Notices by CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social)

Web? Oh you mean the Google runtime?

@alx @aral It's pretty clear that's what was going on. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67082047

@mntmn no headphone jack?

@mntmn Is the screen a touchscreen?

... which makes sense, considering it started as a fork of a code review system for SVN.

Gerrit feels like Git support was kludged into a design meant for a different version control system.

It plays FLAC and the libflac and libopus APIs are very similar, so it wouldn't be very hard to add Opus support. They just don't care. I don't care much either, but I find the irony hilarious, and very on-brand with a history of odd technical decisions.

Leave it to Pioneer to make DJ gear with "Opus" in the name that doesn't play Opus files 😂

Sometimes parallelizing tasks isn't a great idea... when it takes 23.7 GB of memory.

GUI development tip: Have no idea where something is in a large codebase? Search the code for a string you see in the GUI.

@lanodan I prefer ripgrep in a shell, but lately I've been making use of the project search feature in Kate. Using Kate's search feature is nice because it's easy to click on a search hit to open that file.

maybe to make trains safer we should stop put huge quantities of fossil fuels on them

What if we put people on trains instead of pressurized tanks of explosive chemicals?

@graydon It's interesting to note the similarities between the Go proposal and Plausible Analytics. Both aim for gathering data in such a minimally intrusive way that they do not ask for opting in. But one comes from Google and the other comes from a small company that markets itself as an alternative to Google Analytics, and so reactions to them are pretty much opposites.

@alcinnz @davidgerard Everyone has a stake in the normalization of opt-out telemetry.

@lightweight That would be great.

+628 −392 so downstream users can skip 2 lines of boilerplate C++ and do everything from Rust.
https://github.com/KDAB/cxx-qt/pull/428

This is all that is needed to write a QML application in Rust with CXX-Qt now:

```
fn main() {
let mut app = QGuiApplication::new();
let mut engine = QQmlApplicationEngine::new();
if let Some(engine) = engine.as_mut() {
engine.load(&QUrl::from("qrc:/main.qml"));
}
if let Some(app) = app.as_mut() {
app.exec();
}
}
```

@brainblasted As @pluralistic calls it, Netflix is enshitifying itself. Having captured both viewers and video producers, it is now in position to squeeze as much profit out of both sides as it can until the whole thing just sucks for everyone. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

I'm considering submitting a talk proposal for Open Source Summit North America for work but I'm not sure I even want to go to the event https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/