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[47°09′39″S, 126°43′47″W] Waiting for carrier
@prologic That too, yeah … 😢
[47°09′47″S, 126°43′55″W] 4579 days without news from Herve
@movq That and no sane person writes Java™ anymore right? 🤣
Java’s Swing is allegedly in “maintenance mode”, so I doubt it’s a good idea to use it for new programs. For example, I very much doubt that it will ever support Wayland.

The replacement is supposed to be JavaFX, but that’s not included in JREs – anymore! It used to be, now it’s not, even though it’s well over 15 years old now.

This whole thing (“Java GUIs”) appears to have stagnated a lot. Probably because everything is web stuff these days …

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javafx/faq-javafx.html#6
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WTF, la cobertura política en España.

Ahora mismo en la tele están entrevistando al vendedor de la óptica que le vendió las gafas a Pedro Sánchez. ⌘ Read more****
@arne MeckPomm erscheint mir immer wie ein großartiges Bundesland, in dem ich gerne Leben würde. Kleines Häuschen auf dem Land mit Hühnerstall. Ginge aber – was auch diese Umfrage da impliziert – vermutlich nur, wenn ich meinen derzeitigen Job behalten und full-remote weitermachen würde, damit genug Geld fließt? 🤔
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Recordatorio: Es época de vacunarse de Covid y Gripe.

Dependiendo comunidades, ya podéis pedirlo en vuestros centros.

Yo hoy estoy en el team doble vacuna. 👯 ⌘ Read more****
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Un poco de stoner metal, por favor!!

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Laut "Glücksatlas" ist in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern die Lebenszufriedenheit bundesweit am geringsten. Aber mich hat gar keiner gefragt. 🤔
Wie damals beim PISA-Test, als sie bei uns im Jahrgang fast ausschließlich die Doofen beprobt haben und sich dann wunderten.

> Alle Bevölkerungsgruppen sind betroffen, besonders ältere alleinlebende Männer.

Die sollten sich mal fragen, warum sie alleinlebend sind, die ollen Borche! Dann löst sich der Rest von selbst. 😘
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O novo CTO do Estado fala, no papel de CTO do Estado, com os cidadãos.

É no site do CTO do Estado? Ou no do Governo? É no da ARTE? Se calhar no do Ministério?

Nada disso, é na rede social do seu ex-empregador:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7388702759744602112/
¡Feliz Halloween 🎃 🧛!
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@movq Yeah, give it a shot. At worst you know that you have to continue your quest. :-)

Fun fact, during a semester break I was actually a little bored, so I just started reading the Qt documentation. I didn't plan on using Qt for anything, though. I only looked at the docs because they were on my bucket list for some reason. Qt was probably recommended to me and coming from KDE myself, that was motivation enough to look at the docs just for fun.

The more I read, the more hooked I got. The documentation was extremely well written, something I've never seen before. The structure was very well thought out and I got the impression that I understood what the people thought when they actually designed Qt.

A few days in I decided to actually give it a real try. Having never done anything in C++ before, I quickly realized that this endeavor won't succeed. I simply couldn't get it going. But I found the Qt bindings for Python, so that was a new boost. And quickly after, I discovered that there were even KDE bindings for Python in my package manager, so I immediately switched to them as that integrated into my KDE desktop even nicer.

I used the Python KDE bindings for one larger project, a planning software for a summer camp that we used several years. It's main feature was to see who is available to do an activity. In the past, that was done on a large sheet of paper, but people got assigned two activities at the same time or weren't assigned at all. So, by showing people in yellow (free), green (one activity assigned) and red (overbooked), this sped up and improved the planning process.

Another core feature was to generate personalized time tables (just like back in school) and a dedicated view for the morning meeting on site.

It was extended over the years with all sorts of stuff. E.g. I then implemented a warning if all the custodians of an activitiy with kids were underage to satisfy new the guidelines that there should be somebody of age.

Just before the pandemic I started to even add support for personalized live views on phones or tablets during the planning process (with web sockets, though). This way, people could see their own schedule or independently check at which day an activity takes place etc. For these side quests, they don't have to check the large matrix on the projector. But the project died there.

