Robots are being in used in religious rituals worldwide -- often because they're extremely reliable and precise, useful in traditions and rituals that prize proper execution ("orthopraxic")
The anthropologist Holly Waters wonders: What does it mean if robots can be better at religious observances than we humans are?
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It's been a while, so a number of things happened.
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You've probably already seen it, since it was in the last TWIG, but @jamie added a way to create AdwAboutWindow from AppStream data. In particular, this should make release notes page far easier to work with - the release notes already support appstream markup and now it can just pull them from appdata directly rather than having to copy-paste them, and unlike application name, developer name etc they tend to be fairly long.
It doesn't unfortunately fill everything - for example, copyright line or credits still have to be specified manually since AppStream doesn't have that data in the first place. But it still considerably reduces the amount of copy-pasted information.
One part that is a bit awkward is that the appdata xml needs to be in gresource (the original plan was get the installed file by path, but it's pretty hard to do correctly in practice), and meson doesn't make easy to pull translated xmls into gresource - but it is doable.
And well, it means that libadwaita depends on libappstream now.
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To reduce confusion a bit, @brainblasted deprecated adw_expander_row_add_action() and added adw_expander_row_add_suffix() instead - matching action rows instead. We really should have done it back in 1.0, but didn't for some reason - better late than never.
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For sidebars, Chris also added a property that hides AdwHeaderBar title, incl. the generated one that's pulled from the window or browsing view. This should make it a lot easier to have a title in a sidebar only when folded, once the new sidebar widgets land.
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A new contributor added AdwSwitchRow - a simple AdwActionRow subclass with a GtkSwitch. While this isn't too difficult to implement manually, it's a really common case and it gets annoying, so having a helper is nice. Another nicety is that it doesn't expose the GtkSwitch:state property, only :active - meaning it's much harder to misuse it.
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@mks_h added a description property to AdwPreferencesPage - it looks same as preference group description, but shown at the very top of the page, making some of the Settings mockups easier to implement.
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I finally finished and landed AdwToolbarView. We also did a few changes to toolbar styles, so you may notice the doc screenshots look a bit different now. ^^
This one I'm not announcing in TWIG yet, since the rest of the new widgetry is not there yet, so it's not as useful yet as it will be later, once the new sidebar widgets have landed.
A change that's sort of related to toolbar view, but also not really, is that the new header bar style with a shadow is now also used for GtkWindow titlebars. While we can't use it for any random header bars in a GtkBox, we can do it here. This does have a few side effects though:
- If an app is using a header bar as a window titlebar, but has, say, a GtkSearchBar within the window, the header bar shadow will be above the search bar. It's not a big problem in practice since very few apps do this (I checked every core app and every third party app I have installed and only found 2 instances), and it doesn't do much harm, just looks a bit weird - but still a thing to keep in mind.
- Late in the last cycle we changed GtkPopoverMenuBar style to use a header bar-like style as well, with the same colors and border, and a backdrop style. Well, it is quite common to use menu bars together with a header bar set as a GtkWindow titlebar as well, particularly with the automatic one GtkWindow adds by default. So, I just reverted that change and the menubars look plain and boring once again. If somebody wants them to look fancy and blend with the titlebar, AdwToolbarView does support them, so you can add a header bar and a menubar within one and it will look nice. There is even an example of that in libadwaita tests.
For adaptive states I extracted the code that makes them work from AdwWindow and into a reusable widget that's currently called AdwAdaptiveBin.
It works the same way as adaptive states on the window - you add one or more adaptive states, set their conditions add setters changing properties on the child widget, and they are safely applied on resize, with the tradeoff that the the widget has no minimum size and you must set it manually using the GtkWidget's width-request and height-request properties. If you don't, it will print a critical telling you that every time it's allocated, so hopefully people won't forget to do it.
Currently it's public in the branch, I'm not sure I'll keep it that way since a part of the idea for the new mechanism was to do it on the window so that it can all be done in one step - but at the very least it made the code a lot cleaner, so the widget is gonna stay even if it's gonna be private.
