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As we are making good progress on #accessibility for GNOME Calendar lately (big thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton there) I have now rewritten and updated the description of this meta ticket to reflect the current status: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
15 of 28 checklist items completed as of May 22nd, 2025, based on what issues I've been able to find so far.
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LOL glad you're trying out Android! For work I'm still required to test for it of course, so I haven't abandoned my S22 myself, but really it does sit in a drawer most of the day even today so that's why, no new Android for me, it's just not a priority need or desire ATM. However, still using Android 15 / 1UI 7 on that. I think going with stock Pixel is a good choice though, less of that AI bloat and more customization in some way, + you get Google's own Accessibility Suite rather than Samsung's fork, which to me has been a bit of a let-down. (even if I can force the alternative by disabling the internal and installing over it, but bla, who wants to mess around with ADB these days when work leaves me tired at the end of the day!) So I'll be curious as to your app and general out-of-box experience especially as you're going with a flagship vendor, and as much as I do like the Jelly, it would still come with a less-than-ideal one. Even Motorola at least promises 3-years Android updates, less than Samsung's 7 but still a decent track record even if they're super slow to update phones. But I digress. Man I'm in a digression-type mood today lately.
horrific. I wonder how much of this bad customer service is rooted in the fact the USA is so backward in financial services compared to the rest of the world...
Just saw an FB post about using ultrasound to stimulate regions of the brain, to enhance memory, cognition, etc. Turns out this is an actual field of study, transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…
Just reminded me of Star Trek S03E14 Whom Gods Destroy
Transcranial focused ultrasound is an emerging technique for non-invasive neurostimulation. Compared to magnetic or electric non-invasive brain stimulation, this technique has a higher spatial resolution and can reach deep structures. In addition, ..
If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".
I'd say all basic usage features that are holding people back from daily driving linux mobile. desktop and laptops work quite well in my experience (well besides wake from sleep issues though those are probably driver issues).
#deltachat Desktop can now run on #Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding #Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to #Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows…
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...
you do not need to fear quantum computers right now, as even if one existed beyond anything we've been able to dream up it still couldn't crack AES for decades and requires perfect stability of its electrical source and temperature control to a millionth of a degree the entire time or it affects the ability to observe the state of the qubits.
sounds like a good idea, though we would need to implement support for JMAP into chatmail core (we haven't done that so far, because JMAP is still very niche (not much adoption) and the annoying part of email remains, which is mime parsing. Though that probably also means it's not that much work.)
"Between 2024 and 2028, the share of US electricity going to data centers may triple, from its current 4.4% to 12%."
Astounding that we prioritize electricity for AI over *every* *other* *possible* *use*. Housing, schools, and hospitals all have to make way for Big Tech data centers.
are they now? It actually takes quite a bit of work to do a rate increase in the USA.
Though my official stance is that commercial customers shouldn't be paying a lower (bulk) rate than everyone else. Regular folks are subsidizing local factories without their knowledge and that's not cool
I don't care what the people's quotes say, I want proof the rates are going up. It takes a long time to get regulatory approval to raise rates. Somewhere between 18 months to a few years.
Yes, datacenters are affecting consumer rates, and yes, utilities are gaming regulations to do it: lpeproject.org/blog/youre-payi… . The section HOW DATA CENTER COSTS CREEP INTO RATEPAYERS’ BILLS reviews regulations and details how costs are passed to consumers, which includes standard rate cases based on anticipated operating costs due to data centers--which become socialized costs--but also circumventing the rate case entirely via "special contracts".
By exploiting their monopolies and control over rate-setting processes, utility companies are shifting the costs of Big Tech’s voracious energy consumption onto an unwitting public.
there is zero new information in this article that has not been public knowledge for decades. They unashamedly presented this in our internal training classes on utility economics when I worked at a utility doing IT security.
To be clear: it has nothing to do with datacenters or AI. This is normal business.
Anyone who wants manufacturing to come back to the USA -- this is what it will look like. The utilities will sign sweetheart deals with the companies and regardless of efficiency/renewables lowering their energy production costs, the people will bear the burden.
Have a big factory in your town? The people are subsidizing that business.
Well, you seem to have a bone to pick that I'm not interested in picking.
For everyone else: the authors of the article are describing their own research on the subject whether it's "new information" according to the other guy or not; yes, utilities are controlled monopolies, despite the objection; and whether or not this is "normal" business, not everybody knows how this works, they should, and they absolutely should not be bullied into accepting it just because the guy above has chosen to. That's authoritarian thinking.
if you want to solve this problem you need to actually understand it and its history or you'll be undermined by the proponents of these policies.
