GUADEC and TrustCon travel and lodging has been acquired 💸💸💸 See you in Spain and/or SF!

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

If your desktop has a system tray, that *is* the correct place to surface background apps! Nice work, KDE. kde.org/announcement... This will help GNOME as well as more apps will be incentivized to use modern cross-desktop APIs that are less prescriptive with exactly *how* things are displayed.

The world does not need yet another music player for GNOME, but I promise this one is different…

19 BBY - Year of the Linux Desktop? 🤔

TIL Anakin basically has a Steam Deck in Revenge of the Sith. #StarWars #SteamDeck

ICYMI: We hosted a livestream demo of the latest release from our safety stack, Coop 1.0. Check out our YouTube channel and see what ROOSTers @julietshen.bsky.social, @cassidyjames.com and Juan Mrad shared with developers and trust & safety teams worldwide. www.youtube.com/live/0faGLzU...

I just found out my favorite mobile game is developed in Flutter, the developer is interested in bringing it to the Steam Deck and Linux, and is also considering a rewrite in Godot Engine. Idk how exactly I am going to help them, but I am absolutely gonna help them.

It was quite a day with my first live stream from @roost.tools to celebrate Coop 1.0, the first major ROOST release I really contributed to. It’s been extra special hearing how much my work on the docs is appreciated; sometimes it feels like a massive amount of tireless effort that nobody notices. 😅

We're happy to announce we have our first fellows — Sophie Herold and Peter Eisenmann! Thank you to all the donators who helped make this happen🩷 It wouldn't be possible without your financial contributions. Read the announcement here👉 blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2... #GNOME #Fellowship #linux

Catch me, @julietshen.bsky.social, and a bunch of others tomorrow as we celebrate and chat about Coop 1.0 on stream! As the first product release from @roost that I was majorly involved in, I’m so proud of this one. And it’s my first public stream that I’m running for ROOST as well. ☺️

NEW HOT TAKE: @cassidyjames.com thinks uncrustables are dumplings

Super proud of the team and community that has come together around ROOST and Coop specifically to make 1.0 happen. It’s seriously awesome to be part of this.

I like it when birds are like this

Join the @roost.tools crew on Thursday to see the Coop content review console in action and hear from some of the #opensource contributors who made this release possible. If you're just getting started in #trustandsafety, or feeling overwhelmed by manual review spreadsheets, Coop is where to start!

Coop 1.0 hatches tomorrow! Learn more about the new features and improvements in a livestream we'll be hosting on June 11th (with some cameos from people building on Coop!) roost.tools/coop#livestr...

hot take from me and @cassidyjames.com: uncrustables are hand pies

My sabacc set is coming along nicely. I designed and printed some credits! Models will be up on Printables soon. #StarWars #Sabacc #StarWarsOutlaws

Oh no I just stumbled upon the Bricks & Minifigs thing and I’m a few hours down the rabbit hole…

The Bricks & Minifigs / Reckless Ben beef is consuming YouTube (and the entire state of Utah.)

I’m sorry, if every quote in your press release is, “This isn’t X, it’s Y” then this isn’t just a press release—it’s generative slop output.

We're going to be releasing v1 of Coop, the review tool by @roost.tools, very soon. We're also going to hold a livestream talking about the new features and featuring some appearances from folks building on and using Coop! Sign up here: roost.tools/coop#livestr...

Everyone benefits from a shared, open infrastructure for online safety. We’re grateful for the kind words from the AI ministers of both Canada and France, and we’re building for everyone. roost.tools/blog/strengt...

Wild to say this, but the truth is that the latest Fedora (GNOME) has been probably the most stable OS setup I've had in years after jumping b/w Windows, MacOS, and different Linux distros

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Can any Minnesota folks tell me how to track boycotts related to metro surge (e.g. Target)? Internet searches have been unreliable and conflicting, and I want to know who to go to for up to date info. I like to follow labor for these things so are any unions doing a good job leading & communicating?

i *do* have major eyesight issues. light/dark mode support is an accessibility concern. it’s 2026 and adding theming support is a 15-minute job. there’s no excuse.

