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no, un momento. in italia beviamo 20 caffé al giorno? ah sì?
si vede proprio che vivo in svizzera!
(no, non vivo in svizzera. vivo al di qui del confine con la svizzera. ci tengo a precisare)
La macchina del caffè che la Nazionale italiana di baseball ha sempre in panchina
È solo uno dei rituali con cui la squadra – formata soprattutto da italoamericani – ostenta il legame con le proprie originiIl Post
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Confermo: 20 caffè, 1 kg di spaghetti, 5 pizze pro-capite al dì. Soprattutto se il tutto cucinato da mammà mentre il babbo, coi baffi - of course - strimpella la chitarra.
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eh non ci sono più i luoghi comuni di una volta
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@Elena ``of Valhalla'' è matematica. In America usano tazze da mezzo litro per la stessa quantità di caffeina. Se in Italia un espresso è ~25ml , ne consegue che un italiano beve 20 tazzine al giorno.
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Made a quick bookmark for the case when "was I on the left page or the right page, and which paragraph was I looking at?" is a relevant question...
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I heard the sound of my cat in the kitchen hacking away. I went to have a look and it turned out I was right – he was establishing an SSH connection to a custom port while wearing a black hoodie.
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... I'm in
A Pen Case (or a Few)
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Tags: madeof:atoms, FreeSoftWear, craft:sewing
For my birthday, I’ve bought myself a fancy new expensive1fountain pen.
Such a fancy pen, of course requires a suitable case: I couldn’t use the failed prototype of a case I’ve been keeping my Preppys in, so I had to get out the nice vegetable tanned leather… Yeah, nope, I don’t have that (yet). I got out the latex and cardboard material that is sold as a (cheaper) leather substitute, doesn’t look like leather at all, but is quite nice (and easy) to work with. The project is not vegan anyway, because I used waxed linen thread, waxing it myself with a lot of very nicely smelling beeswax.
I got the measurements2 from the less failed prototype where I keep my desktop pens, and this time I made a proper pattern I could share online, under the usual Free Culture license.
From the width of the material I could conveniently cut two cases, so that’s what I did, started sewing the first one, realized that I got the order of stitching wrong, and also that if I used light blue thread instead of the black one it would look nice, and be easier to see in the pictures for the published pattern, started sewing the second one, and kept alternating between the two, depending on the availability of light for taking pictures.
One of the two took the place of my desktop one, where I had one more pen than slots, and one of the old prototypes was moved to keep my bedside pen, and the other new case was used for the new pen in my handbag, together with a Preppy, and now I have a free slot and you can see how this is going to go wrong, right? :D
- 16€. plus a 9€ converter, and another 6€ pen to get the EF nib from, since it wasn’t available for the expensive pen.↩︎
- I have them written down somewhere. I couldn’t find them. So I measured the real thing, with some approximation.↩︎
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Is there a #python module for #activitypub #c2s I can use for a silly idea? My search engine foo seems to suggest rather No, but maybe you know one 😉
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@𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓯 𝓓𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓽 thank you for the link! The calf client that is mentioned might be a basis for what I had in mind :)
I consider writing software a kind of craftsmanship. It's important to me to think through what I build, to consciously make design decisions based on knowledge and the existing problem space. To understand why things work (or not!) and be able to solve problems as they come up. To keep things readable, understandable, maintainable.
In the end, I want to be proud of what *I* build.
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I’ve been writing code for 25 years. Allow me to disagree. While I love building things, programming is just a tool for achieving a goal, not the end goal in and of itself. While I’m meticulous about what comes out as a final product, I don’t care anymore if it’s written by me, by a colleague, or by a machine, as long as it meets my strict criteria.
If you’re looking for an authentic form of expression, try creative writing. This is one area I’d be ashamed of delegating entirely to AI
Hello! Because I clearly hate myself I have written about some of the tradeoffs involved in allowing non-free blobs of code to be updated at runtime and published it on the internet: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/to-…
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I was thinking about this kind of stuff today when I saw there was an "intel-microcode" update for my computer. My computer is pretty old now, and it seems to work fine. So I wonder what the update is about. And it crosses my mind that the political situation in the USA might mean companies are pressured into doing things they wouldn't have done in the past...
That said, I'll probably install the update. I think it unlikely to be malicious. But this forced-trust really isn't a great way for things to work.
