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Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning shines a light on some chemical reactions triggered by the sun’s raysAndy Brunning, special to C&EN (American Chemical Society)
Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.Chris Kerr (Game Developer)
Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!
As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.
Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.
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Please boost.
Thanks a lot to everybody who has boosted my initial post of this thread!
I have amazing news now:
The Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund is investing in OpenPrinting!
See
ubuntu.social/@till/1154984651…
Amazing News!The Sovereign Tech Agency @sovtechfund is investing in OpenPrinting!
My full-time work at OpenPrinting will get funded until the end of 2026, by the Sovereign Tech Fund! Because printing is an essential part of the IT infrastructure. So printing will continue to just work!
See details in my blog:
openprinting.github.io/OpenPri…Thanks a lot to @tarakiyee and @hzulla !
OpenPrinting News - Sovereign Tech Agency is investing in OpenPrinting
I am covered to work on OpenPrinting full-time until end-2026OpenPrinting
scienzainrete.it/articolo/cond…
La storia era ben spiegata in questo fumetto editions-delcourt.fr/bd/series… da cui è stato tratto un film: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Algu…
Tutto questo per dare un'idea degli effetti di un'industria agroalimentare talmente accentrata da diventare un potere economico fuori controllo.
Arch Linux users told to purge Firefox forks after AUR malware scare
theregister.com/2025/07/22/arc…
The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness
<- by me on @theregister
: The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weaknessLiam Proven (The Register)
I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.
Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett
It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless yo…Techdirt
@bortzmeyer is reporting in bortzmeyer.org/menaces-de-clou… that Cloud Innovation, the Chinese company that has paralyzed #AFRINIC with legal actions, is threatening people who share links to this article: medium.com/@emmanuelvitus/afri… .
I expect that the Streisand effect will manifest...
@joebeone too has received a threatening letter from Cloud Innovation, and his counsel's reply is instructive and fun:
techpolicy.social/@joebeone/11…
I have retained counsel, Albert Sellars LLP, to respond. I will not be taking down my social media posts. My response is here [1]. No further comment at this time. These views are mine and mine alone. 2/ [1]: https://drive.google.techpolicy
You know, Confy: the Gnome-based, mobile-friendly Conferences schedule viewer
Some days ago I posted a screenshot about an experiment I was doing with #confy , which atm is on hold.
I'm still looking about the best way to draw a calendar view which can be zoomed in and out fast.
This is using Gtk.Snapshot to draw boxes and Pango.Layout to draw text.
It's still not fast enough with large conferences (mostly because I want to keep the text the same size and just change the boxes...)
Meanwhile I made some other things: some are papercuts, some are to try to have cleaner code, and some are quite big changes:
Actions get enabled/disable correctly per context
"search" action is disabled until an event is opened, and "copy" action is enabled only while a details page is shown.
Small change but prevents some errors.
Update recent list when deleting custom event from menu
Custom event in the "open" window can be removed. Now the entry is also removed from the recent events list.
Navigation sidebar has been updated
Now items does not get out of order after opening an Event with one already opened. Previously, items not needed (eg. 'Traks' where the Event has no tracks) were removed and re-added, which caused them to appear out of order.
Now the items are hidden and shown as needed, thus they do not change order anymore. Plus they are now defined in sidebar widget template. More clear and nice.
Navigation between pages has been revisited.
Originally, every talk details page opened was simply pushed on the stack. This caused some trouble as details page can link to other details pages via overlapping talks, which where pushed on the stack too. But overlapping talks are 'circular' as if Talk A overlaps with Talk B, also Talk B overlaps with Talk A, which can lead to very long stack to navigate back, e.g.:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C -> Talk A -> Talk C List -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk BList -> Talk A
user clicks on overlapping Talk B
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks on overlapping Talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Talk C
user clicks on overlapping Talk A
List -> Talk AThis is also relevant for the new Search page navigation.
Search can be toggled
Search action now is toggleable (is this a word?), the "search" button in the headerbar is now a togglebutton. One click opens the search, another click closes the search (as does ctrl-f).
When search is opened, the search page is pushed on the stack. Closing the search pop the page (and popping the page closes the search).
