Jordan Petridis @alatiera@mastodon.social

Librsvg 2.44.10 is out!

This is a bugfix release.

rsvg-load.[ch] are no more. All the loading code has been moved to #rustlang.

In support of @CoralineAda - https://people.gnome.org/~federico/blog/in-support-of-coraline.html

I’m sorry to post a link to surveillance capitalist YouTube but you need to watch this speech by Hannah Gadsby in full. In under eight minutes, not only does she give a masterclass in intersectional feminism but also a biting critique of the hypocrisy at the heart of neoliberalism.

(Please visit the link below in a separate browser in incognito mode if possible, it leads to YouTube, an unsafe site.)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEPsqFLhHBc

Cool fact about Linux: I can still test three different browser engines: Blink (via Chrome), Gecko (via Firefox), and WebKit (via Epiphany Browser). There are subtle differences between Epiphany and Safari (no Web Payments, no Service Worker, no -webkit-backdrop-filter, etc.) but it's pretty close.

That's pretty good desktop coverage, and I can debug Chrome and Firefox on Android using ADB, as well as Safari on iOS using https://github.com/RemoteDebug/remotedebug-ios-webkit-adapter/. Linux is not bad for web development.

@nolan There's an Epiphany Tech Preview that might be worth testing too: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2018/01/24/announcing-epiphany-technology-preview/

When the history of the web is written, let the record show that I was against this decision and it's part of the reason I left Microsoft. I didn't join the Edge team to help cement Google's dominance of the web.

RT @BoringEnormous@twitter.com
It's not Christmas until you dress your Venus flytrap as Santa.

New side episode for the History of #GNOME podcast: this is a short one, about how language bindings for #GTK were made, back in the 1.x days — https://www.bassi.io/articles/2018/12/06/history-of-gnome-episode-1-b/

If you're spending your time complaining about the things in the second list to the people trying to make the first list happen, please check your priorities.

Things we don't need for ethical technology to reach the masses:
- multiple distros
- mutliple desktops
- multiple toolkits
- "the unix philosophy"
- server-side decorations
- themes

Things we need for ethical technology to reach the masses:
- one great, vertically integrated platform
- great hardware that ships this platform
- ethical online services, integrated with the platform
- lots of good third-party apps for the platform

TFW unsafe Rust calling C functions makes a better job of type checking than a C compiler.

I just realized Android Studio considers it OK to unpack multi-GB files into /tmp because /tmp is not mounted from tmpfs on

As of a few minutes ago, less than 20% of librsvg's code remains in C: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg/graphs/master/charts

Most of the calls to libxml2 are done from #rustlang now. All the loading code will be in Rust soon.

After a long and robust recruitment process, the @gnome Foundation is pleased to announced that @ebassi will be joining us to take on the role of GTK+ Core Developer! https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2018-December/msg00000.html

It's side episode time for the History of @gnome and it's all about GTK — https://www.bassi.io/articles/2018/11/29/history-of-gnome-episode-1-a/