Che ne dite del CW quando si parla di guerra?
Non perché non me ne frega ma perché attualmente non ce la faccio.
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per favore segnala i post senza CW sulla guerra così li sistemiamo lato mod ❤
Confermo che - come dice @Donutsaurus - ci vuole il CW su LS per quegli argomenti.
Un cw più che necessario. E secondo me non servono nemmeno spiegazioni, i temi forti sono da mettere sotto cw, per avere cura delle altre persone
The internet tells me that there is a book called “Natural dyes for education and colour experimentation”, targeting educational and artistic users, that can be downloaded (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) and looks quite interesting:
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It turns out I had another stained glass project in me after all. I just couldn't resist the heady contrasts of strength and fragility, profanity and sanctity. Plus, it used up a lot of random pieces of leftover glass!
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@book Yes, either in the form of extruded channels or, more commonly these days, soldered directly to the glass, after applying copper foil tape around all the edges.
And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?
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So my display, which is accurately showing the data, is like:
We're going slower than a Toronto pub crawl. No, wait! We're going faster than the speed of light!
We're somewhere in Mexico. No, wait! We are probably in Kansas.
The client ship is going the exact same speed at the exact same location as us! No wait. It *is* us. No wait, it's *ramming* us at full speed!!
Man, I had some fails in my time, but this one wasn't just a fail, it was fucking *embarrassing*.
"Build a special custom icebreaking display using the hardware on the ship, it'll be brilliant!"
The hardware doesn't work in the ice. Any actual icebreaker captain could have told me -- us -- that, had we -- they -- ever actually consulted one.
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Fedi, a good friend needs to find a place to live in Padua (Padova), Italy. He has citizenship, but doesn't speak the language well. He's not wealthy but he's able to afford a small place. He's currently in the UK.
Can anyone help me find him a letting agent or any other source where he can view and apply to rent an apartment? He's tried calling a couple of places to no avail.
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Fedi update: He's willing to look anywhere in Italy now -- suggestions welcome. (He was interested in that area because his family is from there, but no one is left there now.)
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Ehi Fediverso italiano!
Aiutiamo l'amico di @wohali a trovare un appartamento a Padova!
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🇮🇹 Going to Italy in the near future. Exciting!
Does anyone have recommendations for learning to read/ speak Italian? Hopefully not AI-cooked like Duolingo
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My suggestuon is not to try to learn Italian, just go there and keep a little diary of expressions people tell you. Depending on where you go, you might also learn some dialect!
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While I don't like to travel, and I dislike planning travel, Wikivoyage is a really helpful site when I have to.
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Thanks for the reminder!
Have a (short) trip I have been nervous about planning as I had not been there before and it is a bit of a smaller town... but it at least spells out a bit about the public transit options, limited though they may be.
It also includes a link to a bike route map, which is a really compelling option for me!
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thanks to Wouter for writing what I think on the subject
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I don't care what tools you use. Whether your use is ethical or not is not my business, it's yours, and it is your conscience you'll have to clear. I used to be a gatekeeping elitist prick who judged people who used software I disliked. I try not to be one anymore.
But - and this is a very, very big but - if the tools you use only exist because they're scraping and DDoSing the entire internet, and the cost of their existence is externalized to me, and everyone else running a website?
Then I will care, and I will call you out on your bullshit if you try to present yourself as an ally, while making excuses for the damage these things cause.
This is not about ethics. This is not about copyright, or rights in general. This is about externalizing costs to people who do not deserve this level of abuse, and then denying their complaints.
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ma questi sono gli smart ring con la batteria al litio nel lato interno dell'anello con cui si rischia seriamente di perdere il dito?
(no, il caso che era finito sui giornali era della samsung)
Il governo Trump vorrebbe che tutti indossassero uno di questi
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely.
deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…
How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language changeColin Gorrie (Dead Language Society)
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@David de Groot @Yogthos yeah, beyond that I recognized a few words, but some of those I recognized from the time when I played a medieval nun on the internet :D
(I hand copied a text in Old English of which I had read a translation, so I had a vague idea of what was happening, but I couldn't exactly understand what I was copying in each individual sentence)
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Dear people who use #warpWeightedLoom : how noisy are they?
