lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (12h ago)

Grrrrrā€¦eat, one of my Bessey spring clamps broke. Ripped the arm right in half. I wouldnā€™t be surprised if itā€™s just designed in Germany but actually made out of Chinesium. :-( I will attempt to glue it back together with two component adhesive tomorrow, but I donā€™t have high hopes.

#vvjfklq
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (14h ago)

(#z2diwfa) @prologic@twtxt.net Nothing, yet. It was sent in written form. Thereā€™s probably little point in fighting this, they have made up their minds already (and AI is being rolled up en masse in other departments), but on the other hand, there are ā€“ truthfully ā€“ very few areas where AI could actually be useful to me.

There are going to be many discussions about this ā€¦

This is completely against the ā€œspiritā€ of this company, btw. We used to say: ā€œItā€™s the goal that matters. Use whatever tools you think are appropriate.ā€ Thatā€™s why Iā€™m allowed to use Linux on my laptop. Maybe they will back down eventually when they realize that trying to push this on people is pointless. Maybe not.

#7l2grba
prologic @twtxt.net
 (14h ago)

Iā€™m building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

Iā€™ve just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. Itā€™s currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender@twtxt.net šŸ™ I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first šŸ¤Ÿ

#tddzt4a
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (14h ago)

(#mjqmz5q) @zvava@twtxt.net Late happy birthday! :-)

Cool, your website indeed mostly works even in w3m and ELinks. Sending notifications in the about page is out of question, since it requires JS. Apart from that, this is very good, keep it up!

Not sure how I can get the deskop look and feel working in Firefox, but since Iā€™m a tiling window manager user, I prefer linear webpages anyway. :-)

#fnsgsaa
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (15h ago)

Fuck me! I made a giant mess by knocking over the fresh cup of hot chocolate. I completely soaked my desk, t-shirt, pants, socks, house shoes, seat pad, chair, footstool, chair mat and floor. Showering beforehand was well worth it. :-D Letā€™s see where I will locate the smell of spoiled milk in the next days. Maybe underneath the baseboard? Iā€™ll take bets.

At least my aiming skills are pretty good. I missed keyboard, mouse and other electronics.

#cwzp5xq
prologic @twtxt.net
 (4d ago)

Apologies folks šŸ˜… A bit of a bad electrical storm rolled through earlier. šŸŒ©ļø I looked kind of badāš”ļø so I powered down the Mills DC šŸ¤Ÿ (out of precation).

#ensozna
prologic @twtxt.net
 (4d ago)

(#6ukpp2q) I had a looksie (just to be sure) at the database, and they were thankfully legit test events. But this did spark/trigger me to make sure I have some form of anti-spam measures in place. So I added some per-event / per-rsvp rate-limiting and honeypot(s).

#4amg24q
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (4d ago)

Javaā€™s Swing is allegedly in ā€œmaintenance modeā€, so I doubt itā€™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 thatā€™s not included in JREs ā€“ anymore! It used to be, now itā€™s not, even though itā€™s well over 15 years old now.

This whole thing (ā€œJava GUIsā€) appears to have stagnated a lot. Probably because everything is web stuff these days ā€¦

https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javafx/faq-javafx.html#6

#65x3psa
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (4d ago)

(#xgcsmzq) @arne@uplegger.eu MeckPomm erscheint mir immer wie ein groƟartiges Bundesland, in dem ich gerne Leben wĆ¼rde. Kleines HƤuschen auf dem Land mit HĆ¼hnerstall. Ginge aber ā€“ was auch diese Umfrage da impliziert ā€“ vermutlich nur, wenn ich meinen derzeitigen Job behalten und full-remote weitermachen wĆ¼rde, damit genug Geld flieƟt? šŸ¤”

#6yqafnq
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (5d ago)

(#6e546wa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de 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 didnā€™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 Iā€™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 wonā€™t succeed. I simply couldnā€™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. Itā€™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 werenā€™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 donā€™t have to check the large matrix on the projector. But the project died there.

Hereā€™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.

#5a64mxq
prologic @twtxt.net
 (5d ago)

(#25u5u3q) Cool. I think Iā€™ve improved this abit. Update going out shortlyā€¦ Also added optional support for displaying gravatar(s) if you supply your email address (optional of course).

#mng6yjq