After my term at the GNOME Board of directors was finished last month, I finally managed to write a public retrospective: blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/… Hope some people find it useful. It was not easy to write, but I think it is something necessary.
On the spring 2024 I presented my candidature, and eventually got elected for the Board of Directors at the GNOME Foundation. Directors are elected democratically by the GNOME Foundation members,...
So what's it like to use Linux as my main desktop OS for almost half a year now?
It's like I used to live in a fancy apartment with fine furniture and abstract art on the walls, everything "smart" and fully automated, except it wasn't mine. It belonged to an abusive landlord, who liked to come and go as they pleased, changing and rearranging whatever they wanted, sometimes telling me no, I can't do this or that for whatever reason. Every few months they'd increase the rent and install more cameras to make sure I didn't do anything they didn't like.
And now I've moved into a wooden cottage, built by my new strange but mostly friendly neighbors. They don't charge rent, they just thought building a house was fun and then they didn't know what to do with it. It has cool gadgets and contraptions too, but some of them are unfinished, in some places you can see the wiring where the plaster fell of the walls, and there's one room with a hole in the floor but we just put a wooden board over it and it's fine - we'll fix it eventually. It's still a nice house, cozy and warm, and I can put whatever I want on my walls and nobody bothers me. Sometimes the neighbors have loud parties at night and it's kinda difficult to sleep, but I've learned that it's a lot more fun to just join them instead.
I'm still friends with my old neighbors, though I admit I feel disconnected sometimes when I hear their landlord installed another camera in their bedroom, but they still can't bring themselves to live with loud neighbors and a hole in the floor. My first instinct is to argue with them, but then I realize it also took me twenty years living with that same landlord before it was finally enough for me, and if someone had suggested that I should move elsewhere, I also would have told them to fuck off. Because while it's always possible to abandon your home and move elsewhere, it sure isn't easy - it's often painful, takes a lot of time, and requires difficult compromises that may not be the right ones at that time. All I can say is that from where I am now, I'm pretty sure I'm not going back.
And to my friends who might feel addressed by this: there are far more important issues in life than your choice of apartment (or desktop OS), and I still love you
> Zatmění začne 7. září v 19.30 nízko nad východním obzorem, ale bude v té době velmi obtížně pozorovatelné, na východě budou podmínky lepší. V Česku bude potřeba počkat na větší tmu.
🏳️⚧️Hombres trans y personas no binarias transmasculinas se enfrentan a retos para ejercer plenamente su derecho a la salud en México. 👉 https://avispa.org/?p=120546🐝
A pesar de las políticas de reconocimiento y los cambios en la legislación, la población transmasculina en México se enfrenta a retos para ejercer plenamente su derecho a la salud
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After a year, we’re heading back to Brno – and we’re doing it in style.
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* Flicky: an FDroid client with a TV friendly UI 🛡️ * Reef: your ultimate productivity companion, designed to help you stay focused, manage app usage, and minimize distractions 🛡️
And this cleanup run is over, so no more apps removed.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
I've been investigating switching from Unifi Wifi APs to TP-Link EAPs and the EAPs can be managed by a software controller called Omada. This software is architecturally similar to the Unifi controller: Java and MongoDB.
Interesting! Contemplating moving to TP-Link Omada Access Points myself. I know @ronnie_bonkers does a lot of work keeping the MongoDB FreeBSD port working for the purpose of being able to run the UniFi controller. Seeing all that effort I wonder if running a Linux VM in Bhyve wouldn't be easier, next to buying a OC220 controller. Having said that, it's not always about the easiest solution. Getting things working is also fun.
@guido @ronnie_bonkers Now that it's working (with unknown missing functionality), keeping it working isn't too hard. One manual step every new controller release to modify a jar before publishing the port update isn't too bad.
I really just don't want to be forced to run a VM for this 🤮
Every so often, I still have a slight urge to self-host a Mastodon instance just for me. I don't know what I would do with it or why I would want to, but the urge is there.
Moving off of mastodon.social and onto your own instance isn't a bad idea. I'd suggest GoToSocial rather than actual Mastodon for a small instance though.
@matt If I do, the first thing I'll have to sort out is isolation of the server from the rest of my network. I know it's doable--my server has a 4-port NIC, and my new router can absolutely do VLANs, traffic isolation, and other stuff. I just have to figure it all out. There are a few things I'd like to publicly host without having users first be on my Wireguard.
