Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:

Bioinformatician🧬 during the day, Data Scientist📈 in the afternoon, and Linux🐧 hobbyist at night. Federation and E2EE advocate. Interested in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and FOSS/FLOSS.

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2026-08-14 15:02:51 UTC

I wonder how much of Python popularity is because it is installed by default in all major Linux distros. This effect is identical to "windows popularity is partly because it is installed by default on most laptops and computers and people don't bother to change them".
This affect have been also observed in Steam Deck where it is shipped with Arch+Plasma, but users can install Windows if they want to. But a big majority don't. I remember @npub1a2n…y08n mentioned this in an episode of #LateNightLinux

2026-08-08 06:51:30 UTC

After a week of Python coding for a project, I'm craving to replace all my Python code into R.
Before R, I was a Python person for a couple of years and before that few years of Perl. I still from time to time go back to Perl, but I don't miss Python at all. It feels much more limiting than R and Perl.
#RStats

2026-08-03 19:31:46 UTC

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For those who are not familiar with the #SailfishOS, it is a RPM-based linux distribution that is "mostly" OpenSource (some UI and Android compatibility stuff and drivers are not [yet] FLOSS).
SailfishOS itself has an official store with some apps such as email, calendar, and mastodon. It also supports opening Android apps (F-droid, Aura Store + microG). There are also other RPM stores that are not official such as Chum and OpenRepos, but these two more or less can suffer from AUR issues.

2026-08-03 19:23:32 UTC

I've been testing the new #Jolla phone for a couple of days now. At the same time I'm documenting the experience and I will publish it as an honest review on my blog.
So far I should say that it is a very smooth experience. Native app availavility is an issue, but because we xan install Android apps, situation is not bad at all. I installed Signal, WhatsApp, #DeltaChat and they all work very smoothly. Well done @npub1xrs…qupw
#SailfishOS

2026-07-27 07:23:36 UTC

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@npub1xaw…44jx
Thanks for the correction.
That said, a person can fairly make a mistake in a social network post, but an organization who posts a 30 part thread promoting another company has way less wiggle room for such mistakes, especially one that is working in your field.
If you would have made the correction when I posted my first comment, it would have been an "oopsie", or an "honest mistake", but sitting on it for days... that's when then benefit of the doubt fades.

2026-07-26 21:39:19 UTC

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I will be more than happy to know that my Jolla phone is running entirely on an OpneSource software stack. But I'm not deceiving myself and others by calling SailfishOS an OpneSource project before it is legally and fully OpneSource.
We can always take this to @npub16xn…g7f8 is you like, or we can discuss this with Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto.

2026-07-26 21:34:30 UTC

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> we have discussed before
Yes we have
> only tiny bit of UI stuff is proprietary out of the actual OS.
Which means it is not entirely OpenSource. Whenever 100% of the codebase was OpenSource, it can be legally called OpenSource.
What [@gecos_analytics](https://toot.community/@gecos_analytics ) os doing is dishonest and OpenSource washing.
Jolla officially states on their own website that it is npt entirely OpenSource. So lets adhere to their statement and be honest.

2026-07-22 19:33:31 UTC

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If it is "OpneSource" or "open source" (a.k.a., source available) as you claim, can you show proof to your statement? Share the URL to the source code, which contains the license as well.

2026-07-21 12:31:33 UTC

I think using Positron is growing on me. Some of the keybindings are not intuitive (like commenting code), but the #RStats completion and LSP works better than my #Emacs setup when I'm using my #Guix time-machine.
Positron was very bad, but since version: 2026.07.1 build 5 (Code - OSS 1.118.0) many of those rough edges are resolved.
I just wish @npub1e58…ey66 was releasing it as Flatpak or snap as well.

2026-07-19 21:12:38 UTC

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چیزی که مشخصه اینه که الان دیده شده و مکانش توی معادله مثابت شده. فقط معلوم نیست @npub1g92…zynr از چپ به راست خونده یا راست به چپ.

