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Embloggeration happened: bassi.io/articles/2025/08/03/g…

For those who were unable to attend, or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a "change proposal" process, through the addition of a steering committee to evaluate those changes, and all the way down to the removal of the role of the "maintainer" for projects that exist under the GNOME umbrella.

#gnome


Governance in GNOME

For those who were unable to attend or see the recording, these are the notes for my GUADEC 2025 presentation about introducing a formal technical governance in GNOME, starting from a
halting problem
#gnome
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darkdragon

I read it at full length but only remembered the comparison with Python which already inspired the previous failed attempt (although after reading again it also lists Rust and Fedora which are very similar and don't seem to provide additional aspects). So it makes sense to do a more elaborate comparison. Especially the aspect of many of them getting stalled is quite common in these ecosystems. The golang approach is also very inspiring. Or the original RFCs for internet standards.
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At long last, I have finished the TCP Header cross stitch!!
#CrossStitch #FiberArts
wandering.shop/@yomimono/11148…
A cross stitch piece in a traditional “sampler” style, but it’s the TCP header.

yomimono, still on earth (@yomimono@wandering.shop)

Attached: 3 images Want to buy some cross-stitch patterns? New shop is live at http://stitch.website , hosted and powered by #ArtisansCoop ! Currently available: ASCII table, TCP header diagram, and “be gay / do crimes / copy that floppy”.
The Wandering Shop
#crossstitch #fiberarts

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Some people go to lengths to cheer you up and help out. Others show up to... yeah, why do they show up?

"Wasted all that money on a pretty slow laptop. ? No wonder you don’t pay anyone a bug bounty."

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/28…


Hello Sprout

Sprout is the name of my new machine that just arrived. The crowd-funded laptop. Since this beauty is graciously sponsored by a large crowd of people I felt I should share a little bit of its journey and entry into my life.
daniel.haxx.se
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Quin

@FreakyFwoof And it's done, a simple checkbox in the options dialog. It applies to your currently opened documents too! If you have a giant book opened though it might slightly lag for just a second after closing the options dialog, I unfortunately have to recreate and repopulate the text controls. @ppatel commit 7cc91651e315ad8c887ab0d01749d0ebed586539
Author: Quin <trypsynth@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Sep 2 17:16:25 2025 -0600

Added word wrap. The code for this is slightly horrifying, but I'd rather have to write slightly hacky focus setting code and possibly lag for a second if you have a giant document open when you toggle the setting as opposed to doing what JAWS does, and forcing a restart that actually doesn't even restart the app...

@Pratik Patel @Andre Louis

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@feld Do we want deltachat-rpc-server 2.9.0 in FreeBSD ports?

I am using your package to start my desktop client from git with github.com/deltachat/deltachat… applied, but I think I should switch to 2.x series


chore: target-electron: upgrade `application-config` by saper · Pull Request #5351 · deltachat/deltachat-desktop

application-config@3.0.0 understands FreeBSD This should fix the problem reported in the forum: https://support.delta.chat/t/delta-chat-on-freebsd/2948/16?u=saper
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@feld

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Shit, I just realized:

This iPad—a four year old M1 iPad Pro with 1Tb of SSD—has 11 times as much storage online as the entire world-wide output of IBM hard disks in 1973 (from memory, a whopping 92Gb) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_…)

… And it's not even the largest model from 2021.

aspect of history

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Hugo Mills

About a decade ago, I went looking for a modern machine that was about the same spec as the CDC 6600 (as an example for a lecture). The nearest I could find was an ARM M0 microcontroller prototype board with an FPU. That had twice the RAM and four times the clock rate of the CDC 6600. €9 each, or €7 if you bought 1000 of them, compared to the $24m (inflation adjusted) that the 6600 cost.

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Conversations (XMPP) Tipp 5: Kontakte schöner benennen
In diesem Video zeige ich euch, wie ihr Kontakte in Conversations schöner benennen könnt.
#xmpp #conversations
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Ubuntu Server 25.10 removes wget from its default installation, in favour of wcurl, a wrapper included with curl.

omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ubuntu…

#ubuntu #linux #curl


wget Removed from Ubuntu Server 25.10 Default Install

Ubuntu Server 25.10 removes wget from its default installation, in favour of the wcurl tool. Here's why the change was made and if it'll affect you.
Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)
#linux #ubuntu #curl
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#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...

For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!

Slides available:

people.debian.org/~vagrant/fos…

... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:

people.debian.org/~vagrant/fos…

Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?