I've been thinking about moving to a self-hosted GoToSocial instance myself. Mine would be on a little single-board computer in my apartment that's already set up as a public server, on AT&T fiber with a static IP address.
@matt thinking to do same thing on my VPS (or create a new one just for GoToSocial). Would you use any hosting solution like YunoHost or something using Docker (Coolify for exemple) to install and host it ?
@dominic I'm not sure I would use Docker at all for GoToSocial. It's already a single statically linked binary, so I'd just drop that on the VPS and configure Caddy, or nginx or Apache or whatever you're running on your existing server, to reverse-proxy it.
@matt @dominic Oh, that's handy. I assumed it had dependencies and components that all had to be set up. Is the database even included, or does the server need Postgres?
@matt thanks for your point of view. Tt this time, I use the Webuzo panel where I have some apps like WordPress for my blog and FreshRSS. This panel come with Softaculous that does note have GoToSocial for an installation in one click. I could install it manually, hoping that will not breaks things. I thought I'd create another VPS and install Yunohost, which I've tried in the past, to migrate my apps. But Docker attracted me...
@dominic Oh, got it. A VPS with a shared hosting control panel is a bit of a different situation. If it has an option for running Ruby or Node.js applications behind a reverse proxy, you could probably make that work for GoToSocial. Otherwise, yeah, set up a new VPS.
@matt in fact, I have a complete unmanaged VPS. When I've decided to leave the shared web hosting to got a VPS, I chose to install Webuzo, which best met my needs at the time (having like a shared hosting service but completely controlled by me).
So if I set up a new VPS, you have some suggestions for me ? Still using a thing like Yunohost (that supports GoToSocial installation in one click) or get a thing like Coolify to use Docker and Docker Compose ?
Sometimes it's a small thing, it's a bit jarring when orgs that want to pose as international/global publish some copy/event based on US school terms/seasons.
We recently merged an initial version of vector layers in #GIMP ! Very happy that we were able to update Hendrik Boom's 2006 project and finally get it across the finish line. :)
There's still plenty of UI/UX work to be done but I'm curious - what are some good "next steps" for vector layers in a raster editor?
I assume vector layer masks would be helpful, along with the long-requested shape tool.
TIL that #Mapycom is more than just a renderer on top of #OpenStreetMap. They actually import buildings from #Overture, which #OSM doesn't consider reliable enough for automatic imports.
From what I've seen, the results are mixed in Greece, with many buildings that don't exist in reality.
for me mapy.com is no option. All the pics, reviews are in their system afaik. If their frontend would serve OSM, Mangrove or Panoramax it would be the perfect Google maps clone 😂
@mfuhrmann Same here. Moreover in Czechia they don't even use OSM, but their own maps, so it's completely proprietary. Seznam, the company behind Mapy.com, is an ad company, so the privacy isn't great either.
@feld ...and how has the total changed in the meantime? ...and how many coal plants could we shut down if 100% of tue Bitcoin electricity was no longer needed? @maxleibman
None. Go ahead and make it completely illegal to run Bitcoin off fossil fuels worldwide. It wouldn't matter, they'll just switch to renewables. That's where it's going anyway because you want the cheapest source of electricity possible to mine Bitcoin or you can't be competitive, and renewables are undercutting fossil fuels all the time. This will cause a small ripple in the BTC price for a short period of time during the transition but that's all. It won't and can't kill Bitcoin.
And those coal plants? Many will just be converted to natural gas, not shutdown, because the cost of new transmission lines to large renewable deployments is prohibitive. That's the real kicker. We can build cheaper energy sources which are clean, but we can't transport it very far.
> New analysis finds 99 percent of existing U.S. coal plants are more expensive to run than replacement by local wind, solar, and energy storage resources.
Can anyone share how you get to GitHub settings > developer settings? Global GH settings, not for a repo. Can't find what my profile picture is labeled.
@FreakyFwoof I just read through the first chapter on a quiet chair in the garden to avoid the noise of the tennis on the TV and, yeah. defo worth proceeding with!
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.