2026-07-19 21:08:00 UTC

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Nice post. I didn't know about trieregex python package.
I wonder if the "compressed" regex has any effect in the performance (i.e., speed) of ripgrep or grep.

2026-07-19 11:10:02 UTC

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Thanks for caring and thanks for sharing.
I found some contact info from Vahid and mesaaged him along with the link to this post of your. I bet he gets a ton of messages in daily basis, and it is understandable if he doesn't find the time to reply or take action. I offered my help, but I also do acknowledge that it is against any OpSec to accept the help of random people online. So, let's see.
Do you know how the image licenses came into the radar?
@npub1ttq…pmql [@abbas_dp](https://techhub.social/@abbas_dp ) @npub1xw8…dcz3

2026-07-18 16:20:12 UTC

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آره، در حالت فعلی شاید به درد کسی بخوره که مثلا سفارش میگیره انجام میده. در کل دوست داشتم webxdc این امکان رو میداد که یه سری mini app ها بتونن به اینترنت دسرسی داشته باشن (بعد از اینکه از کاربر اجازه گرفت). اینجوری یه json میتونست کلی کار رو راه بندازه.

2026-07-18 16:11:26 UTC

14 years ago when I started my masters, I bought a second hand filter coffe machine and a mug from a second-hand shop for just €5. Spent a weekend and another €5-ish to carefully clean the machine and descale it.
Today both the machine and the mug are perfectly healthy and working, and although I have a nice all-integrated espresso machine, during weekends I enjoy filtered coffee from my old machine.
Some products are made to last, and that's awesome.

2026-07-18 15:49:42 UTC

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متاسفانه webxdc ها همه sandbox شده هستن و به اینترنت دسترسی ندارن، وگرنه پیشنها میدادم چیزی که نوشتی رو روی webxdc هم پورت کنی.
البته قاعدتا میشه تا حدود زیادی درستش کرد اگه کاتالوگ شاپ طرف رو بشه توی خود mini app خلاصش کرد. چون وقتی بخواد سفارش بده دیگه میشه پیام مستقیم.

2026-07-17 12:53:21 UTC

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Is there a public list of such software? If I was a for-profit company, I would have tried to capitalize on that.
Also, is there stats about Sailfish userbase?
I have asked this in the Sailfish forum, but well, let's say folks there seems to prefer answering with their knuckles rather than their mouth!
Also, Any idea on why the dichotomy of mer-hybris [1] and sailfishos [2] Github organizations?
1. https://github.com/mer-hybris
2. https://github.com/sailfishos
@npub1xaw…44jx @npub1xrs…qupw

2026-07-17 12:10:57 UTC

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Thanks, this gives me more confidence in my purchace, in @npub1xrs…qupw , and in the community.
I was genuinely thinking about selling it as soon as I received it, but now it maches better to my values. Thanks a bunch.
@npub1xaw…44jx

2026-07-17 12:09:00 UTC

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I just came to ammend my comment. I found the license in a subfolder. Even Github didn't recognize the license due to unconventional path. Yes, I can confirm that ther are BSD3
@npub1xaw…44jx @npub1xrs…qupw

2026-07-17 12:05:28 UTC

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Please read this post:
https://fosstodon.org/@Mehrad/116935200328886149
#note1ure…4tg4

2026-07-17 12:04:13 UTC

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I truely hope so. being Linux-based and the TOH was the selling point for me. Otherwise I wouldn't have supported the J2 and paid that much money in this Finnish economy.
@npub19gy…8y2c @npub1xrs…qupw

2026-07-17 12:00:55 UTC

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> most of Sailfish OS is already open sourced
This is not factual as far as I can see. Please refer to the official webpage:
https://sailfishos.org/info/
@npub1xaw…44jx

2026-07-17 11:59:42 UTC

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They should bare at least one of these licenses to be considered as OpenSource:
https://opensource.org/licenses
At the moment, none have LICENSE file in their repo.
@npub1xaw…44jx @npub1xrs…qupw
2/2