I've seen videos of human-powered mechanical looms and there is quite a bit of *clack* noise when it's used, and I have some experience with backstrap looms where the moving parts are mostly soft and there isn't a significant noise.
Are the warp weighted ones somewhere in between? do the weights hit each other? Anything else that isn't soft hitting some other hard part?
Would it be possible to have somebody read a book in a room with a few looms in use, for the weavers to listen to, or would it be hard to hear them?
maybe @Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber knows?
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As for the *why* I need¹ to know this, I'm not overthinking the worldbuilding for a piece of smut.
I've resigned myself to the idea that I will never write said smut, and this is purely an exercise in SFW worldbuilding porn :D
it helps me fall asleep. when I don't get stuck on this kind of questions I don't know the answers for :D
¹ FSVO need
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Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?
I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.
I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!
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Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations.
But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no longer have to pay eye watering roaming fees for calls and data when you travel to other EU countries, as it was common until 5-10 years ago.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if big tech has at least some constraints onto what it can do with your data and how much choice you have as a customer.
Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you, as a EU citizen, can benefit from the services of any other embassy of any other EU country if stranded abroad.
Those who try to depict the EU as a bureaucratic hell worth dismantling are those who hate the impact that its laws have on their freedom of exploiting markets, exploiting customers or living out of rent money.
Or those who hate the combined economic and political power of a united Europe with a single market because it threatens their national interests, and they’d rather exert their leverage with a bunch of divided and weaker countries instead.
Europe isn’t perfect and a lot can be improved. But those who call for its demise DO NOT talk in your interests.
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while I agree, I kinda managed to bump into the growing pains of the transition towards USB-C standard in jist the perfect ways to have maximum annoyance.
Every time I visit friends at UK, I have given like 5 - 6 reminders why EU is actually great for what it's worth.
Also it is very visible that EU is last bastion standing against corporations ruling with iron fist. Yes, not perfect, lots of insane lobbying as well, but people have chance to fight back.
Also it is very visible that EU is last bastion standing against corporations ruling with iron fist. Yes, not perfect, lots of insane lobbying as well, but people have chance to fight back.
I am a documented survivor of recurrent radiation injury resulting from sustained interaction with an unshielded Class G2V fusion reactor exhibiting high-energy particle emission, extreme luminous flux, aggressive short-wavelength electromagnetic leakage, and episodic plasma bursts attributable to confinement instability - all operating in the complete absence of attenuation systems, emissions baffling, shielding protocols or output modulation controls.
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At this point, open-source development itself is being DDoS'ed by LLMs and their human users.
At the risk of being a bit gross: this is the software development version of peeing in the pool. If *one* person does it, it's gross but will probably go unnoticed. However, at this point, it's like having 100 people all lined up on the side of the pool peeing into it in unison. I don't really want to swim in that, do you? And now they've started eyeing the punchbowl and watercoolers too. #AI #AIslop #LLMs
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Ok, right, yes we're already very much into 2026, but but but, hear us out, wouldn't you still want to access the best calendar ever - NASA's very own Astronomy Picture of the Day?
Here it is for download and offline browsing, 30+ years of starry goodness all the way back to 1995 👇
browse.library.kiwix.org/#lang…
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oh wow, thank you to everyone who made this possible! I've always wanted to maintain a local mirror (and long ago had a home brew script to do just that for a local college network: ninad.pundaliks.in/blog/2008/0…) and have been wondering about the legal Implications of doing this in the present age. Y'all answered some of these questions for me now
ACAD - wget PI
Today, we’ll have a look at one of my favourite download managers. Every Linux system includes this tool, wget. It’s manpage describes it as the perfect tool...ninad.pundaliks.in
consigli su dove dormire in zona Lugano senza svenarsi?
@thunderpussycat e io saremo a Hacking New Year questo fine settimana (programma qui: hny.indyfac.ch/schedule) a presentare i nostri libri.
ogni consiglio per una trasferta non troppo costosa è benvenuto. grazie! 
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se avete l'auto potreste anche dare un'occhiata nella zona tra la frontiera e Porlezza, che dista una quindicina di km da Lugano.
visto che lo fate all’USI a Viganello, se avete contatti con loro proverei a chiedere un paio di stanze nel campus
I consider myself a 0.5x developer because I think twice as long about the potential consequences of my actions.
