@VZ@fosstodon.org

· 7mo ago

Because making a single release at a time is too easy, today we're making 2 (two) new releases of #wxWidgets, an open-source #CplusPlus library for creating portable GUI applications, available at once:

https://wxwidgets.org/news/2026/03/wxwidgets-3.2.10-and-3.3.2-released/

3.2.10 is a small maintenance release, but 3.3.2 has too many improvements to list them here. If you want to start using wxWidgets in your applications, please use 3.3.2.

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 3mo ago

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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I happen to agree with you on many points. Does it get much wronger than that?

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· 6mo ago

Robert Roebling, the original author of #wxWidgets GTK port (back at the time when using GTK was great and exciting, because we compared it to Motif...) has just gone and done something amazing again and created wxDart, implementation of wx API using #dart and/or #flutter, see the announcement https://wxwidgets.org/news/2026/04/wxdart-0.9.2-released/ for details.

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

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@vitaut@mastodon.social I don't think robots have any trouble with them nowadays. People, on the other hand...

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 10mo ago

Boosted by @ferrix@mastodon.online

I've just done a new #release of a rather neglected but still useful xmlwrapp library, providing a C++ interface on top of libxml2 and libxslt, see https://github.com/vslavik/xmlwrapp/releases/tag/v0.10.0 The main addition is the new CMake build system which should make the library much simpler to use from the majority of projects.

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 8mo ago

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@munificent@mastodon.social This is not a popular viewpoint round here, but I think the sudden concern about externalities is weird. Nobody cared about video cards energy consumption as long as they were used only for gaming. Societal impact is potentially much more important, but it really depends on what exactly are LLMs capable of. If they can do everything humans can do (which seems hard to believe, but then it's hard to believe they work as well as they do in the first place), then we're all hosed anyhow.

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 32mo ago

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@joannekelly@mastodon.ie To go further, today just these two things need to be said: he was a hero and he was murdered by Putin.

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VZ @VZ@fosstodon.org

· 8mo ago

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@munificent@mastodon.social Under this assumption, the answer to this question seems to be quite simple: you'd use it when only achieving the result counts. And there certainly are circumstances when this is the case, so the really unclear thing is what kind of things LLMs can genuinely help with. E.g. if they can really produce novel medicaments at a fraction of the time and price it currently takes to do it, they would certainly be worth the hype, wouldn't they?

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