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@movq Yeah, most of the graphical applications are actually KDE programs:
* KMail – e-mail client
* Okular – PDF viewer
* Gwenview – image viewer
* Dolphin – file browser
* KWallet – password manager (I want to check out pass one day. The most annoying thing is that when I copy a password, it says that the password has been modified and asks me whether I want to save the changes. I never do, because the password is still the same. I don't get it.)
* KPatience – card game
* Kdenlive – video editor
* Kleopatra – certificate manager
Qt:
* VLC – video player
* Psi – Jabber client (I happily used Kopete in the past, but that is not supported anymore or so. I don't remember.)
* sqlitebrowser – SQLite browser
Gtk:
* Firefox – web browser
* Quod Libet – music player (I should look for a better alternative. Can't remember why I had to move away from Amarok, was it dead? There was a fork Clementine or so, but I had to drop that for some unknown reason, too.)
* Audacity – audio editor
* GIMP – image editor
These are the things that are open right now or that I could think of. Most other stuff I actually do in the terminal.
In the past™, I used the Python KDE4 bindings. That was really nice. I could pass most stuff directly in the constructor and didn't have to call gazillions of setters improving the experience significantly. If I ever wanted to do GUI programming again, I'd definitely go that route. There are also great Qt bindings for Python if one wanted to avoid the KDE stuff on top. The vast majority I do for myself, though, is either CLI or maybe TUI. A few web shit things, but no GUIs anymore. :-)*
yeah, that's the tricky part of adding features
@lyse
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
@lyse
> Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔
I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢
[47°09′58″S, 126°43′13″W] Waiting for carrier
@2a23a/c8705/a3f9c : It feels good to read positive texts! I also wish you the best in this increasingly unstable world. from Limoges (France).
Oh, it's called "unsubscribe".
@movq Oh, right, a type would be good to have! :-D
@movq Where can I join your club? Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.
I just noted today that JetBrains improv^Wcompletely fucked up their new commit dialog. There's no diff anymore where I would also be able to select which changes to stage. I guess from now on I'm going to exclusively commit from only the shell. No bloody git integration anymore. >:-( This is so useless now, unbelievable.
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"it is very easy to filter or ignore it" This is the interesting part for legacy clients, hehe
Joking aside, let's see how it works in the wild!
It looks interesting but not enough for me to buy one 😅
@andros This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣
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[47°09′52″S, 126°43′25″W] 4358 days without news from Herve
@eapl.me I think the benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages. Clients would have to read and merge the information from 2 txt and a new metadata would have to be added with the address of this file.
Also, it is very easy to filter or ignore it.
@eapl.me I think the benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages. Clients would have to read and merge the information from 2 txt and a new metadata would have to be added with the address of this file.
Also, it is very easy to filter or ignore it.
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Cheers, #CreativeCoding friends!
I'm going to try out something, let's see what happens... next Saturday (2025-03-29) and possibly on some other Saturdays after that. I'm going to host an online space where I show something about Creative Coding with #Python and #py5. I'm calling it "Python Creative Coding Free Walking Tour". I'll also do some "py5 Office Hours", Q&A and on-boarding.
It will be free, and I'll accept donations, just like the free walking tour we have showing off nice spots of São Paulo for tourists. I hope it will be even better than that: as I studied architecture I find the tour guide's explanations a bit over the top and sometimes missing the point, but maybe mine will also be an over the top creative coding tour, who knows? you'll have to judge by yourselves.
The first, "walking tour" part will be from 11:00AM BRT (UCT -3) to 12:00 and then, the second, "office hours" part, will be from 12:15 to 13:00, when people will be able to ask me anything about py5 and I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge, it will also be an opportunity to get help setting up your tools/environment in order to take your first steps drawing with code.
- To get the video-conference link, send me a DM or fill this form: https://form.jotform.com/Alexandre_Villares/python-creative-coding-walking-tour
Cheers, #CreativeCoding friends!
I'm going to try out something, let's see what happens... next Saturday (2025-03-29) and possibly on some other Saturdays after that. I'm going to host an online space where I show something about Creative Coding with #Python and #py5. I'm calling it "Python Creative Coding Free Walking Tour". I'll also do some "py5 Office Hours", Q&A and on-boarding.
It will be free, and I'll accept donations, just like the free walking tour we have showing off nice spots of São Paulo for tourists. I hope it will be even better than that: as I studied architecture I find the tour guide's explanations a bit over the top and sometimes missing the point, but maybe mine will also be an over the top creative coding tour, who knows? you'll have to judge by yourselves.
