I've recently been reading up Manichaeism, Valentinism and several other early belief systems from the 1st to 3rd century AD. It's interesting how many iterations early Christian/Abrahamic faiths went through before Constantine basically canonized the version of Catholicism that has lead to modern Christianity (ignoring all the heresies, some with over a million followers, who were slaughtered before Martin Luther and Protestantism made the first truly successful breakaway).
Gotta get up relatively early tomorrow, so no late night stuff. I have a Hard Mtn Dew Code Red tallboy. I finished my blog post draft before bookclub, and am working on the title card image in Gimp right now. I've taken to preferring poorly done cut and paste jobs from my old photos and royalty free clipart over AI generated stuff. It feels more real.
I need to fix some stuff in my broken Gentoo Portage overlay; got a notice from their CI today. I should run their CI scripts locally in my build system.
Most people don't opt out of anything. It's really interesting and sad. Most people don't critically think about their day to day decisions. They're inundated with EULAs and cookie popups. Just look at how many women scanned their government IDs into some random app and had that information exposed during the Tea Spill leak.
I don't let people scan my drivers license and it's truly amazing how many people are shocked that I even want to opt out; and how no one has ever asked to opt out before:
Article draft is almost done. It's not one from the backlog, but I'll get to those someday. Didn't get as far on coding as I wanted to. Finishing the night with Duke Ellington. Gotta not sleep in too later tomorrow. It's book club day.
Got a migrated version of the AppInstance controller migrated from mediahug to mpvbuddy with passing tests. Also started working on a political post based on some bullshit a friend sent me. I wonder if I should keep going or just call it a night.
Not sure. I don't use Wayland current. What is data-control? Is that a protocol let the DE popup a permission request to allow a process to monitor the clipboard like on macOS? Is it universal where the message is sent over dbus and opens a osd-notification or does every single damn composer have to implement support for it?
Wayland just seems like "We could provide a standard abstraction layer, but instead, we're going to make every composer implement it themselves and make universal applications impossible"
Written in March of 2025, the absolute sad state of Wayland developers. We plan on making sure the only tool that works stops working because fuck you that's why.
For mpvbuddy, I'd like to fix some window/icon issues, get it working on Wayland (which should be much easier than mediahug given the mpv window isn't integrated). Also would like to get the application controlled from mediahug added to mpvbuddy, and have the ability to import files to playlists from both the command line and the UNIX socket. This will be important for the next project phase.
That's a lot for tonight. Let's see how it goes. Current music: Klangphonics.