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hywan

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🌱 Ecologist :ferris: Rust nerd 👾 Hacker 🎓 PhD Computer Scientist 🤲 Open source lover 🙈 Parser, compiler, low-level, binding, VM/runtime, Web, home automation, embedded, WebAssembly polyglot… 🚀 R&D Element/Matrix, the decentralized, end-to-end encrypted, open source network 📜 Formerly Wasmer (WebAssembly runtime), Automattic, fruux, Mozilla (Firefox)…
🏠 Living in the stack, in a weird ABI, lost in FFI land

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@servo@floss.social avatar servo , to random

Two months in Servo…

🐟💭 new about:memory page
🪆🎞️ ‘&’ selector and ‘image-set()’
📝⌨️ <select> and better <input>
🔎🐜 per-webview HiDPI support
✨🕸️ --enable-experimental-web-platform-features

https://servo.org/blog/2025/05/09/this-month-in-servo/

servoshell showing new support for ‘image-set()’, ‘fit-content()’, ‘scale’, ‘translate’, ‘rotate’, ‘setLineDash()’, caret and text selection in <input>, and single-valued <select>
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@servo > Dialogs support keyboard interaction to close and cancel them (@chickenleaf, )

This pull request ref seems incorrect, a digit is missing :-).

Thanks for the hard work!

@bevy@mastodon.social avatar bevy , to random

0.16 is out now! It features GPU-Driven Rendering, Procedural Atmospheric Scattering, Decals, Occlusion Culling, Relationships, Better Spawning, Unified Error Handling, no_std, Faster Transform Propagation, and more!

https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-16/

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@bevy These blog posts are so awesome. Even for someone like me who knows nothing about this topic, I learn so much since they provide short explanations and the right keywords to search and learn. Thank you. This is invaluable.

@servo@floss.social avatar servo , to random

Servo Report for Week 11 2025

Highlights from last week:

  • Enabled shadow DOM support by default
  • Added support for basic transform CSS properties
  • Removed legacy layout (layout 2013)
  • Implemented ReadableByteStreamController

You can help support Servo, an independent web browser engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:

GitHub: https://github.com/sponsors/servo

OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/servo

Decorative cover with the Servo logo that reads "Servo Report Week 11 2025"
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@servo w00t

@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar hywan , to random

When someone asks me if Signal is a competitor of Matrix, I always answer:

> We aren't competitors. We are friends trying to beat the same monsters.

@nicetriangle@mastodon.social avatar nicetriangle , to random

Tired of this silicon valley tech oligarchy bullshit. Thinking it's about time to ditch gmail as my sorta catch all stable email address.

What's everyone liking these days?

I'm ok with paying for it. If it's free, that means we're the product not the customer, ya know?

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@nicetriangle Infomaniak.com, Swiss-based, ethic, greener than competitors.

@xphentom@fosstodon.org avatar xphentom , to random

Since highly suggests this, I'm finally using Signal!
Don't know what this has to do with security, but my teeth have never been whiter.

My hand holding a toothpaste tube from a brand called 'Signal'.
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@xphentom Now, test Matrix 🤯 💊

cc @matrix

@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar hywan , to random

Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent, https://artificialworlds.net/blog/2024/12/04/message-order-in-matrix/, by @andybalaam .

Excellent article explaining different events orderings in Matrix, the impact and a possible solution.

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Hugely disappointing to see Andy Yen (Proton CEO) tout the Republican Party as the ones “standing up for the little guys” 🤢

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin
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@protonprivacy @jonah What did you smoke?

@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar hywan , to random

Night Train Map in Europe (2024), https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/. This is an interactive map: each line is clickable and brings information about all the stops, schedules, frequency and the company operating this line. That’s pure beauty.

Combined with InterRail, it’s so much travel freedom and opportunities in Europe!

Large zoom over the northern part of the Europe showing night train lines in Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Large zoom over the northern part of the Europe showing night train lines in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
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@floooh Climate change has provoked sea level increase, resulting in the disparition of some islands.

@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar hywan , to random

Announcing Rust 1.82.0, https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/10/17/Rust-1.82.0.html.

Okay, this is a giant release:

  • cargo info to inspect a dependency
  • aarch64-apple-darwin is Tier 1
  • (x86_64|aarch64)-apple-ios-macabi are Tier 2
  • Precise capturing use&lt;…&gt; syntax
  • Native syntax for creating a raw pointer: &amp;raw (const|mut) expr
  • Safe items with unsafe extern
  • Unsafe attributes
  • Omitting empty types in pattern matching
  • Floating-point NaN semantics and const
  • Constants as assembly immediates

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@servo@floss.social avatar servo , to random

The Servo team landed an incredible amount of work and Flexbox is now on by default!

While there's still work to do, this is a huge milestone for Servo! Check out the before & after of the servo.org website below!

On the left is a screenshot of the servo.org website with flexbox disabled. The layout of the page is stacked in rows. On the right, Flexbox is enabled and the site is a combination of columns and rows.
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@servo Awesome!

@hywan@fosstodon.org avatar hywan , to random

Look ma, […] a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, https://www.pinaraf.info/2024/03/look-ma-i-wrote-a-new-jit-compiler-for-postgresql/.

The author explains how he is writing a new JIT compiler for PostgreSQL. The author uses a technics described in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.13127.pdf, called copy-patch. It’s an old idea with a new name, but it’s fun.