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Mehrad

@Mehrad@fosstodon.org

Bioinformatician🧬 during the day, Data Scientist📈 in the afternoon, and Linux🐧 hobbyist at night. Federation and E2EE advocate. Interested in Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and FOSS/FLOSS.

Languages:
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|_ 🇮🇷: Native
|_ [🇺🇸🇬🇧]: Almost native
|_ 🇫🇮: In Progress 😅

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|_ :rstats: : Primary
|_ :python: : Know my way around
|_ 🐪: Oldie but Goodie (esp. regex)
|_ :rust: : n00b

Some of my interests in machine-readable format:
#Rstats #Bioinformatics #MachineLearning #OpenScience

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thelinuxcast , to random
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GNOME Took In $556k Last Year While Spending $675.9k | https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1cmu7jr/gnome_took_in_556k_last_year_while_spending_6759k/

Mehrad ,
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@thelinuxcast
For @kde I couldn't find the 2023 financial report, but I managed to find this (go to "Financial Working Group" section):

https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/

Total Income: 285,495.97 €
Total Expenses: 384,604.78 €

The figure provided in the KDE 2022 report. it shows two pie charts, the left one is for income, and the right one is for expenses. The two largest income sources are "Supporting members & donations" (42.6%) and "Patrons/Corporates" (23.5%). The two largest expenses are "personnel" (54.5%) and "Akademy" (17.9%).
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    • Mehrad ,
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    @Pantherina
    Yeah, by the same logic lets also call hotdogs dangerous because people have also choked on them!

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/11/4-year-old-girl-dies-after-choking-on-costco-hot-dog-report/

    At some point we should understand and agree that PEBKAC is a real thing. Logic dictates not to blame Linux and hotdog, and instead understand the consequence of using unverified/unvetted software.

    @Bro666

    Mehrad ,
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    @Bro666

    One obvious fact that I though would never need to be reiterated (but here we are):

    Almost all OpenSource licenses approved by OSI and/or FSF have "Disclaimer of Warranty" clause in one way or another. This is from MIT:

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

    https://opensource.org/license/mit

    More examples:
    https://opensource.org/license/gpl-3-0#section15

    Mehrad ,
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    @Pantherina
    I'm sorry that this bug have happened.

    But did you, or whoever faced this bug, "eat" it with your "teeth" though? No they didn't. Why? Because like any proprietary software, OpenSource tools also come with certain terms and conditions that user is expected to read, digest, understand, accept, and then utilize the tool:

    https://fosstodon.org/@Mehrad/112128648273530651

    User had all the possible chance in the world to read the code and make sure it doesn't do what it's not supposed to do.
    🧵👇

    Mehrad ,
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    @Pantherina
    I agree, although there are three things worth mentioning:

    1. The conventional Android is not that opensource. It is bundled with tons of proprietary Google stuff. That's why de-googled Android does not provide as smooth experience.

    2. Android does not restrict you to "only OpenSource" components. WhatsApp for example is widely used and is not FLOSS.

    🧵 👇🏼

    Mehrad , to random
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    I finally budged and used pmbootstrap to make my own customization of @postmarketOS . The experience was not so smooth as the documentation was not specific enough and scattered, but I finally did it 🎉 with PmOS edge channel (rolling release) and .

    I should give props to both @postmarketOS and @kde mobile folks for such gorgeous view and clean experience. It is astonishingly beautiful, and many Plasma5 issues are fully solved!

    You got yourself a big fat new fan right here 🙋

    A Samsung Galaxy A3 phone laid on a Macbook laptop keyboard. the phone shows the post-setup message of Plasma 6 with two different illustration of KDE mascots on each side of the screen looking at each other. there is a text above them that reads "Complete. Your device is now ready. Enjoy PostMarketOS!" there are two buttons below them, namely "back" and "finish".
    A Samsung Galaxy A3 phone laid on a Macbook laptop keyboard. the phone shows the htop in terminal. it shows the phone processor has 4 cores, and 1.28 gigs or memory, where only 829 megabytes are occupied.
    A Samsung Galaxy A3 phone laid on a Macbook laptop keyboard. the phone shows the iconic Plasma 6 wallpaper.

    Mehrad , to KDE
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    Tbh, I'm still super impressed with smoothness of :kdenew: KDE Plasma5 on :postmarketos: PostMarketOS on such an old phone (Samsung Galaxy A300FU). Truly an achievement. Of course it is far from optimal (e.g notifications can clutter the screen and their close button are out of bound of the display).

    Well done @kde , @kde and @postmarketOS 👏🏼

    Mehrad , to KDE
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    One of the KDE Plasma features I use almost in daily basis is the MouseMark.

    Go to your settings, in Desktop Effects, Enable the MouseMark (you can change the settings of it in the button in front of it). Then press Meta+Shift and move your mouse to doodle, or press and release Meta+Shift+Ctrl to define beginning and end of an arrow (it will draw the rest.