Heads up: if you have a dark-style-only app or website, sometimes I just have to close it instead of reading/using it. It is not accessible.

I think this is part of what drives me crazy with LLM-powered code review: too often it feels like they’re following the US counterintelligence strategy for simple sabotage. Except I’m the target.

Does anyone have experience hosting their own Discord bot? I’d love to make a few shortcuts for a server, but most of the off-the-shelf bots are either way overkill or too janky. But I don't want to be a sysadmin, either. 😬

The joys of inheriting and open sourcing a SaaS startup codebase: I just discovered an entirely undocumented major feature of the application on accident, a couple of weeks out from our planned v1 launch. 🙈

Ready for The Mandalorian & Grogu tonight 😁

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

I set up a pretty sick VDO.ninja scene, and then started getting nervous about relying on a hosted web service that could theoretically disappear at any time. And then I remembered it’s open source—but it’s even better than I realized…

I got a third-party adapter for my whole-house ducted heat pump and it is 1000× better than the official thermostat adapter and a regular smart thermostat. And like a quarter of the cost. And I installed it myself by plugging in one connector. #HomeAssistant

I am a big fan of genuinely useful machine learning. I have never once wanted to “ask” my photos, app store, maps, or any other app anything besides basic web/knowledge stuff. Stop shoehorning LLMs into random shit.

"What’s driving me crazy, then, is not the idea that AI exists or that people are using AI. It’s that I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

A rare rainy day in Denver necessitates breaking out the emo playlist

There’s been a ton of work going into Coop, the open source moderation/review dashboard from @roost.tools, in order for it to be used by real T&S teams to protect real people from online harms. #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety

American healthcare: “Your doctor diagnosed you & determined these meds will help you function. Here’s 30 days worth. It’s ILLEGAL to give you more. We won’t refill it until 30 days has passed. When we refill it, it’ll take two weeks. It costs two $2000. Use this piece of paper and it costs $50.”

Listening to my 4yo’s “I like this song” playlist—songs from my partner’s or my playlists or radio that she liked—she kept saying “Wait for it… wait for it!” when her favorite part of a song was coming. This led to me introducing the concept of “the drop.” And now deadmau5 is on her playlist. 😆

Thanks, I hate it.

The Coop Working Group starts in 25 mins! Come join us as we chat with contributors and plan the upcoming v1 release. 👀 atmo.rsvp/p/did:plc:ku...

Okay so – with a big caveat that we still need to write a lot more documentation – between the @roost.tools team, @dcallies.bsky.social and myself we've managed to ship a new documentation site for ThreatExchange / HMA: facebook.github.io/ThreatExchan...

ICYMI: We have a new "AI Preferences" setting This allows you to announce to the entire ATmosphere network what you consent to regarding AI use of your public data. Other apps can see this but ~may not~ respect the settings We built this to give you a place to set these and will 100% respect them

What do people think about using symbolic links in a web project you commit to git, with contributors who might be using Linux, macOS, or Windows? I’ve heard there are ~issues~ for contributors on Windows, but don’t know how big of a deal it actually is. #OpenSource #Git #SourceCode #Community

We now have an 'open web API' that requires you to comply with Google's "terms of use". I know many at Chrome disagree with this, but feel they can't say anything publicly out of fear of internal retribution. github.com/mozilla/stan...

Maul: Shadow Lord is about Maul and a cop. @keeblycat.bsky.social misheard it as Mall Shadow Lord, which of course would be about an evil mall cop.

You can disagree with someone—heck, you can even not like them—but don’t bring that into my community by harassing them. We’re gonna protect our community members like an angry momma bear, and you will not be welcome anywhere near our projects.

So so much work happening on @roost.tools Coop rn. It turns out when you have orgs adopting an open source project, you get lots of feedback—and new contributors! 🙌 #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety