Here is a transcript of the new greeting message on 311. "In accordance with the Charter of the French Language we will be pleased to provide service in English if you attest in good faith that you are covered by one of the following exceptions... please press 2..."
Residents who wish to speak with the City of Montreal by calling 311 now have to attest they can receive services in English because of Bill 96. New provisions of the language law came into effect Thursday.
I'm so excited to share that my book, HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE THE WORLD, will be out on October 17th of this year, on Riverhead Books. It's about the globe-spanning systems we've built to meet our needs: what systems like electricity, water, transportations and telecommunications have in common, how they work, and what needs to change to make them resilient, functional and equitable.
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity...
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Local friends, I could not be more thrilled that the Harvard Book Store is hosting a launch event for HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: on Friday, October 20th, and that I’ll be in conversation with my brilliant colleague and Riverhead Books labelmate Sara Hendren, author of WHAT CAN A BODY DO? HOW WE MEET THE BUILT WORLD.
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity...
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@hub @federicomena for error recovery we have a benefit that the language itself doesn't: we can ignore the hard cases. If only one works, great! Use that as a signal for which parse to keep around for later analysis. If neither or both do, you fall back to the simpler error and bail early to avoid unnecessary knock down errors.
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It's been [0] days since somebody asked on an IRC channel how to get a native windowing system surface reference out of GTK in order to write a video player with GStreamer
No, you don't need to get a pointer to NSView; or an HWND; or an XID, and feed it to a video overlay. It doesn't even map to Wayland concepts.
Use gtksink in your pipeline, extract the GtkWidget out of the sink, and put it somewhere in your UI. The sink will take care of everything. It might even work with GL, if the stars align.
No need to be stuck in 2014. Things have improved, here in the future. Not everything has: somehow we have more nazi than before; but the integration between UI toolkits and GStreamer is not dire any more.
The unsung hero of visionOS is the SDK; Apple is leveraging every bit of the platform they've been building for nearly 20 years for its new spatial computer, and it shows. It’s virtually everything of iPhone & iPadOS and then some. Not a simplified version, not a do-over. Transitioning existing apps is easy, trivial even, and all that shared code can be used across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision (and in many cases Watch & TV). Does Microsoft or Google have bandwidth, or focus, to compete?
The problem with any VisionOS competitor is that Apple can just assume great hardware, and Microsoft/Google probably have to assume the lowest possible denominator. There’s literally no other company in the world with this kind of hardware, software and custom chip expertise, and you can’t pull this off without all three.
I suspect what we’ll eventually end up with is Apple with a great, high-end, well-integrated VR/AR ecosystem and somebody, probably Meta, with a low-end, “you are the product, not the customer” ad-filled ecosystem of its own.
@miki I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Microsoft or Google. There are two different models here: Microsoft can choose the Xbox model where they make the hardware, software, and custom chips; or they can choose the Windows model where they leave the hardware to others and make the software cater to the lowest common denominator. I am certain Microsoft will go with the former. Similarly for Google—they have had several generations of Pixel phones with custom hardware, custom chips, and custom software (yes there are Pixel-only features in Android!).
So in my opinion all three companies could pull it off if they really wanted to, but it's not a given that they want to compete with Apple on this front. Especially not Google.
Engine died on me -- I quickly realized I'd forgotten to switch fuel tanks (like many light planes it has separate left and right fuel tanks and requires manually switching to keep usage even)
Managed to switch it over and fly the rest of the way on the remaining tank. :D
French authorities are now considering that using encryption (eg encrypting your harddrive, using @signalapp, educating others about privacy-preserving apps) is evidence of conspiracy and terrorism. That's much scarier than the supposed threat of "AI" taking over the world.
This article was written on the basis of information relating to the so-called "8 December" caseFor a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in this Revue Z article, this Lundi matin article, the following su…
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So now both AdwNavigationSplitView and AdwOverlaySplitView have landed.
The latter has had a few more last-minute changes, a notable one is that I completely dropped touchpad gesture support from it.
Unlike touchscreen swipes, touchpad swipes never worked well with it and sometimes were the reason people were disabling gestures altogether: opening sidebar on touchscreen was (and is) an edge swipe, which is not possible on touchpad, so instead opening sidebar is a swipe from anywhere.
Similarly, closing the sidebar was a swipe from the sidebar on touch or from anywhere on touchpad.
This means that e.g. Loupe had to do pretty nasty workarounds to prevent swipes from interfering with navigation, and that's not great.
So, touchpad swipes re gone, now the only remaining gestures are restricted to the sidebar/the edge where the sidebar is.
Meanwhile a bunch of properties have been renamed:
And :reveal-progress is gone with no replacement. If needed, we can always add it back later.
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The sidebar size defaults have changed for both split views: the default max width has been reduced from 360sp to 280sp, and the default width fraction has been reduced from 0.3 to 0.25, so the defaults should work well for more apps now.
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For AdwNavigationSplitView it's now possible to use the navigation.push action repeatedly when it's not collapsed (I don't want to say expanded because GTK uses that term for another thing), specifically for pushing content when it's already pushed - then the action will just no-op instead of printing a critical about the duplicate page.