I somehow was reading up on DMX the other day and his wife said she fell in love with him when they were teenagers because she saw him and his dog trick some woman so he could steal her purse
What a bizarre situation in which to become lovestruck
May need to be checked about this pulsatile tinnitus problem that's resurfacing badly since my medicine change. I've had it since a child, because when I was 7, I chased my dog down the basement outside and fell, cracking my head open on the top. Don't feel sorry for me, I did this 3 times, to the point that I now have a small scar because the skin there was opened too many times and could never re-heal. One of the falls, I nearly snapped my neck, for a full week after the Pulsatile Tinnitus was so bad I could barely hear other sounds around me just the wooshing noise and weird 15.625 kHZ noise. It went away eventually but returned when I was sick. When on Prozac, it was also queltched, but not on this new medicine - it's far far worse and if I'm not actively focusing my mind on something I hear it louder and louder. Most likely not something I can look into until I get back from my New York trip at the end of the week. If anyone else experienced or experiences pulsatile tinnitus, would be interested to know how hard the treatment was! Ultimately I need to fix it considering I've lived with it on and off for almost 30 years.
Me, always, but I have learned to ignore it. I try not to live in silence too. I had two car accidents and then I fell like a few times down the stairs, one of them resulted in a feint. Full on blackout. When I was about 2 or 3 to about 5, maybe. Tinitus is a nice company when there's silence, but is almost annoying. I also have a more opened up ear kanal, which makes me a party pooper, because I hate loud music, it physically hurts, then the tinitus gets worse. I am sorry you're going again through it.
@tardis oof wow! Sorry to hear about those! Yeah, interesting how trauma can really bring this out - wouldn't be surprised if most people who have a form of tinnitus whent through something horrific. I know musicians would develop it after hearing loud concerts and band music, so even that is considered trauma when you think of the ear itself. But yeah, when there's silence it isn't bad, but annoying. With louder areas, when it pulses, there's a brief moment where sounds actually get louder with the woosh and pulse,, so it can get disorienting when you're hearing almost like someone dialing a volume knob up and down on everythinng around you with it.
I also have dissociation because of all that crap, then comes more trauma, but that's not that physical anymore. I don't have emotional memories with it, so I can talk about it and it still won't face me. If I trust the people I talk o, though. Maybe you can ask Erion about all that stuff, I know he has it too, he's somehow dealing with it better than even I do. Without meds, because someone decided that health here is the third wheel, so you deal with stuff on your own. Wow.
@tardis absolutely yes. Like those CRT ones from the 90s, and just the other day I played it in my house off a Youtube video, it was funny, I could still clearly hear it, my partner couldn't as well only when close. So maybe it offers a weird protection against losing that frequency, man that would be a crazy scientific research to one day find out if that curse might have some advantage to it underneath.
Right? I want to find that out too. I know one curse is that I have 15Db loss of low frequencies, which makes me not understand a lot of the speech synths. Now add in parts of me having misophonia, and yes, I am truly nicely dealing with life. Laughs evilly.
ahahaha oh gosh don't even get me started with misophonia :D now I cannot even listen to the dog drink water. Which is a bit sad. It never bothered me. But if I'm in the same room it really feels like her tongue will come out right there and just lap me up instead. Not sure. It's like, part of it is that the sound gets to sound extremely close, maybe in your mind, not sure. It's why I wear noise canceling headphones and can at least put on the cancelation mode when she starts to drink water or something else, but it's a less direct way to deal with it for sure.
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Man. I lost it. that super small 8 KB file that played the Meow Meow Chiptune song. So sad now. Ahaha. I listened to it at work sometimes to pump myself up. Now it's gone. not in downloads, just gone. ugh. ha.
@jaybird110127 ahaha yeah! Quite amusing and the fact it loops! :D I think it had an odd filename and that's probably what is throwing me off with it inn my sea of downloads, next time I'm gonna make an "interesting weird files" subfolder and put things like it in there ahaha :D
@jaybird110127 hmm I think it was on another laptop that may have gotten wiped, that Spectre x360 where one time they swapped my SSD out, dern! Well if you can that would be great, direct works too if you don't want it public, either way huge thanks!
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 oh really? wow! I wonder if this was the author of the song who made it then, very likely, the Youtube name also lines up with that one, fascinating.
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 I need to find a way to record that into an mp3 file. smile. that is pretty cool. I like it! I think what I will need to do though is while that is running change the soundcard it plays from and then run it again, and record while it is playing with only that channel on the mixer being recorded.
@BorrisInABox @JamminJerry @jaybird110127 ooh yay! That makes it more loopable for me, was going to do this when I had the file but you've already done the work, nice! Love that it's so close to the original too, considering it's wave so no lossy compression.