#reproduciblebuilds #fossy2025 #mntreform
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David Goldfield

@techsinger @EdenLinnea Yep, the Matilda Ziegler magazine is also gone. We need a single Web site for archiving these publications, not only for the sake of those who are into nostalgia but for preserving our history. There are collections of these magazines and other old documents scattered throughout cyberspace. This in itself has a benefit, since if one single archive goes away you don't want everything going away with it. That being said, we do need a single, organized archive to preserve things like written and recorded blindness publications, product catalogs, screen reader manuals and tutorials, etc. I'm not the best person to set up something like this but I'm willing to share what I have with someone who is.
@Tech Singer @Eden Linnea
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Sarah Taber

To come to the US legally? Farm workers are supposed to get an H-2A visa.

In theory, H-2A visas are fine. They're supposed to work like a temp agency/worker-to-workplace matching service.

But in reality? So many H-2A workers are abused, extorted, cheated, raped, & held prisoner on the job.

Here's a brief piece on how over 100 people who went through the entire proper H-2A documentation process to enter the US legally, still wound up in slavery.

youtube.com/watch?v=iJUdONHDIb…


Modern-Day Slavery Ring Busted In GA: How Federal H-2A Visa Programs Can Lead To Exploitation

*Originally aired December 13, 2021*Two dozen people have been indicted on charges of smuggling Mexican and Central American immigrants into the U.S. Officia...
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Majid Oukacha - « Être un ex-musulman, renoncer à l' #islam, c'est dangereux en #France » youtube.com/watch?v=VJ6i3YG3Md…

Majid Oukacha - « Être un ex-musulman, renoncer à l'islam, c'est dangereux en France »

Quelles sont les conséquences sociales, familiales, sécuritaires pour les musulmans qui décident un jour de quitter l'Islam ? Et les retombées que subissent ...
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#france #islam

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Wow!

‘The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global’

newatlas.com/infectious-diseas…

#health #hiv


The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.
Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
#health #hiv

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The always-in-crisis crisis that is Mexico's public health system is worsening. Some headlines just from today:

"Workers in the nutrition area of the Doctor Aurelio Valdivieso Civil Hospital in the city of Oaxaca denounced that they have run out of food for more than 200 patients from various Indigenous communities in the state."

aristeguinoticias.com/020825/m…

A national march is planned on August 10 to demand medications for the treatment of cancers, of which there is a severe shortage:

jornada.com.mx/2025/08/02/poli…

#Mexico #CDMX #Oaxaca

La Jornada: Problemas de abasto impiden la entrega de medicamentos contra el cáncer: Sheinbaum

Farmacéuticas incumplieron con la fecha comprometida, explicó
DEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S.A. de C.V. (La Jornada)
#méxico #oaxaca #cdmx

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* Bruce: lets you interact with Bruce Firmware on your ESP32 device 🛡️
* Aucards (added yesterday): create short messages for quick access when non-verbal communication is needed 🛡️

RB status (now also visible for each app in "Neo Store"): 670 apps (50.8%)

Battery Tile rebranded due to Google trouble, pls switch to the new app for updates.

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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 #izzyondroid

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The #LG VX5300 joins the ranks of BREW phones with the ability to freely sideload unsigned apps!

I have noticed that the AppUI AppManager replacement doesn't play nice with the "Verizon UI" pop-ups on this device, so it's best to stick with the original "Get It Now" interface.

Relevant links can be found here: lpcwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Runn…

A photo of a Verizon Wireless-branded LG VX5300 on the "GET FUN & GAMES" screen, showing four apps that were sideloaded to the device. This was made possible by patching out the ESN and signature expiry date checks. To those curious, the apps are: - Ms. PAC-MAN - PAC-MAN Puzzle - Tetris - PAC-MAN by Namco
A photo of a Verizon Wireless-branded LG VX5300 on the "GET EXTRAS" screen, listing the homeBREW app "BrewIt!" from userse31: https://github.com/userse31/brewit

Running unsigned code on BREW devices/LG - Legacy Portable Computing Wiki

This method of BREW sideloading deals with patching parts of the firmware to remove the signature checks entirely, allowing test signatures with mismatched ESNs...
Legacy Portable Computing Wiki
#lg

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This is bound to bring some joy to your day. Everything about it is delightful.

(And the engineering is amazing.)

#Joy #JoyScrolling #Happy #Laughter #Play #Engineering #RollerCoaster

#engineering #play #joyscrolling #happy #rollercoaster #laughter #joy
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