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Some eagle-eyed folks noticed Flathub recently passed 2 billion downloads, but here are some more interesting milestones from 2024 so far:

• 70% of the most popular apps are verified
• Over 100 curated quality apps
• 4 million active installs (up 4× in the past 6 months!)

Read more about it on the blog: docs.flathub.org/blog/2-billio…

#Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #OpenSource


2 Billion Downloads & Other Milestones from 2024 So Far

It's been a busy year, and our platform and developer community-building efforts are paying off. Let's take a look at what we've been up to over the last six months, and measure its effect.
Cassidy James Blaede (docs.flathub.org)
#linux #opensource #Flatpak #flathub

Heads up, Apple users! Apparently, starting in November, using the iOS Patreon app means that 30% of the money you're trying to send to an artist (like me) would go to Apple instead. Just use Patreon through your browser, I assure you, you don't need the app!
Apple is taking 30% of money sent through the iOS Patreon app.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston
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Also, it saves your passwords if you use the browser! Yay! Who needs bloated apps anyway!

Also Apple is total bullshit!

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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston
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Apple should take one-third of your bank savings when you use the bank app. I feel like that's the next extension to increase profits and they might as well get there now.

Illustrated cartoon. Trump Vance campaign bus has broken down. Elon Musk shows up in a CyberTruck. He tries to jumpstart the campaign bus but the cybertruck goes up in flames.

Did you know that 'Salsa', the name of our GitLab development platform was chosen at a restaurant in Hamburg? Written prominently on the menu the connection between sauce/source was realized. #debian micronews.debian.org/2024/1723… #debian

Did you know that 'Salsa', the name of our GitLab development platform was chosen at a restaurant in Hamburg? Written prominently on the menu the connection between sauce/source was realized. #debian

micronews.debian.org
#debian
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Idaho
Idaho
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Ain't it common 4chan talk to refer to the source as sauce?
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Debian
Debian
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@Idaho We aren't on the Internet that much! :) This is our origin/hero/villain story. 😁
@Idaho

I did not catch this 😞
Meme shows still from The Matrix, where the Oracle is giving Neo a freshly-baked cookie. The caption reads “Neo having to accept a cookie before the Oracle will interact with him is such a fun piece of program-related writing.” Additional poster comment reads, “I’m a major fucking computer nerd and this blew right past me…. I’m so ashamed…”
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For those who are interested in alternative ways to use a Linux interface, there are things even lighter than desktop environments, called window managers. There's one called I3, and @storm has made an accessibility plugin forit, which also adds other cool stuff like the ability to control audio playback and such. It's called I38.

git.stormux.org/storm/I38

#linux #foss #accessibility #blind #i3 #I3WM

I38

Stormux: Powered by Gitea
#Accessibility #linux #foss #blind #i3 #i3wm @Billy

Tails 6.6 Debuts With Updates to Tor Browser and Thunderbird linuxtoday.com/news/tails-6-6-…

Tails 6.6 Debuts With Updates to Tor Browser and Thunderbird

Tails 6.6 security-focused Linux distro rolls out with upgraded Tor and Thunderbird versions, plus improved hardware support.
LinuxToday

Old Habits Die Hard – Russian Troops Loot Abandoned Villages in Kursk kyivpost.com/post/37323t

Old Habits Die Hard – Russian Troops Loot Abandoned Villages in Kursk

Discipline seems to be breaking down among some of Moscow’s forces that are still reeling after Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region a week ago.
Kyiv Post

5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people

privacy.thenexus.today/start-m…

  1. Listen more to more Black people – and amplify their voices
  2. Post less – and think before you post
  3. Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
  4. Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
  5. Approach it intersectionally

The article also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistkes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.

Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!

Read on for some excerpts (1/N)

#fediverse #mastodon #antiracism


5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people

Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome!
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
#fediverse #Mastodon #antiracism
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It's hard to say I've done French for a year now. Before anyone comes at me with the leap year bullshit, this isn't even the official anniversary, it's just my 365th day on Duo Lingo of doing French minus a couple streak freezes in between. I'm proud of this. Arguably, it is the longest thing I've stuck to with any kind of consistency. I'm proud, and that's all that matters to me.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Congratulations to you. :) I am somehow not able to keep up with the streaks, but I am glad it works for you, and this is all that matters. Celebrate your achievement. :)

The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.