From the search page, talk details pages follow the same logic as before, but in a separate 'group'. That is, if the search page is opened from a detail page, and from the search page the same talk is clicked, we don't pop back to the already pushed page (which closes the search) but a new detail page is pushed on the stack:
List -> Talk A -> Talk B
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search
user clicks talk C
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C
user clicks overlapping talk A
List -> Talk A -> Talk B -> Search -> Talk C -> Talk A
user clicks the "search" button
List -> Talk A -> Talk B( btw: the search entry still get focused when the search page pops in. I'm quite proud I managed to keep that :) )
Updated Preference dialog
The design has been moved to template, with a simple custom widget to set caches duration.
Option to clear the recent opened events list has been added.
Everything is in git if anyone want to test it, maybe on some mobile devices, maybe during one of the upcoming conferences...
That story about an AI startup collapsing after it turned out to be 700 Indian developers in a Trenchcoat? It was a made up story by a crypto guy that became clickbait, published unchecked by tech media everywhere. Read the real story behind Builder.ai here: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/bui…
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The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.Martin Holland (heise online)
Mh.
last update of #archlinux defaults to #GTK4 #GSK #Vulcan Renderer:
GDK_BACKEND=wayland because the terminal is in VSCode, which runs on XWayland and define GDK_BACKEND=x11. In VSCode because gnome console was a black rectangle too)Yes, that white rectangle is the window.
I had to set GSK_RENDERER=ngl in .config/environment.d/gtk4.conf
Really enjoyed David Gerard's amusing take on how programming with AI becomes like a gambling addiction for many.
"Large language models work the same way as a carnival psychic. Chatbots look smart by the Barnum Effect — which is where you read what’s actually a generic statement about people and you take it as being personally about you. The only intelligence there is yours."
"With ChatGPT, Sam Altman hit upon a way to use the Hook Model with a text generator. The unreliability and hallucinations themselves are the hook — the intermittent reward, to keep the user running prompts and hoping they’ll get a win this time."
"This is why you see previously normal techies start evangelising AI coding on LinkedIn or Hacker News like they saw a glimpse of God and they’ll keep paying for the chatbot tokens until they can just see a glimpse of Him again. And you have to as well. This is why they act like they joined a cult. Send ’em a copy of this post."
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen…
You’ll have noticed how previously normal people start acting like addicts to their favourite generative AI and shout at you like you’re trying to take their cocaine away. Matthias Döpm…Pivot to AI
@cstross It does look money!
Breaking news, a new startup has announced they will produce new *AI* infused technology to insert as many brainslugs into any machine you want.
*Five*years*later*: Brainslugz has declared bankruptcy after years of complaints revealed that Brainslugz were not aware that half the slugs froze to death while kept on the floor.
I'm probably trying to approach this the wrong way (trying to understand the cause of this error)
I don't get where the 0.21 result is coming from 🤯
Just for fun i asked ChatGPT the same question and now the answer is "correct" (it was wrong but it "corrected" itself)
Funny enough, when pressing it that it was wrong and the right answer was 0.21 I got this
Mario non sa fare il lavoro, Paolo sí.
Paolo con il macchinario di Mario potrebbe fare il grosso e poi fare gli aggiustamenti di fino che é in grado di fare con l'esperienza.
Io uso da due anni e mi ha velocizzato molte fasi del lavoro noiose senza impattare sul risultato finale, anzi a volte ho visto approci nuovi e interessanti facendo crescere le mie conoscenze di tubarolo.
É il vibe piping che é una 💩
@𝓜𝓪𝓾𝓻𝓸 𝓥𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓮𝓻 mi unisco agli utenti di friendica che scrivono “la prima”
prima di aver sentito come @Diego Roversi è arrivato al risultato, che è un sistema molto più furbo di quello con cui ero arrivata io
Climate change and energy: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
technologyreview.com/2025/05/2…
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
— MIT Technology Review
2025 Pet Hacks Contest: Automatic Treat Dispenser Makes Kitty Work For It
hackaday.com/2025/05/14/2025-p…
Treat dispensers are old hat around here, but what if kitty doesn’t need the extra calories — and actually needs to drop some pounds? [MethodicalMaker] decided to link the treat dispens…Hackaday
Oof. On the nose here by @firstdogonthemoon
(Click through to the link to read the full cartoon.)
aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon@…
Metti che una mattina ti viene il bisogno di avere l'elenco dei capoluoghi di provincia e relative posizioni.
