Ah yeah WordPress that confuses Titlle and Description and use the latter for both title and Caption and leave Description empty. And of course this propagate the the gallery.
* It requires at least librsvg 2.14, which is from 2006, which is when rsvg_handle_get_dimensions() was introduced. That function was deprecated in 2.52, in 2021. If available, Emacs will use all the new APIs. There is #ifdef hell in there.
* src/image.c is 13K lines of code.
* Emacs still uses debbugs.
* The first commit is from 1985, but the first hundreds of commits are weird. It normalizes in 1991.
my favorite emacs fun fact is that it undumps -- basically breathes life into a core dump in order to avoid doing a large amount of slow initialization work. or at least it used to, I don't follow this...
I had this side project to normalize the old RCS/CVS history for a lot of the early #GNU programs into Git. I think maybe my retirement hobby will be to pick that up.
Also, There is a set of “lost tapes” — open-reel magnetic tapes that had the 1984-circa 1994 early GNU backups – a goldmine of history. When I worked at FSF, we sent a giant box to a volunteer to bring them onto modern disks, & AFAIK the volunteer ghosted & no one knows where they are. 😕
@bkuhn current tooling to go direct from CVS to git must be incredibly better than what was available years ago, what with the gcc -> git migration.
The two times (I think?) GNOME has changed VCS, from cvs -> svn -> git there was a small, dedicated team of people basically writing custom tooling to do it (or adapting tools to do that), and there are SO MANY SPECIAL CASES. A bunch of repos have funny commits near the beginning, and then they settle down and appear normal.
I haven't looked who the 80s' stuff imported, but I suspect it was particularly bad (as you said) because:
GNU development used SCCS (proprietary), then¹ RCS once it was stable enough, and *then* imported it into CVS from there, which, in turn, was imported to Git. I am pretty sure no one has the backups of the old RCS files (except the lost tapes I mentioned upthread), & to get the truly old data well-imported, we'd need those.
@YaLTeR I don't know how much of an effort is put into making newer Emacsen still work on old systems, or if this is just compatibility cruft that was never removed. A totally different world from recent GNOME.
Regarding the commit history, the early history had to be stitched together from various sources since a lot of it obviously predates git and the earliest stuff wasn't using any kind of version control. If I remember right that work was done during the bzr->git migration about 10 years ago. But I might be wrong, maybe bzr already had it.
There have been quite a few attempts to re-implement (part of) Emacs'
functionalities in languages other than C, like JEmacs, remacs, and lem. And we
are seeing new efforts in EmacsConf 2024: rune 1, gypsum 2,
and the revived Guilemacs 3.
MAGA Pierre and his ilk will never vote for them anyway. I still secretly think it's because Carney wants Danielle Smith to kiss him and that's why we're going to sell out to the suicidal cult of Albertan politics without anything to be gained from it.
I've always wondered if that was done for some kind of kickback or sinecure or donation off on the side somehow, because surely they knew that was never going to win them any vote out West anyway. So what did they get from it? Why would they do that unless they got something for it?
Back in April, I preached a sermon titled "God is our source of worth and approval." I was preaching for myself because I need to hear that message, but a lot of other people said that it helped them as well. Sharing here in case it might help you, too.
Here's the intro: We all need to feel worthy, accepted, and that we’re doing a good job. There can be two errors that can cause us a lot of anxiety and to make bad decisions.
One error is looking for these affirmations of worth, acceptance, and approval from other people. That will cause us to always seek to try to please people. Our actions will be controlled by them.
The other error is to stop caring about what other people think and just do whatever we want. This could be good, but we all have sinful natures and can deceive ourselves. Besides that, pride is a very dangerous thing. The original sin of the devil was pride, thinking that he knew better than God. Adam and Eve fell because the devil promised them that when they ate of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, then they would become like God. For the first time in their lives, they choose something contrary to the will of God—because of pride.
So, what is the right way to fulfill our needs for feeling worthy, accepted, and approved?
Just like we trust God for our basic needs like food and clothing, we can look to him for our need for love, belonging, and esteem. The more that you understand this, the freer you will be in your life. You will be able to make good decisions and relate to people in a proper and healthy way.
God is our source of worth and approval Sunday, April 6, 2025 We all need to feel worthy, accepted, and that we’re doing a good job. There can be two errors that can cause us a lot of anxiety and to make bad decisions.
As an autist I don’t experiment sounds like non autists because they can filter and I can’t.
The video is a perfect example of how I AM experiencing sounds, and I’m sure it’s the same for many others of us. (However, some sounds mentioned in it, the sounds of the street, are missing).
The video is also a perfect example on how music in background (only at the beginning) makes difficult for me to focus on what someone is saying.
Be careful fellow autistic if you watch it with sound on. (The video has closed captions).
“What Does Overstimulation Sound Like To Someone With Autism?“
This was mainly made to show my mom. Ha ha. So please remember I am just trying to show (to my mom) what it's like for me to be in a crowded room and why it'...
Merci pour cette vidéo ! Je ne suis pas autiste, mais je suis aveugle de naissance. Et je vous dirais que ma perception de bruits est beaucoup plus proche à celle des autistes qu'à celle des gens « typiques ».
