Trump Named Delcy Rodríguez Venezuela’s Interim President and a US Partner in Governing the Country
Two Hours Later, She Publicly Rejected Washington, Called It an Aggressor, and Reaffirmed Loyalty to Nicolás Maduro

From the article:

US president Donald Trump said that Delcy Rodriguez had been sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and had agreed to act in partnership with Washington—effectively allowing the United States to run the country.
“In essence, she is prepared to do what we believe is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” Trump said.
Less than two hours later, Rodriguez, who had previously served as vice-president under Nicolas Maduro, delivered a televised address to Venezuelans in which she made clear that she regarded the United States as an illegal occupier whose actions must be rejected.
“We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is barbarism.”

4mo ago

US plans to 'run' Venezuela and tap its oil reserves, Trump says, after operation to oust Maduro

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

Straight up theft, then

4mo ago

Like father like daughter

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

Wired with battery backup is a thing; those beep when the battery is low or missing

4mo ago

Lemon8 and Yope put on notice as social media age ban targets

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

https://indieweb.org/

4mo ago

scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

Allegedly images like this one pull drawings from different sized screwdrivers and do not show an actual difference between standards

4mo ago

scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

This article I came across convincingly disputes the idea that JIS is meaningfully different from other cross head standards. I do not have access to the standards myself to corroborate.

4mo ago

scr(ul)ew [new even worse version]

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brisk @aussie.zone 4mo ago

Wikipedia disputes the claim of cam out being deliberate

The design is often criticized for its tendency to cam out at lower torque levels than other "cross head" designs. There has long been a popular belief that this was a deliberate feature of the design, to assemble aluminium aircraft without overtightening the fasteners.[15]: 85 [16] There is no good evidence for this suggestion, and the property is not mentioned in the original patents.[17]

5mo ago

Antisemitic incidents across Australia since 2023 – timeline

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

Weird list, appears to include both antisemitic and anti Zionist events, and even includes the fake caravan bomb?

5mo ago

The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

In case you're unaware, he runs an excellent Australian economics podcast called Dollars and Sense.

5mo ago

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

The machine, in its quest to sound authoritative, ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire.

Combined with how the academic community has been warning about encoding biases since way before the current hype cycle, this sentence is mildly horrifying

5mo ago

Gotcha! 🤣

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

Looks like it was accurate at its peak in 2008

5mo ago

What's a Christmas tradition that you really like or is meaningful to you?

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

Have you moved since you were a kid? I was surprised to learn not long ago that the type of tree used for Christmas trees is regional.

Near me it's radiata pine. If I remember correctly, Douglas Fir is the most common in the US but there are many others available. Wikipedia has a long list of common tree types

5mo ago

GUI library for C?

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brisk @aussie.zone 5mo ago

I've recently started a handful of projects exploring the rust gui ecosystem and the experience has been... disappointing.

The most mature native library I've seen is Druid, which is deprecated in favour of Xilem. Xilem is highly experimental.
Slint is somehow used by several industry partners, yet is incapable of rendering flowing text documents, and only just brought in text formatting (via Xilem's text library oddly enough).
Egui seems a bit more capable, but it has the usual downsides of immediate mode gui without any of the typical upsides (you can't intermingle gui elements with logic, the gui has to all go in one place).
Dioxus is reasonably capable but is absolutely webtech focused, which seems likely anathema to Op.
Iced I haven't used beyond hello world, and I didn't enjoy that experience.

AFAICT the most mature rust gui libraries are the rust bindings for C's GTK and C++'s Qt.

I also - somewhat controversially - disagree with "very well documented". Rust projects consistently have published API references - which is great! The actual quality of the API references is mixed. Actual documentation - such as intended usage, common patterns, design intent - are much more sparse. Of the GUI libraries I listed, only Dioxus and Slint come close.