Hackers' Pub

Hackers’ Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social

7/9/2025, 1:30:58 AM

Public

wayland is a governance failure https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/880

Mouse position portal · Issue #880 · flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

Some apps (a small minority, I will admit) have features that pair with being able to track the mouse. One such app is the Virtual Puppet Project's mouse tracker plugin, which uses the mouse instea...

github.com · GitHub

Arun Raghavan @arun@fantastic.earth

7/9/2025, 9:45:39 PM

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@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ unlikely this helps, but I hacked up attaching cursor position from the PipeWire stream in the GStreamer element to buffers as they are sent downstream, and it's relatively easy to derive that value from the buffer via a probe or such (not that you need GStreamer for it, just what I could work with quickly).

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/arun/pipewire/-/commits/cursor-meta

I was trying to also hack up a demo to extract cursor with `ashpd`, but for some reason I don't see the `Cursor` meta negotiated (even though I see the code for it in GNOME Shell), and now I'm out of time.

Commits · cursor-meta · Arun Raghavan / pipewire · GitLab

Multimedia processing graphs

gitlab.freedesktop.org · GitLab

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