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Hello all. My new self hosted Pleroma server seems to be working well so I’m going to make that my primary account. Follow @wezm@decentralised.social for future toots.
Wesley Moore
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Hello all. My new self hosted Pleroma server seems to be working well so I’m going to make that my primary account. Follow @wezm@decentralised.social for future toots.
@wezm@decentralised.social are pleroma notifications working?
Hello all. My new self hosted Pleroma server seems to be working well so I’m going to make that my primary account. Follow @wezm@decentralised.social for future toots.
Wesley Moore
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Seeing the calls to switch to Safari or Firefox from Chrome (hey, have I told you about Odysseus?) I want to say once again that we should be developing new browser engines to fight the collapse in browser divirsity! We need the web to simplify!
Who's interested? I've developed a CSS engine to help you: https://git.nzoss.org.nz/alcinnz/stylish-haskell
And I've just gotten around to blogging about it: https://odysseus.adrian.geek.nz/misc/2019/06/24/my-css-engine.html
Following on from my post, "A Tiling Desktop Environment", this weekend I built a new website to document my thinking and research as I consider the comments received, try out suggestions, and look into the state of open source desktop environments. It's called Desktop Institute. You can find it at https://desktop.institute/
I set up a Pleroma instance at https://decentralised.social/ my account there is @wezm@decentralised.social I'm still testing it out before migrating fully but feel free to follow that account.
Wesley Moore
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Anyone using #Vagrant on #FreeBSD? Maybe we could team up to implement #bhyve support? #VirtualBox is giving me hard time.
Ordered a Raspberry Pi Zero today to do some experimentation running my Rust stenography engine on the Pi and have it act as a keyboard. Ultimately it would be good to run it on a microcontroller but first steps first. I’m thinking I might try using NetBSD as the OS. #stenography #NetBSD #rust
I think I’ll try GNOME with PaperWM. I tried KDE on this laptop on the weekend and no windows would show up!? There were entries in the task bar but no visible windows. #Linux
Using a laptop that is sometimes connected to an external display with Awesome is killing me. Runtime errors from awesome, external display not working somethings, display manager (lightdm) crashes taking out the whole session blaaargh 🙁
GNOME 3.32 is awesome, but still needs improvements in key areas – Uncertain Jatan https://jatan.blog/tech/gnome-3-32-is-awesome-but-still-has-key-areas-for-improvements/
Wesley Moore
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offering obsolete X terminal computer hardware
I have three ~20-year-old X terminals (Tektronix/NCD NC200) which I'd ship to you if you're into obsolete computing hardware. I haven't plugged them in for ages but I did get them to work once upon a time, and it should still be possible to use them with modern X applications. It's also supposed to be able to run Java 1.1 applets via "Netscape NC Navigator", a bespoke browser build, but I never tried that.
The required OS image, which has to be served over the network, is still available from the current owner of the product line, and I've saved a copy just in case: http://www.thinpathsystems.com/index.php?modules=support&content=patches&pro=ncb (That's labeled a "patch" but it actually contains the entire system software.)
Somebody's notes for configuring a similar product for use with Linux are at http://bio.gsi.de/DOCS/NCD/xp200_linux.html and there's general advice on the required network environment in several of the old Linux HOWTOs:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Xterminals/index.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCD-X-Terminal.html
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDM-Xterm/index.html
Wondering why mutter vendors forked versions of clutter and cogl 🤔
In my GTK travels last night I also discovered the broadway GTK backend. It renders GTK apps via a server in the browser. Here it is showing a quite responsive and faithful rendition of gedit. For more info check out the main developers blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/
TIL mutter depends on zenity (a command line tool that generates Gtk dialogs), which in turn depends on webkit2gtk. Seems a little excessive but I suppose if you assume both dependencies are part the wider platform and would be installed anyway it makes sense to make use of them.
Wesley Moore
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Patreon launch
Hey everyone! I just luanched my Patreon page:
https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome
I'm currently strapped for income after ending my Purism contract, so any donation you can provide is greatly appreciated.
https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome
I'm currently strapped for income after ending my Purism contract, so any donation you can provide is greatly appreciated.
Commentary from GitHub’s Semantic project on why they use Haskell. I liked the part pictured — it’s a pretty compelling sales pitch. https://github.com/github/semantic/blob/master/docs/why-haskell.md
Programmer from Melbourne, Australia. #Rust, Arch #Linux, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD observer. Curator of @readrust
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