Demand fair rate schedules / equity in pricing instead of whinging about datacenters and AI or the factory down the road will continue to get away with being subsidized because everyone is focusing on AI panic.
And then the AI and datacenter companies will continue buying power plants, privatized solar/wind farms, and building reactors to power themselves, everyone will forget about the issue because it has been "solved" on its own as they won't need these sweetheart contracts and the rest of industrial America will soldier on continuing to extract wealth out of their communities like a giant tick.
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"'Take a screenshot every few seconds' legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like 'How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?'" signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-…
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.
Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.
Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
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Fixes #150
Uses listboxes instead of a grid. In this way, the screen reader will announce for example "System, list with 6 items". Each shortcut can be navigated with the keyboard and rea...
We’re about to do some really cool stuff with Launcher actions! @lenemter has a couple branches so you can create keyboard shortcuts for any app OR any app’s actions: github.com/elementary/settings…
I’m so grateful that @fireborn has been hanging around in our community lately. Thanks to his feedback we’ll soon be publishing updates to make the shortcut overlay and notifications visible to the screen reader!
GTK4 porting often means rewriting some very old and very janky code 😅 I’m currently getting into Applications Menu and Sound Indicator and woof. At least this will probably mean bug fixes to do things The Right Way™
There’s about 3 people right now working on ARM builds for running on—for example—M series Macs. So far they’ve got it booting in a live session but installation is failing: github.com/elementary/os/pull/…
This PR introduces native ARM64 build support. Related to #682.
Thanks to @t3rminus for the initial attempt.
Current limitations:
A newer version of live-build is required.
The io.elementary.insta...
If we can solve ~20 issues/mo it’ll only take 8 years until no bugs 😅 Luckily a lot of these are duplicates or can’t be confirmed or were fixed but the report wasn’t closed. So the final total should be fewer. But issue triage is serious work!
If you want to help: * look at this list: github.com/search?q=org%3Aelem… * leave a comment if something was fixed, you can’t reproduce, or you found a duplicate issue * 👍 react if you can confirm the issue still happens
New releases of Online Accounts and Display settings coming at you! Fixed a few crashes with multi-monitor and an issue with signing into Caldav accounts where the port isn’t specified
Getting into more applications menu GTK4 porting. There’s a lot of keypress handling stuff that’s kinda janky. Replacing things with event controllers. Fixing some bugs along the way 💪
Use GTK's built-in method for determining if a key event should be handled by the search entry. Should prevent keypress stealing and unnecessary focus shifting
New release of Shortcut Overlay being published in a couple hours. This release is now screen reader accessible! Thanks again to @fireborn for pointing it out. Inching towards a full accessible desktop. Reminder again that if you encounter any issues—accessibility related or not—to report them in GitHub! I want to know about them and I want to fix them :) docs.elementary.io/contributor…
elementary uses GitHub to track issue reports and feature requests publicly. You can send feedback to the team to inform us of a problem you encountered or an improvement that you would like to see.
Okay latest on panel GTK4 porting is that Quick Settings is now ready for review! Sound, Power, and Applications Menu are all that’s left. I’m making really good progress on Applications Menu and Power just needs to be cleaned up, it’s basically ready for review as well. Maybe Gtk4 panel in daily by July? Cross your fingers 😊
I know I just posted a thing about resting, but I had a splinter in my brain 😅 The first GTK4 panel indicator is now building in Daily! You won’t be able to use it unless you manually compile the gtk4 panel—and then you’ll lose all the gtk3 indicators—but it’s there! Shoutouts @leolost for porting it :)
I think Monday I’ll try to get as many indicators building in daily as possible and then try to get Applications Menu building before the end of the week possibly. So could be maybe a viable gtk4 panel situation even if it’s a bit buggy just to test? I dunno. Might be a bit optimistic but we’ll try
Did some more indicator stuff this week and took a detour into trying to make the upgrade path for Bluetooth indicator easier which took me into some other Bluetooth things.
My little Friday Funday project today was a redesign for Bluetooth Settings! This uses some new Gtk4 features for dealing with ListModels and should improve screen reader accessibility: github.com/elementary/switchbo…
Specific placeholder when there are no paired devices
Better screen reader experience: reads "Paired Devices list with 3 items" instead of not reading headers at all. Doesn't reset th...
