A new version of The Commitment, the "contract with myself" that helps me do one open-source commit per day and has done so for 5 years now, is out! It introduces a new concept of a "ledger repository" that you can send copies of your patches to when you're contributing to an upstream, so that […]

It's truly fall here in Vancouver now. What a great day to grab some Matcha and start setting up your new RISC-V powered soldering iron with friends :)

Mastodon now works on Servo 👀 That def. wasn't the case as of like a week ago!

As is tradition in the househould, my setup grew by another monitor this week. My record was 7 screens before I last moved, let's hope I can keep myself in check better this time 😅

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/ Another responsibility-based LLM contribution policy. Nice. I wish more projects adopted something like this.

Damn, Benidorm has a crazy skyline

If ActivityPub borrowed the nomadic identity from ATProto, and ATProto borred direct P2P ending of posts from ActivityPub for proper decentralization, you'd have the perfect protocol

#linux folks: I have a patch that I'd like to get merged into `Kconfig` - the GTK4 port I was working on while back. Sadly, it looks like the subsystem has went orphaned recently, and as much as I'd like to step up to maintain it I lack the deeper knowledge about the configuration subsystem […]

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

The most significant downside of the mastodon and so-called fediverse is that it has no users. It's just me from millions of accounts, and to prove that i'll now post this from all of them

The most significant downside of the mastodon and so-called fediverse is that it has no users. It's just me from millions of accounts, and to prove that i'll now post this from all of them

As a child I got radicalized against DRM by the Robots movie, we need more of those

Absolutely insane that the EU digital wallet literally doesn't support any desktop system

How is bullion still rallying

It seems more and more like the AI bubble is similar to the chaebol, inflating each other's valuations by just moving money around. Add the proposed reporting deregulations and in a few months you might get a 1990s style crash

A new version of #sessions is out! It now properly shows the icon on phosh for mobile Linux users (thank you @agx for fixing that bug!) and also plays the relevant FreeDesktop sound when the timer is done. Should be on Flathub in a few hours […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#gnome friends: What's the right way to play `/usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/alarm-clock-elapsed.oga` in a Flatpak these days? Do I just embed it like in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-clocks/-/blob/master/data/gnome-clocks.gresource.xml#L26?

New #blog post: Setting up #Gnome (Linux) for #seniors. I've been looking into how to best set up an extremely simplified and limited #Linux for #elderly people. There don't seem to be much pre-existing efforts for this, so I figured I'd write a short blog about […] [Original post on mastodon.nl]

Nothing like starting your day with a nice long urban walk

I'm getting back to reading traditional tech media (magazines and stuff) and damn this is refreshign

Perfecto has the best pastries in Vancouver and it's not even close

CANADA RECOGNIZES THE STATE OF PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 #canpoli #cdnpoli #freepalestine

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Contributor-Guidelines This sounds like a great solution tbh. Responsibility is cool.

The urge to buy a gravel bike has never been stronger

Wow, Servo has really improved a lot in recent months. First time my website is actually usable, if not styled quite right yet 👀

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations — the […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115224321548138026 Finally!

Mnemonic in GTK apps really are that missing link between a TUI and GUI. I kind of want to build something like k9s based on this now - like, I knew they existed before, but after seeing just how well implemented they are in Constrict I just kind of want to use them everywhere else now

Draghi is wrong about so much stuff

The Liquid Glass design is really growing on me. Used a Mastodon client on it today (Ice Cubes) and it's really nice to see the animations in action, it feels super fluid. Same with Firefox, which has already adopted it too. I'd love to get at least some of this 3D visual bling in GNOME one day […]

Im 21ten Jahrhundert braucht es keine Atlantikbrücke, sondern einen neuen Atlantikwall bis zur 49sten Parallele

Taught my dad how to use CAD today for use with my old custom-built Prusa i3. I learned it on Fusion 360 like a decade ago, but I tried FreeCAD this time - wow, that UI has come a long way. We managed to get a parametric cube with some extrusions done in like 5 min! I remember that being so […]

I'm realising that my current self-imposed "one OSS contribution per day and track it on GH" contract is actually kind of bad for making sure I get my changes upstreamed, since there is never a guarantee that a patch will be pulled by upstream, which forces me to do a commit to one of my own […]

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Absolutely obsessed with listening to Sofia Stel this past week

Deutsche Bahn as a brand is so universally hated after three decades of mismanagement it really makes me think that the best way forward might be to completely trash the name and branding and start clean

This might be the most unhinged YouTube music rewind I've ever gotten

you know what? screw it. theremin mode. https://github.com/samhenrigold/LidAngleSensor/releases/tag/1.0.3

@devrtz @NGIZero Thanks to the xdg-desktop-portal maintainers our #portal related MR got merged recently too (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1738) so once that made it into a release we can start transitioning to notifications (instead of modal dialogs) for lower priority events.

For some reason my laptop has switched to using the Nvidia card with Nouveau instead of the AMD GPU and honestly it works ... just fine now? Very impressive

Auf den Schultern von Giganten, vielleicht landen wir nie

knowledge base https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115118979341150575

more windows horror

Ok turns out I actually like Meson now

Metrotown in Burnaby is def. the most futuristic place in NA and it's not even close

As of GNOME 49, GNOME Settings will feature a button for configuring the Orca screen reader! https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/3215 #GNOME #accessibility #a11y #orca #screenreader #screenreaders #linux #FOSS #OpenSource #freesoftware

Next hurdle on the "writing GTK libraries in Go" cleared: Devhelp2 files are now properly being created (meaning that LSPs and Manuals can pick them up), Blueprint is supported, libraries don't need to be initialized in order for GObject types to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Love the new Adwaita shortcuts dialog. More zero-config things like this (& the automatic CSS loading) please!

Is there a better way to draw to a canvas than Cairo in GTK? The GIR files for Cairo are from my understanding hand-written and lack a bunch of functions/isn't meant to be used as the base for an extensive Cairo binding. I've found a few other hand-written ones outside of GTK proper (for example […]

Genuinely impressed by how well LLMs do with any AST traversal related