dorotaC

Greybeard but revolutionary. 80-char lines are good for museums.

My tech writing (hire me): https://dorotac.eu/
Open bike computer: https://jazda.org
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2026-08-13 05:51:29 UTC

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What were the functions for which ISBN was created?
When I came up with the idea, I was thinking that a central database is optional for an identification system. We have Libgen for publications, WikiData for everything, IMDB for movies, and other inofficial ones. I wonder if times have changed since ISBN and a simple identifier could work.
A centralized-knowledge, decentralized-maintenance database could also mean IPFS or blockchain. The latter also could solve financing.

2026-08-10 18:02:55 UTC

Hey writers,
how about #ISBN, but decentralized?
Without the payment, the copyright, or the doxxing? For new #zines , manuals, novels; political, personal, or just chill? Digital and paper?
Is there any standard already which I just missed?
#books #writing #databases

2026-08-05 14:11:09 UTC

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Preferably 30 days after the public announcement.
If they want to stick to the pluralism model rather than benevolent authoritarianism, then also proactively include users in the decision making as stakeholders.

2026-07-24 09:58:25 UTC

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Out because I like to switch providers on my own schedule, rather than someone else creating an emergency for me to clean up.
Codeberg seems to me a bit unreliable considering the way they made the rule change. Not so suitable to make my new home. I'm very sad about it.

2026-07-23 14:24:49 UTC

#codeberg theory: no #LLM projects.
Practice: your non-LLM experiments will likely not get booted (but may still).
> So while the following use cases are discouraged (similar to private repositories), they are likely to be tolerated in practice:
> Side projects and experiments with little resource usage
> Specific tools and custom scripts that would be unlikely to find a community anyway, even if they were not LLM-generated
https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

2026-07-14 11:15:00 UTC

Say hello to my #PCB manufacturing lab. Here is the 3D printer showering the board in purple rays.
In those bottles live the necessary chemicals. Neutralize before disposing!
They go to trays where the board takes a bath. First, a minute in NaOH to develop, then (after a rinse in water), 20min of persulfate to etch away the copper. The big bowl holds warm water.
@npub1k5n…fur2 pics as promised!
#chemistry #electronics #DIY
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2026-05-27 06:00:39 UTC

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Oh, that's 10W/20W. I wonder if I can pull it off with my 5W laser.

2026-05-27 05:32:12 UTC

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Doesn't that require, like, a special really powerful laser? Not the one you use to cut wood?

2026-04-09 06:09:13 UTC

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Meanwhile, systems to let #bike bells penetrate car noise protection are still only in bikers' imaginations.

2026-04-09 06:06:57 UTC

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Car companies are shifting blame on to the victims on behalf of their own victims (cyclists).
I wasn't expecting to read such news indeed.

2026-04-02 17:19:52 UTC

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Almost fountain pens here. Mitsubishi Eye rollers glide just so amazingly nicely! I also have a pocket with all colors I could find (ask me when you see me at an event).
At least the ink color selection is limited, or I'd have more.
Actually, I could just fill one with yellow like I already did... https://dorotac.eu/posts/REing%20a%20pen/

2026-02-26 12:40:06 UTC

Radical honesty anti-#spam system: just ask.
I wonder how long this solution is going to work.
#web #blog #smallweb
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2026-01-21 11:23:53 UTC

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Thanks for sharing. Maybe my memory is failing. I have no idea.

2026-01-20 11:13:36 UTC

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Based by the other person's second-hand info, Mastodon doesn't have a builtin tool to do that, so that would be on the instance. Maybe @npub1j7t…kn6q admins could say something about it.

2026-01-20 10:20:09 UTC

Why the heck do I have blocked people on my account? I'm pretty sure I never blocked anyone.
#Mastodon can be really paternalistic sometimes. I don't want to be protected according to someone else's preferences.
/me unblocks and unmutes 145 people
Honestly, how the hell am I supposed to know which ones are the 20 I muted for good reason?
#socialmedia

2026-01-13 12:36:42 UTC

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So many things wrong with that diagram...

