If you are ranting about GNOME in the year of our lord 2026, and you feel compelled to tag Miguel into your whinging, I will immediately discard anything you say (and block you, for good measure). As much as we all love Miguel, he hasn't been involved in GNOME for nearly two decades, and he never was the benevolent dictator of the project, either. You're just an old person yelling at the clouds, running on 20 year old spite, at this point, probably angry at some setting removed in GNOME 2.x.
Huh. I'm a bit conflicted on how to handle Java backends for Prism like android. Do I create my own `JavaVM*`? Or do I allow people to pass in a `JNIEnv*`, which would also require a C API extension? Not really sure what to do... I want to avoid ABI breaks at all but
So my initial thoughts here are that, similar to miniaudio's config/init pattern, an optional structure could be passed into prism_init or I guess maybe prism_registry_create/create_best that could include any extra options that would help the system along? A user could pass in a JNI env here to enable the android backend, it could open you up to other things like letting user specify lists of allowed or disallowed backends / other config to customize the system to their liking, and it would have the advantage that you could reserve some bytes in the structure / make it have a version field so that you could add at least some new settings to it without breaking your ABI. This library looks cool!
@samtupy Thanks, for the JNIEnv stuff I was going to add something like prism_set_jni_env or something. Well, assuming I could, you know, figure out how I'm going to do Java backends. Idk if that's the best approach though... I'm glad you at least like what I have so far though
@samtupy No idea how exactly I'm going to do the Java backends though... That's going to be a pain. The pain isn't even the linking to Java or anything, but more the JNI stuff...
@samtupy I wish, but no. There's this other tool called Scapix which lets me do that. But, of course, the dev had to license all of it under their own custom license which I'm not even sure is enforceable. But then of course they added insult to injury when I reached out kindly asking them to expand on whether the terms of their license extended to things like generated code, or the tool you run to generate the code, or what, because the license was very vague about that
Interesting, I thought you just had to create an interface contract for the methods you want and use the JNI's findClass method or what have you like when you did exceptions in NVGT with raw JNI, even creating a StringBuilder?
@samtupy I might be able to get that to work? The way you do it with Djinni is you make an interface in Djinni IDL, generate code via djinni, dump that code into your app, implement the interface in Java and then call it from C++. JNI is never, ever fun no matter how you do it, sadly
Why do you have to implement an interface in java, can you not just make a contract definition that binds to the already existing interface that the tts library provides?
@samtupy Mainly because Djinni generates an interface by default. Well, an abstract class, though you can tell it to do an interface. You can't trivially call Android libraries from C++ because Android uses a ton of Java features that JNI on it's own struggles to express like finalizers and all that
@samtupy I could try Djinnie, which would make part of it perhaps a bit easier but that would still need the `JNIEnv*` and I'd still have to add Gradle for the java parts. Ugh
@samtupy Right, so I was thinking of a context-wide option to provide a JNIEnv or NSWindow? That would be passed down to the backend which would use it as it sees fit? Or I could do the config thing, that would work too. I just don't want to over-complicate the API too much
I think one global config structure you could optionally pass to the library's init function would not be too much over complication. This would allow me to enumerate the configuration structure and see what options I can set very quickly by looking at it's members. A function to create a config structure preset to sane defaults would be a good idea though.
@Bri Normally I would agree. But this will break spectacularly on Android, I think? From what I remember, Android passes it's own `JNIEnv*` and you just have to deal with it, but, Idk, I might not know something lol
@Bri And I also need to write bindings. Python is trivial, can just throw some cffi around and boom. I'm not entirely certain how to tackle others. But I'm open to contribs so I might write a Python one and then if I can figure it out a .NET one and let others contribute other bindings? 🤔
@Bri The (incredibly) ironic thing is I could add iOS support right now and it would probably take me 30 minutes. The Voice Over one, I mean. It's harder to do on MacOS because that needs an `NSWindow*`, so I am completely uncertain how to tackle that and don't know if I should do a nother C API function, or a config struct like @samtupy suggested or what
Wow, relying on Signal might actually be a Very Bad Idea™
In below longread there's a lot to unwind, but the essence is this: it is a state asset for American imperialism built on the infrastructure of Big Tech.
