Nostr notes by Halla Rempt

So, I got kicked out of mastdon.art for being trans. One ...

2025-04-25T19:28:28Z

So, I got kicked out of mastdon.art for being trans. One fosstodon.org scandal got resolved because its people realized that deleting posts not in English because they were reported was going to lead to censorship -- because anyone could report a post for that reason if they disagreed with the content. Now there's another scandal.

But now? Where is this white lesbian trans woman who likes to cook and maintains a major free and open source application to go? I'd like _some_ stability, please.

When I was in high school, a bunch of kids pulled me into a dark ...

2025-04-24T02:28:00Z

When I was in high school, a bunch of kids pulled me into a dark corner, beat me up and splashed hot chocolate fresh from the vending machine over me.

Not an unusual occurence, back in the eighties. Those things happened, at least at my school. Not just to me.

Then a teacher came along, shoed the perps away and told me to clean myself up, and then come back and clean the place up.

That's what I am reminded of most when I read about the UK hight court verdict about trans women.

Motif was already a bit of fragmentation. I remember working ...

2025-02-21T17:38:37Z

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Motif was already a bit of fragmentation. I remember working throug the Xt and OpenView manuals.

GTK started as a Motif clone, but then Lesstif came. There was XFORMS, never open, but fsf-b,essed.

What I do remember is that xforms gave me a pain in the shoulder because the scrollbars weren't quite rightly responsive.

These days, just use Qt, okay? It's the only sensible option.

I remember coding Motif (and later Lesstif) applications. I ...

2025-02-10T18:20:47Z

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I remember coding Motif (and later Lesstif) applications. I never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to do that again. It was torture, even worse than coding mfc was later on.

Highly symbolic commit! If you build Krita from the main branch ...

2025-02-07T14:18:49Z

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Highly symbolic commit! If you build Krita from the main branch with Qt6... Krita's version number will be 6.0-prealpha!
#krita

It might not look any different, but this is #krita running on ...

2025-02-04T13:55:38Z

It might not look any different, but this is #krita running on Qt6:

For desktop, I'd say, give kdenlive a try. It's foss and ...

2025-01-27T11:38:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…9rzc
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For desktop, I'd say, give kdenlive a try. It's foss and is actively development and maintained: https://kdenlive.org/en/

And ALL #krita libraries (461,263 lines of code) now build with ...

2025-01-10T14:35:03Z

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And ALL #krita libraries (461,263 lines of code) now build with Qt5 and Qt6. There are 116 Qt version checks. I've made five merge requests for the libraries alone...

This is the last one:

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/2306

This afternoon's tea is Golden Monkey King White House, and ...

2025-01-10T13:21:09Z

This afternoon's tea is Golden Monkey King White House, and I'm almost done porting all of #krita's libraries to Qt6, but I am now struggling with the changes to QSurfaceFormat::colorSpace(), so it's going to be a close call as to whether I'll finish before the weekend.

About ten years!

2024-11-20T10:21:03Z

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About ten years!

I'm happy with the button, but I really thought I was going ...

2024-11-20T10:13:52Z

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I'm happy with the button, but I really thought I was going to have to switch monitors...

I was wondering why my wonderful Eizo monitor was getting so dim. ...

2024-11-20T09:38:37Z

I was wondering why my wonderful Eizo monitor was getting so dim. I thought maybe its panel was degrading after many years of work.

But no... I got a new KDE Plasma version and suddenly there's a screen brightness control in the systray.

And apparently, it's set to 30% by default.

I only noticed it because I wanted to change the sound volume and mis-clicked 😞

#kde_plasma

I made my own earl grey tea: I took some oldish oolong tea leaves ...

2024-10-20T15:46:28Z

I made my own earl grey tea: I took some oldish oolong tea leaves and a bergamot, used a knitting needle to jab holes in the bergamote and put bergamot and tea in a mason jar.

The result is pretty good: the scent is so much better than commercial earl gray tea -- it's actually appealing instead of disgusting, subtle instead of blatant.

Remember how we had problems releasing #krita to the MacOS app ...

2024-09-28T08:00:22Z

Remember how we had problems releasing #krita to the MacOS app store because I needed new certificates after my legal name change? Well, after a year of troubles, we've overcome that, so the brand-new 5.2.5 release is being released to everyone who supported Krita's development by getting Krita in the MacOS app store!

And here I am, still writing for-loops since 1982 (when I was ...

2024-09-05T16:25:10Z

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And here I am, still writing for-loops since 1982 (when I was 12...)