New #pretalx version! Writable API, custom header and footer links, stand-alone schedule widget, and more: https://pretalx.com/p/news/releasing-pretalx-2025-1-0/

#pretalx users: Would you be interested in a “rejection reason” field adding new email placeholders to rejection emails? Join the discussion over on GitHub (or reply here and we’ll forward the feedback): https://github.com/pretalx/pretalx/discussions/2047

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Over the last weeks, I had some conversations about ticketing, bots, and CAPTCHAs. I don't believe CAPTCHAs are a solution any more, so I blogged about all the reasons I can think of!

https://behind.pretix.eu/2025/05/23/captchas-are-over/

I know part of the point of solarpunk fiction is that nobody is homeless, but if solarpunk was allowed to have conflict, people would be breaking into solar plants to live and party under them (and it would be a huge political issue because they're not necessarily doing any damage).

Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025:

What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10).

Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes?

That's exactly what we do!

Ticket-Priorisierung Marke „witzig und nicht witzig“

“I’m sorry, Ms. Delacourt, but your son has tested positive for Linux.”
“Give it to me straight, Doc. How bad is it?”
“It’s terminal.”
[anguished cry]

@helix In all fairness, my actual merges are usually pretty simple (rebase all the things all the time); I mostly want a great diff viewer for reviewing PRs and changes.

@helix I found meld pretty clumsy to use tbh: Awkward side-scrolling, and no hiding of irrelevant parts of a file meant potentially tons of scrolling, and the tab-based system didn't agree with my workflows either.

Like I said, I *really* like the hide/expand workflow in the GitHub web interface, except that it’s slow and sad because browser-based. SmartGit makes me pretty happy and really hits my sweet spot in giving me an easy review workflow.

I still really like SmartGit as a review / diff tool, btw – have been using it throughout the building of this huge +14k -4k pull request, and it’s been really nice.

I was prepared to pay for it (I particularly like that they have a one-time payment option), but as my development is open source and the company has a programme for OS developers, I applied and received a free license, which is really cool of them.

@wmd That wouldn't really reduce file count in .git, would it? On account of the whole access log thing …

@benbe Not as much as you’d think; I have auto gc on, so running gc manually only took the file count down to 1329.

Git repo: ../.git with 1,337 files

I think this is where I stop all pretalx development and freeze the project?

As computer keyboards get smaller and smaller, I can't help thinking, that eventually we'll reach a point of no return

Have you ever tried blind folded archery?

You don't know what you're missing.

I'm getting my ducks are in a row. I'm putting my chickadees in a column. The squirrels are stored in SQLite. I'm getting my chipmunks in Redis. I've been getting my crows into Postgres. I'm storing my pigeons in Mongo. There are raccoons in YAML? Who put raccoons in YAML? We've got snakes in an OracleDB? Why do we have either of those? Legacy acquisition? We have cockroaches in... well at least that makes sense. You say they're load-bearing cockroaches? And... is this an FTP server for ants?