But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.

Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:

infrequently.org/2024/08/objec…


Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson

SNAP benefits sites for more than 20% of Americans are unusably slow. All of them would be significantly faster if states abandoned client-side-rendering, and along with it, the legacy JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.
Alex Russell

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3 days until we celebrate year 31! Debian celebrates around the world with lots of gatherings, some small and some large, for another amazing anniversary that celebrates. Cake. We love cake. wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2024 #debian #debianday micronews.debian.org/2024/1723… #debian

3 days until we celebrate year 31! Debian celebrates around the world with lots of gatherings, some small and some large, for another amazing anniversary that celebrates. Cake. We love cake. wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2024 #debian #debianday

micronews.debian.org
#debian #debianday

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* YAM Launcher: a minimal android launcher with weather integration – and a #reproducibleBuilds 😃

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Amazingly, somebody made a functional 35mm film camera out of LEGO, and put it on LEGO Ideas. It needs about 2300 more votes to have a chance of being made into a real set.

ideas.lego.com/projects/873670…


LEGO ZH1 - Working and Functional 35mm Film Camera

📸✨ Introducing ZH1: The Fully Functional 35mm Film Camera Made Entirely from LEGO! 🧱🎞️My primary goal was to create a fully functional 35mm film ...
ideas.lego.com

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"Removing focus indicators for keyboard users is like hiding the cursor for mouse users." - @matuzo in Web Accessibility Cookbook

Brilliant comparison!

In fact, it made me wonder... can you hide a cursor for mouse users? Yep, you can set it to a custom png file that's completely transparent.

If you want to see for yourself how annoying that is, visit nonvisualwebsite.com/ #a11y


The Nonvisual Website

Can you find the hidden treasure?
nonvisualwebsite.com
#a11y @Manuel Matuzović
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How to Install and Use Emacs in Linux linuxtoday.com/news/how-to-ins…

How to Install and Use Emacs in Linux

Emacs is one of the aged text editor with ongoing development, providing rich and powerful features that can be more extended using plugins.
LinuxToday

You can see my brodalisques at Artistry in Bloomington, MN now through June 30th, 2024. #brodalisque #art #painting

Klaire Lockheart, Brodalisque Reclining in the Garage. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 24x36”.

Klaire Lockheart, Dude on a Panther Skin. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 20x30”.

Klaire Lockheart, Brodalisque Reclining in the Basement. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 20x30”.

A collage of three oil on canvas paintings of dudes relaxing in man caves including a garage, a living room, and a basement.
#art #painting #brodalisque

Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊

(If you read it, please leave a review on goodreads.com/book/show/632918…)

#rustlang


Rust Atomics and Locks by Mara Bos

Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and …
marabos.nl
#RustLang
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Musharraf
Musharraf
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I enjoyed your book immensely. It helped me to understand some Rust internals better than any thing else.

Axolotl
A woodcarved standing axolotl carrying an ax. The ax is in its left hand, iron of the tool to the ground.
Another point of view
Another point of view
Another point of view

Although I got laid off from Fastly last week and am no longer getting paid to work on WebAssembly, today I co-presented a new proposal to W3C's WebAssembly standards committee, and I'm really glad I did. I was considering dropping out of the proposal but it felt satisfying to help present the things that Alex and I learned while putting the proposal together. And it felt especially satisfying when the group gave strong consensus in favor of moving forward with the proposal. So we'll start working on github.com/WebAssembly/128-bit…, based on github.com/WebAssembly/design/…

GitHub - WebAssembly/128-bit-arithmetic: WebAssembly proposal for 128-bit arithmetic

WebAssembly proposal for 128-bit arithmetic. Contribute to WebAssembly/128-bit-arithmetic development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

I figured out where all the lewd Mastodon content is coming from
Road sign for “Toot Hill Butts” in Oxford

How to be very classy, very demure when deploying your compute: don't be loud, don't be noisy with old fashioned rackmount servers, be mindful of the people working there. Very understated, very efficient.

