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Biology student and part time Rust programmer 🐦🐟
@karroffel also thanks to @aras for hosting me here since the very beginning of this instance. Thank you! 💙

Hello! I am migrating to my self-hosted Pleroma instance.

Because the migration from Mastodon → Pleroma is not implemented yet I just followed everyone again but I cannot transfer my followers over.

So if you want to follow my new account, go to @karroffel

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Friendship ended with OSL-3.0, now EUPL-1.2 is my best friend
It seems like I was wrong and the EUPL has a clause that counts "network use as distribution". I need to re-evaluate.

While doing my research on copyleft licenses I discovered the EUPL - European Union Public License.

It is compatible with a bunch of other copyleft licenses and is translated into the 23 EU languages (and checked to be applicable in all EU member states).

It does not have a clause about using EUPL'd software over the network, so I ultimately decided against it, but it seems pretty neat!

Friendship ended with MPL-2.0, now OSL-3.0 is my best friend
everyone keeps getting angry about "the bird site" but i dont understand whats wrong..... it seems to be very informational so far
I have set up a mail server. This was both harder *and* easier than I expected.
Lyon 0.15.0 is out, featuring a complete reimplementation of the fill tessellator https://nical.github.io/posts/new-tessellator.html
Eight million pixels and counting – A new tessellator

Posts and writings by Nical

I merged the largest pull request I ever made https://github.com/nical/lyon/pull/334 (hopefully the last time I embark in a two years long rewrite of a side project)

If you like to turn vector graphics into triangle meshes in rust, prepare for a big release soon.

New fill tessellator by nical · Pull Request #334 · nical/lyon

A rewrite of the fill tessellator with a few major differences: it doesn't use fixed point coordinates internally, it understands quadratic bézier curves and lines instead of just lines (if th...