E ti viene in mente che queste informazioni su openstreetmap già ci sono. Come fare a estrarle?
Apro il sito overpass-turbo (overpass-turbo.eu/), e vedo che c'è già un esempio che cerca le fontanelle. Ok, sembra semplice, ma se devo fare qualcosa di più complicato?
Guardo in alto e vedo nel menu "Wizard". Permette di generare query complicate partendo da descrizioni semplici in inglese. Con tanto di esempi di ricerche più complicate. Un veloce giro sulla wiki di openstreetmap per vedere i campi giusti per la query, guardo gli attributi di qualche città a caso per vedere qualche esempio e arrivo a questa:
(place=city or place=town) and (capital=2 or capital=4 or capital=6) in italy
e la query generata è:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// fetch area “italy” to search in
{{geocodeArea:italy}}->.searchArea;
// gather results
(
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="city"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="2"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="4"](area.searchArea);
nwr["place"="town"]["capital"="6"](area.searchArea);
);
// print results
out geom;
Che fondamentalmente vuol dire, città con più di 10.000 abitanti e che siano capoluoghi di provincia(6) / regione(4) /stato(2).
A questo punto il tutto può essere salvato in un file json.
Prossimo passo: usare jq per estrarre solo le informazioni che mi servono.
Nel caso qualcuno fosse curioso. Questo è come estrarre nome e coordinate dall'output, usando jq:
cat province.geojson | jq ".features[] | { name: .properties.name , coord: .geometry.coordinates} " >province.json
Today I will be joining Matt Venn's open source silicon stream and we are going to talk about Greyhound, my latest chip with RISC-V core and embedded FPGA taped out on IHP SG13G2.
🎥 Link to the stream: youtube.com/watch?v=S0drZqEwSN…
Looking forward to your questions!
#OpenSource #ASIC #FPGA
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leo-moser_asic-fpga-opensource-activity-7317451171571322880-42tJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADBBa0IBN2...YouTube
Oh, man 😭
That reminds me why to never again apply to Canonical.
At Europe OpenSourceSummit 2024 in Wien Till Kamppeter had a talk. It's a complete overview of the project with the history since 2001 until now, the archivements, problems, ongoing and future work, and the community around the printing. He does very important work for printing in Open Source (and other) environments.
osseu2024.sched.com/event/1ej7…
OpenPrinting - We Make Printing Just Work! - Till Kamppeter, OpenPrinting / Canonical
osseu2024.sched.comsee also NLNet foundation
nlnet.nl/funding.html
nlnet.nl/themes/
& a list of associated funds:
nlnet.nl/foundation/network.ht…
NLnet; Apply for funding
nlnet.nlis a great person to work with and goes out of their way to bring tech mentorship around the world. Every year Till hosts events and participates in mentorship programs that empower people to work in FOSS.
I dearly hope that @till and OpenPrinting receive support ❤️
Thank you (and Michael) for making printing on Linux just work.
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OpenPrinting is an essential piece of the free software system infrastructure and it needs to be kept in its good shape in which it is currently, many people appreciating my work and sometimes even telling that for them printing works better than under Windows or macOS.
Any help is appreciated, including just boosting this thread.
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#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired
you've done good work.
Setting up printers on Windows is a nightmare. This isn't the case on Linux.
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Interview of me and Michael Sweet (author of CUPS) in #DestinationLinux :
youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk
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youtu.beOr the other way round: if it's in this state with your work I don't even want to think about it how it would be without your work. Thank you and I'm sorry the company didn't recognize your work, too.
thanks to your hard work, my printers always worked better than they ever did on windows even as far back as from the Mandrake Linux days.
Full disclosure: I even stole ( shamelessly ) from your src.rpm to create the hplip rpm for Conectiva Linux 10 ( back in 2004 ) 😉
Edit: I did credited you on the comments on my .spec file though 😉
@gnemmi And MandrakeSoft rectified it by merging with Conectiva ...
