falktx @falktx@mastodon.falktx.com
Seems the dream for getting donations to cover costs is unfeasible. subscriptions from last month are decreasing, instead of the contrary.
Without having big splashy news, it is hard to have cool stuff to report on. Code rework takes a long time before there is anything to show, IF there is even anything to show anyway.
Might be time to slow down a bit.
where does time go..
one full day just for some little rework and moving code around, plus some little fixing.
but doesn't seem much :/
things are progressing very slowly, there are too many breaks and distractions it seems.
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New York Senate passes a bill supporting #RightToRepair .
Sounds like there's plenty more to happen, but seems like a good first step.
"This shows that Right to Repair has real support when the issue gets an actual vote, despite the efforts of tech manufacturers’ lobbyists"
https://www.ifixit.com/News/50722/victory-new-york-senate-passes-landmark-right-to-repair-bill
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We are looking for software developers!
If you live in or would like to relocate to Germany, it might be for you.
We do mostly JS w/ types and Java but also a lot of other things.
There's a lot of freedom and we don't suck.
You can write GPL code for a living!
boosts welcome!
Today is a "magical" day.
From a nice and fresh 10C in the morning, to 31C in the afternoon.
A whole whopping 21C in temperature difference...
And to think this is only going to get worse 😱 😢
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Elon Musk Unveils Urban Slingshot System Able To Move 6 Pedestrians Across Street Per Hour
https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-unveils-urban-slingshot-system-able-to-move-6-1846702819
Here is the KXStudio May 2021 Monthly report.
Lots of attention to DPF, plus a few random things. Includes screenshots this time, maybe less "boring" to read that way 🌻 🐈 🚀
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=kxstudio-monthly-report-may-2021
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The small Coop supermarket in my street has been bought by one of the largest supermarket chains. These coops are the last resort for people like me, who are forced to live in precarity. I suspect the Coop couldn't pay the rent anymore, just like the bicycle repair shop next to it, which disappeared two years ago. It seems evident that the gentrification of the secondary cities is in progress, wiping out the infrastructures that the poorest people depend on.
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Respect to the project managers of the world. That stuff is hard.
This is quite amazing.
Exploit for Apple M1 systems, allowing 2 completely independent processes to talk to each other
> This works between processes running as different users and under different privilege levels.
😱
> [...] allows any two applications running under an OS to covertly exchange data between them, without using memory, sockets, files, or any other normal operating system features.
😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱
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Freenode
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andrew lee just seized over 700 channels on freenode because they mentioned libera.chat in their topic.
This includes projects like openbsd, wikimedia, FOSDEM, etc.
https://archive.is/uHw1g shows 720 channels that match what is being checked.
here's an example log: https://gist.github.com/pushcx/ab2a1d5b1d18e964c581ef18ccb3a79f
boost this if you care about foss in any way.
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🔧 🔨 Need to #repair something? We've just surpassed 1.25 million manuals in our collection
https://archive.org/details/manuals
This section of a video from Veritasium is mind blowing.
The game of life running... on the game of life!
(that very same simplistic "game" yes)
cmake support in DPF is in!
https://github.com/DISTRHO/DPF/pull/269
Thanks to work by Jean Pierre Cimalando
More great stuff coming soon 🚀 🚀
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Haiku's IRC channels have officially moved from Freenode to OFTC. https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-05-19_haiku_is_moving_to_oftc/
Slowly getting DPF Cairo backend up to speed.
Same codebase, totally different targets, same behaviour.
Screenshot shows the Demo/test tool to render a few things, including subwidgets.
(opengl has the nanovg test, which is not possible on cairo for obvious reasons)
Only 2 things left for Cairo backend:
1. load png images from memory (instead of large raw data like opengl side does)
2. get the built-in DPF image widgets compatible with cairo.
Those 2 already done in a PR, but need adjustment