    Interestingly enough, it have been in Plasma for the past 16 years:

    https://github.com/KDE/kde-workspace/tree/master/kwin/effects/mousemark

    @kde @kde

    The webpage of kde.org in Firefox tab, on which I have drawn two red arrows pointing at the "Plasma" word, and hand-drawn a check mark over "for Linux".

    Mehrad OP ,
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    @Larvitz
    😅 😂 Yeah, That's why I explicitly explained the arrow-drawing process in my toot 😉 I also had this problem and figured out how to do it today. The keybinding and behavior for arrows is poorly designed imho and I hope KDE folks improve it.

    But for now, this is how you should draw an arrow:

    1. move your mouse where you want the arrow head to be
    2. press and release Meta+Ctrl+Shift
    3. move your mouse to where the tail should be
    4. repeat step 2

    @kde @kde

    Mehrad OP ,
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    @Larvitz
    Basically this is the chuck of code responsible which is how I figured out how to draw an arrow:

    https://github.com/KDE/kde-workspace/blob/257b997132217fd73a1b3be14db49735b64235e7/kwin/effects/mousemark/mousemark.cpp#L204-L214

    I also don't see any part in the code that can throw the error. Considering that this is such a simple code and have not changed for about a decade, I don't think the issue is wayland/x11 either.

    I suggest filing a bug report with the screenshot of the error and etc.:

    https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=mousemark&list_id=2631036

    @kde @kde

    Mehrad OP ,
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    @Larvitz
    It seems the Github mirror is way out of date. I checked the https://invent.kde.org (the KDE's Gitlab instance) and found out that during the past 6 months MouseMark has received some updates, especially about the logic of arrow drawing:

    https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/46807b1a72f1d760b52b92a574face4a7a509a39

    But as far as I can tell, even if you have the latest build from the latest source code, the general process of drawing is the same:

    https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/blob/master/src/plugins/mousemark/mousemark.cpp#L178-192

    @kde @kde

    Mehrad OP ,
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    @Pantherina I don't know what you mean by Autoremove, but here are some tips:

    Undo the last line by Meta+Shift+F12

    Clean everything by Meta+Shift+F11

    In the latest version (at least the one that is in KDE's git repo, users can change all those keybindings. Checkout mousemark.kcfg and mousemark_config.ui files in this link:

    https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/46807b1a72f1d760b52b92a574face4a7a509a39

    I don't yet have , so I'm not sure if it is already shipped there or not. But the code is done and it is just the matter of time :)

    Mehrad OP ,
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    @Lenni
    You can, and also @flameshot provides more tools and colors, but it is a "still frame" because Flameshot captures the screenshot first, and then let the user to annotate it. Therefore it is not useful if a video is playing in the background or slides are changing or moving through the code.

    Side note:: I'm one of the maintainers of Flameshot ;) and I'm glad you have found it handy :ablobcatattention:

    https://github.com/orgs/flameshot-org/people

    @kde @kde

    kde , to KDE
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    One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?

    @kde

    Want to contribute to KDE? Become a Supporting Member:

    https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

    Or donate to our community:

    https://kde.org/community/donations/

    Mehrad ,
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    @kde
    The bottom right is great. Modern, warm, enough contrast, ... . Imho going with plain blue or green backgrounds are becoming a cliche in KDE and tbh a little bit old-fashioned.

    @kde

    peertube , to random
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    Password-protected videos, video re-upload, storyboards, chapters...

    We're proud and happy to present this year's work on v6!

    Read and share widely: https://framablog.org/2023/11/28/peertube-v6-is-out-and-powered-by-your-ideas/

    :boost_requested:

    Mehrad ,
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    @peertube
    Why do you think only french speaking people donate to you? Here is a reason: because you take the money and then overload our mailboxes with french emails. I donated previously and everything was, and still is, in french. To the extent that even the URL you shared is in french! "Soutenir.framasoft.org" indtead of "sustain.faramsoft.org".

    I genuinely am highly disappointed that my donation meant I will be exclusively sent emails only in french! This is bad PR from you.

    Mehrad ,
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    @peertube
    French is a good language, sure, but don't ask for contributions in English and then from there after reply everything in French. In my book this is rude.

    Tbh, even beggars when they ask for money in English, they say "thank you" and not "merci" when they get donation (at least those that can remove their forehead from the pavement of Champs-Elysées).

    Imho, up your PR game. If you can write in Fediverse in English, you can also send emails in English.

    Mehrad ,
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    @peertube
    I donate because I believe in your cause. But yes, I believe attitude toward non-french speaking donors is rude.

    How hard is it to translate those "4 to 6 emails/year" to English? How hard? Almost zero. You can send it to libretranslate, get the text, proof read it twice and you're done!

    Mehrad ,
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    @peertube
    As you know (because it is part of you job), there is no excuse for bad PR. A good PR representative would have convey this opinion to the board to adjust policies, but hey, no expectations here 😉 Keep up the "good" work, but stop complaining why only french-speaking people participate in your campaigns.

    Just a funny remark:
    https://youtu.be/PMsIK9_THM4?si=xPQpFJ6rP3o0AdXg&t=40s

    Just do it

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