Je veux juste préciser que cette perception n’est pas celle de toutes les personnes autistes, je suis hypersensible aux bruits alors que d’autres sont hyposensibles, certaines probablement les deux.
Je peux, disons, me concentrer sur une conversation, mais mon cerveau travaille quand-même en mode forcé, je dirais. Parce que je n'ai pas de vision, mes yeux ne fonctionnent pas, c'est le son qui me donne la plupart de l'information, donc non, je ne peux pas « couper » tout ce qui est extra.
Me to siri: Turn on my 6:20 alarm. Siri: I turned off all your alarms. Me: No, turn on my 6:20 alarm. Siri: Sorry, I don't understand. Me: Turn on my 6:20 Alarm. Siri: Just to confirm, you want to power off this device? Me: *goes to home screen and reopens siri* Okay. Turn, on, my, 6:20, alarm. Siri: I turned on your 6:00 PM alarm. What the fuck? Can you like... Listen please. Who designed this shit
EVT-stage prototype multi-disk iPod; it featured multiple dual-platter 1.8" hard drives in a RAID-0 configuration with a total storage capacity of 240GB.
Holy crap, Emily Blunt's sword from Edge of Tomorrow was auctioned off today from a prop house. That'd be one of the few bits of movie memorabilia I'd want to display in my house (but probably not worth the 10-15k it was supposed to go for) propstoreauction.com/lot-detai…
my boss used to have Thor's hammer. He does have the entire Batman suit from one of the movies, can't recall which one. And the Bane suit. So probably that movie.
I believe they called him up and bought back the Thor hammer because they wanted it back for a movie
We built local backdoors for Signal, 1Password & Slack through V8 heap snapshot tampering (CVE-2025-55305).
Method: Replace v8_context_snapshot.bin files with versions that override JavaScript builtins. When apps call Array.isArray(), malicious code executes. Works because integrity checks ignore these "non-executable" files that actually contain executable JavaScript.
A vulnerability in Electron applications allows attackers to bypass code integrity checks by tampering with V8 heap snapshot files, enabling local backdoors in applications like Signal, 1Password, and Slack.
For obvious reasons, I have decided to protect my Mastodon account on this instance. This is all because of Ramon Salazar and his bullshit. I hate having to make this decision, but it has to be done. If anyone wishes to follow me then please feel free to do so. Just keep in mind that since my account will be protected, I will have to approve each follower request I receive. Stay safe everyone. And I hope all of you have an amazing day.
when you request from Apple a full archive of e.g., iCloud Photos, the downloads are disappointingly slow... won't go faster than 140mbit and I have ~100GB to download 🫠
How is it even legal to have such barbaric employment policies like this. Surely air crew should be on the clock from the moment they start security clearance, until they exit the secure area at the end of their shift. Anything else is exploitation.
US flight attendants push to be paid after the Air #Canada union finally get a contract that pays for all work including when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
I can't say enough good things about Paperback, the ebook and PDF reader written by @TheQuinbox. It's truly amazing to have a text-based PDF simply open and be readable. No screen reader optimization, no Adobe alerts, no useless controls or lack of pages in a browser. Just the text, ready in a couple seconds. It even saves your reading position. github.com/trypsynth/paperback
@menelion Hmm, I wonder if there's a way around that? Does your display show text when you navigate by heading/section, at least? If not, I can certainly at least make that happen, the screen reader feedback also output braille.
@menelion I don't currently, sorry. I'm surprised WX has that kind of problem. I thought it used standard controls, especially the C++ library. I've only ever played with WXPython.
I just started using Paperback as well, and it's very good indeed. I noticed that a PDF file I tried reading wasn't synchronizing properly. NVDA would speak one line, but my Braille display appeared to show the next line. Other than that, everything is fine.
@kjsapergia Hmm, strange. You're not the first person to report issues with Paperback and braille displays, but I'm a speech reader and the primary braille display I have is only 14 cells, so testing fixes will be slightly difficult. Certainly it's something I want to improve though
US flight attendants push to be paid after the Air #Canada union finally get a contract that pays for all work including when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’
Okay #LibreOffice, a huge number of people have tables with headers that they just want to be able to sort in different ways. I've been trying to figure this out for like 20 minutes now. WHY make it so hard???
We don't deliberately "make things hard". We are a community open source project with limited resources. Some people want workflows as they've always been – some people want things to be massively simplified. We try to cater for all users but have our limits. Please consider helping the volunteers that give you a free office suite, to improve the features and documentation you use. Thank you!
@libreoffice of course, thank you for all the hard work. I’m just a bit stumped on this particular issue - which seems relevant to many, many people and is at least five, if not six, years outstanding
We understand, but we can't make features happen by magic, no matter how many people request them. We're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. Anyone can step up to help us, or fund developers: documentfoundation.org/certifi… – If just a few people do that, we'll get all these improvements, and more!
LibreOffice Certified Developers LibreOffice Certified Developers are individuals who have proven their ability to master LibreOffice code: to develop new features; provide L3 Support to enterprise users; research and develop solutions to new or unkn…
What's this TS-12 day thing all about, you probably didn't ask?
