Aral Balkan

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I make small things.

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Kitten: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
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2024-08-05 21:57:55

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Right, fixed.
So genius here just kept state in global variables which were, of course, shared between all connections. 🤦‍♂️
(So you were all just changing the same character, colour, mood settings but the updates were only getting sent to you so when someone else changed something, your character would reflect those changes too and appear to jump.)
Anyway, long story short, moved state to the session object and it should be good now.
Patch: https://codeberg.org/aral/kitten-kawaii/commit/fdb57e7794cc0c72f75a7273ac66b1514a667f0e
#Kitten #kawaii

2024-08-01 18:46:03

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Thanks, I still only see the text; no preview.

2024-08-01 18:45:46

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This is all I see on my instance.
CC @npub1jlu…zzwc – any ideas?
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2024-08-01 18:32:58

Testing Vimeo links in Mastodon:
vimeo.com/993593737

2024-08-01 14:09:53

Just added basic server/process stats to Kitten’s interactive shell (REPL).
Use the new `.stats` command to see them.
Also, documented the shell better in the Kitten Reference:
https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#kitten-s-interactive-shell-repl
#Kitten #SmallWeb #REPL #shell #web #dev
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2024-07-31 15:44:50

“Israel has all but declared war in the Middle East – a conflict it cannot hope to win
…
The man overseeing these assassinations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister and chief architect of the continuing genocidal campaign against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, should be forced to answer for his crimes, too. The ICC’s chief prosecutor is trying to ensure that happens, despite US opposition.”
– Simon Tisdall, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/israel-hamas-iran-ismail-haniyeh-gaza-middle-east
#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide

2024-07-19 11:09:51

Quick, everyone, use the same tech by the same huge corporations… what could possibly go wrong?
#BigTech #TooBigWillFail #centralisation

2024-07-18 18:47:56

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“Journalist”

2024-07-12 12:22:16

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Just wait till their exit. That’s when the fun really begins.

2024-07-12 11:15:19

This is an actual email from an actual Irish bank.
How these muppets aren’t hacked on a daily basis is beyond me.
(Note: this was in response to me telling them that no, I won’t be sending you private bank statements over unencrypted email, thank-you-very-much.)
*smh*
#ireland #banking #security
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2024-07-11 10:43:15

Non-Americans care about US elections for the same reason a hostage cares about the mental state of a gunman.
#USPol #UnitedStates #theWorld #AmericaFuckYeah

2024-07-11 10:11:28

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Many thanks. Appreciate the quick help :)
(Also appreciate your protecting my privacy. Although everyone here already knows I’m in Ireland, it’s small details like this that tell you you’re taking with people who care about the important things – although I already knew that – and that really puts a smile on my face.)
💕

2024-07-11 10:03:04

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(And yeah, it didn’t happen with the StarLite that arrived about a month ago so it’s definitely not consistent. This feels very much like a UPS screwup in their favour. The cynical me wonders if some bean counter at UPS concluded that if they do this on X% of orders they’ll make €Y profit and only lose an acceptable N number of customers.)

2024-07-11 09:56:45

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Thanks. I’ll tell them when they get here. (They haven’t arrived yet.)
What should I do if they refuse to deliver?

2024-07-11 09:36:16

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Didn’t have any trouble with the Starlite itself, oddly, but this is for the keyboard and pen.
Basically, was charged €28.06 taxes on €122 order by StarLabs and then got a message from UPS saying that I owe them €48.72 taxes (€28.06 + 16.80 brokerage charges + 3.86 VAT). As far as I can see, the only thing I should have to pay is perhaps the €3.86 VAT.) But clearly the €28.06 is a double charge.
€76.78 taxes on €122 order is ridiculous.

2024-07-11 08:51:15

@npub1hpu…ggnf Hey folks, UPS is trying to charge me tax again for the same amount I paid you in tax + their fees. Can you please sort this out? Package is scheduled for delivery today. Details sent via email. Thanks!

