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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5h

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 · 5h

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 · 6h

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

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 6h

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 · 6h

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

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 6h

Debugging code generators is way too much fun

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 11h

"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 · 14h

Mitteleuropa

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 21h

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

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 22h

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 · 22h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561515

"Been saying it for years: the name of the (IT) game through 2030 and beyond won't be AI, so much as it'll be sovereignty"

This.

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

If you only pay Google Workspace, MS365 or iCloud, these days you can get a better experience by just using Nextcloud for that. I can't think of a service that wouldn't be included in that package that is in one of the others.

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

All the software that the average non-tech business ever needs is Nextcloud

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

I want a Libretto so badly

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5d

I don't really do things with tiling VMs, I usually just put stuff on separate monitors or workspaces, but Niri might be the best-executed example of the concept I've seen yet

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5d

I love the infinite horizontal scrolling in Niri. What a great concept and execution, esp. on devices with smaller screens

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxekyGtqcNE&list=RDMxekyGtqcNE&start_radio=1

Gosh I can just not stop listening to this

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 5d

That being said, this seems honest and tracks with Framework's history before the whole DHH stuff IMHO.

Via https://nitter.net/cmonkey/status/1976493945627766909