Scott Sweeny ssweeny@identi.ca
Pittsburgh, United States
Software engineer from Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Opinions are my own, not those of my wife, employer, child, or pets. In fact there are few areas in which we agree.
JanKusanagi at 2019-02-28T13:14:54Z
Publish it for Firefox and don't help the new IE 😎
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Dianara just gained spellchecking!
So adding spellchecking support to Dianara, my Pump.io client, was really easy thanks to Sonnet, part of Frameworks 5 by KDE 😃
Kudos to the developers!!
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Mice!... I mean Nice! (feature not available in my installed version yet XD)
» EVAnaRkISTO:
“Mice!... I mean Nice! (feature not available in my installed version yet XD)”
Unless you build from the git repo, no xD
(and now I see several red things here!)
Dianara 1.4.2 released
Finally time for another minor release of Dianara, my desktop application for the Pump.io social network.
Changelog
Changes since v1.4.1 are mostly small fixes, and include:
- Changed OK/Cancel buttons in several dialogs to follow your environment's style.
- Fixed a corner case where a post deleted by its author, while a comment was being composed, would block timeline updates until program restart.
- When a post is cancelled, abort possible ongoing file upload immediately.
- Fixed Cancel button being disabled while sending a comment.
- Fixed a pagination bug that would set the wrong page number if a timeline update had failed previously.
Release post: https://jancoding.wordpress.com/2018/11/18/dianara-1-4-2-is-out/
Cheers! 🙋
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We're back! o/
JanKusanagi at 2018-11-26T22:40:48Z
identi.ca is fixed =)
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Welcome back, identi.cans!! =)
We missed you! 🤗
JanKusanagi at 2018-11-26T23:14:39Z
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Gee, I've been away for so long and just back. Did not know it was broke-ee
Jan is there a reason for internal server errors on older posts?JanKusanagi at 2018-05-13T23:57:27Z
Also, don't pick him up on a modern car with all the crappy onboard computer system full of propietary software and spyware!!
xD
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ActivityPub for GNU Social GSoC
Christopher Allan Webber at 2018-04-24T13:53:05Z
Congrats to Diogo Cordeiro on getting a GSoC internship this summer to add ActivityPub to GNU Social! And thanks to GNU Social maintainer mmn-o for mentoring!
GNU Social is a social communication software used in federated social networks. In a federated social network user data stays in user's server instead of a centralized one. Given that, standards were created in order to make the communication between different softwares in a social federated context possible. ActivityPub is the newer and covers parts out of OStatus's specification, namely the app/client development. Because of this and other benefits, GNU Social is looking forward to support this new protocol. The project idea aims at developing a plugin (as GNU Social is true to the Unix-philosophy of small programs to do a small job) that will implement the ActivityPub Protocol in GNU Social.
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Doug Whitfield at 2018-04-09T21:44:23Z
Let's do a little experiment. It's obviously biased by my relative participation in each, but I'm comparing the reach of twitter, facebook, Diaspora, pump, G+, and GNU Social (plus anything that can talk directly to it...that is not via NavierStokes).Please like this if you see it. Obviously, if you want more people to like it, then you share it, but I'm only going to count likes.Stephen Sekula, David "Judah's Shadow" Blue, Splicer, Sarah Elkins and 26 others likes this.
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Show all 12 repliesHere are the final numbersGNU Social/Mastodon: 49pump.io: 31Facebook:26Diaspora: 15G+: 7Twitter: 0What's interesting is that on Diaspora, pump, and GNU Social, I all got actual comments about how the study was being conducted. I got literally zero comments on twitter or G+. There's all sorts of bias in this, but I have more "friends" on facebook by an order of magnitude and significantly more on twitter than the free platforms. So, it seems like people join the proprietary networks and just don't use them very much.Facebook is up to 29. The slow burn...Diaspora is up to 17GNU Social up to 97: https://nu.federati.net/conversation/510099#notice-1072972
Jason Self at 2018-03-31T14:39:45Z
With easter being on April Fools' Day I suggested mixing in empty eggs and others with exploding dye packs. But they didn't like the ideas. I thought it would have been hilarious. Open the wrong egg and you get either nothing or *POOF* it explodes all over you.
With something that would wash out, of course...AJ Jordan, Scott Sweeny likes this.
Gimp 2.10.0 RC 1 is out!
JanKusanagi at 2018-03-28T20:09:01Z
Announcement → gimp.org/news/2018/03/26/gimp-2-10-0-rc1-released/
The amount of fixes and new features is great, but this post isn't about that... =)
If you happen to start this new Gimp and are, like I was, horrified by the look, know that in the preferences you can still choose the "System" theme which will probably make it look like you had it before. It certainly did for me, using my Oxygen widget theme and my own (dark) custom colors.
Same thing with the icons, which now seem to default to a monochrome/symbolic set (because that's the current supercool fad, right?), but you can still select the classic theme, plus now you can set their size!
Cheers! o/
EDIT: 2.10 final is out! These tips are probably still relevant xD
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AndStatus learns to post with a Title
AndStatus@Identi.ca at 2018-03-25T15:11:48Z
I'm implementing Title (Note name) in #AndStatus. At last :-)
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Yeeehaaa, now with title! =)
Cool!
For the record, this is the related issue that you'll now be able to close 🙌
JanKusanagi at 2018-03-25T16:38:54Z
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Image in #AndStatus with a Title
Text of the note that has an "Attachment". Or it's rather a text, accompanying an image?!
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Swift 4.0 Jabber/XMPP client is out!
We’re excited to announce that Swift 4.0 has reached full release status. The packages can be downloaded from the releases page and a full list of new features can be found in the 4.0 changelog.
We encourage everyone to get the new build and try it out, and give us feedback on our latest release.
A great Jabber client for novices (but not just for them!).
The screenshot I've added here (from one of the posts about the betas, though) shows the "trellis mode".
Some of the changes:
- New chat theme including a new font
- Support for message carbons (XEP-0280)
- Enabled trellis mode as a default feature, allowing several tiled chats windows to be shown at once
- Redesigned keyword highlighting
- Improve date formatting
- Fix Last Message Correction in multi client scenarios
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Is there support for any kind of encryption? The "Security" section of the Swift website mentions only authentication.JanKusanagi at 2018-03-21T19:15:53Z
Jabber/XMPP or the highway xD
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Cryptocurrencies
"Everything you don't understand about money, combined with everything you don't understand about computers."
-- John Oliver, Last Week Tonight
Well said xD
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"Last Bit Tonight, with Block Chainiver" xDD
JanKusanagi at 2018-03-13T20:33:42Z
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Exactly!!!! Add Law to it and I'll never understand a thing about it!! XD
AJ Jordan at 2018-03-08T03:58:02Z
more than anything else, my opinions on Firefox telemetry have been influenced by my work on pump.io. people whine about it "phoning home" but honestly it is so painful to ship stuff without that kind of insight. I suspect lots don't understand just how much it impacts the product quality.clacke@libranet.de ❌, Scott Sweeny likes this.
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and of course I know this because we don't do telemetry yet, and I feel the pain of not being able to make decisions based on real, concrete data all the time.AJ Jordan at 2018-03-08T03:58:35Z
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One of Chrome's big advantages over Firefox is they're much less skittish about telemetry, so Chrome devs can spend their time optimizing the exact scenarios that people experience. Firefox devs have to guess which things need optimizing, so even if they make something 100× faster than Chrome, if it turns out that particular circumstance doesn't show up very much, that's wasted effort.It's pretty frustrating to read comments on HN or wherever that say things like "I like Firefox's stance on privacy, but it just never feels as snappy as Chrome".Screwtape at 2018-03-08T06:10:23Z
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For sure. Quantum seems to have changed the game though.AJ Jordan at 2018-03-08T07:37:15Z
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Evan Prodromou at 2018-03-05T22:12:18Z
In the mountains for the week. Should be fun.
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Lucky! =)
The Jabber/XMPP Newsletter, 28 February 2018
JanKusanagi at 2018-03-01T22:43:32Z
“Welcome to the first edition of our newsletter. ”
Great compilation of all kinds of recent news about the Jabber/XMPP decentralized IM/VoIP network =)
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Avadiax at 2018-02-25T23:21:34Z
WTH?!???!?!?!? https://imgur.com/RFrO0KnScott Sweeny, clacke@libranet.de ❌ likes this.
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in dianara, is there a way to save the image so that I can zoom in to see what is on that blackboard?
also I need a way to save incoming messages for offline reading.
I ♥ Free Software
GNU Emacs, Debian GNU/Linux, Linux, X.Org, Postfix, Perl, Python, PostgreSQL, OpenSSH, Firefox, Apache, ejabberd, Dovecot, git, GnuPG, XMonad, GHC, Gnus, jabber.el, rdiff-backup, LaTeX, Gimp, lots of GNU - the list goes on an on - thanks everybody!Distopico, McClane, stevewood, Scott Sweeny and 4 others likes this.
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I see all your loved projects, and I raise you an "I love Plasma and the rest of the software made by the amazing KDE community", and an "I love Mageia" =)
And of course, a mandatory "I love Pump.io"!!
JanKusanagi at 2018-02-14T16:12:59Z
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