Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Within Odysseus's addressbar popups I make extensive use of (styled) GtkLabel widgets, and GTK's tooltips and menu options also uses it for much of their rendering.

So this morning I'll discuss how GtkLabel works in GTK3, though it'll mostly hand off to the text layout/rendering stack I described the other day ( https://adrian.geek.nz/gtk_stack_docs/text.html ).

And that'll pretty much finish off describing the components in Odysseus's headerbar/addressbar.

had my first class on #accessibility today

first impressions:

it was a lot of fun
the teacher is super cool
this was probably my first class where women were in majority, which, hm. says something about the techbro attitudes i see in a lot of other students.

anyways, people who are studying #programming , if your uni/school/whatever offers an accessibility class, i highly recommend taking it

RT @WikimediaItalia@twitter.com

Oggi a BASE #Milano è iniziata la Summer School "I progetti #Wikimedia per le istituzioni culturali". La prima edizione del corso è cominciata sotto i migliori auspici, registrando il tutto esaurito.
Buon lavoro ai nostri corsisti! ➡️https://www.wikimedia.it/summer-school/
📸 @wikilaurentius@twitter.com,

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/WikimediaItalia/status/1171091390698270721

The #C programming language was invented in 1972.

#APL was invented in 1966.

My current thought experiment: what if #unix had been built in an APL environment instead of a C one?

@bjarni @mkb Absolutely - although the same holds true to some extent for trustable architectures. Just the fact that you're using Tor, even when some actor cannot see what you're doing, can flag you for closer examination.

In fact, that's exactly the reason why I try to use privacy-minded products: for my threat model, it's not really necessary, but I can provide cover for journalists, whistleblowers, etc.

@henksteenbroek

My vote goes for ProtowafflE now!

@Shamar

Making GNU/Linux About ‘Choice’ Instead of Freedom (as in Software Freedom) at http://techrights.org/2019/09/07/reducing-linux-to-just-choice/ - discuss at https://freepo.st/freepost.cgi/post/297prudbj2 #freepost

Think Privacy

Data never dies

#APConf

Good morning from the Datamaze exhibition at DOX.

♲ @how@ps.s10y.eu: CFP is out.

fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-08-1…

I still have problems with the sponsoring of the event. If Gaggle, M$ et al are sponsoring it, I might not be interested. I know there's a couple of people in the @fosdem organization that feel that way as well, but they're a minority. AFAIK the issue is to be able to spend time to find more smaller sponsors rather than a small bunch of large sponsors. So the more interested people, the more chances to avoid surveillance capitalist sponsors.

#GitHub is blocking users based on national origin, citing US trade controls law restrictions....

People from #Iran, #Syria, #Crimea, #Cuba, and North Korea woke up one day to lose access to all their public and private repositories. There's reporting that even people *who traveled* to any of those countries in the last 2 years are losing their data...

And #GitHub has not said ONE WORD ABOUT IT.

Read more: https://medium.com/@hamed/github-blocked-my-account-and-they-think-im-developing-nuclear-weapons-e7e1fe62cb74

Kina excited, my Protowaffle project is in the process of making its first Sale to an electronics retailer. Just waiting to hear how many they will buy. Lets hope it is a big sale

Also still offering free samples If anyone wants some free samples let me know, here is some info on it: http://protowaffle.com

#RF #EE #Electronics #Engineering #Science #ElectricalEngineering #RFEngineering #HAM #hamradio

"Paper companies point out that trees can be grown and are therefore a renewable resource. Technically, this is true. However, a tree plantation containing a specific type of tree planted for harvesting (perhaps on land that used to be a forest) does not replace a forest ecosystem."

#environment #logging

@grainloom ok I'm doing it now because I want to meet Ada Lovelace

TLDR; DNS over HTTPS is a bad idea.