It’s @a solving a problem: calling into DBus to switch IME on Wayland. It is interesting to read about DBus’s type system. It looks like messagepack.
Life update from @daudix. Is essentially a list of things they did.
exozyme had a hackthon on September 22. This time around 5 to 6 people joined and people talked about many subjects and it was overall a cozy talk session.
@moksh: I had fun, I mean emacs is the best editor…
@iacore: ha! “hackathon”
We tried something similar on October 12 and decided to make this a new weekly thing which you can read more about here.
You can read all about it here. There’s even a nice triangle/staircase pattern!
In this post, @iacore hypothesizes that human brains are not optimized for clean, geometric shapes, and rather for jagged, stacked shapes. Thus, fonts should “make you think of grass” rather than being more geometric, and the post uses one such font to demonstrate.
@a: I don’t really prefer the font in this post to the site’s usual font, so maybe this depends on the person.
@iacore wrote about popular culture and mathematical terms for the same concepts.
It’s a self introduction by @iacore.
@a: There’s so much fascinating stuff in here, but my favorite section is the one about the importance of being able to go up and down the abstraction ladder. And maybe individuals don’t necessarily need to be good at this skill, but we can put people comfortable with differing levels of abstraction together into a team?
We blocked xrdp’s port 3389 in the firewall to stop bots from spamming that port, so if you’re using a RDP client, first forward port 3389 over SSH. We also discontinued JupyterHub.
In this post @vnpower shows a very interesting and creative way of sharing a music library with WebDAV and MPD for playing it back anywhere.
@vnpower wrote a puzzle on the wiki page for Navidrome. It’s a nice puzzle!
For whatever reason, the week of October 7th had a lot of major releases, including Ubuntu, Python, Mastodon, and KDE Plasma. The Python 3.13 release has two fascinating experimental features: a GIL-free mode and a JIT. These features don’t make Python much faster currently, but hopefully they’ll get a lot better in future releases, cause Python is just so… freaking.. slow… sometimes.
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