Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi
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FLOSS project necromancer.

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

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Show threadEmmanuele Bassi9h ago

Today:

- Houston, Integrity: we have this red icon with a white cross on the GoPro, please advise
- Integrity, Houston: try turning it off and on again

Astronauts are like me fr fr

Emmanuele Bassi2d ago
Sergey Bugaev2d ago

I started a thread on the GNOME forum about the state of #vala maintenance. I don't have the answers, but let's discuss & figure out as a community what we can do to make sure that Vala is sustainable and can keep moving forward

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/lets-move-vala-forward/34595

Let's move Vala forward

We in the Vala community love the language, but we are concerned about the lack of progress, and in particular our inability to get changes (fixes) into Vala. I’m not going to surprise anybody by saying that Vala is not seen as being very actively developed. This is most famously expressed in Emmanuele’s post from 2017, which links to a mailing list thread, which back in 2016 was raising much of the same issues I want to raise with this post here, a decade later. You might argue that as a prog...

GNOME Discourse
Show threadEmmanuele Bassi3d ago
I'm sad I missed the "can you remotely log into our tablets, and figure out why I have two copies of Outlook running at the same time" bit; I'm also glad I missed it, because I would have literally died on the spot
Emmanuele Bassi3d ago
I'm leaving the Artemis 2 comms channel in the background while I work, like the nerdiest coffee shop chatter, and I caught the most beautiful exchange regarding the fact that the mic packs have minimal front/back differences, and capcom was making it clear that the astronauts have to talk into the black nub at one end, because that is the microphone
Emmanuele Bassi3d ago
stuart reeves3d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324988415693534

the Claude Code leak demonstrates that we are actually living in the Warhammer 40k universe and that software developers are Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests praying to the Machine God

Emmanuele Bassi4d ago
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼4d ago

Here is a "podcast" between me and Matthias Clasen (GTK maintainer) on the release of GNOME 50. I hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/yCaEiiS5yuY?si=wBr-DQcYSmLvEpA_

Feedback welcome - especially if you would like me to do more of this.

#GNOME #opensource

Matthias Clasen(GTK Maintainer) and Sri GNOME 50 release

YouTube
Show threadEmmanuele Bassi4d ago
Yes, I do have an alert on who takes my name in vain on the Internet… I take the second commandment very seriously, of course
Emmanuele Bassi4d ago

"Why am I getting notifications on my name from slop news websites?"

Oh, there's a new Ubuntu LTS coming out, and folks found out that the unmaintained Google Drive integration that has been on the chopping block for four years has finally been turned off downstream as well, and I was the poor soul that said it last on Discourse.

Just another normal day in GNOME land.

Emmanuele Bassi4d ago
Bodil4d ago

People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.

Emmanuele Bassi5d ago
Show threadjonny (good kind)5d ago
This code is so fucking funny dude I swear to god. I have wanted to read the internal prompts for so long and I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not break the law, please please please be good!!!!" Very Serious Ethical Alignment Technology