We are constantly told that the messaging platform Signal is totally secure and benevolent. While Signal may be preferable to the dominant alternatives
Delta needs to become more portable. The current distribution form does not help its proliferation to less-than-mainstream platforms, which I feel undermines its purpose ever so slightly.. Then again, I might just be that weirdo guy :) @collectifission @delta
@feld Uhm, I only find references to Debian (12) - I've been looking for a while for people running the server components on FreeBSD (without linuxulator or VMs) and haven't found any?
I wanted to invest some time in unpacking the whole pyinfra stuff with a "how hard could it be" approach, but somehow I haven't gotten around to it yet :D
@ltning I'm the guy that maintains it on FreeBSD. I converted their pyinfra stuff to Chef so it's not hardcoded to Debian, provide custom FreeBSD packages where needed, and patched their python code as necessary (upstreaming changes, gap is closing)
@feld Huh, wonder why I could not find that on my own - but thanks a lot! I'll be checking this out. Too bad the chef client is not in ports, but rubygem-chef should do, right?
@ltning no, I don't think it will. You really really don't want to install the chef client from ports/packages. You want it to be fully isolated from the OS so if packages/libraries break, it doesn't break Ruby/Chef and Chef can potentially still run/repair things
@feld I think we have diametrically opposite preferences for how to manage things. I find that having stuff install outside of /usr/local and without using pkg or ports is generally a bad idea. If I need stuff from pip/npm/whatnot, it should be installed locally to a given user, not globally like suggested here. My biggest concern is the lack of maintainability.
But I'll see if I can give this a go, somehow. There's nothing in this bundle that, apart from some custom-built packages, should need anything special, so converting to a base-package approach should be mostly a matter of "getting it done".. :)
@ltning you can't have the risk of your OS packages doing something that breaks your automation tools. One bad library update and Ruby breaks and now you can't manage your fleet of servers? that would be insane and it's why they do these "Omnibus" deployments
@mischievoustomato @ltning for certain automation/monitoring tools you either have to break the unix mantra of "everything is shared, only one copy of stuff installed" or build static binaries
that's another reason why Go got so popular -- it avoids this mess by producing mostly static binaries
@mischievoustomato @feld I don't quite understand this concern. If stuff is broken in the OS package repo then you're screwed anyway and I certainly wouldn't trust a config mgmt tool to "fix" anything. But I'm sure there are pains I have not experienced, so what do I know ;)
And regardless of all this: chatrelay depending on custom patches to upstream software is bad enough; that it seems hard-to-impossible to manage it using standard tools (even on the recommended platform) seems to me to be unfortunate. Each individual part looks fairly straight-forward from a cursory glance..
All that said: @feld - thank you for making the effort. You've made it much easier for me to understand how it all works, and potentially getting my own relay off the ground.
> chatrelay depending on custom patches to upstream software
It's actually zero. The only patch they have is a dovecot change that removes an unnecessary sleep/debounce that slows down message notification/delivery by 500ms
everything else is just the specialized configuration and some custom python (later: rust) services that filter emails, lua scripts for dovecot and opendkim.
The U.S. this morning seized oil tankers in international waters... just south of ICELAND.
Nothing to do with drugs. Nothing to do with security. Just straight-up theft.
If you think the U.S. does not plan to take Greenland, Canada, and other countries (by military force if it deems it "necessary"), you are now living in a fantasy world.
@mischievoustomato I can't call myself a programmer, never really been paid to "build something" as my primary job description.
I'm a sysadmin/network guy who has been up to his eyeballs in Linux/BSD for a long time and spent a lot of time reading code and fixing things.
I'm not fluent in PHP, but I've fixed customers' PHP apps before.
I've reworked a patches to C/C++ projects to make them compile again on newer OS or library or whatever
Give me a targeted error or problem and I can probably figure it out.
