Notices by Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social), page 2

Incidentally, this reminds me how *awfully inadequate* are the GitLab moderation and anti-spam measures; to this day, you still can't remove spam comments from snippets; you can't limit emoji reactions to *at least* remove the troll ones; and you can't block known bad actors, only report their accounts.

Got to love early morning ChatGPT spam "answers" on Matrix channels

Folks: it's 2024, you *need* to have moderation tools for anything that is hosted on a public-facing service.

@brainblasted as I said: raging and complaining is fine. The line that should not be crossed is making shit up to appease your need for finding bad guys. Somebody’s opinion is also not at the same level of other people’s actions, and it should not be used to cast aspersions on a whole project.

@forteller this is really application territory, because only an application knows about its contents; so it's either a feature of the toolkit, or implemented straight into the app. It could be implemented, say, by the GTK text widgets, but then everybody else has to do the same, and everyone has to decide to use the same key shortcut. Introducing new shortcuts onto unsuspecting apps may end up colliding with existing shortcuts, as well.

@forteller what does Shift + F3 do?

@dalias that's, like, you're opinion. It's also fundamentally wrong on various levels, starting from "we as ordinary people" and ending with "vetted software without conflicts of interests".

You think you want an LTS experience without a support contract, but what you really want is the ability to upgrade your OS and your applications without breaking your system; for that, you need an atomic OS and containerised applications. The idea of running an enterprise distro without an enterprise IT department is deranged; why do you think support contracts and IT support personnel exist?

Controversial opinion time: free (as in gratis) long term support Linux distributions have damaged the whole ecosystem, and done a disservice to both users and upstream projects, all to placate the fetishes of of sysadmins and packagers, or the aspirations of people funding them as a product. We'd all be much better off if LTS distributions had only ever been gated behind a paid support scheme.

STOP DOING FREE SOFTWARE

- SOURCE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN
- YEARS OF PROJECTS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for having the source available
- Wanted to have features for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "PAYING"
- "Yes please file BUGS. Report ANY ISSUE you found" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what users have been demanding your Attention for all this time.

"Hello I would like you to support my use case please"

They have played us for absolute fools

Next time you decide to implement the GTK documentation generator and make it publicly available, Emmanuele, just write a memo instead

@lackattack true; we did get a bunch of XF86 key codes out of those, though…

Oh, nice: I wanted a keyboard with an Hyper modifier.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key/

Ended up binging five episodes of The Apothecary Diaries in a row. It’s really anime House, M.D. set in I Can’t Believe It’s Not Imperial China™️ and with a gruff but cute anime girl

I hope Aoi Yuuki is getting a good massage after each episode, considering she’s solo carrying the entire show on her shoulders…

My last #introduction was in 2018, so let's update it:

- I'm a free and open source software developer, mainly contributing to the #GNOME ecosystem and software development platform
- I am, through no fault of my own, the maintainer of the GNOME developer documentation website
- I write the occasional app, like Amberol
- I stream my work on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ebassi
- I still plan on finishing the History of GNOME podcast
- I build #gundam plastic models
- trans rights are human rights

Decided to support a newcomer playwright this evening; I heard good things about this young talent…

@dankwraith @alatiera locally sourced, organic buffer overflows

@q3k @redford @mrtick I bet the managers and engineers were all proud of this stuff

Were I the GNOME almost-benevolent dictator for life, I'd provide a decoy public issue tracker, like Apple does