2026-07-17 11:59:15 UTC

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Thanks for pointing them out. Then they should have updated their website. I didn't pull these statements out of thin air. All links were provided. So inaccuracy does not at all fall on me, but rather on the Sailfish official website.
I also checked the links. None are OpenSource. They are at best SourceAvailable Proprietary software. (check the LICENSE file): https://github.com/sailfishos/jolla-camera
@npub1xaw…44jx @npub1xrs…qupw
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2026-07-17 10:11:47 UTC

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> basically whole core is open source
Well, the whole core is Linux and Linux utils. Nothing that Jolla have developed themselves. These are already on 99+% of all linux desktop and laptops and has nothing to do with #SailfishOS nor #Jolla.
Don't quote me on this, but I believe even legally Jolla cannot even make them not OpenSource due to the licensing of these software.
As far as I understand, Jolla's Browser and Office are the only things that Jolla voluntarily have OpenSourced.

2026-07-17 10:06:41 UTC

Found this website while searching for a good source for the history of Machine Learning. It is a very attractive website and really put things in perspective. I'm still looking for a good book though, so if anyone knows a good book, please let me know.
https://teachingmachin.es/timeline.html
#MachineLearning #Academia

2026-07-17 09:10:07 UTC

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Looks very promising and it is the only English review that I have found online (video or otherwise).
I'm patiently waiting for mine to be shipped :ablobcatbongo:
#Jolla

2026-07-17 09:06:03 UTC

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Needless to say that @npub1xrs…qupw is not "the only open source based and independent mobile OS without any ties to big corporations" because, from the top of my head, at least these Linux-based Mobile OSs exist and are 100% or almost 100% OpenSource:
- [@postmarketOS](https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS )
- @npub1lmq…xa4a
- @npub1ua9…sk4k
- @npub1kfs…gl64
- @npub1qy0…nsak
#SailfishOS #Jolla

2026-07-17 08:59:12 UTC

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I just managed to find some time to go through the tabs on my computer 😅 I'll just add two links to add to the topic:
1. in 2015 @npub1xrs…qupw stated this:
> Our goal with the #SailfishOS is to develop an open source operating system in co-operation with the community,
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20150101044101/https://sailfishos.org/about-license.html
2. Today they have this instead:
> It is the only open source based and independent mobile OS without any ties to big corporations
along with this figure
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260713072855/https://sailfishos.org/info/
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/116/934/464/416/726/313/original/b4fe275a991ca5fc.png

2026-07-17 06:56:25 UTC

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And why trust matters? Because @npub1xrs…qupw is marketing itself as "European Sovereignty" solution provider. It is written on every page of them website, it is tagged in all their social media posts,...
Also, imho, being/moving towards FLOSS (Free and Libre OpenSource Software) paradigm also helps adjusting the community's attitude.
I truely hope they embrace the FLOSS and at least OpenSource the apps that users are directly interacting with.
3/3

2026-07-17 06:56:25 UTC

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Just a comment about the OpenSource part: in rough terms, SailfishOS consist of 4 parts:
1. The Linux core and other Linux related software like Pulseaudio
2. The hardware drivers and compatibility layer that Jolla has written
3. The window manager and compositor
4. The apps
The 1st one is OpenSource, not thanks to @npub1xrs…qupw , but because they are developed by others and Jolla is just using them. 2&3 are important bits that are not OpenSource. 4 has only two OpenSource apps!
1/3

2026-07-17 06:56:25 UTC

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So not only it is mot OpenSource, it is not even close to being OpenSource. The Linux bit is, but everything on top of it that makes it a phone is not.
So why being OpenSource matters? Because @npub1xrs…qupw is a super tiny company (compared to Google and Apple) and they don't have a fleet of developers to keep an eye on every corner of the project. Making it OpenSource means more eyes can be on the code which improves security, safety, and longevity. It also brings trust.
2/3