Also, Drag n Drop and event controllers in general in GTK4 are so good. Really fantastic work. The toolkit just keeps getting better at making it easy to do hard things
Trying to create a proper swipeable row widget for Gtk4 instead of abusing Adw.Carousel, which means learning to make some multitouch primitives for Granite and thinking of a sensible API for adding swipe actions
Todo:
Add all the swipe stuff
Fix up all the colors and test for contrast
See if we can connect to menuitem changes for stateful actions for example
Fix up A11y
Today I went through my notes from @zersiax’s recent accessibility live stream and made branches for things that were straightforward to fix and issues for things that might take some more time and consideration.
It feels really good to be able to take action. It’s one thing to say, “as an org we support [marginalized group here]” but to be able to actually do something material scratches my imposter syndrome itch in just the right way
This icon name is currently being used by XDG portals: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/src/location.c#L548 GitHub search shows it's being used by a number...
Btw, Ryo said “yes” to including Atlas by default, so we’ll have Maps out of the box in elementary OS soon—likely 8.1. Excited to integrate more location/mapping features across the OS and we’re already working on building out mapping in Granite so everything we learn for building our Maps app will help you build apps with better maps too!
Some more maps work. Trying to make search results a little nicer looking. I’m just supplying the equivalent of geocode-glib’s icons for now and maybe in the future I’ll add more to cover the full list of place types etc
It’s so nice to work with Ryo as the Maps maintainer. Really thorough code reviews. It makes me confident we’re building something much better and really maintainable
This probably doesn't look like much, but I now have a way to write map styles in a very Vala/GObject way which means it'll be a piece of cake to do things like generate dark styles or styles with certain layers (like transit) and keep all the styles consistent and on palette etc.
Major shoutouts to @ebassi for pointing me in the right direction
Mmkay so starting to cook a bit more. Wrote this little Expression object—I have no idea what I’m doing—and now we can do some of the filters MapTiler expects and get some more like roads and stuff
Yay my merge request to add “find-location” to the icon naming spec was accepted. Another—albeit small—contribution to freedesktop under my belt 😊 gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/def…
This icon name is currently being used by XDG portals: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/src/location.c#L548 GitHub search shows it's being used by a number...
Shifting gears a bit because the maps stuff is involving a lot more learning than I expected. Been working on Calendar GTK4 porting prep and some screen reader and keyboard accessibility stuff along the way. Also trying to modernize some of the more neglected design parts
July is almost over and we still have some goals to meet for OS 8.1 in winter:
* Panel GTK4 port is really close and I think doable * ARM64 builds is almost certainly in * Monitor and Maps are new apps. Monitor is working towards a GTK4 port and I would like to get map styles into the first release of Maps * Evince → Papers * I’d like to go Wayland by default * Background apps and maybe workspace switcher in Dock?
Meanwhile, the new HWE from Ubuntu is landing in the repos right now with Ubuntu 24.04.2 expected the first week of August. So we’ll probably publish OS 8.0.2 at the end of August—that’s about 5 months since our last stable image update. Which means I need to check in with releases.elementary.io/ and prepare anything that’s overdue 😅
Currently sick in bed, but the spice must flow. Trying to get this month’s blog post out. Apologies for the lateness. I don’t know if I’ll finish it today but I promise there’s a draft
Also new Terminal out today. Should build in the next hour or so. Hopefully the last GTK3 Terminal release. Jeremy has been cooking
Also new Ubuntu HWE has officially dropped so expect a new install image in September. Folks in Early Access can snag stable/rc-quality monthly builds right meow. I think the one from this month should have new kernel already but don’t quote me on it. Either way if you have newer hardware and haven’t been able to install OS 8 on it hang tight. And remember if you buy from one of our awesome retail partners like @starlabssystems or LaptopWithLinux you never have to worry about hardware support 😉
Also I just wanna say that we have the best multitasking flow of all time in Early Access right now. This is the culmination of years of design and development work. Just the richness of features we have in being able to manage apps and workspaces with mouse-only, keyboard shortcuts, or multitouch. We’re just missing a couple of features to really complete it, but it’s already excellent. This is killer interaction design that’s unique to our desktop. I’m so proud of everyone’s contributions here
@protonprivacy will lose all of if not most of there marketing material if this where to pass. It will also be a huge loss in privacy across the board.
With such a negative feedback and a rejection from all parties from left to right (this is rare in CH), that revision is unlikely to pass. Many CH organisations and companies are fighting against it, and Proton will leave Switzerland if it does somehow pass:
I definitely disagree with all of that. But how it makes sense, that I, as a local Internet Service Provider (in Czech republic), must do that - and VPN provider don't? It makes sense to allow anonymous access for all internet service providers - not only for VPN providers...