2025-12-20 05:08:18 UTC

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Nah. They don't do exactly the same thing, but they do a similar thing. While I don't us either, I'm guessing they:
- find software
- resolve dependencies
- set up that software
which looks pretty much like package management to me.
Recently someone made me realize that the horrible github CI pipelines thing is just awful package management software:
https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/github-actions-package-manager.html
If that had been approached as package management from the start, maybe it would have been better now.

2025-12-05 08:37:23 UTC

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The other good thing is that developers look at the bug tracker when there's "crash" in the title (hint hint ;) ).

2025-11-19 13:11:31 UTC

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Turns out I might be playing Russian Roulette every week or more often.
I don't think I'd find the motivation for a trainer, so maybe it's still worth it. Better go out in a crash than from health decline from lack of activity :P

2025-11-07 19:10:20 UTC

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513 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
12 years, multiple jobs.
I think most of this must be hosts on my own networks that reset their address, or virtual machines. I didn't access too many remote hosts I don't own.
But I won't be doing anything about it. I don't see a way to abuse that list.

2025-11-07 14:54:22 UTC

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I'll be pedantic here, but it's a mode of transport more efficient than walking.
For an exercise to be 4 times more efficient I have to sweat 4 times more.
(Incidentally, that's true for me, but that's because I go berserk on the bike.)

2025-10-08 10:56:23 UTC

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$ /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help
[...]
x86-64-v4
x86-64-v3
x86-64-v2 (supported, searched)
Whew. My box is from 2014.

2025-10-08 06:26:51 UTC

What's the simplest useful thing I want on my desktop?
A plain text area.
Now that I made it, any other #KDE user can have it, too!
https://codeberg.org/dcz/kwlejka
#linux #plasma #kdeplasma #freesoftware #desktop #clipboard #copypaste
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2025-10-05 10:37:21 UTC

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I know because on my low-value laptop, I just never click the "restart" button after updates download.
But there's maybe a way to have your cake and eat it too. I recently evaluated OpenSuse MicroOs. There, you can't just install packages to the root file system, but you can into snapshots.
And the cool thing, there seems to be a command to switch to the new OS image at runtime.
I don't exactly know what it does yet, though.

2025-10-05 10:34:01 UTC

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I think that's kind of unavoidable when you want a safe option.
Okay, suppose we can keep using the computer while the updates are running, but then you have to restart it immediately.
Oh no, people are complaining that they don't want to interrupt their work with a restart! Fair enough, let them continue working. But what happens next? They will keep the computer running for ages because why would they restart?
Not restarting ends up an insecure default.

2025-10-05 10:03:49 UTC

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I'm glad you didn't notice any problems. But that didn't mean you were immune from them.
If your kernel has a security vulnerability, and you install an upgrade but don't restart, you're still vulnerable to it until you restart.
Due to how Linux retains files that were once opened, the same counts for applications, including those with network access.
So restarting is the conservative, safe option.
Use unsafe no-restart updates at your own risk (I do).

2025-10-02 12:11:17 UTC

Shoutout to @npub1ncy…3x0q for the quickest fix ever to any software I use every day:
I report a #Bug , go out for a bike ride, and it's fixed when I'm back!
Thanks a lot, folks :)
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/ksvg/-/merge_requests/79
Now I hope @npub1hpw…cd0d will include that ASAP :)
#KDE #Plasma #kdeplasma #bugfix #freesoftware #floss

2025-09-07 10:41:07 UTC

Hey #rust community, crazy idea:
A crate registry without #Microsoft as a gatekeeper.
If I started one, would you publish your library there?
What should I name it?
Background:
you can't publish on crates.io without #Github account = #microsoft's permission.
https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326
As we all know, Microsoft has a history of supporting #Linux and we should trust them.
https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/
pffft lol. Just no.
#opensource #community #floss

2025-08-12 10:35:40 UTC

Solder warriors, how do you protect your etched boards from corrosion?
I bought this one a lifetime ago. Clearly homemade. It's covered with rosin.
I thought rosin was corrosive to the traces.
What technique is this? What kind of rosin is used here?
#PCB #electronics #CopperEtching #AskFedi
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2025-08-01 14:15:43 UTC

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Each internet connection has 2 ends.
I know what I'm talking about. Bad wifi is my specialty.

