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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

I don't think I can really daily drive an MNT, my tooling is to x86-centric for that, but damn does this make me want to.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

There is probably also VC money involved here. Cloudflare pulled the same stunt last week, and I'd be willing to bet that there is some kind of "let's give money to _our guys_ so that we no longer depend on <insert-current-slur-here>" or whatever. It's pathetic.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

I wonder how much of the Framework nonsense is literally just because the CEO still hangs out on Twitter. I check in on my old account there every once in a while and my entire feed is just full of DHH stuff getting retweeted by various right-adjacent bluechecks. If you're in that space, I […]

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dtgeek/115340206186034640

I really hope the past few weeks have been eye-opening to the Anti-DMA/pro-wallet garden for "security" people

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I wonder if the RK3588 might be fast enough for my daily usage as a dev ... I got really used to those speedy Ryzens though

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

MNT Reform Next

A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

www.crowdsupply.com

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Disappointing news from them supporting the far fight edition of Hannah Montana Linux, and even reposting DHH of all people. Like, sponsoring Hyperland is one thing, boosting that guy is a whole other level of cursed. I guess we'll see what happens, I suspect that they will also sponsor other […]

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

*Sees the Framework news* RISC-V is going to fix this

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

The amount of people that refer to deprecated tech as "mature" is wild to me.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This way they are also actually aware of deprecations & don't try to use outdated stuff, like https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/vfunc.Widget.show.html

Gtk.Widget.show

Reference for Gtk.Widget.show

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Seriously though, using Claude Code etc. as a way to run `go doc` more efficiently is kind of a game changer. "Read-only" LLMs, so to speak.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Maybe the real "AI" was the RAG we found along the way

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Btw #gtk #gnome folks, since I'm new to this - would you find an API like `widgetClass.SetCallbackSnapshot(func(w *gtk.Widget, s *gtk.Snapshot)` to be clearer, or would `widgetClass.SetVfuncSnapshot(func(w *gtk.Widget, s *gtk.Snapshot)` be using the more correct GTK terminology? `puregotk` uses […]

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Continued some #gobject subclassing support in Go. Turns out I messed up the C memory alignment in #go for and ended up embedding the parent class as a reference, when GObject expects it to be the actual struct. Funnily enough some callbacks still worked […]

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An example application window with GTK inspector open, showing ExampleApplication as it's type.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This is some rad shit.

Go #fediverse ! (and alternative app stores!)

https://www.theverge.com/news/795173/altstore-alternative-ios-iphone-app-store-more-countries-fediverse-social-web

Testut also says that AltStore is making a big push into the fediverse by
using the ActivityPub protocol to "federate apps, app updates, and news
alerts from AltStore to the open social web." Here's how that will work,
according to Testut:
Each AltStore source will receive its own ActivityPub account, which
can then be followed by any other open social web account. You'll be
able to like, boost, and reply to everything, and most importantly all
these interactions will appear natively in AltStore. In other words,
you'll be able to comment on an app on Mastodon, like a news update
on Threads, then open AltStore and view all these same interactions
in-app.
The AltStore team is working with Mastodon gGmbH to "manage a
custom Mastodon server on our behalf" (it's available in beta now) and
with the non-profit A New Social to support Bluesky using the Bridgy
Fed tool. The fediverse features will come to AltStore PAL in "the next
few months," Testut says.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Distributed locking is so much fun

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Linear is such a great bug tracker/Jira alternative. They really nailed their UX.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

If there is one thing that the Arduino acquisition shows us, it is that RISC-V is long overdue.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Those new UPSes from Ubiquity look so interesting. I wish we had a great open ecosystem alternative to their tooling.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@jdw I think (?) ATProto links (at://) works something like this, but ofc there the DIDs being used in practice aren't decentralized

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@jdw Nono, I mean that the servers/web frontends add that link to their interfaces. Then you open it with your web browser, which instantly redirects you to the app when you have it. Also works on Linux through XDG protocol handlers, and PWAs can register this way too.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@jdw I think the idiomatic way to do it would be a custom protocol handler/"open in app" button that redirects you to mastodon://url. But I don't think anyone actually implements this as of today.

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇩🇪IHR SEID DER WAHNSINN: ❤️ Euer Protest hat die #Chatkontrolle gestoppt! Ich höre: Deutschland knickt nicht ein, es gibt also keine Mehrheit im EU-Rat. Das digitale Briefgeheimnis ist vorerst gerettet. Lasst uns diesen Erfolg GEMEINSAM feiern! 🎉
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Eine Europakarte mit dem Titel „Help Stop #ChatControl!“ zeigt die Länder farblich nach der Haltung ihrer Regierung zur Chatkontrolle im Jahr 2025. Die Legende erklärt: Grün steht für „Dagegen“, Blau für „Unentschieden“ und Rot für „Dafür“.

Folgende Länder sind dafür (rot): Bulgarien, Dänemark, Frankreich, Irland, Italien, Kroatien, Litauen, Malta, Portugal, Schweden, Spanien, Ungarn und Zypern.

Folgende Länder sind nicht dafür (grün): Deutschland, Estland, Finnland, Luxemburg, Niederlande, Österreich, Polen, Slowakei, Slowenien und Tschechien.

Folgende Länder sind unentschieden (blau): Belgien, Griechenland, Lettland, Rumänien.

Am unteren Rand steht der Aufruf: „Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu“.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Thank you Germany for standing against Chat Control. Wow that was close. This, with bill C-2 now hopefully also getting revised to remove the same dangerous clauses soon, might be the best privacy news of the year […]

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