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On GTK side I went ahead and tested gtk4-demo with all buttons being able to ellipsize. It... does not work well, it's a pretty big behavior change so it definitely needs to be an opt-in property. But that's fine.
What's less fine is that GtkCenterLayout prioritizes the center child over start/end. In practice it means that if you have, say, a dialog with the following header bar:
[ Cancel ] Add a New World Clock [ Add ]
and the title doesn't completely fit, the buttons will ellipsize first, and you will end up with this:
[ … ] Add a New World Clock [ … ]
and only then it will start ellipsizing the title:
[ … ] Add a New… [ … ]
That's not great, it should do the opposite here, first fully ellipsizing the title and only then ellipsizing buttons if it doesn't fit even then. I guess GtkCenterLayout needs a way to control this, because there are situations where prioritizing the center child makes sense. But that's something for another week.
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The :pop-content-on-fold property on AdwDualPaneView is actually implemented now, so there is an easy way to make it immediately show sidebar instead of content when folding, same as how when visible-child is set to the sidebar right now.
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As I mentioned in neurodifferent.me/@alexm/10998…, I started working on a widget that can replace AdwFlap for the utility pane case, but didn't have a good name for it. Well, I still don't have a good name and suggestions are still welcome but the widget is now in the merge request as well, and AdwHeaderBar has learned to manage window buttons on it just like it does with AdwDualPaneView.
One thing it doesn't do for these widgets is handle nesting. It probably should implement it though.
La #InteligenciaArtificial como tal no existe 🤖 Es un concepto publicitario. Son herramientas máquinas y técnicas desarrolladas y manejadas por humanos. Y es el resultado del trabajo mal pago e invisible de millones de personas en todo el mundo
Recent updates to Mutter (included in #GNOME44!) deliver improved performance for even the most demanding apps, including games and interactive 3D apps.
It will be included in the upcoming Fedora 38 release (which should be sometime in April) as will Ubuntu 23.04. And GNOME 44 builds already landed in openSUSE's Tumbleweed and MicroOS
it is curious to me to follow from a distance the way in which audio and video handling (on linux, and more broadly) have been both converging yet not quite arriving in the same place.
It's interesting to thnk about the differences: more computational load for visual display, but more sensitivity to timing errors for audio (due to human sensory mechanisms).
read the blog post and couldn't stop wondering "why don't they just double buffer as simply as every audio API on every platform?"
@PaulDavisTheFirst Because adding more buffers means keeping the GPU and CPU at a higher clock setting, which consumes more power. You can do it for some things, like an application, but not for everything, otherwise your power consumption and battery life will just be miserable
@ebassi no, not adding more buffers. Just accepting that you only ever have two, and the one not being used by the video hardware MUST be ready by the next vsync (or its equivalent). No games, just deadlines.
since i work on production software, power&battery issues tend to be of less consequence in the way i think about this stuff.
One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for “too long; didn’t read.” With the explosion of generative AI tools, we’re rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: “too long, didn’t write.
"Wenn ein Smartphone durch einen Akkudefekt auf dem Müll landet, sollte die Bezeichnung „Smart“ hinterfragt werden."
Wo soll ich unterschreiben? Besser kann man es kaum sagen. Vollste Zustimmung!
Passend dazu freue ich mich schon auf das SHIFTphone8. Bei dem ich den (Reserve-) Akku des SHIFT6mq gleich weiter verwenden kann. Ist zwar genau umgekehrt dann (Akku noch heile; 6mq aber auch), aber ebenso nachhaltig!
@mat im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeit möchte ich nur so viele bestellen, wie ich auch wirklich benötige. Meine Bestellung ist schon bei @shiftphones angekommen und die Summe beglichen.
Having dipped my toe in making Generative AI, I can say both are equally likely. Generative AI simply picks the next most common thing to say based on the context of the prompt and the prior words generated. It's prone to not stating the truth. But Google is also prone to lying and using peoples' data without their explicit consent of the use case.
If you love the #Firefox Translations add-on as much as we do and find yourself thinking "this should REALLY come to Thunderbird," then this bug is worth keeping an eye on:
I Out of sheer boredom and curiosity, I asked #ChatGPT to write a little essay about #TrafficLights and how they differ from country-to-country. I then had an #AI version of yours truly read it, courtesy of #ElevenLabs, so here it is. I even learnt a few things I didn't know, assuming of course, that Chat GPT is correct in what it wrote.
Ethical AI doesn't exist. This tech literally consumes obscene amounts of electricity and water, disrupts power grids, pollutes predominantly black neighborhoods, only exists on this scale due to the biggest theft ever committed, and all so some chatbot can tell you to put glue on your pizza. Stop licking the techbro boot and stop with the AI sh!t. We don't like it. We don't use Firefox for fucking AI sh!t.
On March 23 I was invited to participate in a panel discussion at the European Internet Services Providers Association (EuroISPA). The focus of this discussion was on recent legislative proposals, …
File Uploads for the Web (1): Upload Files with HTML austingil.com/uploading-files-… A nice, succinct tutorial plus follow-up of enhancing with Javascript. #webdev #html
Berlin, March 30, 2023 – LibreOffice 7.5.2 Community, the second minor release of the LibreOffice 7.5 line, the volunteer-supported free office suite for desktop productivity, is available from from our download page for Windows (Intel/AMD and ARM pr…
Is there a PPA I can use for Mint? Currently using their repo, which doesn't have the most up to date version, and the download page simply prompts me to download a deb file which isn't ideal
LibreOffice test builds and backports
This PPA will have what the Document Foundation calls "LibreOffice fresh", the latest release of the newest series (but no alpha/beta releases).
I feel like I’m missing something but I can’t find if I can do it and where. Can’t I update the #LibreOffice version I have (7.5.0.3) to 7.5.2 instead of doing a completely new installation? I’m quite new to LibreOffice so I don’t think I’ve updated it before.
@DavidRHel What is your OS? Use the official installation technique for your system and it should just update. For example, if on Linux/Debian/Ubuntu sort of thing, unpack all the debs into a folder, cd there and do
@DavidRHel Where is it grayed out? In the LO screen? So I'd suggest go to the download page libreoffice.org/download/downl… and get the installer you want, then quit any instances of LO and run the installer.
@demerara Okay. Will that install lo again or will it update the version I have? I feel like I don’t want to have to make multiple installments just to update every time I need to.
@DavidRHel @demerara not an expert but the installer on the download page updates the installation you have and removes outdated files. You don’t end up with multiple installations. With be sure to check your computer and OS for the right version (32, 64)
I got a bit of a shock when I saw that screenshot, actually. Took a while to see that the tabbed interface is an option. PLEASE also keep the option of an old-style menu and toolbars UI for those of us who greatly prefer that.
I wrote it using a small version of my Go Discord library. It's a PWA app that also works on desktops.
The fact that Nokia locked the phone made any debugging effort near impossible. Styling for such a small screen was also quite challenging.
Still, it's a fun project that gave me insight on how to design apps for such a device. Once I can play Spotify on it, I might just make it my main phone.
I had fun with this idea. Although it’s not complicated sonically, it’s still full of little elements that I thought would make it fun.I particularly enjoy t...
Hello everyone, I hope all are safe and well during these crazy times. I need everyone to listen up for a second, because I'm here to talk about an important safety issue that is rarely discussed. I'm talking about active shooter situations, and people with disabilities. A discussion occurred this morning between my husband who has multiple disabilities, and his worker who assist him a few times a week. She basically wants to minimize his shopping experience to keep them safe, but she went about it in the most atrocious way. We had a shooting at our local Target just down the street from us, and it is a place my husband and I have visited many times. Thankfully no one was shot, but this brings to mind a very important discussion. So far, I've seen nothing talking about active shooters and how people with disabilities and their caregivers can prepare and plan for these situations. If you have a few minutes, I'd like to point you to the following blog post I've written, both as a therapeutic writing exercise, but mainly, to share awareness of this issue. How are these caregivers being trained? Why aren't they approaching these subjects with sensitivity and respect as they should? Please read the blog post at the link below. Keep in mind I've also sent it to my local news station. Each and everyone one of us, as members of this society, have a civic duty to make sure equality isn't just a word in the dictionary. We need to step up and draw awareness to these concerns. Thank you for taking the time to read our story today. Everyone, please be safe. Many blessings. celestialvoice.net/active-shoo…
By now, it’s inescapable. Your portable devices chime, vibrate, or pop up alerts to get your attention. Even if do-not-disturb is enabled, you can’t seem to shake it off while you’…
This pull request adds support for building against AWS-LC.