And these packages (including the packaging) are free software anyway ... For me it is a sign that I did a great HPLIP package ...
yup. Conectiva 10 was the last Conectiva release before Mandrake bought it. Hplip didn't make the cut in the final release so I had to create an rpm as an external contrib.
And, yes, your hplip rpm package was: impeccable!!.
Thank you for all your hard work over the last 3 decades!
* Mon Jun 06 2005 Gonzalo Raúl Nemmi <caleb@linuxdicas.com.br> - added add/remove hpaio backend to the sane.d/dll.conf file (Thanks goes to Till Kampeter and his Mandriva hplip.spec)
leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~gnemmi/…
RPM Básico
leaf.dragonflybsd.orgThank you for your work. As someone that has built their own career, I know it's hard. But I hope you end up setting up your own business instead of being a worker beholden to suites that don't know what they have.
It's easier if you identify who your primary users are. For me, it's artists, but I suspect for you it's distro makers, and they should *all* be contributing back funding into your open print business. Even the free ones.
EU-STF for funding critical Open Source
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With the time, Canonical has grown and created internal structures as a big-tech, especially how employees are evaluated. With my mostly external work I got a victim of it and they laid me off. All my colleagues do not really understand why I got fired, as they consider my work really important. Got ~30 "I am really sad that you have to go, you do not deserve it, you are doing great work" answers to my good-bye e-mail
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#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired
@lerxst creeped me out when execs headhunted me at a trade show, then when I expressed interest immediately just told me to wander into the cattle chutes online, apply for literally anything, "it doesn't matter, we'll figure out your position later."
That smelled like VERY old fish to me, and I dropped it there. Found out about the weird Shuttleworth interview stuff later, and just kinda went "yeah, that fits, glad I didn't waste any more time or energy than I did."
Now I know what is going on there. Last year they were spamming vacancies on LinkedIn, applied 3x and got rejected all three times, by the third time my gut feel was that they had become another corporate…
Sorry about being laid off
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and more than 30 Canonicalers have connected with me on LinkedIn.
Now I want to continue doing OpenPrinting for a living, and need a way to do so. I am currently working with the Linux Foundation to make OpenPrinting an organiation which can receive sponsor funding. So now I am looking for sponsors.
Even greater would be, if independent of this somebody could hire me to continue OpenPrinting ...
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Thanks for your work.
Would Google be a possible finder since I imagine Chromebooks use your print stack?
Yes, thanks for the hint, good idea, then Google is for sure a good funder.
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation
I have a small five person company that I really like being able to print on Linux so wouldn't mind donating a bit but the sponsorship here is just don't make sense for a company like mine
What happened to @till in part shows why billionaires' whims shouldn't control software…
ubuntu.social/@till/1149324772…
Mark Shuttleworth once shouted that “Software Freedom Conservancy is just like Microsoft” & publicly stated I was a “McCarthyist” for enforcing #GPL. Like most billionaires, he says & does whatever he wants & faces no consequences.
You are far from the only employee he has mistreated & most go on to do their greatest work after leaving Shuttleworth's company. I'm sure you will too.
Till Kamppeter
2025-07-28 19:20:26
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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kamppetertill/
openprinting.github.io/news/
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OpenPrintingHadn't known this was something you did, must be hard work to do! Then again, a lot of open source projects are.
;)
@communiteatime @Jill_linuxgirl Thanks a lot for offering your help, you were always an amazing friend! It was great to work with you in the extended community team of Canonical/Ubuntu.
First of all, do not forget to actually boost.
Second, #Firefox and #Thunderbird are apps out of which many people are printing, so what about #Mozilla as a sponsor for OpenPrinting?
Or perhaps me as printing guru @mozilla, doing OpenPrinting plus their printing part?
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation
NLnet; Welcome to NLnet Foundation
nlnet.nlThanks a lot to everybody who has boosted the initial post of this thread! I got 1082 boosts within somewhat more than one week!
And still any help is welcome and please continue boosting (the initial post)!
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #GetFediHired
@agateau Thanks for the hint, but the Linux Foundation does not sponsor directly. I am working together with them to get help for getting directly sponsored and also to turn OpenPrinting into a legal organization, so that we can receive sponsoring.
#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation