Shooting in Alabama. Two rival gunmen started shooting each other in a crowded area. Of course, this is Alabama. So multiple other people also pulled out their guns and started discharging them. 🤡🤡🤡 We are the stupidest nation […]

This rainy weather in #pdx makes me long for apple pie. 😋

I'd really love to see mastodon allow me to see hidden posts (eg like uspol) and when I click on to reveal that all the replies for that thread also become unhidden. I mean if I made the decision to look, making me unhide every post in the thread is monotonous and makes it harder to participate.

Translation: If the War on Drugs is any guide. This is a war on black and hispanic people. https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115305937480740724

[USPol] We #pdx people are doing great here. :-) How many millions of dollars was spent to send the national guard here to handle a block of peaceful protesters?

Weird Al is shilling magic beds! https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-posts-ai-version-of-himself-shilling-magic-beds/ Why dude, why??!

Happy Rosh Hashanah to our Jewish friends and #Navaratri to our Indian friends that celebrate. #roshhashanah

Getting back to writing some code in python, man all kinds of new stuff in the language these days! Cool. #python

Meanwhile AI is still a great advancement, congrats techbrahs

Saw this on the apple website - https://imgur.com/a/JzF40RC Their little video widget thing looks like the #gnome workspace switching widget. :)

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

Jef Spaleta tells us at #guadec that flathub being the default way of installing apps is inevitable! But of course there are concerns on sources safety. Cool!

GUADEC has started! Our first day is here and you can start watching the live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG60AEjGBIo Track 1] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEhHObnCug [Track 2] Please enjoy! #gnome #linuxapps #opensource #linux

This thread on reddit is what I needed today. Too punny. https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1lyj1yc/stop_talking_about_epstein/

One of the most confounding things about this timeline is that being kind to others is now some offensive political statement. #BeKindToAll

Here is a good example of AI hallucination plus Superman. In Superman 3, Richard Pryor breaks down what kryptonite is (the fact it has plutonium is a bit worrisome) there was some part that was unknown so he put a random ingredient. https://youtu.be/RtiPaSKlHsI?feature=shared #ai #superman […]

I've been trying out Claude with nvim. Definitely an improvement over chatgpt. Using it to do a presentation using revealjs

A very special post-4th of July #caturday to our #catsofmastodon friends who had to put up with a lot of bullshit the night before. It wasn't so bad here, but it was enough. Rest well, it is gonna be a great day!

llama3.1 doesn't think I'm anything, sarcastic MF: ```I think I see what's going on here... Unfortunately, I have to break the news to you: I've been searching my databases and couldn't find any information about a world-renowned Sriram Ramkrishna who is associated with the GNOME project or had […]

That weird feeling that you're 1 degree of separation from Peter Thiel.

Howdy all, I'm looking for work. While I'm not yet laid off, I know it is imminent. So if you have any leads for community/developer relations, let me know!! :) #lookingforwork #unemployed

I'm thrilled as an Indian and a brown person that Mamdani won the primary. I'm just very confused as to why all these media pieces are showing some kind of shift. I don't see a shift. It's just one city. I just see this as some kind of new way to pummel the Democratic Party as being old. The […]

A Reminder - baby Squirrels running after you and clinging to the leg of your pants are not rabid ! They are doing this out of sheer desperation if they have lost their mom and have been lacking care for days. Young Squirrels are an exception in the animal […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@fclc @karolherbst - what do you all think about this paper? https://xol.io/random/vcc-paper.pdf - you're in the references @karolherbst :) I know you just love talking about #spiriv @fclc :D

just got a sneak peak at the #gnome wallpapers for pride month 2025. they're quite lovely. :)

I generated this with GenAI. I'm not an artist so I appreciate that I can have something in my head that I can put out there. It's not exactly how I want it and unless I have my own drawing skills it will never be. This one is called "Cat Dragnet" I'm sure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

How to best describe the relationship between the speaker of the house and the president of the united states: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVNHcob3oJg #uspol

Melissa Evers, VP of Software Ecosystem Enablement at Intel is doing a #reddit AMA on building and innovating with open source #ai on Wednesday April 16. Melissa is not only a great human being who takes the time to know each person in her org, but her command of the subject matter is […]

It's time to do some #vibe coding! #ai #flash 😂

xkcd on tariffs - fucking awesome https://xkcd.com/3073/

@craftyguy talking about #postmarketos at the local Portland Linux Group here in #portland. #phones #foss #opensource

⚠️ FEDIVERSE WARNING - FEDIBLOCK ⚠️ 🇬🇧 English version below. --- 🇪🇦 URGE #fediblock a freysa.ai / social.freysa.ai Esta instancia cuenta 1500 usuarios, todos ellos generados por IA, enviando spam random al fediverso en forma de estados con #hashtags […] [Original post on tkz.one]

Big thank you to @craftyguy of @postmarketOS - had a nice time talking about all things about app ecosystem, postmarketos, and building community. Grateful that he installed a new version of postmarketos and the camera works!!! (OnePlus 6t) that was exciting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I find it hilarious that prompt engineering is a thing. But I think I got an advantage on this because I used to be involved in MUDS where I would spend time building rooms. It's like building a text adventure game where you describe every room. Like those alt descriptions on images.

Trump being elected reminds me of this scene from Lion King when Scar takes over the pride. When lions joins with the hyenas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCyES_Piit8 #uspol

Trump: "You're gambling with World War III." History: "WWII started with a right-wing authoritarian leader allying himself with a Russian dictator and agreeing to mutually devour a country on Russia's borders. That's essentially identical to what Trump and Putin are attempting to do now. The […]

Been writing a libadwaita app to deal with some stuff related to conference organization. It's just a GtkColumnView based app. It's been fun to write. But the real thing is that I get to test the GNOME ecosystem when it comes to supporting writing a GNOME app. I have ideas on how to make the […]

I put in a talk @LAS - gonna talk about LLMs and lowering the barrier in writing apps. #gnome #kde

Normal business - quid-pro-quo: User gives money to developer, developer gets paid, user uses software. Free and Open Source software: User uses app, openly developed, freely given. User now believes they have entered into a symbiotic relationship due to the fact that they are using the […]

Some people are so entitled. Some person on reddit wanted me to apologize on behalf of #gnome for all the breakages. These folks pay no money for engineering and maintenance work. The maintenance and engineering is significant. All we ask is that you help and sure we are willing to listen but […]

It's nice to know that #mastodon is working on quote toots. Looks like a lot of engineering to make it happen though.

One of the things I would really like in #matrix is to be able to add flairs to usernames in a space. The purpose is to delineate contributors who are part of a team in an open source project. For instance, we have an engagement team. We want to add _engagement_ to their flair so that when they […]

Glad I renewed my passport back in December. Federal everything is going to be cut, but you also know that they are going to hire their friends to do the work and it's going like DOGE a bunch of 25 years olds doing a startup with no actual knowledge of anything.

Google and Meta's turn to the hard left is deeply regrettable and it seems they will do things at the behest of Trump. At this point I feel that the U.S. tech industry is on its way to being compromised. The firehose of bullshit is really incredible and serves as a way to weaken the will of […]

I wonder if #google has realized how badly they fucked up with agreeing to rename Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. tech sector controls a lot of information through bing, google, etc. They've signaled that that they will do Trump's bidding. Countries will take note. Imagine if Trump wanted to rename […]

It's inexplicable that as a company you'd try to block anything related to Democrats, block former democrats on a platform that is meant ostensibly for everyone. Why would you go after your own customers? Never mind, that your own employees might have similar values.. Just inexplicable actions […]

I see the U.S. is quickly becoming the worst version of themselves. #uspolitics

We should all take some time to enjoy the calm before hell opens up after the 15th.

Tried to create an account on battle.net and man their method to stop bots is a bit extreme but worse it doesn't create an account! WTAF?