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

Software should not require permission to be written. Software should not require permission to be distributed. Software should not have a central entity controlling it. The future is decentralized, fuck your centralized signature verification checks.

My soul for a g-ir-scanner that works on CGo-generated headers

Charm's `Crush` project might have had the fastest MIT → Introduces CLA → Rugpulls everyone I've seen so far

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social Absolutely insane

Giant US pickups must not be normalized as civilian vehicles on the EU market. Same goes for US SUVs, too. No to RAMs, no to F-series, no to Suburbans, no to Escalades. European streets are for people […]

Decentralized in a way that matters is the new decentralized

@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.

Kind of want to build something like https://pkg.go.dev/ or docs.rs for GIR docs. It's a bummer that it's so hard to find them for each project since each project has to publish their own website for docs