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TIL that #solarPanels also have bad consequences :D
today just after lunch for the second time since they had been installed our batteries were basically full, the sun was still shining, and we still can't send energy to the grid¹, so we run a dishwasher load, a washing machine (cold water, so it didn't help a lot, but that's what I had to wash at the moment) and we still weren't using what the panels were producing, so I had to face The Pile of Stuff That Needs Ironing.
I had been successfully² postponing that for *weeks*!
¹ from installation to being enabled for that it usually takes a couple of months, between bureaucracy and waiting for a tecnicians
² not that it is in any way near the bottom
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@tk (water heating was / is integrated with heating water for the radiators, and changing *that* would have required too much work and expense. the quote for an air-water heat pump were, as I said, extortionate, so we added air-air heat pumps, but they are sized to work *together* with the radiators, not instead of them)
(one day we'll have a fully electric house, but it will need to happen through gradual changes)
(and yesterday, since the sun was shining and there was some warm wind, it was a bit too warm to turn on the heating anyway)
we are currently in the transition to a air to water heat pump, but warm water will be a seperate heat pump ( you get a 200L tank for around 1600-2000€ plus install here).
The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install
The heat pump for radiator heating was around 4k€ without install
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@tk here the quote was for about 25k€, plus an unknown expense to change the electrical wiring to get three-phase current, plus having to pay more for electricity (because three-phase) and not being able to afford solar panels for years
or we could start with the solar panels and start saving money on electricity and save it for more electrification later
it wasn't a hard choice :)
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When talking about the energy consumed by LLMs don't be fooled by arguments focusing solely on the direct power consumption of these models, because they are externalizing a lot of it. Browsers are now doing proof-of-work calculations to access many websites, because websites need to protect themselves from AI scrapers. That takes power! Let that sink in: every computer, tablet or phone on earth is now consuming more power *every time it accesses a webpage* because of "AI".
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@Qbitzerre I'm not sure why you're speculating here, it's an observable fact. Countless sites are getting hammered by bots from AI companies, at a scale that had never happened before.
Modern¹ Italy had two queens and a bit.
The third one was only queen for a few months and then we got rid of the whole thing.
The second one, Elena, whose husband was busy making sure that Italy would become a republic soon², devoted herself to charitable work. I don't think it makes her especially worth of merit, but if you are stuck as a woman born in a royal house in the 1800s and are a baseline good person, that's one of the things you do.
The first one, Margerita, was a reactionary asshole who encouraged the shooting of protestors and was an enthusiastic supporter of fascism.
Guess which one is being celebrated with a stamp this year?
¹ there was a kingdom of Italy in the middle ages, but that's a different matter
² this may have not been his aim
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@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua of course not the one celebrated with a liqueur
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Ciao persone, qualcunə ha esperienza con il ciclostile? #mastofficina
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Ho preparato matrici varie volte, ma non ho mai avuto occasione di usarne uno: sono troppo giovane 😄
Ho preparato matrici varie volte, ma non ho mai avuto occasione di usarne uno: sono troppo giovane 😄
How does XMPP work? I'm looking at Jabber's website and apparently some clients are both clients and servers at the same time or something? It's quite confusing...
Are spaces or multi-channel groups (like discord) a thing in xmpp? Which clients support that on iOS and Linux and etc?
Is Movim a client or a server or what?
Are groups hosted in the server of the user who created it like on Matrix or what?
Any easy tutorials I could send to my discord friends?
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Ci tengo a segnalare che oggi #trenord ha annunciato *per tempo* che un treno già presente al binario sarebbe partito prima di quello in arrivo (in ritardo) ad un altro binario, nonostante l'orario dicesse il contrario.
Credo anche con abbastanza preavviso per prendere gli ascensori per il cambio binario!
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Scommetto che sulla banchina della stazione era pieno di gente con i pop corn ad aspettare che il treno davanti partisse DOPO quello in arrivo.
@rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua in realtà la banchina della stazione era piena di gente che aspettava l'altro treno ancora in direzione opposta, quindi non so se avessero i popcorn o meno :D
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La situazione ragebait sui social di Mæta ormai è fuori controllo. Facendo leva sul fatto che siamo tutti - comprensibilmente - già incazzati, stanno puntando tutto il banco SOLO su quel tipo di interazione.