Ask me to build/design something from scratch and even though I have a lot of ideas in my head about the right way to do things because I try to pay attention to best practices, security, performance and have a pretty wide range of knowledge... I'm more likely than not to produce an amateurish pile of garbage
If someone else provided me with a complete technical design to follow of how it should work, there's a much better chance I can be successful or at least not waste so much time
Hi there! I see over in Disable primary-paste by default (!119) · Merge requests · GNOME / gsettings-desktop-schemas · GitLab that Gnome is considering removing middle-click paste.
it's a change of default that will likely come with a move of the existing switch from the tweaks applications and into the system settings; nothing is getting removed
I can confidently say that there are no plans for removal at any point in time, as much as I personally don't like this feature. The fact that a whole interface was added to Wayland by GNOME developers to simulate the original X11 behaviour should make the same point.
OK so I've been talking about The End of UX for a while now.
I want to shoutout the @firefoxwebdevs account for *not* ending UX. They are engaging with some pretty heated feedback regarding LLM-related UI and having a genuine dialogue. I may be pretty much on the side of the heated feedback, but I also want to give credit where credit is due.
The End of UX would be to say "we'll design this however we want and you'll just love it” rather than engage. FF isn't doing that, which is commendable!
any chance you're on iOS? there's a bug right now where it gets stuck with "Establishing connection, please wait..." and doesn't show the text input box after Autocrypt has been established
this is the PR to work around it but I don't think it was published in a new release yet
this PR updates the input bar on CONTACTS_CHANGED even - in case of securejoin, CHATS_MODIFIED event is missing.
this is also what android/desktop does, so even if core's chatmail/core#7634 is ...
@mray we'll soon post more about the currenbt and upcoming multi-relay work. It seems btw that vinculum0 now federates nicely, great! If you want to get added to the relay operators chat group, please drop us a DM with an invite link to a dc profile. cheers.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more… At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundati…
Yes! Yes yes yes, Hallelujah! #Slack added the Copy Message option by my request to the context menu. Now you blindies don't need to turn off and on your virtual cursor, browse/focus mode or whatever, you just press Ctrl+C or go to the context menu and select Copy Message! 🕺🏻 #Accessibility #Blind #JAWS #NVDA #Windows
It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom feed info front-and-center on their websites.
One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.
It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.
I find it interesting that there's loads of people who made a core part of their identity campaigning against trans women being in women's spaces and how it impacts women, who have gone completely silent about Grok being used to undress and brutalise women.
If you're wondering on xAI's stance on this, aside from Elon posting a crying with laughing emoji, Grok's creators have raised a further $20bn from Cisco and such yesterday. reuters.com/business/musks-xai…
If you're wondering what consequences X has faced: none. At all. A few months ago when Grok called itself MechaHitler, the service was shut entirely for days, the same day. When this women issue happened, Elon laughed.
Grok is still outputting non-consensual deepfake pornography and sexual abuse material at a rate of 1 post per second. Example search:
It’s fascinating that payment processors and app stores happily bullied Tumblr over female presenting nipples and have kicked adult game creators off of Steam, but have been completely silent on CSAM and misogyny generated on X
I have a product idea that can save people money, give them their attention back, bring people closer together, divest in evil corporations, and help maintain healthy cognition/media literacy.
the best is ElReg going full boomer, saying that we're all youngsters that don't understand history; I mean: thank you, I was feeling a bit down after my 45th birthday; this is better than being carded while buying booze.
I love how I still hear stuff like "And you really understand this?" "How do you even understand this?" When using a screenreader in public. No actually I don't understand this, I just let it babble and magically know what I'm focused on, every blind person has that super power. But seriously, it's just practise, it's not that deep. Why do you still ask or talk about this? Is it really that ultra remarkable?
I was surprised the first time I heard a screen reader but then thought it's logical: like reading speed improves, so hearing does, when using it daily. Also, in the case of a software I'd use daily (or even weekly) I think I'd be pretty annoyed to listen to the same buttons and options if it was slowly read word by word at a people speaking rate
Just figured out (out of necessity) that I have a better way of OCRing my vm's screen than using Seeing AI. If I specify a monitor when starting qemu, then I can telnet into the monitor, and there's a screendump command that will dump the screen to a file, and then I can use tesseract to OCR the image.
