Posts by isagalaev@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AbOzqgZHUnXzwEsQWe by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-11-02T16:49:28Z
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@picnoir the most impressive part of the story is the government officer who has time and desire to engage with individual people and actually try to understand the problem!
(DIR) Post #AbXVUaRaKtB8N6SksK by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-11-06T19:28:47Z
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@MatejLach "permissive" is an established term in licensing, agnostic to ideology. So BSD/MIT are more permissive than GPL in a simple sense that they impose fewer requirements. I don't see a problem with the title.
(DIR) Post #Ac1EGXM6PNd9tdrlNA by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-11-20T22:34:29Z
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- Stumbled upon a few RAW photo folders that weren't in #darktable library for some reason. Decided to check the rest.- Searched for "darktable database", found the exact file path in DT's online docs.- In sqlite, .schema revealed the table "film_rolls" with folder names- ipython, sqlite, pathlib.glob, set - set, sort — got the list of folders missing from the db- Dumped the ipython session into a .py file, will be running it while sorting through my photos.Took ~10 minutes.
(DIR) Post #Ac1EGYQOQuenDEshhQ by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-11-20T22:39:06Z
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… What I'm trying to say is, us programmers use computers in a vastly different manner than non-programmers. Being able to wrangle data without pre-defined user interfaces is a huge enabler. Fight to keep it free, don't let the gloss of "curated computing" blind you.Also, I keep being impressed with the quality of #Darktable as a project. This time by the docs. Imagine a commercial app documenting location of its files.
(DIR) Post #AcO4q1DOqv19jZ9cUS by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-12-02T04:08:08Z
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@simon this is the first application of LLMs I've seen that seems unequivocally useful and timely. I imagine a paid Mastodon instance spending part of its income to make this functionality automatic for all images.
(DIR) Post #AcUUTHYfgdApW8gMue by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-12-05T01:14:12Z
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Recent from Armin Ronacher is worth a read: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/12/1/the-python-that-was/It strikes a note with me, although I don't agree on a couple of points.Like, "runtime errors flying left and right [..] because bad types were passed". No, most of the errors were and still are from wrong *values* being passed. Also mutable state, tight coupling and incomplete understanding of the domain. Unless your kind of programming is implementing some formal spec, types will only catch the most trivial errors.#python
(DIR) Post #Ad9UaUE6i7D3NKJnoO by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-12-25T00:46:13Z
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Here's a perfect example of what's wrong with Ubuntu's crusade to move software into snaps: if you install #GIMP from snapstore, you don't have an easy practical way to install G'MIC into it (a plugin that basically makes GIMP still worthy of running). Why not? Because, as the maintainer of the snap says[1] there's no way he's going to be the arbiter of what to include. [cont…][1]: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/gmic-gimp-and-snap-in-20-04/17094
(DIR) Post #Ad9UaWHN4x0bk1rRB2 by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2023-12-25T00:51:17Z
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The root of the problem is that apt is not a packaging format. It's a big, working ecosystem solving many problems of installing software into a system. Ubuntu is not willing (nor able) to replicate this ecosystem, but they keep pretending that you can sacrifice basic usability for security and treat every application as a self-sufficient island. You can make it work for some, which are either simple or have been created that way (Firefox). But it's never going to work in the general case.
(DIR) Post #AhWImgYEpBpaF2LN6O by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-05-03T16:16:59Z
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@EmilyK @TonyStark this goes for every generalization. Speaking as a Russian with relatives in both Russia and Ukraine, myself helping Ukrainian refuges regardless of their stance in the war, and routinely seeing variations of "no good Russians" from Ukrainians I follow on social media. We don't live in a black-and-white world.
(DIR) Post #Ahknn7e9txLt4KExlY by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-05-10T16:37:36Z
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@davidrevoy jolie félicitations!
(DIR) Post #AhpCr6wjiqDpXclhQ0 by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-05-12T19:37:18Z
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@stux all I see is lazy people not securing their furniture properly :-)
(DIR) Post #AhzmJ3wluJYKK7Rpbc by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-05-17T21:26:08Z
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Do we all agree that bringing up the Official Definition of "open source" is no different than saying "actually it's GNU/Linux"? Nobody should care what some self-appointed group thinks about the "correct" meaning of English words "open source". People use it in slightly different context dependent ways, and it's fine. We have other means to express nuances.
(DIR) Post #AicgSOU2aZxlgclzfs by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-06-05T16:29:54Z
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@davidrevoy okay, there's one thing that my perfectionist's brain just can't get over! On the left two panes there's a short part of the blade sticking out of the hilt, but on the right two panes it's not there. So I can't figure out which kind of damage it is: did the blade break apart or did it fall out of the hilt?P.S. I'd probably be working at this place you drawn, right?
(DIR) Post #Aicu84A1pzoKDtc75E by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-06-05T18:10:19Z
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@SteveTux @davidrevoy I've seen that one. It does feature the blade stub, but it just adds to one side of the inconsistency. :-)
(DIR) Post #Aid4980W1LnBz5JEEC by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2024-06-05T20:55:21Z
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@davidrevoy my mind is at peace now, thank you :-)
(DIR) Post #ArFf7Tenl641jeFphY by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2025-02-18T18:45:10Z
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@davidrevoy I remember when my 8 year old daughter first saw this panel she felt confused and embarrassed, and it was an excellent cue for us to explain to her that yes, sometimes girls love girls and there's nothing wrong with it. I think it was her first introduction to the idea of same-sex love, and seeing it in her favorite comic made it easier to understand. Thanks for that!
(DIR) Post #At9d1Z3PrK3scM5UXI by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2025-04-16T16:37:36Z
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@davidrevoy wow this is impressive! Congrats!
(DIR) Post #AvkhXVShepvFSB8uGG by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2025-07-03T03:24:18Z
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Cat. She holds herself as if she owns the place. Which she kind of does.#darktable #cat #photography
(DIR) Post #AvkhXawfGrrMSYCP9k by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2025-07-03T03:59:09Z
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Speaking of #darktable … Here's the comparison of the almost unedited file vs. the final result. Here's what changed:- added saturation- removed the blue-ish highlight on the cat's face (daylight is a bitch!)- lightened the shadow side of the face- cat's eyes are greener- the wall is darker and more orange to create the mood- sharpened + exaggerated texture of the whole thing a littleThis was fun!. I don't know why anyone would want some AI do it for them.
(DIR) Post #B0cPIIjbA3xjfQiQue by isagalaev@mastodon.social
2025-11-21T19:33:00Z
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@minoru @fornever I call it "performative goodness". A corporation with a rich history of bad behavior does occasional nods towards geeks to earn some street cred. Sorry, not buying it.