2024-07-09 18:39:29

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Sorry. Sending a kitten to make up for it :)
:kitten: 💕

2024-07-09 16:55:22

I used to think Google were evil but smart.
I no longer think they’re smart.
#Google #search #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming #AI #LLM #evil #notSmart
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2024-07-09 10:46:28

I went through all the Kitten examples¹ and tutorials² this week to ensure everything is working given Kitten has been evolving rapidly and fixed a number of little issues I encountered.
If you notice any others, please do let me know:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues
:kitten:💕
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/examples
² https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials
#Kitten #SmallWeb #server #framework #web #dev #HTML #CSS #hypermedia #HTMX #JavaScript #JS #peerToPeer #p2p

2024-07-09 10:04:22

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Indeed.

2024-07-08 16:26:52

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2024-07-08 12:04:15

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2024-07-08 12:04:15

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2024-07-08 08:02:09

Some good news to start the day.
#france
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/749/348/724/735/131/original/3ec50bbe1f47c5f8.jpeg

2024-07-05 15:27:07

International Law 101
Legal is whatever the United States says is legal.
This lesson has been sponsored by the US military-industrial complex.

2024-07-05 10:33:30

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💕

2024-07-04 11:00:22

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But that’s just science… What does god say about all this, eh?

2024-07-03 11:05:13

Technology is political.
If your project or organisation has a “no politics” clause, you’re saying you’re happy to exclude people whose very existence is political in our societies.
It’s only defensible if you’re coming from a point of privilege where the dominant politics are to your advantage so you can take them as given.
There is no such thing as “no politics”; there is only “no politics other than the politics of the status quo that I benefit from, which I’ve internalised as normal.”

2024-07-02 18:41:04

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Alt text: Social media post by Andreas Kling on X:
@awesomekling
Some folks have asked why l'm not active on Mastodon.
. . .
Simple answer: I like it here. X is full of positive energy and "let's build!"
Meanwhile, Mastodon is full of negative energy and "stuff sucks and it's someone else's fault"
To protect my own mental health, I choose to hang out in predominantly optimistic social spaces.
9:17 AM • Jul 2, 2024 • 23.5K Views

2024-07-02 16:58:49

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Umm, I was pointing out that the article was bogus (like the other two that have been disproven). It’s Russian propaganda.

2024-07-01 09:28:20

The fascists aren’t winning because neoliberalism has failed but because it has succeeded.
#neoliberalism #fascism

2024-06-30 10:59:01

Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?
Show folks this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM
@npub1j3e…5635 hitting it out of the park, yet again.
#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley

2024-06-29 09:36:18

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Congratulations, Olga! Sending you all lots of love from the Emerald Isle. 🐣💕

2024-06-28 18:42:56

New Kitten feature: Webhook
If you’re a dev building a site or app for yourself that you want to update easily, you can now set up a webhook from your remote Git repository so your deployed Kitten site is automatically updated, for example, every time you push to the main branch.
This is how the Kitten web site is being updated now:
https://kitten.small-web.org
Just deployed, kitten update to get it :)
:kitten:💕
#SmallWeb #Kitten #web #dev #deployment #git #webhook #webhooks #SmallTech #NodeJS
https://s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/mastodon-aral/media_attachments/files/112/695/220/291/366/814/original/7790827f363dc057.png

2024-06-27 09:06:57

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Good question. Maybe the folks at @npub12an…w0gg can help?

2024-06-27 09:03:54

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🤞 As Laura just reminded me, it was in her latest talk :)
https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2024/speakers/laura-kalbag

2024-06-27 08:57:51

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oh gawd

2024-06-24 19:08:54

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Stop calling me a white dude, David.
I’m not white, I’m Middle Eastern.
https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/
@npub1jed…zzat @[email protected]

2024-06-24 19:03:41

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I was wrong… it was nine years. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112667452867970538

2024-06-24 12:27:38

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How about you help instead of calling people who are helping assholes?