Well, my first pro keyboard workstation, obtained when I was 16, was a used Ensoniq TS-12, which still had it's original bill-of-sales sticker on the back, from September 04, 1994.
On September 04, 2015, when my TS-12 turned 21, I sequenced this silly thing.
A guy from an Ensoniq dealer demo sample disk says "Hey, check this out!"
A long intro featuring the default sound that comes up when you turn on a newly initialized TS-12, which is called Genesis, with some other pad-like sounds is followed by the TS playing 'Happy Birthday' to itself in various styles using many of the more obvious built-in sounds, several different patch libraries, and the occasional external sample. The TS-12 eventually gets a bit drunk, because it was 21 at the time, and I'm American. After passing out, it is awoken by a fake alarm clock from it's internal wave ROM, which it throws something at from one of the ASR10 stock sample disks. At the end, the original sampled guy says "So, what do you think?"
that's wild. I had a Motif XS7 and I just could never figure out how to use it properly. So once I figured out that Reaper existed and how to properly edit midi, and realized that it took up more space than I had at the time, I sold it. Now when I hear this I know how I'd sequence it in Reaper or even in Ableton, but when I think back to the interface of the Motif I get scared. lol. I have absolutely zero clue how I'd make anything like that happen there. At all.
although to be fair with the music I make, most of my time is usually spent in some synthesizer and effects automating values in strange ways and getting it to scream at me in ways that are only questionably musical.
@talon Oh man... I lived in the Motif pattern sequencer for a long time, first with the original Motif, then the Motif XS, which, along with almost everything else I own, has been in storage for the past half decade. I have a lot of that workflow again with Ableton Move, but of course, it's sound set is much more limited.
I did a ton of junk with the Ensoniq's built-in sequencer, this being a prime example.
One of these days, I will learn how to actually use a DAW the way you're supposed to.
how? Seriously how? I learned so many menus and so many button sequences and I'd forget them, then I'd write them down but somehow I kept messing them up and ruin something... I don't even think I have any menu guides left and I definitely don't remember any of it. I do miss it though a little. Think the person who ended up with it did more with it than I ever would have, so probably better for it, but definitely do miss it.
@talon Mostly, it came from a combination of not having access to a reasonable PC-based sequencer for years after I started really getting interested in this stuff. Even when I had my Motif, the best thing going was Sonar, and I never got on with it. I learned about QWS a bit later, but never really got comfortable using it, either, and I wanted more integration with other stuff. So I just learned menus and button presses and screen layouts for that and a lot of my other outboard gear. I got really good at operating almost every aspect of the TS-12, but I never could quite figure out transwaves. It was way too easy to get lost in those screens attempting to create different events for each step, let alone building complex patterns with the up to six elements per voice (more than the Motif had.)
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •Things that blew my mind today about Emacs:
* It requires at least librsvg 2.14, which is from 2006, which is when rsvg_handle_get_dimensions() was introduced. That function was deprecated in 2.52, in 2021. If available, Emacs will use all the new APIs. There is #ifdef hell in there.
* src/image.c is 13K lines of code.
* Emacs still uses debbugs.
* The first commit is from 1985, but the first hundreds of commits are weird. It normalizes in 1991.
* And Savannah still uses cgit.
John Regehr
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •it's quite a bit older than 1985 though, right?
my favorite emacs fun fact is that it undumps -- basically breathes life into a core dump in order to avoid doing a large amount of slow initialization work. or at least it used to, I don't follow this...
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to John Regehr • • •@regehr oh, yeah, it's older. I don't know when the current source tree originated, or even if it went rcs -> cvs -> ??? -> git.
Undumping is so cool! A bunch of lazy initialization bullshit would go away with undumping, for compiled regexes and all that.
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •re: early commits in Emacs.
I had this side project to normalize the old RCS/CVS history for a lot of the early #GNU programs into Git. I think maybe my retirement hobby will be to pick that up.
Also, There is a set of “lost tapes” — open-reel magnetic tapes that had the 1984-circa 1994 early GNU backups – a goldmine of history. When I worked at FSF, we sent a giant box to a volunteer to bring them onto modern disks, & AFAIK the volunteer ghosted & no one knows where they are. 😕
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Bradley Kuhn • • •@bkuhn current tooling to go direct from CVS to git must be incredibly better than what was available years ago, what with the gcc -> git migration.
The two times (I think?) GNOME has changed VCS, from cvs -> svn -> git there was a small, dedicated team of people basically writing custom tooling to do it (or adapting tools to do that), and there are SO MANY SPECIAL CASES. A bunch of repos have funny commits near the beginning, and then they settle down and appear normal.
Bradley Kuhn
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •I haven't looked who the 80s' stuff imported, but I suspect it was particularly bad (as you said) because:
GNU development used SCCS (proprietary), then¹ RCS once it was stable enough, and *then* imported it into CVS from there, which, in turn, was imported to Git. I am pretty sure no one has the backups of the old RCS files (except the lost tapes I mentioned upthread), & to get the truly old data well-imported, we'd need those.
¹There may have been YA RCS-like one inbetween.
Ivan Molodetskikh
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Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard
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