Shamar @Shamar@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey mates, I know it's not #Friday but I've just learnt that @quinta joined the #Fediverse!

Former Senator in the #Italian Parliament, member of the High Level Expert Group on #ArtificialIntelligence for #European Commission and much much more I have no time to list.

A person worth to follow if you are interested in #Technology, #Politics and their strict relation.

RT @_MagliaNera_@twitter.com

“Sostenere che non si è interessati al diritto alla privacy perché non si ha nulla da nascondere è come affermare che non si è interessati alla libertà di espressione perché non si ha nulla da dire”. (Edward J. Snowden)

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/_MagliaNera_/status/1170629840422219776

Omg it is SO REFRESHING to see language designers acknowledging that REPLs exist and that yes, indentation-sensitivity FAILS HARD IN A FIRE in a REPL

(from the Magritte language thesis, files.jneen.net/academic/thesis.pdf )

Fin.

https://adrian.geek.nz/gtk_stack_docs/GtkLabel.html

While you might think GtkLabel is just for display, there's a number of input gestures it supports.

There's "mnemonics" which is rendered by Pango and registered to the container GtkWindow to dispatch to an associated widget.

There's clickable hyperlinks that dispatches to the registered app by default.

And you can select text to be copy/pasted or drag/dropped, using a MultiPress gesture, DragGesture, or keyboard with help from Pango.

The latter two are rendered above the rest of the text.

Most of GtkLabel's code is dedicated to abstracting wrapping a PangoLayoutContext with a GtkWidget, abstracting it's capabilities behind several properties.

These layouts are repeatedly created during the sizing pass to try different widths, starting with the minimum and maximum widths (0 & NULL respectively). That's used by the parents to compute the size for the final layout, which is what's used for rendering.

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?

man, computers suck

@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

What OS camp are you in? Hopefully this will be big so please boost so we can get as many votes as possible

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.

ps.s10y.eu/@how/10272921457033…

♲ @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