Is GTK/Libadwaita more easier to use as a graphical toolkit or was your decision guided more by aesthetics for Bottles @TheEvilSkeleton@treehouse.systems?
I wouldn't call GTK/libadwaita easier. GTK is the only toolkit I have significant experience with, so I have no point of comparison. That said, I do like GTK, because you can easily style with CSS, similarly to a website.
For Bottles, I didn't decide the library; I was not involved in Bottles development during that time. That was decided by Mirko, the mastermind behind it. I presume he did it for the aesthetics and good Python bindings.
Tja. Auf dem Weg #mdRnH hatte ein Audipilot keinen #Überholzwang. Dementsprechend wurden wir dann beide mal wieder vom #SternTaxi mit so ca. 50% zu viel überholt.
HiRISE isn’t just amazing for capturing the Martian surface, here’s Jupiter seen from Mars as we wait for the release of data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Instrument: HiRISE Target name: Sky Time: 2007-01-11 More info: uahirise.org/releases/jupiter Filters: RED+IR/BG+BG Product ID: PSP_002162_9030
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Am Wochenende war mal wieder so #Frauenalltag: sind am Freitag in einer Kneipe. Unterhalten uns mit dem Inhaber. Er fragt, wie uns die Kneipe gefällt und ich sage, dass ich es seltsam finde, dass fast nur Männer da sind. Darauf er "das muss euch doch eigentlich voll gefallen". Ja, voll🙄
One of the interesting articles that came after #KubeCon is touching the problem of the platform engineering anti-patterns. Is there anything in particular that bothers you and you want to discuss it at #DevOpsDays #Prague in 2026?
nice post! I just read the first snti pattern, but I already have to reply 😀. I think one problem is that product doesn’t understand the building blocks and doesn’t care about it. I see it in my org and we did it right in the beginning. Nowadays we do it imo wrong: during the phase of “platform as product” we had few but team based product management and now because of “money savings by reducing employees”, we have a generic product team. The product team does only understand the UI. Rest of it is black magic. I also don’t think that they care and they pushed everything on principal engineers, which is even worse. I think nothing really serious comes from the product team. At least I only see buzz words with little understanding.
@sszuecs as a product manager, I can assure you that we do :) But every PM is different, indeed. You need to have a person who values the platform engineering and can turn it into a "product".
I don’t want to question that they care about the Platform. I just don’t see they understand it. Focusing only on integrating $whatever into backstage is not the right thing to do. I think the article says that, too. And having a bit of understanding about statistics would be helpful. Not sure if this is a general problem, I see this also in engineering, but normally engineers seem more open to learn. Sigh, sry for my half kind of a rant. 😊
"The small modular reactor market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700 GW by 2050, a study by LucidCatalyst has concluded."
The small modular reactor market could support the decarbonisation of at least 11 industrial sectors that make up the majority of industrial energy demand by 2050 in North America and Europe with a potential market of 700 GW by 2050, a study by Lucid…
Hey, ist es möglich, dass Tuta zu SimpleX Chat mit einer Gruppe kommt? Das wäre so cool! Besonders da immer mehr Services eine Gruppe in SimpleX Chat erstellen!
Hi everyone! We are glad you are excited for the quote posts! They will come eventually but right now we (and I mean mostly Conny) are in the process of rewriting the timeline to be able to accommodate for quotes, it might take some time. We are only a few people who do this in our free time. We can't give you a time estimate but of course we also want it out as soon as possible. Stay tuned!
Petice moc nepodepisuji, ale tato si můj podpis zaslouží (PETICE k vyjádření nesouhlasu se stavbou hotelového komplexu Lázně Pramen Adršpach): portal.gov.cz/e-petice/1357-pe…
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Looking up vintage talking alarm clocks on Ebay, I found this listing: "Vintage Timex TMX Rock N' Roll Alarm Clock TX-10Q Mystery Answers Music Snooze" which is not particularly remarkable, except I very badly misheard what my screen reader said. I thought for a second that it said something like rubik's snooze. Now I'm imagining a clock that has you solve a rubik's cube if you want to either stop the alarm, or get 9 more minutes of sleep, and I think this is a marketing opportunity for someone.
Imagine how annoyingly annoying that would be? Not only should you need to solve the cube, but it also would have 12 vibrating motors, just to make it even more difficult to hold the clock while it's alerting you to wake up.
já třeba jakékoliv delší texty dávám na svůj blog a ze sociálních sítí to linkuju – jednak je můžu sdílet na více sítích, a taky jsou dostupné pro pozdější použití
@fabia_man Hlavně to není komentář ani nic jiného, ale slovo od slova obsah článku. Možná bylo snahou zpřístupnit obsah za paywall a zároveň dát alespoň nějaké zdání kreditu?
Máme-li mít aspoň naději na zkrocení čím dál agresivnějšího Trumpova prezidentství, musíme odhalovat velké lži a říkat malé pravdy, píše v komentáři Timothy Snyder.
@michal Řešení je jednoduché, zakaž si ve filtrech účet, ze kterého dlouhé texty chodí 🤷🏻♂️. Někomu se to líbí, přečíst si (sdílet) něco s více myšlenkami, co je za paywallem ☺️.
Jako administrátor můžeš zakázat na své instanci účty Friendica, které mají větší rozsah a někteří to využívají (nebo zneužívají - dle úhlu pohledu), pokud Ti nevyhovuje individuální řešení.
Tlačítko "zobrazit více" má snad každá aplikace, kterou jsem zkoušel 🤔, včetně mnou aktuálně používané Tusky nebo dříve používané Pachli a Mastodon (obojí z F-Droid).
@TakNe Díky za tipy. Na Mastodonu jsem od roku 2018. Nativní aplikace Mastodonu to bohužel neumí. Normálně ji nepoužívám, ale v nové verzi ji mám spuštěnou kvůli citacím. Jinak používám hlavně Tusky nebo Fedilab.
Ten můj toot nebyl mířený na autora příspěvku, spíš obecně na to, že by možná nějaký rozumný limit měl existovat. Nedivím se, že vývojáři to nechtějí nechávat na adminech a je potřeba to řešit přímo v kódu. Filtry znám, psal jsem k nim i návody pro uživatele. Šlo mi jen o to, že rolovat extrémně dlouhé tooty v mobilu není úplně příjemné. Nešlo o obsah a rozhodně nechci žádné uživatele blokovat nebo omezovat, ani jako admin zakazovat Friendicu. @michal
@LukeAlmighty Ale já jim ho vůbec neberu. Je to jen můj názor. Prostě mě je štve pak v mobilní aplikaci projíždět celý tak dlouhý příspěvek. Chápu, že to někomu nevadí.
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I am passing along the following two quoted post from Chris Hofstader’s Facebook page. He is the former Vice President/Software Engineering at Henter Joyce/Freedom Scientific.
“I have been intentionally trying to avoid writing about blindness issues as I feel that Jesse, Connor, Sarah, Alison, Chancy and some others do a much better job these days as they are all very much in real situations and I'm a lonely eccentric old man who has fallen out of touch with most things related to blindness technology other than those I use personally. Also, as I've been quite public with, I am dealing with a major obsessive anxiety disorder and writing anything about blindness or the blindness biz is a trigger for my anxiety. But, in light of the events at the company formerly known as Freedom Scientific last week, I felt I needed to discuss some of them as I've the insider perspective on this one that my big five listed above cannot possibly know.
The most newsworthy of these events was that Glen Gordon was asked to resign and, in his public post published on LinkedIn, Glen wrote that he had expected to be working on JAWS for years to come and said so in his address at the NFB convention this past July but, in this statement, he said he had chosen to resign because the company no longer represented his values. I spoke to Glen last Thursday for the first time in abut fifteen years, it was a pleasant conversation about a nasty subject (refer to my post that morning).
