Posts by decathorpe@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ASCMM11TbA0C11EyR6 by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-01-31T09:48:19Z
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@killyourfm @darth @the_white_wolf @seanhollister One huge advantage of targeting Proton I only recently came to realize is that it's a "predictable" platform, whereas "native Linux" is the wild west - a "classic" distro like Ubuntu is providing a very different environment for both developers and games than, let's say, NixOS ... and that's not even accounting for different *versions* of system components across distros (and time).
(DIR) Post #ASCN7uXN0ydrnhzrqi by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-01-31T09:56:59Z
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@killyourfm @darth @the_white_wolf @seanhollister I think it should be possible to create a "standard" Linux platform that game developers can target, though - similarly to the freedesktop flatpak runtime, which almost all flatpak apps rely on under the hood. Maybe the freedesktop flatpak runtimes (plus some game-specific extensions, like SDL2 or stuff like that) could even be that standard environment for native Linux game development? No need to reinvent the wheel, after all 😅
(DIR) Post #ATPeJ1zfi32VYW7bo8 by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-03-08T16:28:49Z
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@cassidy I'm not sure how I feel about any of these."Library" implies either "things available in your collection" or "things you can borrow", neither of which makes sense."Market" implies "things for sale", and while that's better, it doesn't match the reality of most things being free (both as in speech as in beer)."Catalog" implies that it's "things you can order and pay for", which is even worse.I am not a native English speaker though, so maybe I'm just not getting it.
(DIR) Post #ATvDXOyDVD8pHlpKFM by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-03-23T15:54:45Z
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strange thought:If I got 1$ per month for every package I maintain for Fedora Linux, that would basically be enough money to live on ...Popular packages I'm responsible for include:- the new Sequoia based GPG backend for RPM (present on *every single Fedora 38 install*)- CLI tools like ripgrep, exa, lsd, bat- Rust bindings for GLib, GTK3, GTK4, GStreamer, etc. (which are used to build librsvg2, gnome-tour, helvum, etc.)so ... who wants to adopt some packages? 😁https://github.com/sponsors/decathorpe
(DIR) Post #AVfhreVgIwcRv4Jjrk by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-05-15T00:30:10Z
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@funnelfiasco Ben, why are you reading Phoronix comments? On *that* story, no less? 😓
(DIR) Post #AW7f0PEjTgAzy3C9Q0 by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-05-12T10:30:12Z
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@marcan If this is webrtc code for PipeWire, there's a good chance it was written by Jan Grulich (at Red Hat) (sorry about the twitter link, not sure if he's on Mastodon):https://twitter.com/JanGrulich/status/1509149879452508166He might have got contacts in the right places to make the fix propagate a bit faster?
(DIR) Post #AY0ZJ9FEBUYWtsDDyi by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-07-23T23:01:17Z
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regular reminder that you should use #firefoxIf you switched away from it a few years ago it's worth looking at it again. It's great, performance is getting better all the time, and the company behind it isn't actively working on destroying the open web.
(DIR) Post #AYMAN9M0u2yQTaWJRA by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-08-03T14:34:01Z
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@mirek @fedora Four out of Nine? That must be a new low :(
(DIR) Post #AYMI5jiHmTN9fB94eu by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-08-03T16:00:21Z
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@killyourfm 125 Jigga-bytes? they serious? 😳
(DIR) Post #AYUrl5hQlfLSAdFJtg by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-08-07T19:15:42Z
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@mjg59 why not do the simpler thing of doing the upgrade in two (or more) steps? only upgrades from N to N+2 are officially supported ... N+3 *might* work, but any bigger jumps are definitely not expected to work
(DIR) Post #AZSQSeuOlPuLzkZMgK by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-09-05T00:20:38Z
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ya know, if we're looking for responsible stewards of critical open source projects, there's one group in particular that comes to mind, who- are already in a similar position,- are dedicated to free / open source software principles,- are committed to quality and stability for users,- have already earned the trust of their respective communities...yeah, I'm talking about Linux distribution package maintainers 🙄---and here at the bottom I'll just tag #rustlang for no reason at all
(DIR) Post #AaXMdoIXAxvCSiWvYW by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-10-07T08:38:26Z
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@adamw would it help to move Firefox to the heavybuilder group, like chromium / webkit?
(DIR) Post #Ab6RVrJX1Cf6gKldFw by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-10-24T17:28:49Z
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today's FOSS horror story:the developer of a project that was originally licensed BSD-3-Clause decided to relicense to Apache-2.0, switched out license texts, but only partially updated project metadata for thisyears later, possibly due to copy-paste errors from files that were not updated during relicensing, the "main" project metadata got reverted back to BSD-3-Clause as welland there's a subproject that's MIT licensed (including proper license file), but metadata claims BSD-3-Clause ...
(DIR) Post #Ac8WSUgtIeVuO9A0wq by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-11-24T11:26:55Z
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@hroncok as for spectool - I can probably make this happen ;)
(DIR) Post #Ac8WSWUYbTptyTPC08 by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-11-24T14:52:48Z
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@hroncok alternatively - the code in spectool is really really gnarly because I wrote it to be 1:1 CLI-compatible with the old Perl implementation ... rewriting it in a better way is on my to-do list, and offering a Python API in addition to the CLI (no longer 1:1 compatible with the old Perl CLI) would be a nice addon :)
(DIR) Post #Ac8bF3WhU6b096o0Js by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2023-11-24T16:57:34Z
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@mirek @hroncok Parsing is zero problem - we use rpm itself for that. Also - is specfile in RHEL? I can't add any dependencies that are not in RHEL, since rpmdevtools is used there as well.Unless the new tool will be a non-replacement replacement and will be distributed separately from rpmdevtools, then that would be fine. But still, spectool does no spec parsing, so using specfile for that is kind of redundant with using the librpm Python bindings.
(DIR) Post #AhrEL4mWp6jtmllXaC by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2024-05-01T22:09:07Z
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@werdahias in Fedora we kind of gave up porting things every six months and are now just packaging multiple gtk-rs versions in parallel 🙈
(DIR) Post #AniGUQuzp5Ffa4hziy by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2024-10-21T14:00:11Z
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whatever is happening at BitWarden - at least this response makes me want to wait and see. I don't get the "OOH ITS CRAP NOW WHERE DO WE GO NEXT???" panic ...> "(...) it seems like a packaging bug was misunderstood as something more, and the team plans to resolve it."https://x.com/Bitwarden/status/1848360537995812942?t=tnFcxBf_YK-3Ci4ggBPA3Q&s=19
(DIR) Post #B16hVQjANjli8fin6O by decathorpe@mastodon.social
2025-12-10T09:41:02Z
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I don't need noone to tell me "AI is bad", those companies themselves manage to radicalize me just fine( https://status.fedoraproject.org/ )