2025-07-31 19:31:18 UTC

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Well, I used BMI out of my own will. It's an approximation that's easy to calculate with data that's easy to obtain.
All models are wrong, but some are useful, so I don't blame healthcare for using BMI if it's for an initial guess.

2025-07-28 20:55:42 UTC

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Pump it up every time, get tired of it, try to find the leak, throw it away in frustration.
Hello from a tube that goes too soft in 4 days. I'm still in the bargaining stage (pumping).

2025-07-28 19:09:28 UTC

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checking with Wikipedia gives BMI approximately 21.3, which is right in the normal weight range.
Although BMI is supposedly overestimated for people with a lot of muscle mass, so perhaps there's some underweight effect actually.

2025-07-20 05:43:47 UTC

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Is that a rhetorical question?

2025-06-12 18:35:31 UTC

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What did they take away?

2025-05-14 14:12:36 UTC

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I installed MicroOS from an image.
I'd like to have a container - even one that fakes the snapshotting - to test scripts before deploying. VMs take too long to set up, start, and reset, and way too much space.

2025-04-17 04:28:39 UTC

Back to #Wayland and input methods.
What's your favorite input method?
Cause for me it was the one on old #Nokia phones. I could type with my hands in my pockets! Handy in winter.
https://codeberg.org/dcz/stiwri
Tested with #cosmic and #GTK .
This is just the beginning. Actually useful stuff is coming in the future. #Mobile keyboards, #Chinese input is what it's for:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/396
#dumbphone #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #CJK
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2025-03-24 13:49:14 UTC

Dear fediverse , what kind of a connector is this?
40 pin, 0.5mm pitch, motherboard side, going to an eDP display panel.
I'd like to buy the socket, but nothing I've seen quite matches the shape.
#laptop #repair #lvds #electronics #askfedi
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2025-03-24 05:54:10 UTC

So I've been using my laptop with the wrong date for a while and #certificate errors meant I could only see #websites when the stars aligned.
This was the most productive I've been for a while.
So I decided to make this a #browser extension:
**Block selected websites, 90% of the time**
https://codeberg.org/dcz/webBlocker
No more mindless scrolling! No more constant Wikipedia binges! Just occasional ones. It's fine to have fun once in a while.

2025-03-24 05:44:57 UTC

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What if youtube deletes the videos?
Without watching, I am betting a Mate that this wasn't mentioned.

2025-03-15 11:50:31 UTC

Has everyone noticed?
Here in #Germany almost all #supermarkets use #epaper displays to show prices. They look great. It's hard to notice that it's not ink on dead trees.
That's thousands of displays per shop. Times thousands of shops in the entire country.
Some of those displays break or otherwise get replaced.
So there must be piles of used displays around the country... but where?
Does any of my fellow #hackers know how to get some of that #trash treasure?
#recycling #upcycling

2025-03-01 08:12:11 UTC

#Mozilla : "we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data”"
followed by a list of things that I don't want my #browser to do but Mozilla won't commit to.
@npub1hpw…cd0d with #Firefox 's #privacy focus no longer so clear, what are your options for preserving the privacy?
Is the official package going to be watched for problems and fixed by packagers?
Are you packaging forks?
#fedora #packaging

2025-02-22 18:51:12 UTC

Woohoo, #libobscura returned an image from the #librem5 !
```
Buffer size: 823296, seq: 0, timestamp: 18178.362439 [s]
Writing to frame.GRBG
```
Now I'm scared to look at the data. It's probably garbage.
But the proof of concept is there: you can treat the Media Controller API as a database and query it for valid image pipeline configurations.
I wonder if the debayering #shader still works.
But first, clean up and publish.
#images #camera #linuxmobile #linux #rust

2025-02-16 14:37:29 UTC

77 commits later, and #libobscura has a scripting system good enough to initialize a #USB #Camera
So it's back to the same functionality, except with extra complexity, lol.
Next up: organize the commits (don't leave a mess if you want contributors) and make sure #librem5 works the same way.
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2025-02-12 13:15:17 UTC

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Are there any descriptions of the attack? Right now the only possible motivation is a second-hand description by codeberg themselves.
It makes me wonder: why did codeberg not explain what they think the rationale was?
Was it because the messages contained abuse?
If I wanted to hide the real reasons or techniques of my attack, would be enough to fill it with abuse and people would purge it before letting the public analyze it?
That sounds like an exploit against moderation.