The first, "walking tour" part will be from 11:00AM BRT (UCT -3) to 12:00 and then, the second, "office hours" part, will be from 12:15 to 13:00, when people will be able to ask me anything about py5 and I'll try to answer to the best of my knowledge, it will also be an opportunity to get help setting up your tools/environment in order to take your first steps drawing with code.
- Update: to get the video-conference link, visit https://hackmd.io/@villares/python-creativecoding-tour
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I have finished 1-9 on Python. If anyone is interested, I could share the code, or in Reddit many people have shared theirs.
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Is it working now?
I'd say again that perhaps the DMs could be stored in another .txt, but anyway I'd like to try it.
I don't have the need for a physical Calc nor a watch, although I'm slightly more interested in a https://banglejs.com or an eink watch 🤔
C'est fou comme c'est cher une voiture oO. Comment vous faîtes les gens???
C'est fou comme c'est cher une voiture oO. Comment vous faîtes les gens???
@lyse (I think of pointers as “memory location + type”, but I have done so much C and Assembler by now that the whole thing feels almost trivial to me. And I would have trouble explaining these concepts, I guess. 😅 *Maybe* I’ll cover this topic with our new Azubis/trainees some day …)
@lyse (I think of pointers as “memory location + type”, but I have done so much C and Assembler by now that the whole thing feels almost trivial to me. And I would have trouble explaining these concepts, I guess. 😅 *Maybe* I’ll cover this topic with our new Azubis/trainees some day …)
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@prologic What is "ciwtuau"? I don't understand, sorry haha
@prologic What is "ciwtuau"? I don't understand, sorry haha
When will the flat UI craze end? Can I get my buttons, scrollbars, and toolbars back, please?
When will the flat UI craze end? Can I get my buttons, scrollbars, and toolbars back, please?
@kat Pointers can be a bit tricky. I know it took me also quite some time to wrap my head around them. Let my try to explain. It's a pretty simple, yet very powerful concept with many facets to it.
A pointer is an indirection. At a lower level, when you have some chunk of memory, you can have some actual values sitting in there, ready for direct use. A pointer, on the other hand, points to some other location where to look for the values one's actually after. Following that pointer is also called dereferencing the pointer.
I can't come up with a good real-world example, so this poor comparison has to do. It's a bit like you have a book (the real value that is being pointed to) and an ISBN referencing that book (the pointer). So, instead of sending you all these many pages from that book, I could give you just a small tag containing the ISBN. With that small piece of information, you're able to locate the book. Probably a copy of that book and that's where this analogy falls apart.
In contrast to that flawed comparision, it's actually the other way around. Many different pointers can point to the same value. But there are many books (values) and just one ISBN (pointer).
The pointer's target might actually be another pointer. You typically then would follow both of them. There are no limits on how long your pointer chains can become.
One important property of pointers is that they can also point into nothingness, signalling a dead end. This is typically called a null pointer. Following such a null pointer calls for big trouble, it typically crashes your program. Hence, you must never follow any null pointer.
Pointers are important for example in linked lists, trees or graphs. Let's look at a doubly linked list. One entry could be a triple consisting of (actual value, pointer to next entry, pointer to previous entry).
_______________________
/ ________\_______________
↓ ↓ | \
+---+---+---+ +---+---+-|-+ +---+---+-|-+
| 7 | n | x | | 23| n | p | | 42| x | p |
+---+-|-+---+ +---+-|-+---+ +---+---+---+
| ↑ | ↑
\_______/ \_______/
The "x" indicates a null pointer. So, the first element of the doubly linked list with value 7 does not have any reference to a previous element. The same is true for the next element pointer in the last element with value 42.
In the middle element with value 23, both pointers to the next (labeled "n") and previous (labeled "p") elements are pointing to the respective elements.
You can also see that the middle element is pointed to by two pointers. By the "next" pointer in the first element and the "previous" pointer in the last element.
That's it for now. There are heaps ;-) more things to tell about pointers. But it might help you a tiny bit.______________________________________________
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@andros @prologic Exactly. The screenshots of the last few days show it in action. But I do not consider it ready for the world yet. @doesnm appears to have a high pain tolerance, though. :-)
@andros You use your real name as login name, too?
@prologic I see this with the scouts. Luckily, not at work. But at work, I'm surrounded by techies.
@movq Oh my goodness! I'm so glad that I don't have to deal with that in my family. But yeah, I guess you're onto something with your theory. This article is also quite horrific. O_o
@movq Wooaah, that is cool! \o/
Hello World. Be Safe. Be Kind. Love Each Other. <3
Hahaha, a bird is singing really load and it sounds almost exactly like a car alarm. Well, it's probably the other way around, the car alarm was modeled after the birdcall. :-)
@prologic Yes, it was one of those. 95, 98, and Me were all built on top of DOS, as far as I know.