Here's a screenshot from one of the main views: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/k3man.png

This Python+Qt rewrite replaced and improved the Java+Swing predecessor.
@bender It's a great movie, enjoy! :-)
@prologic Yep, that's heaps better, ta! <3
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AVISOS À POPULAÇÃO

Aviso Meteorológico IPMA | Distrito de #Viseu | 30/10/2025

🟥 #Precipitação - Aviso Vermelho

Precipitação persistente e por vezes forte.

Válido de 2025-10-31 06:00 a 2025-10-31 12:00

🟧 Precipitação - Aviso Laranja

Precipitação persistente e por vezes forte.

Válido de 2025-10-31 03:00 a 2025-10-31 06:00

🟧 Precipitação - Aviso Laranja

Precipitação persistente e por vezes forte.

Válido de 2025-10-31 12:00 a 2025-11-01 00:00

🟨 Precipitação - Aviso Amarelo

Precipitação por vezes forte.

Válido de 2025-11-01 00:00 a 2025-11-01 12:00

⚠️ está previsto um agravamento do estado do tempo nas próximas horas:

🌧️ 1. Condições Meteorológicas Previstas:
Precipitação forte e persistente, podendo originar acumulações significativas, sobretudo nas zonas mais elevadas;

Vento por vezes forte, com rajadas intensas nas terras altas e áreas mais expostas;

Redução da visibilidade e formação de lençóis de água nas vias rodoviárias;

Possibilidade de trovoadas e queda de granizo em alguns períodos.

💧 2. Situação Hidrológica:
Na bacia do Douro, poderá ocorrer aumento do caudal dos rios e ribeiras, sem situações críticas previstas até ao momento;

⚠️ 3. Efeitos Prováveis;
🛠️ 4. Medidas Preventivas e de Autoproteção:

Saibam o que está para vir e o que fazer em:
https://www.procivlamego.pt/centro-municipal/arquivo-de-avisos/915-agravamento-do-estado-do-tempo
[47°09′36″S, 126°43′45″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@lyse now that I could finally read you RSVP message (or, should I say, essay, LOL), I had to see the video, and well, https://netbros.com/1761846417/. Hahahahaha!
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Así que esa gente, que siente soledad, y quiere grabar todo su entorno para generar "amigos", se tendrán que quedar con esos amigos virtuales como única opción.

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entre las ponentes con gafas de META. Pero me dí cuenta después de más de una hora.

Yo, evidentemente, me sentí... vulnerada. No había dado mi permiso para que mi información biométrica vaya para una corporación con la que estoy luchando como activista. Supone directamente un peligro para mí.

De modo que no hablé más con esa persona, la evité. Quizás no entendió porqué.

Y mucha gente huiremos como de la peste de la gente con gafas de META. Porque es una violación de nuestros derechos básicos ⌘ Read more****
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Imaginad todos los problemas que puede suponer esto en todos los niveles.

Evidentemente, esa tecnología está cubriendo una necesidad que existía antes de que existiera: la soledad.

Les psicólogues y sociólogues llevamos años avisando que hay una epidemia de soledad expandiéndose.

Pero tengo claro que esto les va a aislar aún más. Os diría que si veo a alguien con un collar de esos no pienso hablarles, pero es que esto ya me pasó ayer mismo.

En la charla vi a alguien ...

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En Nueva York está habiendo una campaña fuerte de resistencia contra una IA en forma de collar que promete ser "tu amigo".

Esta campaña está siendo desplegada en el metro de NY, y la gente está pintando cosas como "la ia no es tu amiga", "a la IA no le importas", "la conexión humana es importante"...

La idea es que te graba 24/7, a ti, y evidentemente a tu entorno.

Esto parte de que muchos adolescentes están utilizando la IA para contarles cosas personales, o consejos de salud mental...

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https://bibl.remz.ca/ tous les livres dont vous etes le heros !!!
@lyse Hmmmmmmmmmmmm … guess I should take a look at Qt. 🤔 That’s the one popular toolkit that I’ve never really tried for some reason. I really don’t like C++ (might as well use Rust), so I’ll also use Python.
https://smolweb.org/css-grading.html
[47°09′05″S, 126°43′40″W] Storm recedes -- back to normal work
Desde ontem que a RTP fala de "os candidatos", "os oito candidatos" à Presidência da República. Quem ouve isto pensa que só há oito. Na realidade há mais do triplo de candidaturas anunciadas...

