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@pojntfx @alatiera Got new hardware. gemma4:31b seems a bit more capable. Will see how it goes.

@alatiera I do not really judge its output. More its process. Sometimes it gets stuck. But I suppose if you let it do whatever it wants, it works pretty well. Ok, you want GTK3, go for it. It is just if you are a bit too picky, it is going to be a fight.

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Valentin David May 29

@levitating I run ollama. I went through the open ai protocol and I wrote my own small agent in GTK. I dispatch tool function to a worker through varlink that runs in confinement (so far I can run it through systemd or flatpak). I am thinking maybe the selection of tool functions I give is not the best selection. I have to compare a bit with what other things use. But it does manage to do some coding with what I provided. But so far this does not seem to be the limitation.

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Valentin David May 29

I am probably doing it wrong. It is a lot of fun. But I have yet to find it useful. But I am getting a beefier GPU. Maybe that will help with better models.

Valentin David May 29

I have been playing with qwen3.5:9b (until I get a better GPU). First, you cannot really do GTK 4 with it. There is usually a point where it gives up and converts everything to GTK 3. Sometimes it gets mad I did not give it write access to `.git`. And I am glad it did not have it. And programming languages that expects network access do not work that well if you do not give it access. You need to remember to vendor dependencies, and tell qwen to use it.

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Valentin David May 16

@KekunPlazas @zbrown but that means flatpak cannot make merch.

Valentin David May 14

All Systems Go!May 14

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All Systems Go! 2026

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for All Systems Go! 2026

Valentin David May 13

Lennart Poettering May 13

This Saturday (May 16) at 10am I'll be doing the keynote at the Linux Application Summit in Berlin. Something about trust and operating systems and the desktop and apps and stuff. Hope it's going to be interesting!

If you'd like to attend, don't forget to register:

https://linuxappsummit.org/register/

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Valentin David May 8

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅May 7

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

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Valentin David May 7

@philn it says "Free housing, free food, guaranteed girlfriend/boyfriend after 1 year"