered harmful.

Using "X considered harmful" in a title is considered harmful and should not be done.

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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whynothugo,
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@Radical_EgoCom @CatChucks The USSR calling itself communist only helped consolidate capitalism. Stalin would use it as an excuse for his followers to obey. The west would use it as a fake example: whenever someone suggests communism, socialism or similar from of unity, others will simply point at the USSR and claim "this is what you're advocating?".

Mastodon, to mastodon
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forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

whynothugo,
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@Mastodon Having the same foundation steward Mastodon itself AND host mastodon.social sounds like such a huge conflict of interests.

IMHO, mastodon.social should be maintained as a separate endeavour, much like any other instance out there.

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

whynothugo,
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@drewdevault It doesn't make sense to me how fast you hacked this.

It's not just that you need a lot of focus, you really need to know a enough about all the different subsystems too.

whynothugo,
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@drewdevault Do you really need EFI variables? You can just put your bootloader in esp://EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi. Which is what Asahi does due to a lack of EFI variables on their platform.

whynothugo,
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@drewdevault I had a dream last night where one person was playing doom with a keyboard and others insisted that it's meant to be played with a mouse.

Somehow this video triggered more vivid memories of this weird dream. But please do try out Doom with a mouse.

This message courtesy of Morpheus I guess.

whynothugo,
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@drewdevault Congratulations to you [both]. I hope you have some beautiful time offline!

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