2026-07-16 21:10:29 UTC

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I truely hope that I can ignore the bad attitudes and see the forum as a place to learn. I'm not 100% sure if I want to contribute to the "discourse" or the code, but I will try to see beyond the prevalent unwelcoming attitude of SailfishOS.
> Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

2026-07-16 16:28:37 UTC

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I mainly agree with you. But to be fair, I should add that I didn't see a single rude post/comment from "newcomers".
The "oldtimers" are still insisting that SailfishOS is OpenSource despite tons upin tons of facts 🤦 including but not limited to:
> Sailfish OS consists of a variety of components, some of which are proprietary and closed source
https://docs.sailfishos.org/Develop/Open_Source/
@npub1xrs…qupw Unmaintained bigoted forum is a sinking ship. Do something or watch it sink.

2026-07-16 10:07:29 UTC

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That ship already sailed when yesterday in full force the #SailfishOS and #Jolla community called newcomers "moron", "couch CEO", "rude", "inconsiderate", and so on. I personally was only honored with the "couch CEO" and "rude". Luckily, I was not the one the self-proclaimed "oldtimers" were cursing and cussing, and I was in the crossfire.
Lack of moderation form @npub1xrs…qupw during the past weeks means that they are silently approving this behavior.

2026-07-16 06:38:51 UTC

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Many languages have male/female for their words (e.g., French), and in many cultures the country is culturally/typically female (e.g., Iran). Also in English we say "the mother earth". I personally don't see anything weird about that.

2026-07-15 14:17:26 UTC

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Thanks for the comment, and true, but:
1. moderators should step in
2. @npub1xrs…qupw is a for-profit company. If "regulars" were generating enough revenue, releasing a new phone and marketing was useless. They did all this marketing to attract new customers and new users. So to protect their own business, they should moderate the forum, and be welcoming to newcommers.

2026-07-15 13:57:15 UTC

I have been observing the #SailfishOS and @npub1xrs…qupw community for some weeks. It is "interesting" how they are treating newcomers [1,2]. There are way more examples, but well, character limits🤷
This is the textbook definition of gatekeeping. What they should do instead is to create a hashtag or something, so that new-commers tag themselves and gray-beards with zero tolerance can block that hashtag. Instead it is turning into reverse trolling.
1. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-first-experiences-pros-and-cons/30555/328
2. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-first-experiences-pros-and-cons/30555/325

2026-07-15 10:46:12 UTC

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I think the debates (esp. on Fediverse) should be on how/where/when is appropriate to use LLMs, rather than just hating or resisting it. The former is contructive for the participants, and informative for the bystanders. The latter causes headache and majority would sooner or later tune it out and ignore it. We have seen the same thing with Blockchain topic, that those people who could be constructive, they wasted their time shouting from top of mountains. Well, where are we now?

2026-07-15 07:30:43 UTC

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Imho it is waste of time and waste of energy, and ultimately wrong to oppose AI (as technology) blindly and bluntly. There are quite major environmental and economical issues that needs to be addressed, but insisting on adopting it correctly (in correct use-case) and responsibly (environmental, ethical, legal, etc.) is the actual way forward, not bluntly hating it. This is the classic "knife" issue. In right hands it saves lives, and in wrong hands it takes lives. We should educate users.
2/2

2026-07-15 07:30:43 UTC

This email of Linus Torvalds resonates perfectly with my experience and mindset:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/
I chose to quote this part because of character limit of mastodon, but read the entire thing.
> There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
1/2

2026-07-12 19:41:58 UTC

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My experience maatch yours. I have always used PCA, t-SNE, umap and mclust for every project, and I rarely have found t-SNE or PCA enough.

2026-07-11 20:06:21 UTC

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What phone did you install it on?

