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• Post #2743300

  *go to gitlab.com to file a MR against a FOSS project* Before the content has loaded and page is still a blank white page, I see the page title in the tab bar: "Finally, AI for the entire s…" My first thought is that I've made a typo and ended up on a spam domain (and my adblocker is protecting me from the content loading). But no, the URL is correct, a marketing landing page eventually loads, and I am left contemplating how the fuck shoving AI no one wants in our fa...

• Post #2743299

  The #KiCad thing for assigning trace width based on netclass is great, but it really should let you set different widths for internal tracks and external tracks.

• Post #2743298

  I would use org-mode 3× as much if I could use ` instead of ~ or = for inline code. It's superficial, but my distaste for using ~ and = that way is 99% of why I ever reach for markdown-mode instead of org-mode. #emacs #OrgMode

• Post #2743297

  HTTP/2 200 {"success":false,"code":500,"message":"系统发生未知错误，请稍后重试","errorCode":"","data":null} anything but HTTP status codes

• Post #2743296

  I posted a while ago about how it's funny that Comcast advertises "ninety nine point nine percent reliability", like 3 nines is something to be proud of. But I would be so happy with 3 nines from them rn. They've blown through their downtime budget to hit 3 nines for 2026.

• Post #2743295

  For how much org-babel talks about reproducible research, there are a lot of `customize` settings that can affect how a document executes. #emacs #orgmode

• Post #2743294

  The worst part about #Emacs is when you need to know how you did something but it's muscle memory and you genuinely don't know what the keybinding is and you did it literally within the last minute but now that you're in your head about it you can't figure it out.

• Post #2743293

  When you have to guess whether ε and ϵ are distinct semantically, or if there was just sloppy editing and/or document conversion.

• Post #2743292

  I would be so psyched if there were a CLI/scriptable version of the #KiCad `pcb_calculator`

• Post #2743291

  When you accidentally switch branches on the wrong Git worktree and now that you've switched back all the timestamps bumped so now `make` wants to rebuild everything. (and it takes forever even though you have ccache)

• Post #2743290

  Someone who's familiar with the low-levels of GNU/Linux accessibility: When do applications use dbus:org.a11y.Bus:GetAddress() vs `xprop -root AT_SPI_BUS`? Is there a Wayland-specific way of finding the accessibility bus for a screen, or do Wayland apps just always use dbus:org.a11y.Bus:GetAddress()? #accessibility #gnulinux #gnome #a11y #atspi #atspi2

• Post #2743289

  Whenever a new widget toolkit comes up, everyone's all "what about accessibility" and "accessibility is the first thing to be missing from hobby projects, stick to mainstream toolkits" but I'm absolutely gobsmacked at how bad wxWidgets/wxGTK3 is at accessibility? wxTreeCtrl is totally opaque to the accessibility bus.

• Post #1642356

  How to sign in to GitLab.com: 1. click login button 2. solve Cloudflare challenge 3. enter username and password 4. solve Cloudflare challenge 5. enter 2fa code 6. solve Cloudflare challenge

• Post #1642355

  "Hmm, #KiCad pcb editor is awfully sluggish on this laptop." "Oh right, this laptop has a bajillion pixels (288 DPI)" *turns anti-aliasing down from "high-quality" to "fast"* no more lag, no perceptible visual difference actually, no perceptible difference if I turn the anti-aliasing totally off, unless I get my face right up to the screen

• Post #1642353

  OK, so I think my biggest wishlist item for #KiCad is a way to quick-toggle snap-to settings in the PCB editor. I probably change that *way* more than I do the grid units, and there's both an always-there drop-down for that in the top bar and keyboard hotkeys for that.

• Post #1642352

  Oh! You know what would be really slick? If in #KiCad I could designate different grids for different areas of the board. Like "most of the board is a 0.5mm grid, but near this connector it's a 0.05in grid"

• Post #1642351

  Was just behind an old (1980s?) Ford F250 and a modern F150, side-by-side. It's stupid how much bigger a modern F«1»50 is than an old F«2»50.

• Post #1642350

  In the #KiCad source code, in these flags: /// Options for specifying synthesis inputs, targets, or strategies enum class SYNTHESIZE_OPTS { DEFAULT, // Use the default synthesis options for the calculation FIX_WIDTH, // Fixes the width of a differential pair FIX_SPACING // Fixes the spacing of a differential pair }; what does "fix" mean? "fix" as in "hold constant"; i.e. FIX_WIDTH="Holds the width constant, and adj...

• Post #1642347

  Big fan of when the KiCad footprint editor crashes and replaces the footprint I just spend the last hour editing with an empty file. (Git saves the day)