falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
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🎉 Haiku R1/beta5 has been released! https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta5/release-notes/
News on the MOD Audio (previously known as MOD Devices) situation is finally being made public
https://forum.mod.audio/t/mod-reboot-phase-two/11785
It is a quite positive outlook and promising future despite the very rough path so far.
Happy to be able to publicly talk about job and work related things again. I want to write a big personal post soon, but let me finish the home preparations first.
This is such a weird way to write C++ 😂
An example:
```
QApplication app;
QApplication__init(&app, argc, argv, 0);
QWebEngineScript script;
QWebEngineScript__init(&script);
QWebEngineScript_setInjectionPoint(&script, 2);
QWebEngineScript_setRunsOnSubFrames(&script, true);
QWebEngineScript_setSourceCode(&script, qstrcode);
QWebEngineScript_setWorldId(&script, 0);
QWebEngineScriptCollection_insert(scripts, script);
```
Trying to dynamically load and call a C++ shared library is some serious challenge.
mangled names everywhere, vtable shenanigans and if dealing with Qt also qobject/qmetaobject weirdness...
But it works! I am able to dynamically create a QApplication, spawn a QWebEngineView, set some parameters and create a fake QObject class to receive some events.
All without linking to Qt directly, and compatible with both Qt5 and Qt6.
This way if the system does not have gtk3 webkit, Qt is fallback.
🎉
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I am a big fan of rust and think it's a natural fit for linux into the future. What isn't a natural fit is the npm tier dependency sprawl situation.
I really do think we need to listen to what distro maintainers are telling us, because they are the ones who understand how the rubber hits the road when it comes to maintaining and supporting software long term.
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Hi folks!
I've been on Mastodon for about a year and would like to meet more accounts to follow to follow. Please boost and provide recommendations.
I am an #EmergencyManagement professional who specializes in wildfire recovery. I assist communities with rebuilding after #disasters, funding sheltering and evacuation costs, drafting mutual aid agreements, and developing comprehensive recovery plans.
I don't know of many other folks on here that work in emergency management, but would like to make more connections.
I'm interested in #weather #HamRadio #Preparedness #PNW #Oregon #ORWX #Outdoors #minimalism #Equity #UnionStrong
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Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims (Developer)
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A group of #rail, #transit, and #urbanist advocates are organizing a Zoom call this Thursday in support of the #HarrisWalz2024 ticket. Can you help us spread the word? https://www.eventbrite.com/e/train-lovers-for-harriswalz-tickets-982490013077
@nerd4cities @notjustbikes @ShareTheCities @reece @alex @ohtheurbanity@video.canadiancivil.com
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A little milestone achieved, Carla is working with Qt6 now! 🎉
I wish to be doing other things than updating to new frameworks to stay relevant, but at least Qt5 -> Qt6 compatibility is quite okay.
The annoyance is more on PyQt side that loves to break backwards compat. And Python somewhat too.
I regret having chosen Python for the frontend but a bit too late now since there is quite a lot of code...
GitHub are you ok? what is going on here?
Says unverified and no username with that email, but that is for sure false as that email has been in use for more than a decade now... 😕
A friend of mine is starting her own music band "Eyes Awaiting", a metal duo that "tell stories about human emotions, day-to-day struggles, the mysteries, the deep traumas and the joys of life"
See details on
https://www.eyesawaiting.com/ including their very first music video! 🎉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL7OSU6pv6o
Very happy for her, so want to share the news on the fediverse side.
Boosts appreciated, share the love and appreciate some nice music!
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The Internet Archive has several technical job openings right now, including a Website Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer.
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This is an absolutely metal business decision made by OpenDNS (Cisco).
Court orders in France and Portugal are requiring the big open DNS resolvers (Google, OpenDNS, CloudFlare, etc.) to block resolution of a small list of domains for anyone in those countries.
OpenDNS seems to have decided to not implement the blocklist, and instead will just not answer any DNS queries from inside those countries.
Change implemented on a Friday evening, for maximum surprise.
A very cozy office 😅
It is mostly all unpacked and already usable now.
And yes, we need all 3 fans.
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Doing an office + house move in the middle of warm humid weather is really something... 😓
Not sure if any energy remains for assembly now, who needs a kitchen anyway.
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'He added that finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an “unexpected difficulty.”'
From an excellent piece by @ricmac on one company's transition from React to native DOM APIs and vanilla JS
https://thenewstack.io/pivoting-from-react-to-native-dom-apis-a-real-world-example/
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To be clear, since many folks seem to not understand it:
I am NOT saying Linux and FOSS software is perfect for all workflows. I am NOT saying you aren't "trying hard enough" if you can't switch or don't want to. I am NOT saying my way is better and your way is worse. I am NOT calling you lazy.
What I am saying, emphatically, is that telling people that #Linux and #FOSS are *incapable* of professional work is fundamentally incorrect.
It's my profession, I do it, and it works.
Some nice news for a change, hope to see more like this 👏
