Posts by neal@social.gompa.me
(DIR) Post #AveUHfup4XXf7kIibg by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-06-30T09:22:57Z
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@BrodieOnLinux That's weird to me... I'm pretty sure I've streamed from KDE Plasma Wayland before.Wait what, without OBS? What do you use to stream instead?
(DIR) Post #AviLex3uqv7xm0m2LY by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-07-02T06:11:06Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Why don't you have at least an email address alias that uses your domain? It'd be shorter...
(DIR) Post #AwcYpzyh4xjzY8W1Oi by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-07-29T09:12:41Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Worse yet, nobody wanted to even try to implement it because only KDE Plasma implemented it. KDE was the *first* to implement the Global Shortcuts portal over three years ago, and yet nobody cared.
(DIR) Post #AwcZHhTvRPw0IDKhxQ by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-07-29T09:16:37Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Yes, it was implemented in GNOME 48. But we've gone so long without it that the incentive to use it has dropped precipitously.
(DIR) Post #AwcZhGEpM2dXKNSWye by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-07-29T09:21:04Z
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@BrodieOnLinux @technobaboo Back when I worked for a big Zoom customer, I was able to push them into a corner to get them to support portal-based screenshare. And that took nearly two years of concentrated effort to get that done.Unfortunately, I no longer have the power to do anything about Zoom.Nobody has any power to do anything about Discord.
(DIR) Post #Awjcp6mxx0BSx6fszg by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-01T18:47:19Z
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Now @rbowen is telling us how to make the best presentations ever at #FOSSY2025! 😜
(DIR) Post #AxIO5F1QPQoeLBGmqO by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-18T13:31:18Z
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@kyle @jzb @jorge I vaguely recall that it became that tagline around the same time "of course it runs NetBSD" happened. In many respects, Debian was considered the Linux equivalent of NetBSD in terms of portability.
(DIR) Post #AxU6n6pAmYRONbpHl2 by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-24T01:14:23Z
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TIL English was capitalizing nouns also around the same time that German started doing it in the 17th century as a trick for creating emphasis in text. It apparently didn't take hold in English and mostly went away (except for title case) by the 19th century. What made it stick in German but not English?
(DIR) Post #AxU6n9KnRwvQAGdZKK by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-24T02:52:29Z
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@bkuhn @richardfontana You might be on to something. German never went through the change that English and Dutch went through where compounding fell out of favor. So the word salad that is German benefits more from the emphasis than English did.As for the ſʒ thing, I'm happy that it's gone in English. I wish it had gone away in German too. The ß glyph is confusing.
(DIR) Post #AxU81VLWVWMmRPNzhg by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-24T04:24:55Z
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@richardfontana @bkuhn @jbqueru The Sᴍᴀʟʟ Cᴀᴘs style is also how Cyrillic is always written. They don't have true diminutive forms like most Latin letterforms have.
(DIR) Post #AxU81WflZk9YYTrftY by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-24T04:29:51Z
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@bkuhn @richardfontana @jbqueru Sure, I can read it. It's weird but intelligible. For the most part, it works like you'd expect.
(DIR) Post #AxU81YMLIvnvmonBtg by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-08-24T04:53:30Z
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@bkuhn @richardfontana @jbqueru I think Emoji is generally the way to go these days...
(DIR) Post #AyGzbKnmYjIxCwHk80 by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-09-16T17:57:41Z
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@cnx @bugaevc @bemyak @janvhs And we've seen this with Apache Struts in the Java world. Software to this day *still* has the vulnerabilities disclosed *years* ago because of this problem.
(DIR) Post #AyGzg2zwBIWrRCDZc8 by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-09-15T16:58:07Z
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@bugaevc I really don't want to know. I've closed my eyes to the weird stuff in Rust-based GNOME applications. 🙃
(DIR) Post #AzQByuLpkR8VYTDj5k by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-10-21T00:11:20Z
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TIL that the BBC has published pretty much all of Classic #DoctorWho on YouTube to a dedicated YouTube channel.https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicDoctorWho
(DIR) Post #B10UKQ2o7KCcTwZHDk by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-12-04T19:53:47Z
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@mcc @mjg59 That's just because nobody cares enough to make power management good in Linux at the kernel level anymore. For example, aside from @mjg59, I don't know of anyone who has tried at all in over a decade and a half to fix S4 suspend for secure boot.
(DIR) Post #B1WXe2PgTGMCN8mt04 by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-12-23T00:47:38Z
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@ariadne @jamesh @jas @mupuf When it comes to permissively licensed projects, trust in the people matters a whole lot more. Honestly, I trust *you* to be a decent steward of a permissively licensed project. There aren't a lot of people on that list for me.
(DIR) Post #B1aicrtnx9nRbMMQgS by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-12-25T00:28:32Z
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@kees @torvalds Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen SFC make the claim that it forces hardware to be opened up. To the contrary, they've argued that people have fundamentally misunderstood what TiVo did and it resulted in the messy GNU v3 license stuff we have today.
(DIR) Post #B1auJ7Ke3yqL7lGP7Q by neal@social.gompa.me
2025-12-25T03:25:37Z
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@lyyn @kees @torvalds Yup, that's the one.
(DIR) Post #B2XecOirtX9WPZGe9Y by neal@social.gompa.me
2026-01-22T02:49:36Z
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@emaste KDE Plasma has two login managers in dominant use:* SDDM* LightDMPlasma Login Manager was forked from SDDM to offer a more integrated option leveraging systemd and Plasma features, but @kde (as a project) still supports SDDM (and continues to develop its SDDM integrations) for non-systemd OSes, and the LightDM KDE Greeter also exists as well (though it's not commonly used).We want to continue supporting our BSD friends if they can help us in doing so. KDE ❤️ FreeBSD.