Author: Michael G

Cycles come and go

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TWIF generated on Thursday, 07 Mar 2024, Week 10

Community News

@Licaon_Kter updates over the years:

LISTEN.moe, Listen to j-pop and anime music radio 24/7 ad-free, was updated to 6.0.2 after a year and a half hiatus. F-Droid’s main repository has more than 4300 apps (or about 3200 if you are on Android 14), so contributors attend to the well being of apps that are visibly failing to update or build. Autoupdated apps, like this one, can stop updating if developers change repo structure or the way they tag. Luckily fans of the app, and of FOSS, pinged us and we managed to fix it, update it and assure that future updates are picked up. Thank you fans!

F-Droid website

Last week’s TWIF we reached out for help regarding the locale mix-up. While it’s still not fixed site wide, we at least fixed the “Search” field from glitching, which was the biggest pain point.

Newly Added Apps

7 apps were newly added
  • Alexandria – Download and convert e-books
  • Brume Wallet – The private Ethereum wallet
  • IREX Mobile App – IREX mobile application (only VPN functionality for now)
  • QUIK SMS – Replacement to the stock SMS app on Android, a revival of QKSMS
  • Roboyard – Problem-solving game – find the optimal moves to move one robot to its target
  • Sekreto – A tool for encryption and steganography (only in Esperanto and Russian)
  • Traditional T9 – A T9 Input Method Editor with a hardware keypad

Updated Apps

103 more apps were updated

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A peculiarity of the X Window System: windows all the way down

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Every window system has windows, as an entity. Usually we think of these as being used for, well, windows and window like things; application windows, those extremely annoying pop-up modal dialogs that are always interrupting you at the wrong time, even perhaps things like pop-up menus. In its original state, X has more windows than that. Part of how and why it does this is that X allows windows to nest inside each other, in a window tree, which you can still see today with ‘xwininfo -root -tree‘. One of the reasons that X has copious nested windows is that X was designed with a particular model of writing X programs in mind, and that model made everything into a (nested) window. Seriously, everything. In an old fashioned X application, windows are everywhere. Buttons are windows (or several windows if they’re radio buttons or the like), text areas are windows, menu entries are each a window of their own within the window that is the menu, visible containers of things are windows (with more windows nested inside them), and so on. ↫ Chris Siebenmann This is wild.

Write Your Own Protocol Tutorial

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Video by via Dailymotion Source Learn how to write your own protocol using Python in this easy-to-follow tutorial. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced coder, this video will teach you everything you need to know to create your own protocol. Master the fundamentals of coding and elevate your programming skills with our step-by-step guide. Start…

David Rousseau. Programmes Spatiaux Secrets

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Video by via Dailymotion Source Entrevue, le 29 décembre 2 021Diffusion, le 11 février 2 024France => Système Solaire Sol ~ Les intervenants sont libres des mots employés et je reste neutre quand à cet échange. En aucun cas, je confirme partager entièrement les convictions ou pensées de chacun. La chaîne youtube permet aux intervenants…