AWS-LC is a BoringSSL/OpenSSL derivative. For more information see https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lc/
This is my first PR into curl - pl...
Some IP camera send malformed RTSP interleaved frames sometimes, which can cause curl_easy_perform return 1 (CURLE_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL).
This commit attempts to skip clearly incorrect RTSP interle...
CHOMPI... a quirky, Tape Music instrument inviting you into the magical world of sound design. With its one of a kind sampling engine, unique multi-FX and ta...
Seems like it *should* be possible in software, but this might be one of those things that's just better with proper hardware / software unity. It certainly sounds fun. I wonder if it's as usable by us as it appears.
Holy fuck I want this myself. That's amazing. Kind of a shame you can only record one sound at a time, so doing drum loops would be tricky. But wow this sounds rad as all hell.
@jdking92 Possibly, but you could likely rig a pedal or some kind of input to do that for you, and they barely touched on the functions. Maybe it has an auto-listen mode and listens for loud sounds, who's to say? I bet it's way more comprehensive than has been listed here. Would surely make sense.
Co s nadbytečnými pošťačkami? A jak zvýšit #kybez v ČR? Chytré řešení, které vyřeší oba problémy!
"Pojďme Poštu využít jako to místo, které se stává dotykem státní správy pro lidi, kteří nemají digitální kompetence například. Pro místo, kde si můžete zažádat o nejrůznější dávku, ale i o místo, které může nabízet různé cloudové služby městům a obcím. O místo, které se může svým způsobem starat a zaručovat i o kyberbezpečnost a podílet se na ní na té lokální úrovni."
My linearts are still super shaky but it really makes so much fun drawing with manga ink ✍️❤️ Will start practicing every day now. Hm I would really appreciate if Mastodon had stories so I would post much more stuff there. Maybe I should try out Pixelfed for this
Very cool! I see that you used a nib pen too 😮 I think Pixelfed has stories, I have an account there but I never use it lol but I'm pretty sure there's a story feature 👍 (At the moment I mostly use my Pixelfed account to follow myself here 😂)
Take Five composed by Paul Desmond arranged in Latin Jazz by Arturo Pena.Arturo Pena - Percussion, ArrangerBerta Moreno - Tenor SaxophoneHugo Merengue - Trum...
"Take Five" by Paul DesmondSeptember 29, 2018The Premiere Series provides the first live juried performances of the five 2019 American Pianists Awards finali...
In case your not aware. Harthstone is still currently accesible, but you have to use a community patcher instead of official harthstone access. github.com/leibylucw/hearthsto…
A program to patch Hearthstone using HearthstoneAccess beta - GitHub - leibylucw/hearthstoneaccess_beta_patcher: A program to patch Hearthstone using HearthstoneAccess beta
#AccessKit now has a C API, which also makes it available to many other languages. Check out the header file, prebuilt libraries (both static and shared/dynamically linked, for all supported platforms), and sample code (we only have a Windows example so far) for the first release: github.com/AccessKit/accesskit…
Our board just voted to rescind both the layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation at our publication—and you were a huge part of it. THANK YOU! You proved to the world that #TexasNeedsAnObserver!
"Thanks to the extraordinary success of the staff’s fundraising this week," the publication's board of directors voted to rescind layoffs and shutdown.
but the widget is now in the merge request as well, and AdwHeaderBar has learned to manage window buttons on it just like it does with AdwDualPaneView.
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