#ptpol #presidenciais
Cool. I _think_ I've improved this abit. Update going out shortly... Also added optional support for displaying gravatar(s) if you supply your email address (_optional of course_).
#Compoética #Compoética2025
Encontro Brasileiro de #ProgramaçãoCriativa

Vai ser agora sábado e domingo, 1 e 2 de novembro:

https://compoetica.github.io/hotsite/?evento=EV_2025

Domingo tem atividades no
#GaroaHackerClube #Algorave

https://youtube.com/@compoetica
@lyse Also thanks mate! 🥰

> In fact, it’s a great little invention
Actually. Looking at the template and the BeerCSS docs, I _think_ I'm just using the wrong elements and doing the wrong thing in the template/partial structure itself 🤔 Probably need to wrap text in something else other than a plain 'ol <p>
@lyse To be fair, I'm not convinced of the web design / user interface decisions either. I just hacked this together over a couple of days. I'm not sold on any of the UI/UX thus far. Open to suggestions, improvements, hell even a complete CSS rewrite 🤣 UI/UX nor CSS is my strong suite 😂
@lyse Go complain to the BeerCSS 🍻 developers 🤣
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 43 ![We found a pear-shaped something on the ground, thought it was a seed, brought home. It cracked open after a couple of days, and after all it was a pod to a conker (in the photo)!](https://media.ciberlandia.pt/ciberlandia-media/media_attachments/files/115/462/942/042/934/767/original/ff483c3e9b4a10ac.jpg)
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Kmeleon gopher awesome too it's works
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La cosa se pone guapa; no tenemos seguro, pk somos así de listos, y tampoco hicimos la última revisión, pk somos gilipuertas. Así que nos va a tocar pagar la reparación pk el seguro y la inmobiliaria sí que van a decir: tra tra! ⌘ Read more****
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Por añadir al hilo veo que una de las ponentes llevaba las gafas de META con Rayban.

https://www.youtube.com/live/GT6kjG-l4R8?si=srscr-pAHy5ing2L&t=3359

Se ve mejor en el vídeo que en esta captura. ⌘ Read more****
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Buenos jueves,

Si agua caliente en casa, caldera out, toca bañarse en barreños.

Vosotros que tal?

tra tra!

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im a polar bear
hello from antarctica
bluedwarf.top!!!!
Hey all from ncsa mosaic 3.0
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Muy fan de Manolo García en la Revuelta. Se estaba metiendo con la IA, y poniendo en valor las labores artesanales.

Y dice Grison:

Cocodrilo, cocodrilo. Tralarí, tralará.

(explica que es Italian Brainrot), y dice, para eso sirve la IA, para hacer gilipolleces.

Responde Manolo García:

Si a ti te parece. ⌘ Read more****
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Hoy una chica en unas ponencias del instituto de la mujer me ha dicho que le encantó el libro de @teclista

Esa persona tiene cuenta en el fediverso por cierto. No se si se abrió cuenta por ello pero muy posiblemente si. ⌘ Read more****
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Mi madre me ha comentado que hay un centro de acogida en el pueblo de al lado. Y que están teniendo un discurso de odio terrorífico.

"¡Me parece mal! @Si son niños!" - me ha dicho que quiere hacer algo. Ella quería dar una charla, y le he sugerido que mejor venga alguien a dar una charla antiracista a las amas de casa, así aprenden. Está ilusionada.

Así que me toca buscar asociaciones antiracistas en Ciudad Real.

Así acaba una con orgullo de madre. ⌘ Read more****
Meus cursos no Sesc em novembro!

- https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/ilustracoes-experimentais-usando-mapas-e-dados-geograficos/ #SescAvenidaPaulista

- https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/programacao-criativa-desenhando-com-python/ #SescBelenzinho

#Python #SescSP #Processing #py5 #ProgramaçãoCriativa
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Esto fue El ÚLTIMO TANGO https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p1zn3vj23Fo donde prometimos regresar. Sorpresa: No existió regreso.

Ha llovido mucho y muy mal desde entonces... en Valencia, tornados en París, ...

Nosotras no hemos dejado de hacer lo mismo pero sin cámara.

Estos directos se hacían en twitch por el tema "latencia VS chat" y porque cuando vimos que VOX estaba pensamos en: "Hace falta estar y dar la batalla cultural".