2026-07-11 20:04:36 UTC

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Android Fediverse app: @npub14kx…urew

2026-07-10 21:08:41 UTC

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Thanks. I already found that, but the last commit dates back to 5 years ago. It seems it is fully abandoned. Adding Flatpak capability to the OS can drastically improve the software catalog and can use a lot of KDE mobile flatpaks. Shame that @jolla doesn't recognize this as an immediate issue.
@npub1aln…5erj

2026-07-10 18:57:15 UTC

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Thanks. I'm gonna throw-in some more Flatpak related questions in case you or anyone else has an answer to these:
Can Flatpak be used? Is it even packaged in Harbour? Do their Wayland-based compositor has xdg-portal of some sort?

2026-07-10 17:45:47 UTC

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How about this:
https://web.itu.edu.tr/~tokerem/The_Book_of_R.pdf

2026-07-10 14:10:20 UTC

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These are those I follow:
[@sylvia_ritter](https://mastodon.social/@sylvia_ritter )
@npub1y32…g9js

2026-07-10 14:01:21 UTC

A few of questions for #SailfishOS folks:
1. Is there a way to see the list of apps in Harbor similar to OpenRepos?
2. What are the things one should be careful about when installing something from OpenRepos?
3. Is OpenRepos similar to AUR (Arch User Repository)? Or is it vetted/curated?

2026-07-09 19:17:31 UTC

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I don't see much info in your profile and therefore cannot suggest hashtags that you might be interested in.
Also checkout the posts in the instance.lots of great folks on Fosstodon as far as I can see 😊

2026-07-09 19:15:54 UTC

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May I suggest something: try to follow people that you find interesting, and try to follow certain hashtags. Like-minded people use similar hashtags more frequently, and you'll get to find and connect with those folks.

2026-07-09 17:40:18 UTC

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@npub1wa5…vq8e
I was looking to find Pirkka's red logo somewhere in the HS footage 🤣
What I don't buy is that how come Kesko sells their trucks without wiping their own trademark. Doesn't sit will with me. Of course, I'm not implying any conspiracy, but I wonder why they neglected protecting their trademark.

2026-07-09 17:15:22 UTC

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I do understand that, but I would have appreciate:
1. a bit of heads-up in previous updates
2. Better error/warning to explain why and what can be done about it
3. The blog post was also transparently mentioning it. Afterall it is a major change.
@npub1e35…d5me

2026-07-09 16:45:15 UTC

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Well, I did `pacman -Syu` and after reboot I got a warning in Vivaldi that few extensions are disabled because they are not supported. It asked me to uninstall them. Interestingly, there is no mention of it in the Vivaldi blog that @npub1e35…d5me wrote:
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-8-1/
But there is a small hint in the changelog:
> [Extensions] Display a Mv2 deprecation dialog VB-129416

2026-07-09 16:27:41 UTC

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Although it fixed some annoying bugs in opening new tabs in the same tab stack, it now stopped working with uBlock Origin. I have mixed feelings about this

2026-07-09 14:19:42 UTC

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اینجا شاید اطلاعات خوبی پیدا کنی:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
@npub120c…vgkl

2026-07-08 19:39:56 UTC

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Our perception is completely irrelevant to what is designed to be human readable and what is not.
@npub1r5r…u33l

2026-07-08 19:00:44 UTC

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How about this logic: comments are meant for humans, not machines. So any human-readable data files are what I meant, not machine-readable files. Typically these are files that you can open with a text editor.
But, if you fancy opening a JPEG file in your text editor, and enjoy the content, by all means, be my guest 😉
@npub1r5r…u33l

2026-07-08 16:19:20 UTC

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JPEG is binary data because of compression. Having line comment doesn't make sense for it. But SVG on the other hand is plain-text XML format and it of course supports the classic <!--
@npub1r5r…u33l

2026-07-08 16:12:14 UTC

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They are not for block comments because JPEG has a rigid specification. But you can add comment nonetheless. In JASON and CSV afaik there are no official comment place or syntax.
@npub1r5r…u33l

2026-07-08 16:10:28 UTC

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Comment is actually a valid partbof JPEG specifications🤓. In the table of this Wikipedia section, look for "COM" in the first column:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Syntax_and_structure
@npub1r5r…u33l

2026-07-08 13:53:26 UTC

I believe every data file format should also have a comment syntax, both line comments and inline comments.
TOML and YAML both support #, but two of the most common data formats, CSV and JSON don't. At least for CSV it is commonly accepted to consider # for CSV and // for JSON as comment, but we really need to standardize this for both these formats.

