We need more developer-centered industry third spaces that don't cost an arm and a leg to get to or participate in. If you run one or know one, now's a great time to bring attention to it.

Here at ROOST, we have a saying. "Less words. More code."

Welp, I unplugged my laptop from my desk to catch up on some things from the couch aaaaaand the battery went from 80% to 6% charged, then completely died in about 10 minutes. 💀 Time to look into replacement batteries…

My life gets so much easier when I realize there’s a human behind things I’m mostly a kind person, just sometimes things rub me the wrong way When I step back and realize that everyone’s imperfect, or that how someone’s acting rn may not be who they REALLY are I usually feel a lotbetter! (❁´◡`❁)

Quick internet safety PSA: as Halloween approaches, a reminder: please don't post photos of other people's children on social media without their and/or their caregiver's consent! It's our responsibility to help safeguard children's privacy until they can decide for themselves. Happy Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

We just hit 500 #FriendsOfGNOME! Thank you so much to every single person donating to help ensure our sustainability. Check out everyone who opted into being listed at donate.gnome.org …and if your name isn’t there, consider supporting us to be one of the first 1,000? 😉 #GNOME #GNOMEfoundation

Google Docs has a handy “Copy as Markdown” feature where you can paste rich text, and then copy it out as (mostly reasonable) markdown. Handy for quick and dirty conversion of a web page’s content, e.g. to quote in a blog post. Is there some native app on Flathub I can use to do something similar?

At the Paris Peace Forum earlier today, we announced the release of gpt-oss-safeguard in partnership with OpenAI. Now, we’re announcing the launch of the ROOST Model Community (RMC). roost.tools/blog/a-new-milestone-for-open-source-safety-infrastructure-and-transparency/

There's tried and true ways for how OSS applies to software, but that doesn't fit squarely with the realities of AI development. That's why I'm grateful OpenAI is trying something new with @roost.tools, openly releasing weights with a commitment to work with the ROOST Model Community to iterate

ROOST.tools has been building against the DIRE framework for online trust and safety: Detection, Investigation, Review and Enforcement. ROOST's Coop and Osprey tools address I, R, and E, but Detection is best addressed by classification models. Enter gpt-oss-safeguard from OpenAI

Excited to announce here at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social that, after months of joint technical work together, OpenAI will open source through ROOST one of its main internal models that handles detection and moderation. This will allow anyone or any company to use, test, and study the model.

The Verge exists to print this huge cowardly stack of no-comments from huge companies which spent years pretending they would develop a wonky content authentication metadata standard only to have it come to nothing when Sora was released www.theverge.com/report/80635...

Looking forward to a great panel tomorrow at the @parispeaceforum.bsky.social Forum, hosted by ROOST President, @camillefrancois.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more! #onlinesafety #AI #AItransparency #opensource #trustandsafety #techforgood

I usually wear contacts, but sometimes when my eyes are dry or irritated I switch to glasses. More than once I’ve come across a website and wondered, “Why the heck are they doing some weird liquid glass effect on all of their buttons??” …Just to realize, no, it’s IRL chromatic aberration. 👓

Good advice from Stavvy. www.vulture.com/article/stav...

Is anyone else tired of the song Fireflies by Owl City? Please stop

If I said “handshake agreement,” would you understand what I was talking about? Is there a better term for a legally non-binding but mutually understood agreement between multiple parties where it would mostly just be super uncool to break it?

Flock cameras are the most late-stage American capitalism spin on 1984. Of course it’s not the government who puts up cameras to keep an eye on the public; it’s a for-profit company who charges the government for their services. www.404media.co/tag/flock/ #flock

I largely prefer the architecture and experience of the fediverse/Mastodon over ATproto/Bluesky, but there are a number of accounts I care about that are over here and not bridged to the fediverse. And even with bridging, it's not the best experience. How are other people handling this?

It’s official: I’ve joined ROOST! cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joi... I’m stoked to dive into building a sustainable contributor community around open source trust & safety tools, and help improve the understanding of open source in the trust and safety world. #ROOST #OpenSource #TrustAndSafety

I am SO excited to share that the fantastic @cassidyjames.com is joining @roost.tools as our OSS Community Manager! Hear from Cassidy on this (very) exciting news cassidyjames.com/blog/ive-joi...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

We 👏 need 👏 more 👏 design 👏 in 👏 open 👏 source 👏 #UbuntuSummit2510 #UbuntuSummit

It's lightning talks time! @cassidyjames.com explains how @gnomefoundation.bsky.social is _really_ funded #UbuntuSummit2510 #UbuntuSummit

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I’m passionate about helping others and doing good with technology. I have a wild background of skills and experience that I’d love to put to good use somewhere cool. 😎 More context & résumé 👇

We're really proud to show off the final design for Pebble Time 2*! It's quite a bit sleeker and imo more awesome looking than the original design for Core Time 2 we showed off in March. I hope you like it!

A new game to showcase! @julienkaspart.bsky.social and @simonthommes.bsky.social tell us about their experience working on DOGWALK 🐶, @studio.blender.org ’s open-project made with Godot and Blender. godotengine.org/article/godo...

The Museum of All Things version 1.1.0 has just been released! It has big features made by the community, such as multi-language support and improved settings! Web and Quest releases will be published soon! Thank you so so much to everyone who helped contribute ❤️❤️❤️ github.com/m4ym4y/museu...

Got hit with a "You look like you need coffee" at work this morning and no, dear colleague, what I NEED is the complete dismantling of the system

The talk I gave at GDC got uploaded! If your are curious to know a bit more about the process behind the engine, this should give you a good idea of how the Godot Foundation + Contributors + Companies collaborate on making Godot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLO...

It's still so amazing to me that this is all possible in 2D. Hurray for y-sorting! #godot #pixelart #indiegame #2D

I'll say more later, but I no longer have a job. I'm looking for work, as are *so* many of my amazing colleagues. I have lots of ideas and things I'd like to write. I'm really in shock.

Saw this scene on #Andor and knew what I had to do. #memes

Andor is the first time I hear EDM in a Star Wars show and it's really great. The scene was well done.

Finished episode 3 of Andor and FUUUUCK man retroactively I don’t care how many imps were on the deathstar, Luke should have taken out 20 times as many.

everyone should be watching andor right now regardless of whether or not you know anything about star wars. it's just good television in general but it's also the best star wars has ever been

Unless they specifically say otherwise, I assume every character in Star Wars is queer.

No context Andor spoilers

I'm rewatching Andor, which I believe to be the best Star Wars artwork ever made, and I strongly suggest you consider (re)watching it as well. It is relevant to our moment in too many ways to count—not just all the obvious ones, and not just with respect to the protagonists but the antagonists also.

Anubis is trusted by: * SourceHut * Gitea servers all over the world * kernel.org * freebsd.org * UNESCO It's probably good enough for your community too!

If you want a white-labeled version of Anubis for your corporate deployments, please see here so we can get contact info to do market analysis: github.com/TecharoHQ/an...

Our review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts suggests that the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of what national security experts describe as reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in the US government.

Working on the Museum of All Things today after taking a break for a while! Nothing huge, but I'm working on making all the text in the lobby render dynamically so that it can be localized to other languages! Really appreciate everyone who has offered to help w localization!! #gamedev

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

I’m honored to have been appointed to the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors! This is a midterm appointment due to a vacancy; I had expressed interest in running for the board, and was graciously offered the appointment for the remainder of this term.

I had so many pogs. So, so many. Never learned to play it correctly.