Currently working on two #gnome apps!
- Scripter: A simple app for basic scripts ⌨️ & calculations 📐 [GitHub: https://github.com/david-swift/Scripter]
- Flashcards: Create, edit, and study flashcard sets 🎓 - easily import your existing Quizlet sets [GitHub: https://github.com/david-swift/Flashcards]
Both are written in #swift using an interface similar to #swiftui for #gtk and #libadwaita [GitHub: https://github.com/AparokshaUI/Adwaita]
Hello Fediverse,
We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop. 📣
Please reach out or reboost
Thanks!
#Linux #tts #accessibility #a11y #GNOME #KDE #FreeSoftware #freedesktop #ml
Rustlantis: a fuzzer for the Rust compiler that already found 9 miscompilation bugs
Check out Off-Theme, a series that showcases creative global themes to spice up the look and feel of your Plasma desktop.
In this intro, we guide you through the process of preparing your system for the eye-popping #themes of upcoming episodes.
There is a large exhibition dedicated to my artworks in a supermarket in Plérin, France, from today until 11 November. ☺️ Yay!
Many comic pages and illustration were printed in big. Their is also many activities around the exhibition: a cooking potion contest, a signing session, drawing and digital painting workshop too.
Blog post for more info: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article992/large-exhibition-in-plerin-france
(translation of the poster in the Alt text)
#exhibition
I am working myself through the awesomeness that is the blog of Bartosz Ciechanowski https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
If you haven't heard of it yet, I encourage you to pick a topic you are curious about and enjoy.
Rant about the world of social media and marketing:
My latest (very recent) shock was receiving an email from a digital painting software company (I can't name them) asking me my price to switch my entire workflow to their proprietary product and announce it on my channels.
Of course I refused.
I'm still 100% committed to Free/Libre&Open-Source Software. But it made me realise that these days even profiles without a huge internet presence are getting paid to use and advocate things. Meh 😔
We'll be shutting the #nushell survey down later today. If you haven't responded, yet, there's still time to get your responses in.
"focus on getting the weights right, the outputs are just there to help you progressively reach the convergence"
Sadly my biggest sponsor couldn't renew my contract for budget reasons, so I'm back to making much less than market rate for my skills. If you (or your company) like what I'm doing as @bevy's Project Lead, please consider sponsoring me!
Don't like all these frames in @kde's QtWidget apps? Me neither, so here is my proposal to remove them in #Plasma6 😎
https://carlschwan.eu/2023/08/29/frameless-view-with-qtwidgets/
IBM says GenAI can convert that old COBOL code to Java for you
-> I saw in the timeline and went to check if it is fake post, nope it is true 😌
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/22/ibm_says_genai_can_convert/
🦀 Veilid:A secure peer-to-peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy
👉 DEFCON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid
👉 Similar to IPFS and Tor,but faster
👉 Written in Rust (&python, flutter)
Website:
https://veilid.com/framework/
Repository:
https://gitlab.com/veilid/veilid
Computer Science and Mathematics