2025-02-10 13:15:32 UTC

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It's not you. It really is C.

2025-02-09 19:02:08 UTC

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But most importantly, can I easily load my own software to fix the inevitable stupidity of the bot and security issues that will be made clear in time?

2025-02-09 15:24:32 UTC

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Yeah, email is complicated. I had some real and some nonsense lapses, like backscatter, sending a dozen emails per year, or being hosted on a residential IP. Maybe not enforcing DMARC counts against me too.
But if you diagnose email problems anyway as a recipient, I don't see a legit reason for this much gatekeeping.

2025-02-09 15:11:41 UTC

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I don't think I care enough.
Schemes like this feel like a protection racket to me: register here and cough up your phone number/browser user agent/location, or else.
I'm not interested in having a Google account, so my emails land in spam.
I feel this is antithetical to the idea of distributed email. But maybe I live in the past and that ship has sailed.
(Can we include proof of work into the protocol to fight spam? Or at least PGP signatures?)

2025-02-08 20:09:19 UTC

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Such a button exists on the Nokia N900! It doesn't do anything for power though.

2025-02-03 11:41:49 UTC

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And my own thought: if your #FOSS project's #chat is on #Discord , I will not join.
I already know it will get enshittified. I will not give them a phone number, I don't want to get tracked and my data sold as a price of contributing to FOSS.
So yeah, I've been mostly absent from the #bevy #community for that reason.
I hope that changes one day.
#proprietary #Enshittification #freesoftware

2025-02-03 11:37:09 UTC

Are you using #github for #FOSS ?
Small request: could you use FOSS instead?
Don't make #Microsoft your gatekeeper, use like #forgejo #codeberg or something.
https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/
Thanks to @npub103f…kaf3 's @npub13fl…9ycn , Denver Gingerich and Bradley Kuhn for the #FOSDEM talk.
#fosdem2025

2025-02-03 09:34:31 UTC

#FOSDEM is over.
How many of you have seen Bad Apple running on an e-paper screen, smoothly?
Because I have, at a private presentation in one of the sitting areas, and, friends, it blew my socks off.
Let me tell you, it's funny to see something cast a shadow on a computer screen.
Apparently the driver is running a custom FPGA and plenty of it is open source.
Good luck @npub1932…02q0 . I want to get one now. https://www.modos.tech/blog
#epaper #eink #freesoftware #fosdem2025 #wayland

2025-01-23 20:49:35 UTC

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So your argument is against claiming that there's no other AI than LLM. I agree with that, although skimming your link, they set the context of "Today’s AI models", which makes it clear it's not all AI.
And then I go to openai website:
"A universal interface for AI to interact with the digital world."
Yeah, I wonder how this interfaces with my chess engine.
Thanks for the clarification, although without it I understood you completely different than you intended.

2025-01-23 18:37:36 UTC

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What's "AI" then?
It used to mean expert systems, chess engines, image recognition, agentic behaviour in games, chat bots... Why not language models?
TBH the term has been made so vague I'm surprised anyone cares about using it in a specific way. That ship seems to have sailed.

2025-01-21 09:48:57 UTC

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Can this be used to create something like gdisk?

2025-01-21 09:21:22 UTC

Another month, another conference.
#libobscura will be a topic at #FOSDEM !
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6184-libobscura-cameras-are-still-difficult/
I'll dive a bit deeper into the mobile side of the camera problem compared to my #ccc38 talk. If I have time left, there will be a quick demo of #Prolog-driven capability querying :D
#fosdem2025

2024-12-29 06:37:21 UTC

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Nearlyfreespeech and it worked okay for many years. nordname can be used without USA payment systems but I only used it for a few years.