A Handful of Reasons JavaScript Won’t Be Available, by @belldotbz (@piccalilli):

piccalil.li/blog/a-handful-of-…


A handful of reasons JavaScript won’t be available

Piccalilli
@Andy Bell @Piccalilli

Some notes on mlx-whisper - it's now really easy to run transcriptions through an Apple Silicon (and GPU) optimized Whisper model using Python on macOS simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/13/…

mlx-whisper

Apple's [MLX framework](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx) for running GPU-accelerated machine learning models on Apple silicon keeps growing [new examples](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples).
simonwillison.net
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Nitpick: Whisper is speech-to-text. Text-to-speech is speech synthesis.

Enjoyed presenting on Day 1 of Drupal GovCon -- Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices

TLDR: Drupal is doing better than average, based on most CrUX Core Web Vital evaluations, but we still need to do better for CX.

As a community we can work to improve these scores and improve the digital experience of .gov sites.

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#DrupalGovCon #GovCon #DC #DigitalTech #Data #GoogleLighthouse #accessibiity #Performance #CX #government #Drupal


Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices

Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Drupal GovCon, August 13, Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Digital.gov’s Site Scanning Program is tracking 26,000 publicly available federal .gov websites.
Google Docs
#performance #data #drupal #government #drupalgovcon #govcon #dc #DigitalTech #googlelighthouse #accessibiity #cx

#Quotes #Libraries #Ignorance #WakterCronkite

He'd be pissed that some libraries are being made to remove books.

One of my favorite quotes... - “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to a that of an ignorant nation.” --Walter Cronkite TheRetiredSchoolLibrarian.com
#libraries #quotes #ignorance #waktercronkite

🎉 We are the anchor sponsor for the public sector track at The Matrix Conference!

This global event highlights how Matrix is revolutionising workplace communications, especially in large public sector organisations.

Join us to hear from our innovative public sector customers about their journey towards digital sovereignty. 🌍

#OpenSource #PublicSector #DigitalSovereignty

element.io/blog/element-sponso…

The Matrix Conference written on a black square positioned in the centre of the image, on a background of multicoloured squiggly lines

Element sponsors public sector track at The Matrix Conference

Excitement around The Matrix Conference is really beginning to build! The Matrix Conference is significant as it’s the first global in-person event that The Matrix.org Foundation has created.
Archie W (Element Blog)
#opensource #digitalsovereignty #publicsector

People like me are too deep into the Apple ecosystem to ever reasonably leave. Until/unless they fully neuter macOS, I’m here for life. And I’ll realistically never use Android. But the next generation of users might use an iPhone, but they also rely on the web and services from other companies. They use Chromebooks. They don’t have a reason to “root” for Apple the same way I did as a kid. And that’s how platforms change and ecosystems fall off. mastodon.social/@film_girl/112…

Christina Warren (@film_girl@mastodon.social)

The richest company in the world (congrats guys, you’re back on top) being fucking rent-seeking pieces of shit isn’t going to earn your precious services more $$$, it’s just going to convince a whole new generation of users to avoid the App Store for…
Mastodon
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Christina Warren
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Like a lot of 90s kids, I grew up on Windows at home but used Macs at school and switched to Macs in college during the 2000s. We bought iPods, not Zunes. MacBooks, not Vista. iPhones, not Windows Phones (or Windows Mobile). iPads, not Android tablets. But 2010s kids have other options. And Apple’s odious decisions like making macOS worse, being ratfuckers about the App Store (while still approving/promoting scam apps) doesn’t win over the loyalties of the next-generation of big-money users.
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Christina Warren
Christina Warren
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Already we see how these sorts of policies play out poorly for Apple: the Apple Vision Pro is so far, an expensive flop that has very few apps and has made its devs very little money (I’ve talked to many. Only a few have done “well”) and most are wholly unwilling to even build an app for it. These policies and decisions have downstream effects. There are consequences. Apple might not “see” them b/c they still print money, but they exist.