2024-06-24 12:27:04

Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of Groningen
This is the recording of my talk the other week where I demonstrated the current state of the Small Web to faculty and postdoc students in the Netherlands.
It includes demos of setting up new Small Web places at your own domain/server in about 10 seconds, Small Web places communicating with end-to-end encryption, and live coding using Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow, etc.
https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/
#SmallWeb #Kitten #Domain

2024-06-23 20:54:57

Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for NINE YEARS but the real problem is me
https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/
#fedora #accessibility #a11y #ableism #RedHat #IBM #Linux #OpenSource

2024-06-22 18:06:20

“We ignored accessibility for eight years and still ship with a broken screen reader but you’re the asshole for calling us out on it.“
– Sincerely, the folks at Fedora and GNOME
I’m actually at the point where I’m wondering why I’m on this platform and whether I’m actually doing more harm than good by showcasing it in my videos and talks and screenshots, etc., given this toxic culture.
But does a better free alternative even exist? *sigh*
#ableism #fedora #GNOME #wayland #a11y #accessibility

2024-06-22 17:42:44

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🤷‍♂️

2024-06-22 11:54:40

Privileged white guys in tech don’t like me much. Y’know what? I can live with that.

2024-06-21 19:15:00

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What I mean is I’ve seen “virtue signalling” etc. used before by certain folks to attempt to silence folks arguing for social justice.

2024-06-21 17:57:18

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Look though my replies and you’ll see. I’ve blocked them and I have no desire to dig up the posts :)

2024-06-21 17:46:37

To think I was recommending System76 to people. Won’t be making that mistake again.
Apparently caring about accessibility is “virtue signaling” and “concern trolling”.
Well, I know exactly the kind of people who use those terms and they’re not folks I want to have anything to do with or will be recommending to anyone else in the future.
If you’re not in the US, you should buy from a local shop anyway. In the EU, we’re spoilt for choice with Tuxedo, Slimbook, StarLabs, etc.
#System76 #Linux

2024-06-21 12:06:10

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Ok, so off the top of my head:
Mastodon isn’t really designed for single-person instances; everything about it overkill for this use case. Is it possible, yes? Will it be using up way more resources than necessary? Yes. Will you run into scaling issues on a single-person instance? If you have a lot of followers *and* you engage with them, yes, you could end up launching a denial-of-service attack on yourself each time you reply to an active thread…

2024-06-21 12:03:01

Woof! Here’s a happy little puppy pixel sketch to liven up your morning.
https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/
#Kitten #SmallWeb #DrawTogether #web #dev
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2024-06-21 08:24:25

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Not that it needing clarification but, sure. I believe I’ve been very clear and consistent about what the problem is.

2024-06-20 22:02:26

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Ditto.

2024-06-20 13:39:02

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How about I stop my “crusade” (what a horrible comparison… a “crusade”, seriously?) when Fedora ships an operating system that comes with a functional screen reader by default after EIGHT YEARS of not doing so?

2024-06-20 13:27:54

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Well that’s some good news, at least. Now what do we do to keep these folks from attempting to push some variation of this down our throats every however-many years?

2024-06-20 13:23:00

“Buh, Aral, #Fedora is a volunteer project… you a nasty bum-bum criticising us for shipping an operating system without a functional screen reader by default for EIGHT YEARS…”
Meanwhile, in reality: “The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions.”
Who owns Red Hat?
#IBM.
What is IBM? A 150 billion-dollar corporation.
Cut the “we’re volunteers” bullshit, acknowledge your ableist culture, and do better.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Project#Governance

2024-06-20 12:52:11

“Just because we don’t consider lack of accessibility to be a blocker doesn’t mean we’re ableist.”
– Open Source folks in my mentions.
#openSource #linux #accessibility #a11y #ableism #fedora #gnome #redHat #IBM #wayland

2024-06-20 10:29:50

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(@npub1f2q…229c @npub1k7m…0d7l was being sarcastic – you know what they say about good parody being indistinguishable from the truth and all that) ;)

2024-06-20 08:13:54

For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!
EIGHT YEARS!
(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released on 2016.)
And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.
What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.
#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux https://fosstodon.org/@soller/112646375569571307

2024-06-20 08:00:34

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You can unfollow and publicly shame me for calling out a glaring accessibility issue in nearly every major Linux distribution on the planet. What you can’t do is both do that and argue that there isn’t an ableist culture in open source software because you’re literally perpetuating it right now by showing the next person exactly what happens when someone criticises the lack of accessibility in your community.
#a11y #linux

2024-06-20 07:54:14

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Do you know how long Wayland has been default on Fedora? I just looked it up. Since Fedora 25. For eight years. I hadn’t even realised. EIGHT YEARS, Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!
And hundred-million-dollar corporations like IBM & Canonical ship operating systems today based on GNOME with a broken screen readers.
Why do I say “ableist?” Because this can only happen in an ableist culture.
#a11y