Pero lo mismo es hora de regresar de otra forma ... ⌘ Read more****
@movq Uh, that actually looks not that terrible. Somehow, I remember Swing GUIs being way uglier.

As for Visual Basic, I only had to use VBA once in my life. That was in the beginning of my career when I inherited a project from a leaving coworker. Fuck me, was that awful. Just alone the damn compiler error dialog box popping up in my face all the time while editing and the compiler already trying to parse the unfinished and hence of course uncompilable code. Boy, that left a lasting impression on me. I ported everything to Java very quickly. Luckily, the code base wasn't all that large at that point in time. I had to add a bunch of new features after that, so I was very glad that I convinced my workmate/project manager to do that first. We didn't even need a GUI, the button in Excel was transformed to a command line program that just generated the large file.

But I cannot comment on the VB GUI designer, I never used that. Your screenshot looks very similar to the Delphi one, though. Only towards the end of my Delphi days I found out about the possibility to make the widgets snap to window edges and corners (I don't remember how that was called), so that resizing the windows was actually possible without messing up their entire contents.

Switching to Linux, Delphi wasn't an option anymore. For some reason I couldn't use Kylix. Maybe it was already dead by the time I changed OSes. Or I couldn't get it to run. I just don't remember. I just recall that the unavailability of Delphi was the reason it took me a while to actually settle on Linux. I then fully switched to Java. The GridBagLayout was my absolutely favorite Swing layout manager. I reckon I used it 98% of the time, because it was so powerful and made the windows resize properly, just as I had learned to do in Delphi shortly before.

Up until discovering Swing, I used Java's AWT for a short amount of time. That was very limited I think and I hit the limits fairly quickly. Later at uni, we had one project making use of SWT. Didn't convince me either. I could be wrong, but I think there was also a SWT GUI designer plugin for Eclipse. If there really was, that one wasn't in the same street as Delphi's (there must be a reason I forgot about it ;-)).
@bender Kaboom! Hahaha, I did not think of that at all, thanks for pointing it out, mate! :'-D

But let me clarify just in case: I honestly do *not* want to bash this project. In fact, it's a great little invention. It's just that I'm not conviced by the current user interface decisions. Anyway, web design isn't right up my alley. I just wanted to add some fun. And luckily, at least someone liked it so far. :-)
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@movq Don't you worry, this was meant as a joke. :-D

There was a time when I thought that Swing was actually really good. But having done some Qt/KDE later, I realized how much better that was. That were the late KDE 3 and early KDE 4 days, though. Not sure how it is today. But back then it felt Trolltech and the KDE folks put a hell lot more thought into their stuff. I was pleasantly surprised how natural it appeared and all the bits played together. Sure, there were the odd ends, but the overall design was a lot better in my opinion.

To be fair, I never used it from C++, always the Python bindings, which were considerably more comfortable (just alone the possibility to specify most attributes right away as kwargs in the constructor instead of calling tons of setters). And QtJambi, the Java binding, was also relatively nice. I never did a real project though, just played around with the latter.
@lyse LOLz! Way to destroy @prologic's newest playground! :-P
(… won’t be fast, either, though …)
@lyse

> The one for Delphi was quite good.

It was! I didn’t use Delphi for long, though. Dunno why, I always gravitated towards Visual Basic back then. 😅

> These days I don't deal with GUI programming anymore.

I also avoid it when possible, because … it’s exhausting, because … the tools that I have/know are “subpar”. Doing anything regarding GUIs always feels like a chore. That wasn’t the case in the VB days.

Well, I made this in ~2009 with Java/Swing and it was pretty nice to work with, custom widgets and all:

https://movq.de/v/de26d5edb3/s.png

I wouldn’t dare doing this with GTK.~
@lyse Can’t tell if serious or not – because I’m actually considering this. 😅
@movq The one for Delphi was quite good. But JCreator (I don't remember exactly) was awful and I never looked back to GUI designers. Always layed out the GUI by hand in code myself since then. These days I don't deal with GUI programming anymore.
@bender @prologic Let's see on which day we'll finally settle.

I reckon the white-space: nowrap is a bit evil on the gatherly notes, though.
@movq Hähähä, let's feed the trolls! :->
@aelaraji Nice! :-) Since vim is quite advanced cavemanery, you could probably even remap Enter when editing the twtxt.txt.
@movq Java/Swing!
And maybe I should go back to using GUI designers. Haven’t used those since the Visual Basic days. 🤔 It wasn’t pretty, but you got results very quickly and efficiently.