Unfortunately, none of that is helping me right now. I get "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." So I'm just as mystified as before. Reminds me of the children's song I used to listen to where a climber went over the mountain to see what he could see, but the other side of the mountain was all that he could see.
It isn't very polished--it creates files called a.png and a.txt in the current directory, but, meh, it does what I need.
Edit: I found my original issue--something was wrong with the virtual drive that I have set for the UEFI image. And I love having this little OCR scriptlet now--it makes it really easy to monitor the status of a vm while it's booting up and I don't have a screen reader available yet.
#wordpress hates all #blind people, hates innovation. #drupal is clunky and GPL v2 only which makes me unable to extend it the way I want. #grav has unlabeled buttons everywhere. #classicPress is a damn old version of #wordpress did I skip anything? ah, yes, #joomla, the 403 monster. starts installation, looks nice, until it eats itself mid install. really graceful. #cms #cmsBattle or everything sucks or I missed some random cms that I'd probably want to support but didn't found I even ask #ai it found garbage. I thought that accessibility will be treated well at least in one place, but sadly it's drupal which is really clunky and don't get me started on random breakages. this is my rant sorry for it but I had to get it out of my chest #technology #accessibility
Have heard good things about Wagtail CMS and even spoke at their conference last year but I actually still need to try it. Have you had any experience with that?
OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get…
Hey @FreakyFwoof, I've just started this one. Interested to know if you think it's worth carrying on!
Harry Potter and the Hero's Path, By TheJackOfDiamonds AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him. March 2006-November 2025. 323493 words in 52 chapters. fanfiction.net/s/2869936/1/Har…
@Gerhard Hallstein willst du damit RSS Feeds importieren? Wenn ja dann schau mal auf opml.sekbaer.de/ vorbei (hab da mal ein kleines Script schreiben lassen) da kannst du deine OPML Datei hochladen und die wird dann in eine CSV Datei konvertiert, die du dann herunterladen kannst. Auf Friendica gehst du dann unter Einstellungen ---> Kontakte importieren. Dort auf "Durchsuchen" klicken die csv datei auswählen und auf "Einstellungen speichern" klicken. Du solltest dann die RSS Feeds in deinen Kontakten.
@OldKid ⁂ Danke schön für den Hinweis. Ich werde ihn mir mal abspeichern. Ich nutze Deine Instanz nach wie vor als Feedreader. Doch hin und wieder "denke" ich darüber nach, das Firefox Addon Feedbro wieder zu nutzen. Und wenn ich das tun würde, würde ich irgendwann mal wieder Deine Instanz als Feedreader nutzen.
If some digital magazine was pumping out thousands of nazi-themed kiddie porn pix per hour in Canada, the Canadian HoC would be in an uproar and vote unanimously to have it shut down & prosecuted, yet the same HoC and whole of gov expects us to go to the X nazi-themed kiddie porn site to read their daily messages to us.
cd#436 Sara: Liberation EP * Olin 1990-luvun alkupuolella siinä määrin aktiivinen erityisesti pohjoismaista indiemusiikkia käsittelevillä internet-alustoilla että pari ruotsalaista levy-yhtiötä erehtyi luulemaan minua jonkinlaiseksi influensseriksi ja lähetti muutaman promolevyn täysin pyytämättä. Tämä artisti ei olisi kuitenkaan missään tapauksessa saanut hyväksymismerkintääni: Saran lauluääni on yhtä kimeä ja yksisävyinen kuin Kate Bushia esittävällä japanilaisella animaatiohahmolla, eikä sitä pysty kuuntelemaan 30 vuotta myöhemminkään paria minuuttia pidempään. #musadontti #musiikkimastodon #cd-maraton discogs.com/release/22784633-S…
Next time some moron in your government want to regulate the Internet "for the children" remind them they are posting on a CSAM content farm formerly known as Twitter.
feed info front-and-center on their websites.
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