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Do you work on GNOME or adjacent stuff? Do you want to help improve the GNOME desktop around usability, reliability, safety, digital well-being?
GET PAID TO DO IT!
The @gnome Foundation is offering a one-year contract (with potential to extend) to work on the above on behalf of the Foundation. You’d probably interact with me, the GNOME design team, and core maintainers of GNOME components.
foundation.gnome.org/2024/01/1…
#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #GetFediHired #OpenPosition #hiring
GNOME 46.alpha is released! 🎉
discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-46…
GNOME 46.alpha Released
Hello, GNOME 46.alpha is now available. This is the first unstable release leading to the 46 series. Download the GNOME 46.alpha sources. Review the list of updated modules and changes.GNOME Discourse
This is the default background of the upcoming #GNOME 46 desktop environment. Embrace the rounded triangle!
@gnome #Linux #OpenSource
Introducing Spiel - A New Speech API and Framework for Linux
blog.monotonous.org/2024/01/10…
By @eeejay
#Linux #accessibility #a11y #freedesktop #Flatpak #snap #GNOME #KDE
Introducing Spiel | monotonous.org
A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond. It consists of two parts, a...blog.monotonous.org
We love #Linux! 😍
That's why we offer desktop clients for all major distros.🧑💻
👉 tuta.com/blog/desktop-clients-…
What's your favorite distro? Let us know in the comments! 🐧
#tux #foss #opensource #debian #Debian #archlinux
Why the Tutanota desktop clients are best for productivity and security!
Benefits of our desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS.Tutanota
- Ubuntu (34%, 155 votes)
- Arch (33%, 150 votes)
- OpenSuse (8%, 39 votes)
- Fedora (24%, 109 votes)
phosh 0.35.0 is out 🚀📱:
Among other QoL improvements this fixes the suspend inhibitor when using your phone as a WiFi hotspot and gives more screen estate due to a narrow home bar (by mathew-dennis),
Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.35.0…
#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux
Building and coordinating a team to support the GNOME project is one of the most fulfilling job I've had.
I find these are some of the biggest challenges
• Lots of people and organizations to coordinate with 🗺️
• Some projects are cans of worms 🥫🐛
• So many things to do 🏃
But it's very rewarding and everyone is brilliant and passionate.
I think I'll start sharing more personal updates on our efforts
Context foundation.gnome.org/2023/11/0…
docs.flathub.org/blog/quality-…
Raising the Bar: Introducing the new App Metadata Guidelines | Flathub Documentation
Flathub has grown massively over the past few years, with over 2400 apps at present. In the early days our goal was mostly to make it easy to get the latest version of popular apps via Flatpak.docs.flathub.org
Do you guys remember that @thunderbird funding campaign, well today we have one of the people who caused it happen on the show @ryanleesipes #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=3BZbrpMyXQ…
Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
#201 Reviving Thunderbird From Near Destruction | Ryan Sipes
Today we have Ryan Sipes the Business Development & Community Manager of Thunderbird on the show who was crucial to the recent funding increases seen by the ...YouTube
As I'm making my own debloat script for Windows, removing a few registry things and such, I went looking in my bookmarks and found this. It still holds up
First, a quote. The fact that this has to be turned on by anyone shows just how ableist much of open source culture is. No other operating system needs this. When you turn on VoiceOver on a Mac, you can access every accessible program. When you turn on Narrator or NvDA on Windows, you can access every accessible program. When you turn on ChromeVox on a ChromeBook, you can access every accessible program. It’s only on Linux, where you have to check a box to enable accessibility.
A bunch of comments requested an explanation on #Linux graphics drivers, so I decided to take a look at the topic, and explain Mesa, kernel drivers, the Nvidia drivers (Nouveau, NVK, the official #opensource modules, and the proprietary driver), as well as AMD drivers (with RadeonSI, RADV, AMDVLK and AMDGPU, plus AMDGPU-Pro), and Intel drivers (with i915, i965, ANV and the new Xe driver).