(When I switched to Linux, I quickly got stuck with GTK and that only had Glade, which wasn’t super great at the time, so I didn’t start using it … and then I never questioned that decision …)

https://movq.de/v/eaa24b109b/vb.png
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Theming on Qt6 is a bit unusual (you have to install qt6ct and then set an environment variable for every Qt program?), but at least pcmanfm-qt doesn’t look like brain damage anymore now. 🤔 (Except there’s no darkmode. What is this, 1980?)

https://movq.de/v/2d0d5da3d2/s.png
@prologic Hmm, I’ll have to take a look. Appears to be Go only, doesn’t it?

I’m not quite sold yet on the idea of “immediate mode” GUIs. 🤔
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Aquí el #rolleye de @CorioPsicologia cuando la otra ponente dice "No existen sesgos en la Inteligencia Artificial". ⌘ Read more****
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Muy interesantes de todos modos todo. Solamente @CorioPsicologia ha dicho todos todas y todes.

Algunas frases:

\- Internet es una herramienta política. Silvia Semenzin

\- La IA no es solamente una herramienta como suele decirse, es todo un sistema sociotécnico. Aurora Gomez ⌘ Read more****
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Hoy he flipado muchísimo !! No pensaba pasármelo tan bien en un evento institucional.

Aquí el vídeo entero: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GT6kjG-l4R8

Se notaba cierta tensión en el ambiente entre las ponentes. No por nada personal sino por diferentes posturas ideologícas.

La persona que habla antes de @CorioPsicologia tiene una posición tecnooptimista bastante naif.

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@CorioPsicologia a ver si encuentro el link del directo. Se ha emitido se supone y con traducción de lengua de signos. ⌘ Read more****
@movq What about gioui?
@prologic Such as? 🤔
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@aelaraji yeah, it looks tedious because it is. LOL. I can twt no matter where I am because a) with Yarn is as easy as opening a web browser, and b) with jenny is as easy at SSHing to my VPS. But, the keyword is *fun*. That's what matters!
bluedfart.top for fart lol
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Aquí ando en el instituto de la mujer. Otro evento de estos donde la IA aparece en el título.

Quien hablará es @CorioPsicologia que viene a dar otro punto de vista. Veo que ha preparado un poco el tema y le toca comentar posturas críticas en vez de tecnofilas, tecnosolucionistas, ...

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A puntito de dar una charla en el Instituto de la Mujer para aportar miradas feministas y criticos al debate de la IA. ⌘ Read more****
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Trombón a la izquierda -- Tuba a la derecha

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Lo peor es que también venía el tipo defendiendo la sanidad privada y a Israel.

Justo meses antes de que Trump entrase uno de sus hijos se fue a vivir a EEUU. No se como habrá terminado eso pero lo mismo ha sopesado sus ideas.

Se compró a tocateja un piso en Madrid y siempre que hablaba era como que existen migrantes de primera y de segunda. Tenía mucha fijación en pisar a otros para supongo sentirse mejor o algo.

En fin. No se para que cuento todo esto. ⌘ Read more****
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"Nadie está a salvo": tras 49 años en Estados Unidos, un cubano partidario de Trump es deportado a una prisión de máxima seguridad en África"

https://wtfdetective.blog/50-years-america-pro-trump-cuban-african-prison

No me alegro pero siento que él colaboró con el fascismo porque pensaba que serían otros quienes sufriesen.

Un ex-compa de curro de origen venezolano todos los días erre que erre con que Ayuso es la mejor, que los moros malos y ... ⌘ Read more****
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@movq What about more modern alternatives based on GLFW?
@bender LOL 😂 Timezonea are hard 😆
@aelaraji Love it! 🤣
bluedwarf.top is the only big talk rn
@lyse back to this, I think @prologic meant 1 November 12:00 UTC. I won’t hold it against him. 🤭
@aelaraji tell us all about it, without omitting details!
@lyse maybe @prologic managed to mess things up—we should be used to this already, right? LOL—as the meets are always on Saturdays, as early as 06:00 EDT, or whereabouts, never on a Sunday.

> You want me to submit a reply with “I probably won’t show up”?

I LOLed IRL! 🤣