Notices by Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora: (conan_kudo@fosstodon.org), page 2

@hobbsc @MothWaves @luana @drewdevault 115 million users isn't enough? https://www.thestack.technology/matrix-protocol-users-2023/

@lanodan @javierm @matt Oh alas, CI against recent platforms is not a thing for a lot of projects. Either because GitHub doesn't offer it or because the platform the project runs doesn't do it.

@javierm @matt what's worse is that sometimes I can't get fixes and improvements to land because they are not testable on really old platforms.

I wish projects didn't use old distro releases as their primary development and gating target. It makes it really hard to advance software...

@bragefuglseth @anselmschueler I've always interpreted what GNOME offers today as an attempt at a compromise to the overly negative community response to https://stopthemingmy.app/

It certainly works for a number of people and I think it's more flexibility than many expected GNOME to give. It's a step in the right direction from my point of view.

@ryanabx I've got a @frameworkcomputer 16. I maxed it out including getting the dedicated GPU.

It's an awesome machine, though sadly a bit too hefty for me to travel with it. Runs @fedora with @kde quite well. All the hardware features are supported perfectly, including VRR and sRGB color management.

The fingerprint reader is the only thing I don't use, since it sits docked at my desk all the time.

@hrw This matches my experience with all non-Apple ARM non-SBC platforms. It sucks. 😦

All this talk about #xzorcist over the weekend, I want to also point out that it's important to remember that the "software supply chain" largely does *not* exist in regards to open source, because most people have no real relationship other than parasitic consumption with the project.

@Di4na's great blog post on this topic explains it quite well: https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier

@michelin On the flip side, meson's lack of extensibility and need to support everything from everyone itself means that it's a lot more language unstable than CMake. And I've seen some ugly hacking around Meson limitations in GNOME stuff... 😦

@michelin It happens for silly simple things too, like not being able to handle the library directory path for RISCV targets.

https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/12808

@0xabad1dea @ipg @gsuberland I feel like I'm a terrible person whenever I had to constructively review lockdown code.... It's not quite the same as DRM, but it still doesn't feel good.

@ariadne @Foxboron @ncopa Oh sure, in this example, it makes sense. Arguably, it'd be good to have independent library implementations of all the stabilized interfaces that can be used instead.

That doesn't change my feeling that it should be that way too in the reference implementation. 🥲

@ariadne @Foxboron @ncopa I wish the libsystemd unification hadn't happened ten years ago. And now, it seems that it's going to be a Sisyphean task to convince them of the value of the work of carving the library back up again, especially now there's more stuff in it.

@berrange @notting @joshbressers I always look at migrating to either CMake (my preferred one) or Meson (much less preferred but still better) when I encounter a project with Autotools or plain makefiles. In both cases, it usually winds up being a mess of a project that the conversion cleans up and the end result is much more understandable.

Today I read a blog post about `mgmt`, and I was reminded of how much I hate Puppet. Thanks @purpleidea! 😂

@lanodan @chikorita157 A lot of the fediverse isn't really ready for the rest of the world. Maybe someday, but not any time soon.

@chikorita157 I think they're more likely to join Threads.net than Misskey. Brand engagement, wider audience, and cross-engagement with Instagram makes it much more attractive.

Setting up my new @frameworkcomputer 16 with @fedora 40 with @kde!

@michelin @lasombra_br In the darkness, it *almost* looks red. I do wish colorful computers were more of a thing again, or at least some covers for the Framework that I could put on to make it red...

@omenos @fedora I was impatient, I didn't want to wait for KDE Plasma 6, so I upgraded to Fedora 40 on *all* my computers right after @kde made the 6.0 release and it landed in Fedora.

It's *awesome*! :crazy:🥳🤠