È impossibile aprire le loro app senza imbattersi in qualcosa di oltraggioso, inaccettabile, disgustoso. Trattenersi dal leggere oltre, o peggio, commentare, è sempre più difficile.
È impossibile aprire le loro app senza imbattersi in qualcosa di oltraggioso, inaccettabile, disgustoso. Trattenersi dal leggere oltre, o peggio, commentare, è sempre più difficile.
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Non cadiamoci. Questa roba è fatta apposta per avvelenarci lo spirito, per farci sentire inermi e frustrati, per farci chiudere ancora di più in noi stessi, con gli occhi fissi nel vuoto luminoso dei loro feed.
Prendiamoci cura di noi, perché per loro siamo solo carne da engagement.
Prendiamoci cura di noi, perché per loro siamo solo carne da engagement.
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Meanwhile, reading¹ my Plinius the Younger, describing his uncle's books, as one does
“STUDIOSI TRES, in sex volumina propter amplitudinem divisi”
(about scholars, three books, divided in six volumes because of their size)
it's a shame the author of acoup.blog is no longer on the fediverse, because for some inexplicable reason.
¹ in an Italian translation, but in Italy they usually publish Latin authors in both languages)
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#CIA World Factbook is back #offline in our library!
library.kiwix.org/#lang=&q=cia
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Mi sono appena resa conto del fatto che, così come “Ministero del Made in Italy” usa parole inglesi, la parola “autarchia” è greca.
Così.
Sono cose che ti sconvolgono, prima della colazione alla mattina.
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Vagrant Cascadian
in reply to Debacle • • •Debacle
in reply to Vagrant Cascadian • • •@vagrantc
- Fix incoming and outgoing unencrypted file transfers (SFS) with
Gajim and Kaidan (1fd458e, a2dfff7, a57da8a, 3798961, af6ed0b,
fba8529, e01e09b)
- Fix replies and reactions in rooms without history (fc67779)
- Work-around issues in libsoup (libsoup issue #473) and
glib-networking (glib-networking issue #20) (0c3b95d)
- Fix reply button being disabled although the feature would be
available (de24d7e). Fixes issue #1763
tbc.
Debacle
in reply to Debacle • • •@vagrantc
- Fix memory leak when sending a file (ca1b251)
- Fix incoming avatars with multiple file sources not being recognized
correctly (bbe8384)
- Fix file in file send dialog having non-working on-hover buttons
(0efec65)
- Fix regression, make own XMPP address selectable/copyable (2fe513e)
- Fix regression, show used account if multiple are active (4a816cc)
- Fix incomplete history fetch from server (91d8cb)
tbc.
Debacle
in reply to Debacle • • •@vagrantc
- Fix history sync resumption from partial/interrupted sync (0758344)
- Fix webcam video size selection for 16:9 ratio webcams and unknown
framerate cameras (09aec98, c21bf33, 4bf6ee5, 4b3da13, 5a2a68c)
- Add missing icon file (7b7729a)
- Fix missing stream delay for voice processor (797937c)
* other fixes, probably not relevant to Debian users:
- Make meson file compatible with legacy versions like in Ubuntu 24.04
LTS (fb542bc)
tbc.
Debacle
in reply to Debacle • • •@vagrantc
- Fix compilation with new vala compilers (e83a758)
- Fix SVG compatibility for glycin-based image loading (080fd3b)
- Fix version inlining in build process (7a02a5d, c0f35eb)
- Update Flatpak and appdata definition file (3528363, d664c17, 9b65c08)
done 🙂
Vagrant Cascadian
in reply to Debacle • • •Debacle
in reply to Debacle • • •For the brave people, who are running #Debian testing or unstable, there is also #Dino from #experimental. It's the latest git master. Works for me, but don't complain when it eats your hamster!
#Jabber #XMPP
pep
in reply to Debacle • • •Adrian
in reply to Debacle • • •Which means testing various things is hard without copying around certificates. Are there any plans to allow such certificates in the future?
@dino @debian
Debacle
in reply to Adrian • • •Probably not:
github.com/dino/dino/issues/57…
We will have to live with `cp` and `sudo update-ca-certificates`, I guess. Which is fine for me.
Unable to connect to servers with invalid/self-signed/untrusted certificates · Issue #57 · dino/dino
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