falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
@april can we get a link to the article instead of a picture of it please?
Just posted a personal update (April 2024) on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/101700972
TL;DR being "life's tough but finally starting to get less stressful" plus "will start doing opensource project work on thursdays as a schedule/routine going forward"
Thanks everyone for the support so far!
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Well, that's not a website article I liked writing:
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
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Upgrade your systems now!
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
I find it a bit sad/weird that so many people take what an open-source project gives out "as-is", without the notion of the entire thing being modifiable.
Say a project only allows to load 5 potatoes at a time into a pot, we can go there and bump that hardcoded limit into something more suitable to us.
Instead of thinking "welp that project can only load 5 potatoes, not suitable for me then will look for something else"
It becomes no different from proprietary solutions at that point...
@woof I have seen midi, webgl and clipboard-write soft attempts in the wild too.
typically they go far enough to whatever is possible without triggering a popup.
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Experiment with Pure Data: a visual programming language for interactive art and sound.
By facilitators: Wasted Audio, Mike Moreno DSP & Timothy Schoen (plugdata).
Friday, 29 March, 2024 - 18:00. Price: free / by donation. ]LAG(, Amsterdam, .nl
https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/lag/2024-03-29/good-pd-patch-day
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Ok I’m doin the thread I said I wanted to do last week. (feel free to mute unless you enjoy a little second-hand drama as a Monday morning treat)
Attn #devrel people! Are you job hunting? Does this pic of search results look familiar? Have you ever seen a bunch of job postings like this from Canonical and thought “gee I should apply to one of these”?
I’m here to tell you:
IT’S A TRAP! 🧵
@pipewire that is a nice way to feel old.
pipewire is 6 years old already? damn
Also with hacks for loading Qt WebEngine things if available, that means dynamically loading and calling a C++ API without linking to it.
C++ symbol demangling is quite something... 🙈
Likely to come to DPF at a later point, for now this is just to show a local url without needing to do any fancy IPC.
Working hacks are the best hacks.
I needed to get a web view on a plugin UI but directly loading gtk/qt for it is nasty, would easily break the host and other plugins...
Using a separate process is key, but then that means having to ship a separate binary...?
Well actually no!
With fancy ld-linux setup we can have a shared library also running as an executable.
Then put dlopen/dlsym stuff to load webkit/webengine symbols and we got it all self-contained. 🎉
https://github.com/moddevices/mod-desktop/blob/main/src/plugin/WebViewX11.cpp
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It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.
It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.
Any tech journalists or lawyers interested interested in this?
I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.
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ok, I'm kinda confused where does idea of @-ing the booster in a reply come from and which apps do that (mastodon web-ui and tusky surely don't)
do you think it's normal/desired that a reply to a post/toot also includes @ of the person who boosted it?
(please... eermmm uh.., boost this for reach)
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China: “Remove all VPNs”
Apple: “Sure thing”
China: “…and podcast apps”
Apple: “Can do boss!”
China: “…and also hand over all iCloud data for our citizens”
Apple: “I mean why wouldn’t we? Here you go!”
EU: “Allow alternate app stores, and do it fairly”
Apple: “Ahhh hell no! This is so unfair you guys are bullies! Malware! Privacy! We have standards! Unlike you we care about our users!”
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“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/
Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.
Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.
#tech #google #ai #ProjectNimbus #israel #genocide #palestine
Finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, was a very bumpy ride so far.
Hoping for a more stable path next, everything points for that being the case.
Coincides nicely with the upcoming spring time too. So 2024 might be the year to get out of a dark hole.
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@woof very nice to see, but please leave a link to the article, thanks
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Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them) to train AI:
They state that customers "contractually consent" to such use, but good luck finding it in their Terms of Service. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent, but I may have missed that.
Just said no to Qt/Hamburg, going instead for something more uncertain but also exciting.
That means staying Berlin for a little while longer, but will have to do regular trips to Finland 🇫🇮
