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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅

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Code sorceress @loopholelabs.io #linux #kubernetes #virtualization #wasm #gnome Mastodon: @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy she/her | Vancouver, BC https://felicitas.pojtinger.com/

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 10h

They are officially on the GNOME donations page now fwiw, and they do contribute more there than to hyprland which is great to see.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 10h

Will I be buying a Framework next? I was seriously considering it for quite a while, but this has given me a bit of a pause. DHH etc.

The GNOME donations website, corporate sponsors highlighted. See https://donate.gnome.org/

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 10h

Glad to see Framework also supporting other Linux desktops now. Honestly, I think after the CEOs statement and this new level of transparency, I think it's all fine now: https://frame.work/bg/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

Framework Sponsorships

We make a number of sponsorships each year in the form of both monetary donations and product donations. We're sharing a list of our sponsorships since the start of 2025, and will continue to keep this up to date over time.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 15h

com/pojntfx/ledger/commit/ed76905adad0b1e9c96356dd118926259a4f6b1a

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 15h

Also, bonus: The #GNOME GIR files are now extracted from the Flatpak SDK, meaning it should be trivial to update them from the nightly SDK too in the future so that we can use new GTK and Adwaita components as soon as they become available: https://github.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 15h

First PoC: https://github.com/pojntfx/ledger/commit/0520bd1a46a4d679a2348e249fd0f7a06a7cb8d5

Already fixes the GObject/glib bug I hit, but lots more optimization left to do!

GIR: Implement support for multiple libraries to be in `shared-librar… · pojntfx/ledger@0520bd1

…y` key in GIR by iterating over all registered ones in the GIR and using the first one that linking succeeds with Signed-off-by: Felicitas Pojtinger <[email protected]>

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 18h

Or maybe it's a BC thing? Either way, it's literally a vaccine against cancer, you should get it

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 18h

Thank you Canada for making the HPV vaccine free for people

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

What we should actually do I think is if we can't find the symbol in the first dynamic library, we should go for the next one and try and load it there, until we've exhausted the ones we can link against. Need to fix the generator, but even with a manual tweak `g_strv_get_type` now works.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

Lernt denn eigentlich wirklich niemand etwas aus dem kompletten Fehlschlag einer solchen Regulation von den Angelsachsen. Ist ja wirklich unglaublich

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

Die ganzen Liberalen hatten halt einfach recht mit der Kritik am Regulationsfetisch und Safetyism dieser Ländern in den 2010ern

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

The Danish EU presidency might genuinely go down as the worst in history for digital rights so far

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

"I'm shaving my yak" I say, crying

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

Debugging code generators is way too much fun

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

"Ein letztes Aufbäumen des alten Imperiums" I say to myself as I read about the latest space, RISC-V and HSR news coming out of the new empire

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 1d

Mitteleuropa

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

But for California, the only one that can comply with this is realistically Apple, Google and Microsoft.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

Horrendous legislation. If I read this correctly, unless a Linux distribution can "verify your age" and "send an age bracket of the user to an app" (whatever that means), this means Linux distributions are now illegal to use in California.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/13/governor-newsom-signs-bills-to-further-strengthen-californias-leadership-in-protecting-children-online/

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

And yes, learning foreign languages is still important, but it's just getting unrealistic at some point (I already speak 4 languages, and with any new ones I'm seriously starting to struggle with remembering whatever the gender for river is).

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

The biggest generational leap that LLMs have enabled IMHO are three things: Machine translation that's an order of magnitude better than previous options, TTS and VTT (e.g. auto-dubbing of foreign language content), and tool calling based on natural language. Those things will stick I think.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

See: Chrome and the web protocols, MS Office with OOXML, Google Docs with ODF, ...

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 2d

until it's eventually able to make changes to the protocols and formats unilaterally with no need for anyone's consent.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 3d

easier to e.g. publish with open protocols and have your users actually see your things than in closed markets like the US where instead of using global standards like Android, people pretty much only use one company like Apple.

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 3d

Canva has lots of great open alternatives, QuickBooks can be replaces by e.g. ERPNext, Google Earth and Maps is a similar story (OSM is great).

That being said, a lot of it depends on the regulatory environment and how open and free your market is. In a proper free market like the EU it's much