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Could you please explain to me why Catima is marked as reproducible on verification.f-droid.org/packa…, despite you shipping a version you build and sign yourself to users? I also don't see anything in the metadata on gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-… listing what upstream APK file to compare against.
#IzzyOnDroid correctly compares the APK files I put on GitHub with a local build, which is what I hope you're doing too but given I see no reference to the APK in the metadata... are you?
Note: This release is not reproducible, see #1781 for more details.
Target Android 14
Open card icon in gallery on touch
Improve design of Photos tab in edit view
Update spending screen to also su...
The page text should make it clear: "Successful entries show builds that were reproduced based on the APK signature from the release on f-droid.org". We make no statement on the signer. As usual we welcome contributions for a better text.
That's definitely very misleading text. The term "APK Signature" makes no sense in this context.
You could say something like "The APK file built by F-Droid was verified" but... verified by who? Compared to what? If you just rebuild it twice yourself that is not a proof of RB (you didn't confirm your build matches what upstream claims should be the result or building the source code), that is determinism of your own build at best.
sorry, but I had to boost this again now. @fdroidorg can you please make optically clear which APKs you reproduced? Developers knock our doors wondering why we say their app is not RB, while you claim it is – and checking, EACH SINGLE TIME we find the app is NOT set up RB at your end, and the JSON at your verification server clearly states you verified YOUR OWN build. Yes, that might show your build is deterministic – but not that theirs is RB. It's confusing.
@IzzyOnDroid So @fdroidorg is just ensuring, that builds are deterministic if made in the same environment? You're right, that isn't really the definition of reproducible. 🧐 @SylvieLorxu
Say, Joe provides you with the APK of his FOSS app. You have to believe him he built it from his FOSS source code, but you have no proof.
Now Joe builds it 50 times resulting in the same APK – what does that prove? That his build was deterministic. Maybe, as you still can't tell if it really was built from there.
Comes Jane, not related to Joe, builds from his source, and gets the same APK. Now you now: (1/2)
(2/2) both must have used the same code. You no longer have to trust Joe for that. Now Jerry confirms as well… we can prolong the line. That is RB.
Now, you certainly can trust @fdroidorg builds from the right source. But if they then build again with the same result, what does it prove? Only that it's deterministic. If they however get the same APK as Joe, that again is RB. This is the case for apps set up as RB there, AFAIK ~15%; but how to tell them apart?
(3/2) Joe, Jane, Jerry, Jake: that's the line we build at #IzzyOnDroid. We run our "Janes" here to confirm "Joe's" builds – and we have "Jerrys" like Ben: independent builders. A builder is set up within 5 minutes thanks to codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil… – so everyone who wants can become a Jake.
@fdroidorg provides their verification builder setup as well, but that depends on the original builder providing the proof – so it only works with "source repos" like theirs and Guardian. Not independently.
(4/2) so you can use codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbtlo… to confirm builds from anywhere: F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, just some random Android app at Codeberg, GitLab, Github or self-hosted Forgejo, Gitea, GitLab. And you can use F-Droid's verification builder to confirm their builds, and Guardian's – and from other F-Droid repos using fdroidserver to build from source.
@IzzyOnDroid Thanks for the clarification, that's about how I already understood it might work. Hopefully they can clear up the matter and provide real reproducible builds in the future. @fdroidorg
@Fettlaus oh, @fdroidorg DOES provide real reproducible builds, covering about 15% of their apps. The problem shown here is that, at the verification server visualization, you cannot tell those apart from the "just deterministic ones". Does a green checkmark mean the APK of the developer was confirmed RB – or just the one F-Droid built themselves? You can figure out manually by checking the app's YAML file to see if RB was set up. But that requires some technical knowledge.
@IzzyOnDroid I understand. That is indeed a bit misleading. But I imagine that this is easily fixable, they "just" have to add an indicator (e.g. yellow checkmark) for projects that don't have an upstream apk configured. @fdroidorg
@Fettlaus that. Or draw a border around the checkmarks when it was "not just the own build" – to symbolize the "higher level". Or use a double-checkmark, as e.g. Conversation uses: 1 check = sent successfully, 2 checks = sent and read.
There are ways. But you need to go them. Not doing it and just say nothing, makes it look like you really want to pretend the higher numbers, for some reason.
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