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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Aug 03, 2026

Does flatpak have machinery to limit the amount of memory an app can request? (Ill-formed question, I know, but I just had to kill a runaway Firefox flatpak and it would be nice to limit it to, say, N GB of RSS or something.)

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl

@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl ah, yeah, I have no idea if it's intentional. Ask the designers or admins?

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl

@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl https://blogs.gnome.org/wp-login.php - just your normal SSO.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @zoeyTheWitch@social.treehouse.systems

@zoeyTheWitch@social.treehouse.systems it was nice to meet you in person!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 19, 2026

Hey @xjuan@mastodon.social 🍕

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 18, 2026

Thank you to the #guadec2026 local organizers!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 15, 2026

Starting the @gnome@floss.social Foundation Advisory Board meeting #guadec2026

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 08, 2026

How to find new and exciting commands in Emacs:

press the ctrl key
put the rest of your fingers just off the home position
type your normal commands
M-x view-lossage

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 01, 2026

Tag yourself.

Pass goose by value

36.8% (50)

Pass goose by reference

63.2% (86)

136 votes Poll closed

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 14, 2026

People with electric cars, what's the maintenance dynamic like? I assume "standard" things like brake pads can be changed by any random mechanic, but how about the rest?

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 14, 2026

Replying to @gemelen@mammut.moe

@gemelen@mammut.moe @mhoye@cosocial.ca I should really research this myself, but one thing I didn't catch is whether they use /usr/bin/su because it already has a setuid bit, and they just overwrite its pages with basically something that execs a shell - or if the new binary actually has an exploit inside that gives it root.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 13, 2026

Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io also, their guava+cheese marquesita is heavenly :)

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 13, 2026

Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io For when you go to CDMX, may I suggest El Habanerito, at Frontera 177 (reachable by metrobus). It's a tiny yucatecan fonda, and it's GREAT. I think you'll appreciate the salsa sampler that they put on every table.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 13, 2026

Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Yikes! Does this affect Android, as in any random app could get root?

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 08, 2026

Ephemerides - A Microtonal Feedback Instrument Based on Trans Voice Training Technique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piBoBpm_o40

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 05, 2026

Replying to @cwebber@social.coop

@cwebber I don't understand being the lead of a project, ostensibly understanding most of the code and its history, and slopping it up into an AI translation that you don't know at all. Yes, please turn my carefully handcrafted artifact into a pile of legacy code, at scale.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 05, 2026

Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

@skinnylatte this is the way.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 03, 2026

Sabiduría callejera.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 01, 2026

Replying to @federicomena@mstdn.mx

@aphyr And finally, some acceptance that the audience won't be able to absorb in 30-60 minutes however many tens of years it has taken me to be able to learn this. Like, how can I make you passionate about this particular intricate niche problem or at least some of the tangents which I hope you, with more time, can explore better than I.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 01, 2026

Replying to @aphyr@woof.group

@aphyr Absolutely; it's hard work. In my case, going from a braindump text file to a cherry-picked outline, for sequencing, visuals, (SHOWING CODE IS HARD), speaker's notes which will later become audience's notes, rehearsing and timing... oh god, I have a conceptual gap here and it requires another illustration... oh god, audience could use a break here and I need a joke or something.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 01, 2026

Replying to @elilla@transmom.love

@elilla@transmom.love May I recommend an absolutely fascinating book on all this? https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @swick@hachyderm.io

@swick Most of these bugs smell similar to "my first file manager" kind of code. I guess everyone has to learn by screwing up :)

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @swick@hachyderm.io

@swick ocaps ocaps *bangs table, stamps feet* OCAPS OCAPS

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 23, 2026

Boosted by

AssertionError("Joe Groff") @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

Replying to @joe@f.duriansoftware.com

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/how-hard-is-it-to-open-a-file/ is the story of this bug.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @dthompson@toot.cat

@dthompson@toot.cat all the furniture in the world was sent to a woodchipper and LLM output is MDF made from that.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @brainwane@social.coop

@brainwane@social.coop @leonardr@wandering.shop awwww, congratulations!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @crow@irlqt.net

@crow A mathematician friend mentioned the Gott-Hiscock string.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @Sondra@mariconear.social

@Sondra@mariconear.social 🤚

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @ottaross@mastodon.social

@ottaross @ehashman a jar of orange marmalade.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @CleoMenezesJr@floss.social

@CleoMenezesJr Foliate is so good!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @karolherbst@chaos.social

@karolherbst @hughsie goddamnit 😆

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 09, 2026

Replying to @jonny@neuromatch.social

@jonny Sigh. They quote Mickens as from a totally serious, authoritative source, when what he writes is (delightful) satire. They use "hallucinations" as if talking of a completely genuine, inevitable quirk of their system, preventable by the use of an actually deterministic, focused tool like memory sanitizers. They repurpose "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" (an already-disproven quip) to equating their tool to intentional eyeballs.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 02, 2026

Imagínense ser astronauta y no poder hacerse unas quesadillas pa la cena.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Apr 01, 2026

Rather emotional to see the Artemis launch.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @bicivoladora@mastodon.uy

@bicivoladora las cacas que dejaba el perro de mi vecino enfrente de mi puerta, porque lo dejaba salir a cagar sin correa ni nada, desaparecieron cuando las empecé a embolsar y las llevé a la puerta del vecino.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @deviantollam@defcon.social

@deviantollam@defcon.social @j_angliss@fosstodon.org if you look for edupuertas on youtube, he may know someone who can do it. He does CNC machining for the small, repetitive pieces of stop-motion armatures.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Mar 18, 2026

Replying to @carol@crabby.fyi

@carol@crabby.fyi or as I like to call it, the Highly Recalcitrant Trait Bullshit.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jan 02, 2026

Replying to @leonardr@wandering.shop

@leonardr ooh, congrats!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Dec 13, 2025

Replying to @ebassi@mastodon.social

@ebassi@mastodon.social @eevee@slime.global @hailey@hails.org gay network object model environment

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 16, 2025

Replying to @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social

@haeckerfelix@mastodon.social Four years already??? No way! Congratulations, I love TWIG so much!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · May 06, 2025

Replying to @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social This has been fascinating to watch. Congratulations!

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Jul 09, 2024

Replying to @behdad@typo.social

@behdad Ooooh, excellent. I'm really going to enjoy reading this over coffee.

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Federico Mena Quintero @federicomena@mstdn.mx · Mar 17, 2023

Replying to @ebassi@mastodon.social

@ebassi@mastodon.social @slomo@toot.cat A guy with a dapper hat and checkered trousers casually puffs on his pipe. Extracts a golf ball from his pocket with well-practiced mannerisms, and holds it between two fingers while the other two hold a tee. He places them carefully upon each other on the manicured lawn. Prepares to putt, in perfect form, puffs on his pipe once more. The putting iron barely touches the ball. Camera quickly pans out, and we see a nuclear explosion.

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