2026-07-07 21:13:55 UTC

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Yes guix stire can get pretty big pretty fast. To be fair, I don't use guix for daily applications. Almost exclusively I use it for time machine for my projects. So things that are there are static (no newer versions are getting installed) and they should stay and not get garbage collected, apart from Guile and Guix things that I frequently update.

2026-07-07 19:57:40 UTC

Ended up with 120MB disk space for the root partition on my computer. Uninstalling a couple of Flatpaks gave me back roughly 2GB, running `guix gc` freed up 1GB, and running `pacman -Sc` freed up ... whopping 26GB 🫤
I should have rtfm and setup systemd timer for paccache
I should write in gold and bold on my wall "in the ArchWiki we trust"!
#ArchLinux

2026-07-06 07:22:09 UTC

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This is kinda irrelevant, but I wonder if I misunderstood the barchart, but it seems the total number above bars are much higher than total reported in the info boxes above the chart. Here are the numbers:
Sum of all the [visible] bars = 303
Passed = 274
Rework = 12
Fail = 1
Abort = 0
passed + failed + reworked + abort = 287

2026-07-05 11:49:19 UTC

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Thanks. I don't think those type of people are willing to comprehend this chart 🤷
As a side-note, I kinda disagree with any classic dimensionally reduction method such as PCA or tSNE to be considered as machine learning. But apart from that, this is a very neat figure. I'll try to fit it into some of my spides for future presentations.
@npub14kx…urew

2026-07-04 21:59:57 UTC

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I would ignore the type of people who cannot comprehend the usefulness of machine learning for accessibility. Being inclusive and intelligent is wayore important than being pathetically stubborn about every model these people cannot even remotely comprehend. Their comments are based on ignorance and misinformation.
Please keep it. It is essential for some of the users.

2026-07-04 19:34:47 UTC

I strongly believe all #FLOSS /#FOSS advocates should read this thread by [@abbas_dp](https://techhub.social/@abbas_dp ) . We all need to learn a thing or two about the situation, the amount of efforts have been put into FLOSS and decentralization advocation behind the scenes, most importantly behind bars! Yes, you read it right. Please follow through and read the thread:
https://techhub.social/@abbas_dp/116850818231544177
Please boost for reach
#OpenSource #Decentralization #Fediverse @npub17gp…nrxn @npub167r…p2re @npub1m24…d9a3

2026-07-04 08:00:02 UTC

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I can't accept the cost part. Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, ... they all allegedly do E2EE (plus none of them have that many advertisment as Telegram has). I believe Telegram has alternative/ulterior motive.
As for Iran, DeltaChat should be the best solution. Nothing stays on server and anyone can host a Chatmail relay with a super minimal VPS (2GB RAM and 1 CPU is more than enough).
Centralization is the best thing that can happen for filternet admins.

2026-07-03 20:00:54 UTC

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The From and To are useless info. All one can deduce from that is that you are chatting with the same person. Otherwise it is a public key hash. I think they also add some random noise to the packets to throw off the packet size analysis. I don't remember where I read that though. Also because your send relay and receive relay can be different, the message turnover is harder to determine. This gets even more complicated for group chats.