2024-12-03 12:45:13 UTC

#Kwin just crashed. Then it returned, and most apps did too.
Except the one I wrote :P
Do newer toolkits just reconnect on a broken #Wayland connection?
#KDE

2024-12-01 20:23:07 UTC

My rule for buying into #technology is:
get the #software separately.
Buy a laptop → install #Linux .
Get a router → flash #openwrt .
Sign up to a messenger → Use an open client.
Browse a #web app → Use an unrelated browser.
Why? The vendor can't resist the control. I don't know why. They make the experience suck. Bloat, ads, locked features, antifeatures, phoning home. Even #OpenSource .
Independent software would not survive if it did that. People would install something else.

2024-11-26 15:28:21 UTC

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The code is here:
https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libv4l-stream/src/branch/master/src/io/dmabuf/arena.rs#L415
This doesn't cover a lot, and won't test kernel glue code at all - and glue is where most bugs are in my experience.
In the end, I decided to shove the complexity somewhere else, but at least the buffer manager can be tested somewhat.

2024-11-26 15:26:12 UTC

Trying to create complex #software managing kernel buffers.
This needs tests.
"#functional core, imperative shell" - Testing management should not need the kernel.
I started mocking with a generic backend. Looks annoying.
"imperative shell"
The mocked generic is becoming a spaghetti horror.
"functional core" - and then it clicked.
I separated just the buffer manager, made it generic over buffer type. I can now feed it fake buffers and test it.
#testing #development #hexagonal

2024-11-19 17:44:03 UTC

Random advice:
If you're working on #camera #software after dark, turn on the light in the room.
Seriously.
You will save yourself time #git bisecting why your app is only displaying black.
This is totally random advice, no particular reason at all.
#libobscura

2024-11-17 14:03:16 UTC

Hey #linuxmobile people.
Maybe you heard about my little #libobscura project.
Which phone should #libobscura support after #Librem5 ?
I'm looking for one which has the kernel drivers but cameras still don't work great.
#camera #PostmarketOS #mobian

2024-11-15 14:40:24 UTC

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The actual #code is on #codeberg (error: toot too long).
https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libobscura

2024-11-15 14:39:45 UTC

#libobscura grand opening!
Libobscura is a friendly library to use cameras on Linux.
At least that's the goal.
The objectives are:
- hard to use it wrong
- get a RGB buffer in ten lines of code
- easy to add support for new devices
- no mailing list :P
I want #linuxmobile and other #photo and #video workflows to become easy, and manufacturers to spend less time adding support (hi me 2 years ago).
More info on my #blog: https://dorotac.eu/posts/libobscura/
#freesoftware #rustlang @npub1tvt…4jjw

2024-11-12 16:00:42 UTC

#libobscura is going through the final crunch... I mean, touches, before release.
I just realized the project page and the #readme are like continuous announcement posts. For some people, it's going to be the first contact with your work, so tell them;
- are they the intended audience?
- how do they benefit from this?
- where is the project going?
- how far along is it?
- how to try it out?
/me goes back to rewriting
#project #marketing #opensource

2024-11-11 21:42:48 UTC

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I can only reply with:
a lot of pipelines are five minutes.

2024-11-11 06:55:06 UTC

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Okay, another comparison:
the 5 minutes pipeline costs 82.6kJ * (300s/1400)s = 82.6kJ * 0.21 = 18kJ (*2 for network=36kJ)
A liter of gas contains 33.6MJ per liter, with car efficiency at 20% it's 6.7MJ, at 3l/100km it's 33.3km, so 200kJ/km.
Every 5m pipeline run costs about as much energy as 200/36=222m by a small car.
How far from the office do you live? How many commits do you push upstream per ride?
We have much better ways to curb energy use than not testing software.

2024-11-11 06:01:41 UTC

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For comparison, boiling a cup of tea needs about 82.6 kJ of energy.
My CI computer has a 60W power supply (so it can't draw more power than that - we're overestimating). The CI would need to run for 82.6kJ/60W ≅ 1400s ≅ 23 min to match it.
Make it half to offset the energy costs of network communication: 11min.
That gives two 5min pipelines for the price of one hot drink.
Would you drink a cup on every other commit if it saved you time and stress in the future?
I probably would.

2024-11-11 05:47:29 UTC

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If your pipeline takes 2 minutes and saves 2 hours in debugging and another 20 in working around the problem at the end user side - which is the case at least for me - then the sweet spot is quite clear.
> the best way to accelerate #climatecrisis
I call this a ridiculous statement. If running a computer for 5 extra minutes is comparatively so bad, we should reconsider software altogether.
There are many better ways to heat up Earth, related to transportation and manufacturng.

2024-11-10 09:42:01 UTC

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Oh, now I realized: most forges host underpriced runners, so they have a reason to have them run as little as possible.
Well, I set up my own runner on #forgejo for a single repo, so I have power to spare :P

2024-11-10 08:42:34 UTC

A piece of criticism to all code forges I know: why not run #CI on all commits?
A bad commit is a liability. It will break bisect and make debugging miserable.
#ForgejoActions takes it to the extreme and cancels an already running action when I push another change.
I get it - it's too slow and expensive to test them all when pipelines take minutes to run. But you could just pause the old ones until the newest one is finished!
#testing #forgejo #gitea #gitlab #Codeberg #coding

2024-11-05 12:45:18 UTC

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Nah, that was the first thing I did :P

2024-11-04 15:55:20 UTC

Installing #Fedora on a #Surface go 2. For #libobscura, because it has a special #camera setup (IPU3).
Set BIOS to boot from USB stick? Still boots windows.
You have to boot Windows with the stick in and select a special "Linpus Lite" reboot option.
Except if the stick is in while Windows is running, it will get corrupted and fail verification.
And then the installer aborts while formatting 'device is in use'.
#Windows resists being removed → fsck #Microsoft ,.
#linux

2024-11-04 09:58:50 UTC

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Best I can do is moral support, sorry :P
https://dorotac.eu/posts/git-botch-email

2024-11-04 08:37:16 UTC

#libobscura, your friendly safe #camera library will be published this week.
But where do you want to see it?
#linux #video @npub1tvt…4jjw

2024-11-01 11:06:35 UTC

#libobscura progress: a demo camera app!
So I've proved (some of) the concepts:
- API without segfaults
- zero-copy image passing
- GPU accelerated decoding
Yes, the picture is mirrored upside-down, why do you ask?
Next: clean up #GPU abstractions and publish a website.
#rustlang #rust #opengl #video
@npub1tvt…4jjw
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2024-10-31 17:36:49 UTC

Working on #libobscura today.
#OpenGL , #EGL , #glium , #glutin , #Rust , #v4l2 .
After 2 weeks of effort, the #GPU decoder COMPILES!
...The screen is green.
But hey, I actually know how to debug this :D It's almost as if 10 years of #debugging and #ReverseEngineering paid off!

2024-10-30 20:36:45 UTC

I just found a way to let #Firefox use the #KDE file picker instead of the dreadful non-integrated #GNOME one :)
It involves enabling portal support:
In about:config set the key:
widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal.file-picker
to "1".
The "save" button is in the bottom right corner again :)

2024-10-20 12:34:16 UTC

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Remember internet.org? I heard in some places outside of Europe many people thought Facebook was the entire Internet.
It sounds like they want to tighten the grip on the rest of us. I hope this leads to an exodus back to the open Web,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

2024-10-19 11:28:46 UTC

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Redefine the Four Freedoms? They better have an amazing proposal because they are already good.
Can show me what they are saying about wanting to redefine?

2024-10-13 13:15:20 UTC

#Coding #OpenGL for #libobscura right now.
Computers need to convert those #Bayer or YUV #camera streams to RGB quickly to present them!
I'm just converting my old code to #rust, but it was enough to remind me why I hate the OpenGL + #EGL + #GBM combo. APIs with implicit global variables can get lost.
Thankfully, I'm nearly done and can go back to shaders and algorithms :-) but using GLES 1.2 (the #Librem5 can't do anything better ;_; )
#vivante #linux

2024-10-11 13:03:03 UTC

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No trainer, and it can (completely unscientifically) take 3-10km for the high steady pace to settle in. Depends on what you mean by "old people" though :)

2024-10-05 06:13:48 UTC

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Thanks :)
I'm trying to reduce the amount of e-waste rather than buying new.

2024-10-05 06:08:25 UTC

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Are you compressing the cursor together with the rest of the stream?
Some games have a "harware cursor" option to reduce cursor latency, where it skips the game's rendering pipeline to arrive a few frames early.
Something similar could be helpful for streaming: send cursor position separately from the video stream, render it directly from a saved image without waiting for an entire frame to arrive.

2024-10-04 17:15:38 UTC

Does anyone in Germany(ish) want to get rid of a #RaspberryPi with a #camera ?
I need one soon to write a prototype driver for the #libobscura camera library project.
PM me with your price.
https://gitlab.com/libobscura
#raspi #askfedi #deutschland

2024-09-28 15:26:44 UTC

@npub1fus…tvjp Can a Taler wallet be used securely in the form of a card?
That is, a smart card that people insert at point-of-sale terminals?
The browser extension takes care not just of the secret store, but also of all user interaction. Would there be a need to trust the terminal not to be compromised?
What's the plan for everyday shopping anyway?

2024-09-11 06:44:50 UTC

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Some important names missing are Dillo and Falcon. Also Librewolf would be interesting to position here.

2024-09-10 07:28:27 UTC

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Your analogy is technically correct, but it also switches things from "act of god" (mateorite) to "predictable" ("space objects are documented") in the middle. This messes up the intuition I was asking about, on top of being unrealistic because we can't predict which house will get hit by a space rock so we don't have social norms for that.
A better one:
"You inherit a building. The building has an electric fault. Next year the fault causes a fire. Who are you blaming?"

2024-09-10 07:16:36 UTC

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My opinion differs in that it applies even when AI can do everything better.
And I only call mine an observation, without an emotional attachment like hope :P

2024-09-09 19:45:01 UTC

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Some people want an actual human to be present in the process, the same way Etsy is selling handcrafted items that may not be better than mass-produced ones.
If "Her" actually comes to real life, then some of those people may be satisfied with notes written by not-a-human. Some.
Either way, I don't see the need eliminated completely. Maybe the jobs would just gather too small a niche of customers.

2024-09-09 06:35:02 UTC

Important social #research #survey !
You're using a community-based distro, free and full of MIT licensed software.
One day, you play some music, but your speakers make a loud POP sound and go silent forever.
A couple friends notice the same, and it turns out a bug in your favorite music player blows people's speakers.
Who are you blaming for the damage?

2024-09-07 05:28:48 UTC

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I deal with this by vendoring using copy-paste.
There are some legitimately useful crates that are under 100 lines, like assert_matches, which do eventually end up in the standard library.
And then there are crates like void.

2024-08-27 06:34:04 UTC

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I wonder what the story is with GPU acceleration on N900 now. The wiki page doesn't mention it, but the Imagination GPU is a big pain to support.

2024-08-24 09:38:47 UTC

#COSMIC compositor is running #squeekboard :)
But not very well. The first letter goes through, and that's it.
This is where I come in.
#wayland #inputmethod #smithay #rust
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2024-08-14 14:51:56 UTC

Does #Mastodon do shadow banning? There's an account that I want to follow but #Fosstodon doesn't show any recent updates from it.
#askfedi

2024-08-14 13:37:18 UTC

#Germany introduces a new system for accessing medical data online.
The implementation by my insurer: Android, iOS, Windows, #Snap Store. Sadly, it's not open.
Sensitive data + closed software on user devices = #security nightmare.
(I'm mercifully ignoring the inevitable leak of the central database.)
When will governments and banks learn? There's no security without source code. There's no stability without interoperability.
#opensource #linux #interoperability #publicmoneypubliccode

2024-08-08 18:12:19 UTC

I finally got the official #funding confirmation from @npub1y8k…05lv .
Time to gather the needed contacts before I begin with #libobscura next month!
#libobscura is going to be a proof of concept #linux #camera library which doesn't make the same mistakes as #libcamera . I'll base it on @npub1r3z…03cf 's work with #libmegapixels .