Notices by Bart Louwers (bart@floss.social)

@sb Not sure if I follow this reasoning. Twitter was a publicly traded company. As such there is not really anything or anyone to put your trust in, other than that the company will operate in the best interest of its shareholders (which the sale clearly was).

On the other hand, Bluesky is privately held and a “public benefit” organization. That does not mean it will operate ethically. But it is a quite different situation.

@nyurik and I added the ability to use #Rust for #MapLibre Native development. We use two build tools #CMake and #Bazel, which required some work on the build setup, but all in all the integration was pretty smooth. Even the debugger works fine without any additional setup. We're using https://cxx.rs for safe interoperability.

PR: https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-native/pull/3137

Further along: "Compilers are starting to complain about the use of `sprintf()` and `strcpy()`, saying they are unsafe. So we define our own versions of those routines too." #C

Lol. "Compilers and getting increasingly fussy about memory leaks, even in command-line programs where they do not matter. So this code is provided to hush the warnings." #SQLite https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/a864ac1c5a11fcc7cfb980dc565ec66c9b63445d/tool/lemon.c#L77-L88

This is cool and I want it. Completely #FOSS #AR glasses. You can control it via sending #Lua over Bluetooth (e.g. from a mobile phone). They provide a high level #Flutter app and API. It has a camera. You control it via speech (can stream voice over Bluetooth).

How cool would it be to see little #MapLibre generated 640x400 bitmaps while walking through a city?

https://brilliant.xyz/

@_elena @z428 Check out PikaPods. They host a wide range of apps for you for a quite reasonable price. Not affiliated and haven't tried out Ghost with them. https://www.pikapods.com/

Probably best to go with Ghost directly (if only because you support its development).

*"****Everything curl**** is an extensive guide for all things curl. The project, the command-line tool, the library, how everything started and how it came to be the useful tool it is today."*

https://everything.curl.dev/

autocxx is a project from Google that is a "tool for calling C++ from #Rust in a heavily automated, but safe, fashion".

A tiny little obscure C++ feature that is sometimes used is not supported yet... Arrays. 🧐 https://github.com/google/autocxx/issues/266

I am surprised Rust is not prioritizing good C++ interop more (like how for example Swift is).

@aral I don't understand.

```js
class Base {
bla() {
console.log("base");
}
};

class Derived extends Base {
bla() {
console.log("derived");
}
};

/**
* @template {Base} T
* @param {T} base
*/
function fun(base) {
base.bla();
}

fun(new Base());
fun(new Derived());

/**
*
* @param {typeof Base} cls
*/
function makeBase(cls) {
return new cls();
}

makeBase(Base).bla();
makeBase(Derived).bla();
```

@jeffowski My sister is an illustrator and graphic designer so I am very well aware of the unfairness regarding commercial generative AI systems. I think the jury is still out if they are really taking away jobs. My point is though, that reinforcement learning from human feedback used by these systems is not equivalent to 'AI', in fact, it is a (academically speaking) a tiny subfield within a subfield of AI.

@jeffowski #AI is an academic field of endeavour first. Just because there is some grifting and questionable actors now does not mean you can write it and all people involved in it off like that.

That is like saying Physics is a scam because people were peddling perpetuum mobila, writing of medicine because people are peddling miracle cures or writing off Computer Science because of the dot-com boom.

How does #Mastodon (0.3M $ yearly donations) have a translate feature, but #LinkedIn (15B $ yearly revenue) doesn’t? 😂

@renchap @fuzzychef Have you looked at OpenSearch as a FOSS ElasticSearch alternative? https://opensearch.org/

Edit: Looks like the answer is yes, it is compatible. ❤️ https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/22422

Yesterday I installed #Thunderbird (@thunderbird), entered my e-mail and password of my self-hosted e-mail server (which doubles as #Nextcloud instance), and everything just worked beautifully and automatically. Contacts sync, calenders (including colors), e-mails. Grateful for the hard work from so many people to make using #FOSS not only viable, but downright pleasant.