2026-07-03 17:02:48 UTC

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This is direct quote from their FAQ:
> Autocrypt v2, scheduled for full implementation in 2026, will bring post-quantum resistant encryption and forward secrecy
source: https://delta.chat/en/help#e2ee

2026-07-03 16:59:57 UTC

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I don't recall DeltaChat having any issues with metadata leakage, but Matrix for sure has massive issues with that (one of the main reasons I don't use Matrix for sensitive or personal chats). The only current issue is that it doesn't yet support forward secrecy, which the devs said it will be added when they upgrade to autocrypt v2:
https://autocrypt2.org/
https://support.delta.chat/t/off-the-record-chats/1181/8

2026-07-03 09:48:51 UTC

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And yet, unfortunately many (millions) are using Telegram and referring to it as privacy messenger.
I am very hopeful about @npub17gp…nrxn getting their feature as rich as Telegram. I believe the webxdc is a really cool feature that can lift a lot of load.

2026-07-02 19:41:24 UTC

I have a solid hypothesis about #Telegram :
In the day and age that WhatsApp, Signal, XMPP, DeltaChat, ... have #E2EE (end to end encryption) enabled by default in on-to-one and group chats shows that not only it is possible, it is mainstream feature. So it is not that the Telegram devs are incompetent to implement a proper E2EE, but the lack of E2EE in group chats and default chats in Telegram are *by design*.
Now the question is: Why?

2026-07-01 22:51:43 UTC

Today I wrote some QoL functions for my org-mode files. I think elisp is growing on me. Thinking in lisp paradigm is different from what I'm used to (R, Python, C++, Perl, etc.) and I typically am lost on which part of the problem I should start with, but when the code comes together, its "elegance" brings so much satisfaction and feeling of accomplishment 🤓
#Emacs #elisp

2026-06-23 15:38:56 UTC

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It seems they are dealing with some attack issues:
https://social.anoxinon.de/@codebergstatus/116765466028092709

2026-06-23 11:32:09 UTC

I've seen a lot of posts and videos trying to show what bass guitar does to to a composition and how essential, fundamental, and instrumental it is, but they tend to fail to demo for the audience.
The "My Own Summer" from Deftones imho is the best and most clear example I've heard so far, especially at 01:59-02:23
#basstodon

2026-06-21 19:10:28 UTC

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It is Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB. Do you happen to know how that be handled?

2026-06-20 09:32:31 UTC

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Can you help me understand how this is a KDE Plasma issue?

2026-06-20 09:24:32 UTC

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I have had issues with Arch, but never this frequent, plus I always managed to chroot and fix the issue. Arch has good extensive documentation and typically there is a forum post somewhere that can help. I installed Fedora because I thought it is well tested for updates, and I never thought having an few years old Nvidia card make the update to fall on its face!
Now I have to spend time and change OS.
Lesson learnt.

2026-06-20 00:12:15 UTC

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Last time it messed up with my system was that after update my KDE Plasma global shortcuts were wiped. That is definitely not an rpmfusion thing.
Also, this make me worried as EU is making a distro based on Fedora (which of course is stupid, as we have Suse and other European distros, and yet they had to go for IBM product)
https://eu-os.eu/
How can you base your strategic OS on a distro that doesn't package one of the most common graphics card driver!
@npub1hdd…w3p5

2026-06-19 22:12:17 UTC

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This PC is my gaming computer and I hate it when the update mess up with my weekend fun plans 🫤
@npub1hdd…w3p5

2026-06-19 21:54:07 UTC

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Do you use non-free driver or Mesa?
@npub1hdd…w3p5

2026-06-19 21:51:13 UTC

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You perhaps are misspelling the following regarding Fedora release:
[c]lear [c]arelessness of the [c]ore [c]ontributors in [c]omprehensive testing to [c]onsequently [c]atch and [c]orrect [c]arfuffle. 😉

2026-06-19 20:51:41 UTC

Is anyone else having "fun" with #Fedora update ruining their computer due to Nvidia drivers?
Second time in two months Fedora releasing update that breaks something on my computer. 😒
It seems distro hopping is in order, perhaps some immutable distro with distrobox on the top, or Nix 🤷

2026-06-19 10:38:04 UTC

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Btw, I also wanted to use #Guix with immutable Fedora (Kinoite), but it seems it is not possible due to how ostree is handling the folders in / For Guix we need to have a mutable /gnu/store, but creating directory is restricted, and symlinks cannot be made if we put the store in /var/gnu/store for example.