@prologic Yes, it was one of those. 95, 98, and Me were all built on top of DOS, as far as I know.
Pinellas County Long Run: 18.03 miles, 00:10:14 average pace, 03:04:35 duration
fun run... broke it up in 5km segments. around 14 miles in started to just take it a bit easier because the legs just got a bit tired. pretty good for crap sleep and/or rest.
#running
Pinellas County Long Run: 18.03 miles, 00:10:14 average pace, 03:04:35 duration
fun run... broke it up in 5km segments. around 14 miles in started to just take it a bit easier because the legs just got a bit tired. pretty good for crap sleep and/or rest.
#running
Pinellas County Long Run: 18.03 miles, 00:10:14 average pace, 03:04:35 duration
fun run... broke it up in 5km segments. around 14 miles in started to just take it a bit easier because the legs just got a bit tired. pretty good for crap sleep and/or rest.
#running
@movq Is that the cwrsion that still ran on MS-DOS?
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@lyse I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”
People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
@lyse I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”
People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
@andros Is this a book republished as a Markdown doc on GitHub or written that way?
@lyse I'm in the banking industry, so don't see this much🤣
@andros Cool! Can I joking ciwtuau? 🤔
@lyse I had no idea. However, I think we're losing our sense of anonymity. I even started using my real name!
@lyse I had no idea. However, I think we're losing our sense of anonymity. I even started using my real name!
@eapl.me I looked at the first few puzzles and they are pretty cool so far! I haven't actually implemented any of them, but I'm fairly certain about how I'd solve them properly. I went through some linked reference articles yesterday, they're also really good. I will recommend this to some workmates. :-)
It's extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. I've seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is "Benutzername" in German, literally "username". Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.
This wasn't the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some "real" username. Even non-techies. It looks like some "common knowledge" is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.
Have you experienced something similar?
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Unfortunately none of the content on the Wikipedia page for him really criticises much of his work. He must be really good at being a "businessman" and killing tech innovation 🤣
> After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][14][12] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17] At Yahoo!, he worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][18] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!'s chief strategy officer.[19]
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> In 2012, Prabhakar joined Google after severe funding cuts in Yahoo!'s research division.[19] In 2018, he was > put in charge of Ads and Commerce at Google and in 2020 his scope was expanded to include Search, Geo, and Assistant.[20] [21]
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> In 2024, he transitioned to the role of Chief Technologist at Google.[2]
@thecanine I read this article and did some research. Wow! Amazing really how we can build really good tech, then kill it quietly all for the sake of more revenue and profits for shareholders 🤣
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hung out with friends today it was nice :)
hung out with friends today it was nice :)
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The "idiossINcrasias" series from the ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA label starts in June!
It was an ill-kept secret: kokori had the honor of being invited to kickstart this series with the also Portuguese band "Floating Ashes".
Starting June, ADC will release a series of "idiossINcracies", a special, limited CD collection, where each volume will showcase two musical projects with five songs from each.
The first volume, to be released on the 16th of June, joins Floating Ashes and kokori, and from this moment on you can already get a sample of it with one track from each project, on the label's bandcamp:
https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com/album/idiossincrasia-vol-1
Being ½ #kokori I'm suspect, but I agree with the label when they state that "this series promises to be a valuable addition to collectors and followers of experimental and alternative music."
👉 reservations can be made by sending me a message.
#music #ADC #kokori #FloatingAshes #CD #ADC139JUN2025 
idiossINcrasias - vol. 1 Floating Ashes Kokori ADC
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The "idiossINcrasias" series from the ANTI-DEMOS-CRACIA label starts in June!
It was an ill-kept secret: kokori had the honor of being invited to kickstart this series with the also Portuguese band "Floating Ashes".
Starting June, ADC will release a series of "idiossINcracies", a special, limited CD collection, where each volume will showcase two musical projects with five songs from each.
The first volume, to be released on the 16th of June, joins Floating Ashes and kokori, and from this moment on you can already get a sample of it with one track from each project, on the label's bandcamp:
https://anti-demos-cracia.bandcamp.com/album/idiossincrasia-vol-1
Being ½ #kokori I'm suspect, but I agree with the label when they state that "this series promises to be a valuable addition to collectors and followers of experimental and alternative music."
👉 reservations can be made by sending me a message.
#music #ADC #kokori #FloatingAshes #CD #ADC139JUN2025 idiossINcrasias - vol. 1 Floating Ashes Kokori ADC
Tenho o mesmo email faz mais de 20 anos, hoje eu recebi mais de 30 mensagens de spam que são phishing (muitas se passando por "intimação para depor da polícia federal") me dá vontande de abandonar esse email :(