The intention behind that critical was to match AdwNavigationView (where you cannot have the same page twice in the navigation stack), but it doesn't work very well in practice - the primary use case for this action is a sidebar, and when it's not collapsed you're gonna be clicking rows when :show-content is already true, unlike when collapsed and you won't even see the sidebar in that case.
Since the last update I've been looking at split view sizing.
A while ago @tbernard opened an issue about having dynamic sizes for sidebars, instead of basically just a fixed size (well ok, really it wasn't fixed size, it's the usual GTK natural/minimum sizes + hexpand, but natural size is really hard to control and hexpand is not useful for sidebars, so in practice it is fixed size). So basically, changing the width depending on the window size, similar to what we do in AdwClamp.
With the old widgets this was basically impossible:
- the sidebar itself can't do it even if we had a sidebar widget (we don't) - it doesn't know anything about the window width. It has to be the container, i.e. leaflet/flap. - leaflet is too generic for this. It's a box/stack with N children, it has no idea what a sidebar is - even though it's basically always used for sidebars - we could do it in flap, but it still can be used for other things, like titlebars in fullscreen, not necessarily sidebars - so the new sizing would have to be opt in. Besides, the main places where we care about this are using leaflet, not flap
With the new split views though it can work just fine. Both kinds of split views have exactly two children with clear purposes, and none of the above is an issue there. So, they can now do dynamic sizes. That's what crab.garden/@alice/11042193160… was about, as me and Tobias needed a reasonably realistic way to test three-pane layouts, as the most complex case, meanwhile Geary is still using GTK3 and NewsFlash is using Rust and would need a bindings update, so it's easier to just make a demo instead.
So, both AdwNavigationSplitView and AdwOverlaySplitView have 4 new properties:
When either split view is not collapsed, the sidebar width is ideally a percentage of the full split view width, set with the :sidebar-width-fraction property. To prevent the sidebar from becoming too wide or too narrow, its width can be clamped between a minimum and a maximum value, set with :min-sidebar-width and :max-sidebar-width properties. Note that all of those properties can be ignored if the minimum width of the widget inside exceeds them, same as with AdwClamp.
Now, what about the Large Text mode? The text becomes larger, and pixel-based sizes aren't ideal for this, same as how it can be suboptimal in AdwClamp.
Meanwhile, breakpoints support non-pixel units, in particular points (pt) that scale with text scale factor. And so, split views can now also use them, set with the :sidebar-width-unit property. They affect the minimum and maximum sidebar width, but not the fraction.
Note that the unit enum has been renamed from AdwBreakpointConditionLengthUnit to AdwLengthUnit to indicate that it's not a breakpoint-specific thing anymore.
There's also a new unit: sp. It stands for scale independent pixels, and is exactly the same thing as in Android where I basically copied it from. It's equivalent to 1px on text scale factor 1, 1.25px with text scale factor 1.25 and so on. So it's kinda like points, but easier to use since it's same as pixels with default settings, instead of 1⅓px. And that's what split views default to, so they will work with large text OOTB.
Finally, AdwOverlaySplitView also uses these sizes in collapsed state. That state mainly exists for narrow widths, and so the width fraction is not really useful there. Instead, it just tries to use the maximum width when possible, and tries to shrink down to minimum width if it doesn't fit otherwise. Additionally, there's a reserved 64px space that the sidebar cannot take in this state, to prevent it from ever expanding to the full width (the default maximum width is 360px, so it would happen on mobile by default otherwise). This value is not customizable by apps, mostly because I haven't figured out any good names for it.
🖼️ Show thumbnail in chatlist of image, sticker and webxdc messages 🔍 Improved design for message search results 📎 Removed upper limit on attachment size ☕ Wake up from standby now reconnects more reliably 🧩 add new #webxdc apis `sendToChat` and `importFiles`
The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 🎉 Help us find the most annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on the website and in stores.
The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 🎉 Help us find the most annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on the website and in stores.
Whether you want to assist a developer in diagnosing a problem that you are facing, or you are showing someone how to perform a certain task on the phone, or recording a gameplay, a screen recorder will be a useful tool. Many phone makers include a screen recorder in their devices. In this post, Kareen Kiwan guides you through how to use the screen recorder on your Samsung Galaxy phone erisilebilirandroid.com/how-to…
Well I tried to upload another example and got that 422 error again. Is it possible something isn't handling FFmpeg's output properly when metadata is involved? Because all these files have vorbis comments created by foobar.
And that worked with its metadata, so either FFmpeg doesn't like the ogg container, or it doesn't like vorbis comments, if it *must* transcode to mp3 maybe some of the metadata doesn't easily translate to ID3 so it just gives up?
@x0 can you drop me your opus file? I can run it through ffmpeg manually. I also have some issues with uploading mp3's which in theory shouldn't be transcoded, unless it just dumps everything into that thing for no reason...
Huh? What is it, then? I think @rain was dealing with this on their instance as well, so if this is some kind of bug in Mastodon or default configs they might also benefit.