2026-06-19 09:39:07 UTC

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I typically just open R --vanilla in terminal and plot what I want to see from the data. It is a GNU project, it loads quickly, and it gives total freedom.
That said, thexan looks like a very cool and handy tool. Especially because one can pipe a CSV that is already pre-processed by some other CLI tools

2026-06-17 07:51:06 UTC

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A bit of self-promotion: Have you tried @npub13m6…39xr ?

2026-06-16 17:16:22 UTC

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Thanks. Both hpc.guix.info search.guix.moe do search in guix-science and cran channels along with other channels. I didn't find it in those.

2026-06-16 08:41:44 UTC

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What issues? I don't quite understand. I'm searching for a channel that has packages the Air R formatter so that I can use it in my project. I don't really care which channels as long as they don't have weird internal dependency channels that are not publicly accessible. What that should be an issue?

2026-06-16 06:20:23 UTC

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Any channel under the sun other than BBC Channel 4 😅
I think it would nicely fit into guix main channel, but if there are objections the guix-science would be fitting. That said it is not packaged in those channels.

2026-06-15 18:53:52 UTC

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Do you mean this post?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260613000103/https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/nix-flakes-vs-guix
If so, @npub109e…suq0 have a blog post regarding that:
https://trop.in/blog/quick-review-of-nix-flakes-and-their-guix-equivalents
I was swnt these links this morning and I haven't managed to go through them with a peace of mind, but I will.

2026-06-15 10:38:01 UTC

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How much time does it take to load and process?

2026-06-15 10:37:09 UTC

Does anyone know which #Guix channel is packaging the Air R formatter [1]?
There are a lot of name collision and air is a substring of many package names. using toys and hpc.guix.info have been unfruitful for this case so far.
1. https://github.com/posit-dev/air

2026-06-12 15:04:09 UTC

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I meant not very much possible on my machines because of what I explained. I was not referring to AUR as a whole

2026-06-12 09:31:09 UTC

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Interesting. I didn't know about these two functions. I tried it out now, and I kinda didn't like the way they handle the windows. After I exit ediff, all my window positioning were messed up. Perhaps I should add some hooks to save them to register.

2026-06-12 04:13:54 UTC

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It is very much possible, but I tend to avoid installing AURs that have wide or deep AUR dependencies. Basically AUR for me is the last resort before creating a VM. On some machines I don't even have AUR helper.

2026-06-12 04:07:20 UTC

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For me this often happens when I need to analyze two dataset and perform similar analysis. So they are different enough that making function and using it twice is not feasible, and similar enough that diffing them helps to know if I've missed a step or something.
Or sometimes I'm writing a text and I go over multiple iteration and want to only read the diff to decide which one is better.

2026-06-11 16:46:43 UTC

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One of the main use-cases if narrowing and indirect buffer for me is to ediff two parts of the same file.
I also use narrowing to change the major mode. For example when I get an email with some code snippets, I narrow to the code and change the major mode to read the code with proper syntax highliting and code navigation bindings.

2026-06-11 16:46:43 UTC

This is a nice video by @npub1v99…xmdu and [@protesilaosstavrou](https://moderndaywizards.org/accounts/protesilaosstavrou ) about under appreciated builtins in #Emacs. 15 minutes in, and they mentioned things that I spent days to figure out in Emacs back in the day, mainly because I didn't know the correct terminology. I definitely recommend watching it:
https://www.youtube.com/live/yuJYEua0ZwA?is=DEkRa9MHsW26L68N

2026-06-10 18:41:05 UTC

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How about keyoxide? It is better than any linktree
https://keyoxide.org/CB93FCEFE52A3C267102600A7B379DF59540FF83