I first met Glen 27 years ago and for six years, we were an incredible team leading JAWS, PAC Mate and the other FS software products. After we shipped the PAC Mate with a Braille line in December 2003, my mental health started to go south in a real hurry, it was my Marathon event, I made the delivery but dropped dead (mentally) at the end. I did some pretty good things in that final year but my brain was so broken, I was of no value to anyone so they chucked me out. Here, I will, for the first time state publicly that the sighted hardware VP we fired for incompetence got a $300,000 severance bonus and I, the VP of Software Engineering - the source of 100% of our profits, was instead threatened with lawsuits nine separate times by them, a costly venture and got a $0 severance package. This is when I started being a public critic in the blindness space and started warning the public about the risks we were taking by permitting a group of sighted investors to have control of the most important program in the blindness world. But, the work Glen and I did between 1999 and 2004 had turned JAWS into a monopoly with a marketshare greater than 80% and most blind people in workplaces worldwide used JAWS so, in a sense, we were addicted to a drug sold to us by people who had profits and not our best interests in the forefront.
Losing Glen from JAWS would be akin to the Rolling Stones firing Mick, they fired Keith when they fired me. We would not have JAWS For Windows had it not been for Glen. While he and I would bicker some times over software engineering processes (something I am very formal about), after working with him for about six months, I realized I had met what was possibly the greatest Windows hacker alive, blind or sighted. We ensured we came closest to the specifications on any request for proposal from a government agency, corporation, university or whatever was asking for a site license. Window-Eyes, our closest competitor, didn't even try. We hit 100% of the RFP for Social Security Agency (SSA) and the game was over. Why Window-Eyes even submitted when they only hit 35% of the RFP made us scratch our heads, "Are they even trying?" The answer was "no" Doug Giofray is a sighted guy who didn't feel the urgency Glen and I did so didn't really compete.
Glen has been slowly losing his leadership role at FS. They changed his title from Chief Technical Officer to something called "software fellow" or whatever that means. That I knew more about their financials than he did shows that he has been "corner officed" for some time and had little influence on the direction of the company. He was the last person near the top of the company for whom I have any respect and now he's gone.
There were other long time employees who were also chucked out last week. As I predicted in the spring, they are seeing a massive revenue hit and it's now quite obvious that they are going to try to jack up the prices, lose anyone who actually gives a poop about the technology and squeeze as many dollars as they can - this is the standard model for private equity investors when things go bad, you can find zounds of companies that have fallen this way. (1/2)
As I've been saying since it became a credible screen reader that we should donate to and support NVDA, it's the screen reader everyone in the community can influence and it's the screen reader owned by the entire blind community worldwide. NVDA is in more languages than is JAWS and if we can raise about $2 million per year for it, we can help them hire really amazing blind hackers making six figure salaries in industry today. If we do not accept ownership of NVDA, we are putting our futures in the hands of vulture capitalists and last week, they started picking the last of the meat off of the bone.
It's actually worse for our low vision friends. There is no NVDA for them, it's pretty much ZoomText or nothing for professionals. There are roughly 6X as many low vision people as there are blinks and they are essentially trapped into buying ZoomText price hikes and all. Why is there no magnification package out there in the free software world? Because a magnification project is a profoundly more difficult problem than is a screen reader. A screen reader just needs to talk and push dots onto a display; magnification and other low vision features need to deal with a lot of sometimes contradictory needs for different visual acuities. I tried to make the FS MAGic product as good or better than ZoomText and a ton of money, high priced contractors and all of that jazz couldn't do it. Ben Weiss made the best one ever and nobody has challenged it since.
So, the blind people can go to NVDA but the low vision people are forced to continue to support FS and that's a bad thing.
So, send a pissed off note to Rhonda, the new CEO of the company formerly known as Freedom Scientific, donate whou would have spent on JAWS to NVAccess and let's have the revolution we could have had 15 years ago and have spent a lot less money than we did on JAWS. Cut out the sighted middle man and go direct to blind run projects. It's proven that we cannot trust the sighted owned businesses anymore” FaceBook Link Post Source: facebook.com/100000176300195/p… (2/2)
I have been intentionally trying to avoid writing about blindness issues as I feel that Jesse, Connor, Sarah, Alison, Chancy and some others do a much better job these days as they are all very much...
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in reply to Slopsec • • •I wouldn't call GTK/libadwaita easier. GTK is the only toolkit I have significant experience with, so I have no point of comparison. That said, I do like GTK, because you can easily style with CSS, similarly to a website.
For Bottles, I didn't decide the library; I was not involved in Bottles development during that time. That was decided by Mirko, the mastermind behind it. I presume he did it for the aesthetics and good Python bindings.