2024-06-19 19:04:09

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Hehe, indeed :)

2024-06-19 11:02:45

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I’m assuming it’s because they don’t have control over that with the OS (unlike Apple, etc., who have control over the hardware and the software). They could, of course, if they customised an OS and optimised it (perhaps as the official distribution where everything works the best it can… ah, if only there were more hours in the day, it’s something I’d love to work on…)

2024-06-19 10:58:48

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So I spoke to the StarLabs folks and the 96% max charge is apparently by design to protect the battery.
#StarLabs #StarLite #mkIV #linux #laptop #tablet #battery

2024-06-19 10:49:34

Defend someone like fossbros defend the lack of accessibility in the tools they make.
#foss #accessibility #a11y #ableism

2024-06-19 10:42:06

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Another observation, having charged it to capacity twice now and let it discharge fully once:
The battery only charges up to 96% and dies at 2%.
Not the worst possible thing but I would expect a new device to charge to 100% and die at 1%. The former likely more important than the latter.
Hope the battery doesn’t have the same journey that the one on my StarLabs Mk IV did – it dies at around 65% or so after two years.
#StarLabs #StarLite #mkIV #linux #laptop #tablet #battery

2024-06-18 21:48:10

I may not have agreed with every one of his positions in later life but Noam Chomsky was one of the defining people in opening my eyes to the world as it is versus how I’d taken it to be at face value (as someone who didn’t have to question it while growing up in a relatively privileged environment).
Rest in peace, Noam. The world has lost a great mind and an even greater conscience today.
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theory-elites/
#noamChomsky

2024-06-18 17:39:14

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However, you can very much aim regulators at Canonical, IBM, etc., all of which are at least hundred-million-dollar corporations that benefit from these open source tools without contributing to fixing issues like this.

2024-06-18 16:06:42

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Background: It’s not just Fedora. Every Linux distribution that ships with Wayland by default – and that’s almost every major Linux distribution – ships with a broken/unusable screen reader at the moment.
(Read that again until it really sinks in. Yep. I know. Uh-huh. Really.)
#Linux #a11y #wayland #accessibility #screenReader

2024-06-18 16:04:49

Fedora: “The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!
Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users.”
Me: Fedora, your screen reader is broken.
Fedora guy: Patches welcome 👍
Me: *reaches for block button*
From the actually-what-you’re-referring-to-as-ableism-is-GNU/ableism-department
#foss #a11y #accessibility #fedora #ffs

2024-06-18 16:01:00

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Wow.

2024-06-18 11:20:31

There is no cost of living crisis in a world with billionaires. There is only systemic inequality.

2024-06-18 08:16:47

Hello, I’m a dev influencer! Please read my latest book, Best Practices In Torment Nexus Design.

2024-06-18 07:44:12

God is the original tech bro.

2024-06-18 07:37:22

Yay, htmx 2 is out!
https://htmx.org/posts/2024-06-17-htmx-2-0-0-is-released/
Great to see; I know first-hand how hard they’ve been working on it.
(And Kitten already has htmx 2 support natively and has had for a while now. With some additional niceties like the Streaming HTML workflow built on top of it. e.g., see https://ar.al/2024/03/08/streaming-html/ and https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/)
#htmx #htmx2 #web #dev #kitten #SmallWeb #StreamingHTML #JavaScript #HTML #CSS #hypermedia

2024-06-17 22:19:07

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I am planning on trying it out but certain issues will affect both (like not being able to decrypt the drive without an external keyboard which is a LUKS issue).

2024-06-17 21:42:58

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Oh, man, so I’ll be writing a proper review of the new #StarLite #Linux #tablet but initial thoughts…
Emotional brain: I love this thing! The screen alone is amazing. Just gorgeous! 2,880×1,920 @ 200% is perfect. Feels amazing in your hand in portrait orientation.
Rational brain: Has basic usability issues.
• Can’t use encrypted drive without external keyboard
• GNOME on-screen keyboard unusable
• Front camera is crap
• Back camera not recognised (?)
But amazing this even exists… more soon.

2024-06-17 21:35:44

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Yeah, I don’t think it is actually listed on the StarLite page, which is why I missed it initially.

