Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

IDK why but I have this weird love for Mount and Blade Bannerlord. It's a buggy weird little game but guess it's the "writing a story" kinda side of it that keeps me playing it.

My lil Ratagovia ruled by Ratagost of the Sturgian faction Ratagoving is a nice cute city state (Epicrotea) with a couple castles. Paying tributes to everyone just to exist...

KDE Connect is better than Firefox Sync at moving links around, and then quite some stuff.

Hmmm...

@joeo10 Nobody could do that on their own because unlike WebKit or Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox is a huge monolith built using a mix of C++, Rust, and JavaScript. That's simply why WebKit and Blink have so much usage: they're (de)composable libraries; one can delegate rendering, the most complex thing a browser does, to these libraries and create something like Qutebrowser, but you only have things like IceWeasel on the FF side which just remove some stuff, rebrand, and add extensions.

Another day where #Firefox eats my user data: typed in a search query, but I get a page which says it's got to restart because it updated in the background, so restart it, and my search is gone. Luckily it's not some complex expression that I'd need to reconstruct...

The fucking binary is in the memory. Why do you force me to restart?

I can barely take more of Firefox at this point.

@cypnk @valerauko And not only that, but sometimes some papers or books are only available from these channels because they are too old to have ebook versions and too unpopular to be widely available in libraries. In the past year and a half, I needed probably a handful of such articles whose journals' websites went extinct or never existed and copies never widely disseminated, and no "legitimate" means to access unless you're willing to go on a little world tour just for a few pages...

@cypnk @valerauko Efforts like scihub and libgen are huge especially for people like me with less priviledged backgrounds studying in lesser universities with poor libraries. I'm doing an MA in linguistics, and I don't have library access to >90% of what I read, and I lack means to buy even <5-10% of that (or even rent...). Simply put, Open Access and related activisim is a true, solid, huge, and invaluable enabler.

@acdw How should I handle settings then? Traditional manual editing vs. a settings dialog? I'd fancy the former but idk. Would it be too old fashioned?

@acdw https://github.com/cadadr/pomodorino

Two main things it lacks: proper packaging & gsettings integration. IDK if I really want gsettings or just a .ini file in ~/.config...

For now you basically "poetry build", "pip3 install ./dist/<wheel file>", and run it from command line (in Gnome &c you can run it w/ Alt+F2).

Remember that pomodoro app I started some months ago and then selfishly stopped working on because it came to a state where it was working for me?

I added something called an "ease in period" to it where you start your pomodoro session with a short break. Idea is you integrate "I'll just check social media and relax a little before work" moments to the timer and end up only wasting 5 mins instead of an infinite amount of time.

What do you think of the idea?

@self TBH the systemd part of systemd is neat. I'm making some use of systemctl --user it's nice to have too. IMO most people have issues with all the systemd-*d stuff.

One talk I'm looking forward to: "The ‘Native Monolingual Standard’ In Language Research (and Why It’s a Problem)" by Antonella Sorace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpSi0lSSlSc https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/antonella-sorace