@rain Huh. The ogg file might be some kind of TWBlue quirk, then, but I could have sworn Mastodon was supposed to support opus. If it didn't I'd understand but as it is...
Oh and this was inspired by the bass in this which I found in Korg's Arp Odyssey, played this riff on it and thought hey why not I'll make this into a ringtone.
@x0 oh this is cool too. Wait so this was an ogg file and it worked? This is even more confusing. Let me try the files you linked. I'm pretty sure ffmpeg doesn't like something here...
@left_adjoint yeah, descriptive rather than proscriptive. It does make my alt text much less useful though. So I should do something about that and learn more.
@bryansmart Ah. No I mean I know what I'd have to do in theory to progress the track. I meant with the project as a whole I suppose. It's been sitting here for years so I'm very unlikely to actually do any of that.
Nice usage of the phrygian scale^^ Some chugging guitars with that and you have either the soundtrack to the next doom game or a beat for some weird trap-metal-crossover stuff. I'd actually love to see the latter happening ;) Collab? :P
@aaron OK so things I can do is produce the song, mix/master, record vocals and synth stuff, and write really terrible lyrics. I love focusing a lot more on the actual production side though. So first I'd probably figure out what we're trying to go for. So for example some trap/metal crossover about doom for example! Figure out all the sections we'd want, so the song structure, I could give you something to cast your magic on, and then we'd figure it out from there. or alternatively we just set up some kind of shared file storage somewhere and go wild. Either way works for me lol
Cool, I think it's a good idea if the production side is done by a single person, which should be you, since you love it :) Apart from that, I think we can distribute any other tasks after we've fleshed out the idea a bit more (actually, the one you mentioned sounds amazing). All in all, it seems we have pretty similar ideas about how we can make this work, so I'd say, let's sketch a structure!
@aaron OK the more I think about this now the more ideas I get, so give me a bit and I'll try to sort it all in my head and I'll show you what I come up with.
Take off your clothes! RIGHT NOW! TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES! RIGHT NOW! GET COLD, GET COLD, TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF NOW! Yeah, that's all I can think of with this beat.
As the scale of the environmental and economic damage from #Dnipro dam destruction is not yet fully comprehended, I just wanted to make one note on social perception of risk.
For the last year everyone has been concerned about about the hypothetical threat of #nuclear power plant attacks in Zaporizhzhia NPP. It never happened thanks to mobilization of international community to execute pressure on Russian occupational forces that included numerous visits of IAEA, diplomats from the West and China etc and even installing a permanent IAEA monitoring mission in ZNPP.
At the same time, over one night #Russia has materialized actual threat of scale that may go well beyond any worst case scenario in ZNPP after it was shut down. Warnings about impact of a hydro dam failure were already voiced in 2022 after Russia has planted explosives on the dam in Novaya Khakovka and hinted it will be used as a weapon if necessary. But there were no Chinese diplomats coming to Moscow, no IEA monitoring mission on the dam and media forgot about it the next day.
Why? Because water seems to be a “natural” threat that everyone is familiar with. In case of #Fukushima it was the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that killed over 20’000 people but world’s attention is still focused on the nuclear plant disaster today where zero people were killed. Some environmental organisations intentionally distorted the tragedy by attributing all these deaths to the plant failure!
Is water any safer? Well, it’s not - if you’re killed by water, you’re dead in the same way as if you were hypothetically killed by gamma radiation. 1975 Banqiao dam disaster[^1] in #China killed 26,000 to 240,000 people, and rendered 12’000 km2 unusable for decades due to sediments and pollution. Since then, there’s a few dam failures[^2] globally almost each year - e.g. 2021 Rishiganga dam killed over 60 people. Last dam failures in USA were in 2020. Fujinuma dam failure in Japan in 2011 as result of the same Tōhoku earthquake killed 8 people, which is 8 more than Fukushima NPP disaster!
Yet hydro power is widely considered “clean and safe”, which is pretty much the same cognitive bias as legal qualification of gloves or boots used at a nuclear power plant as “nuclear waste”, while coal ash or natural gas mining tailings are not, even though they have much higher actual content of radioactive elements 🤷♂️ In terms of human deaths per amount of electricity, hydro power is 43x more deadly than nuclear,[^3] which is why it’s important to look at the actual data and science rather than yield to the socially accepted biases, where coal is “dirty but safe” and hydro power is “clean and safe”. You can’t talk over physics, which is why in countries that do this[^4] you can actually see more people being harmed,[^5] and the fact they’re harmed by “natural” coal or water doesn’t make a slightest difference to them.
Side discussion from the GNOME Mobile hackfest: @verdre has way too many open MRs to his name, and it'd be great if someone else could take over some of them so he can focus on other stuff (like upstreaming 2D gestures :P).
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není to obdobná cena jako MS HoloLens? A když si vezmu cenu Valve Index VR Kit (případně HTC Vive Pro2) ke kterému člověk potřebuje hardware tak minimálně za 2000 euro, tak si vlastně všechna VR můžou podat ruku.
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