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 oh yeah it sounds very folk with that horn. To me it's not a tune I even recognize, considerinng I come from that region, ha. Very catchy though nonetheless! Wonder what something like Shazam would give you if you ran it through, my favorite thing is when it gives you other songs that are not the song you played as the result, haha, cracks me up what it chooses
@BorrisInABox Been there. Done that. Brought down Serrabulho - Toco Loco Du Moi.mp3 from Deezer as a result. That song, whatever it is, actually starts with TootMusik, at least one half of it, before going into something entirely different.
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 at least it's not an AI playing that horn and instruments, but real people. Wow how times have changed when you can actually appreciate that though and slight timing inconsistencies or tonal changes done by humans playing. Or that sound creaking when they run the pick across the fret board to change to a new note. All that is kinda gone with AI stuff.
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 ugh, not anymore. I have a subscription to Suno for the purpose of 1, resparking my creativity, not so much anymore, and 2, seeing the modle's latest... more so that now. and well they're emulating more things than they ever have before. To remind myself that I can, in fact, still make music, and do things AI *can't* no matter how badly it wants to, I've taken to playing cords on fluffy patches no computer alone could copy, and I have plans to start taking the lyrics I've given to suno (more like sundown) and making my own, spirit-filled (and not in the religious sense) version of each of the things I saw it try to guess at. This does mean learning to rap. and you now what, I'm fine with this
@jaybird110127 @BorrisInABox lol what the heck! I'm amused at what it did with this, softening the entire song, ahahaha. it's not a bad one for keeping the tune, but song's feel is like, more cafe coffee shop vibe now :D
@matt @BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 lol part of me wonders the oldest OS you could run it on. Windows 95? 98? Not sure. May spin up a VM one of these nnights to check it. Surely it doesn't use many modern system calls and for sure nothing to the newer Windows OneCore API, so it should be doable but I doubt on Win 3.1, would still need a 32-bit OS underneath. Though who knows! :D
@BorrisInABox @jaybird110127 The RedHeat Meow demo ran on DOSBox? You mean inside a Windows 95 install? There's no way that little executable could double as a DOS program with a Sound Blaster driver and all.
I don't know what the dependencies are. I only know that much because Red and I were discussing the fact that all his audio devices were in use, otherwise he would render it on a Raspberry Pi using dosbox, because that apparently was a thing. That's actually why I created that wave file. He wanted to hear it but couldn't render it himself at the time.
If you see an XMPP powered blog like those made with Libervia or Movim, you can use directly the `https:` URL to retrieve the XMPP blog or one of its posts.
For instance, to get my blog at goffi.org with Libervia CLI, you can do: `li blog get -u goffi.org`
This works with all pubsub related commands, so if you have the right, you can also edit or publish like that.
Sigh. Another person complaining about "Linux doesn't support laptops," which is completely, 1000%, backwards. This irks me to no end.
If your laptop doesn't work well with Linux, point the finger at the laptop vendor -- not "Linux". I get that it's frustrating to want to use Linux and find that this or that piece of hardware doesn't work.
You know why it works w/Windows and not Linux? *Because the _vendor_ hasn't gone to the trouble of supporting Linux.*
Im very impressed with Slidge whatsapp bridge on my Prosody server. It is far more stable and reliable than I ever expected, and means I do not need any Facebook owned apps on my personal phone, as whatsapp is installed on my work phone only and slidge is linked to that ( my workplace use it, because free and “everyone has it” heh.)
My family have refused to move over to xmpp after the matrix server we used shut down, even after I ran a few different test servers on both prosody and ejabberd and tested reliability of the platforms and mobile notifications. (Both work great, but at the time I decided on Prosody.) My family’s reasoning was that they already use whatsapp and I’m just being weird.
The slow creep of rights and privacy erosion is disturbing to me, and the small amount I can do like running my own fedi instance and chat server at least helps me keep my sense of sanity in this crazier and crazier world of surveillance and data harvesting.
A bridge to the chat platform at least means it isn’t on my phone that is with me everywhere, and doesn’t inconvenience my family from me being the “weird extremist”.
Something small again today. My brother sent me this photo of a Microlino electric car which he saw in Prague recently. The Microlino, a design that has clearly been inspired by the 1950s Isetta bubble cars, is made in Italy but the company is Swiss. Vitae appears to be a small Czech company specialising in lighting technology, by the way (just looked it up).
V posledních dnech bojuju dost s blbou náladou a dnes jsem se ještě u lékaře dozvěděl další zprávu, která jednomu nepřidá, tak bych potřeboval poradit, jak si zlepšit náladu.
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