2024-06-17 21:14:27

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All good. @npub133l…pfxe informed me that the bug has been fixed and I can confirm that it is in the latest Fedora Silverblue.

2024-06-17 19:31:12

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Is this the exhibition from 2015 or a new one that’s currently on?
https://www.metmuseum.org/articles/color-the-temple

2024-06-17 19:13:58

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Thanks, that’s good to know :)

2024-06-17 18:47:47

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Oh, my bad, there is a pen you can get separately: https://starlabs.systems/collections/accessories/products/stylus (I don’t have it.)

2024-06-17 18:38:37

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The bug’s still listed as open but, sure, I will test with latest Fedora. Starlabs is shipping with latest Ubuntu and a number of other operating systems. Will let them know to at least not ship Ubuntu until they update.

2024-06-17 18:15:24

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It means Ubuntu (and likely any other distribution that defaults to GNOME) is broken on tablet computers.
But things like this happen in the Linux world. Basically all major Linux distributions are also currently shipping with a broken screen reader, making them inaccessible to people who rely on one to use a computer.
🤷‍♂️
#linux #gnome #tablet #pc #computer #accessibility #a11y

2024-06-17 18:10:42

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So, first issue, popovers (eg., drop-down menus, app menus, etc.) don’t work on GTK 4 apps (like System Settings in GNOME) on touchscreen devices. Three-year old bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1523
I guess that means tablets are not currently supported under GNOME.
Going to see if KDE Plasma works on touchscreen Linux tablets.
*sigh!*
#gnome #linux #tablet #gtk4 #kde #plasma #popovers #mutter

2024-06-17 18:07:32

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Ah, looks like a three-year old GNOME/GTK 4 issue: apparently popovers don’t work in GTK 4 on touchscreens. I guess I have to install KDE Plasma on this if I want a working tablet? (Unless that has issues on tablets too…)

2024-06-17 18:05:54

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I don’t believe it has a pen, sorry :(

2024-06-17 17:57:56

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(This is not an issue I have on non-touchscreen; wondering if it’s a touchscreen issue or a touchscreen on Ubuntu issue… or…?)

2024-06-17 17:46:07

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Just tap the hamburger menu or a drop-down menu in Settings. None of them appear.

2024-06-17 17:19:43

Sorry, that wouldn’t be the psychopaths destroying humanity’s future industry by chance, would it? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/112626873670066685

2024-06-17 17:16:48

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And all they were trying to do was commit a little genocide.

2024-06-17 17:05:52

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Yep. And it’s basically supposed to be laptop-level. Let’s see; haven’t really done anything with it yet (it’s charging and I cooked lunch) :)

2024-06-17 17:05:02

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Will do :) Give me a little time to break it in :)

2024-06-17 17:04:20

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I’ll let you know once I’ve had a chance to put it through its paces :)

2024-06-17 17:03:53

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Will do :)

2024-06-17 17:02:50

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It’s got Ubuntu on it from StarLabs (just wanted to make sure everything was working. I’ll likely put Silverblue on it. Although I first want to see if the bug with popovers not showing is a GNOME issue or an Ubuntu issue.

2024-06-17 17:00:34

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Sure :)

2024-06-17 17:00:01

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Haha, thanks 💕

2024-06-17 15:43:13

Oooh, ooh, ooh… look what just arrived! I’ve been waiting almost a year for it and boy was it worth the wait. My new Linux laptop is a… tablet? Yep. The StarLabs StarLite.
Oh and the screen on this thing! 😍
https://ie.starlabs.systems/pages/starlite
#linux #tablet #StarLabs #StarLite
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2024-06-17 14:20:50

Do not compare Israel to Nazi Germany, that is Holocaust inversion.
Meanwhile, in Israel:
Former Israeli MK Quotes Hitler While Discussing Gaza War
“As Hitler said,” Moshe Feiglin said to Channel 12 news, “I can’t live if one Jew is left,” we can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-06-16/ty-article/former-israeli-mk-quotes-hitler-while-discussing-gaza-war/00000190-224f-d231-a1b2-e65f76fe0000
Via @npub1hh8…0cqv
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Nazis #Hitler #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #holocaust #holocaustInversion #zionism #antisemitism

2024-06-17 09:32:24

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