CRTC extends wholesale access as it orders Bell, SaskTel, and Telus to provide competitors with workable wholesale access to their fibre networks by February 2025. But the rates still to come and new fibre not eligible for wholesale access for 5 years.
crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2024/20…

Telecom Regulatory Policy CRTC 2024-180 | CRTC

crtc.gc.ca

One of the Haiku OS developers has ported Firefox successful to Haiku OS

#haikuos #firefox

discuss.haiku-os.org/t/progres…


Progress on porting Firefox

Firefox 128:
Haiku Community
#firefox #haikuos

New LeaseyBite. Getting Efficient With Reading Email Messages in Microsoft Outlook.

Through Leasey, JAWS has the ability to automatically speak the content of the Outlook reading pane as you move through messages in a mail folder. This means that if the reading pane is enabled, as you move to a new message JAWS will speak the usual details such as the presence of attachments, author and subject, followed by the content of the reading pane. In most cases, the reading pane displays the entire content of a message. This can be very helpful because you can read your Email messages without opening them. Listening to this information can help in making a decision as to whether you wish to open the message, move it elsewhere or delete it.
This feature is a real productivity boost.

The audio for this episode is here.
pinecast.com/listen/1983d34b-c…

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WestphalDenn
WestphalDenn
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Another very helpful Tip. Worked my way through some mailinglists and that extra time will be well spend.

Librem 14: Your privacy-focused powerhouse. Unleash true digital freedom with our security-focused laptop. #Librem14 #PrivacyFirst
puri.sm/products/librem-14/

Purism– Librem 14

Introducing the – Librem 14 by Purism
puri.sm
#Librem14 #privacyfirst

Librem 14: Your privacy-focused powerhouse. Unleash true digital freedom with our security-focused laptop. #Librem14 #PrivacyFirst
puri.sm/products/librem-14/

Purism– Librem 14

Introducing the – Librem 14 by Purism
puri.sm
#Librem14 #privacyfirst

Matrix can support nation-wide deployments, and Renato Stalder will tell you why SwissPost used it for their secure communication system at The Matrix Conference in Berlin, on September 19-22

🎟️ Grab your tickets at 2024.matrix.org
🏆️ Secure a sponsorship package at 2024.matrix.org/sponsor

A portrait of the speaker, Renato Stalder, next to the title of his talk: Matrix for the SwissPost natioonwide communication system

Matrix.org

The Matrix Conference is coming to Berlin, Germany on September 19–22, 2024.
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Element
Element
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SwissPost has big plans for Switzerland’s ePost system and Matrix.

It’ll be really interesting to hear about this during this presentation on 20 Sept in Berlin.

We start off the week with #MuralMonday to bring some color to your week and inspire you to take some adventures around your town to find new murals!

🚲 #TernQuickHaul
📍 #Stanmore, #Australia
📸 @glowwormelectricbikes (IG)
🎨 @geebsart (IG)

#australia #MuralMonday #ternquickhaul #stanmore
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Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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You can also add this on #OpenStreetMap with mapcomplete.org/artwork

Artwork

An open map of statues, busts, graffitis and other artwork all over the world
mapcomplete.org
#openstreetmap

nom nom nom

Wusstest du, dass du dich auf sessions.hack-mas.at/ schon jetzt für Workshops interessiert melden kannst?
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ohh nice day today #Sammy #OTA #august
#sammy #ota #august

LibreOffice is always free to download from our website. But it's also in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which helps to cover the costs of putting it there and fund future development. And now there's a 15% #backtoschool discount: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Screenshot of LibreOffice on the Microsoft Store

LibreOffice in the Microsoft Store: 15% "back to school" discount - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is always free to download from our website, but it’s also available in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which covers the costs of putting it there, and helps to sustain future development of the suite.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#backtoschool

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LibreOffice
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@Lenni @mjdxp We can't count stats on infra beyond our control, of course, but we can make some estimates. In any case, yes, the vast majority of Linux users get LibreOffice from their distro's own package repos (which means they're often older versions, but that's another topic 😉)
@Lenni @mjdxp
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Apotaurus
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Is it possible to a company to buy a bunch of copies to distribute with the colleagues with a single account? I think something like a licence to have more than one copy. Or the only solution is that anyone buys his copy?
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