I hope it helps make things a bit clearer!
Linux Graphics Drivers explained: AMD, NVIDIA, INTEL, Open Source and Proprietary
Head to https://squarespace.com/thelinuxexperiment to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code thelinuxexperimentGrab a brand new l...YouTube
For en, transcription and subtitiles are created.
#archlinux #guide #linux #awesome
youtu.be/GNveLT3QXJs?si=w5tZJO…
My Awesome Workflows
🌟 Discover the Power of AwesomeWM: My Custom Workflow Unveiled! 🌟Welcome to a thrilling exploration of AwesomeWM, where I dive deep into my unique project ...YouTube
Guten Morgen. Wer sie noch nicht kennt, sollte unbedingt einen Blick in die Empfehlungsecke werfen. Diese enthält meine aktuellen Empfehlungen zu verschiedenen Themen wie Messenger, Werbeblocker, werbefreies YouTube, Passwort-Manager, Suchmaschinen und Co. 👇
kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
#empfehlung #tracking #security #datenschutz #adblocker #android #youtube #messenger #linux #firefox #dns #unifiedpush #email #frankgehtran #thunderbird #passwortmanager #videokonferenz #vpn #suchmaschine
Empfehlungsecke
Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit aus KarlsruheKuketz IT-Security Blog
In 2024, please switch to Firefox roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202… #privacy #security #opensource #unix #linux #macos
This December, if there’s one tech New Year’s resolution I’d encourage you to have, it’s switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox’s market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important.“Red Panda” by Mathias Appel is marked with CC0 1.0.
1. Privacy
Firefox is the only major browser not built by a company that makes money from advertising and/or selling your personal data. There’s been a lot of talk about websites tracking users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nefarious technologies that hurt your privacy. But owning the browser puts Google, Apple and Microsoft in a position where they don’t even need those tricks. We need to use browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.2. Browser engine monopoly
Wikipedia lists four browser engines as being “active”. Browser engines are the bits that take a web page’s code and display it on your screen. Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards, and display all elements as it describes. If that’s the case, web developers can easily write sites that work on all browsers. No proprietary vendor lock-in nonsense, just glorious open standards at work.It’s happened before
In the early 2000’s, Internet Explorer had a massive 95% market share. This meant that many sites were only developed for use with IE. They’d use experimental features that IE supported, in favor of things from the official HTML standard. This was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.Currenty, Chrome, Safari and Edge all use variations of the closely related Webkit and Blink engines. If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox, and its “Gecko” engine.
Firefox is actually really good
If Firefox would be a bad browser, I would not recommend you to switch. It’s fast, has a nice user interface, and feels every bit as modern and elegant as its competition. I’ve been using it as my main browser for a couple of years now, on Linux, Windows, MacOS and Android. As a web developer, I usually have at least three browsers open, but when I go look something up on the web, I pick Firefox.So please, help save the web by using the best browser out there. It’s an easy thing to do, and it makes a big difference.
roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-202…
Jabber/XMPP turned out to be a much better choice (regarding freedom & independence).
Good opensource apps:
▫️blabber on #AndroidOS
▫️gajim on #Linux
Both are lightweight and support OMEMO and PGP encryption.
More software here: xmpp.org/software/
You can also follow @xmpp
#opensource #messaging
phosh 0.34.1 is out 🚀📱:
This fixes two user visible regressions that crept into 0.34.0.
Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.34.1…
#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile
Many of the improvements are performance-related, taking advantage of the cache of accessibility tree nodes maintained by the AT-SPI service. Table processing has received particular attention, and fundamental changes are underway in the code that handles users' keystrokes, some of which need to be interpreted as screen reader commands, with the remainder being passed through to the application.
I have been testing some of the changes along the way, as have other users active on the Orca mailing list. Rapid and precise bug reports continue to contribute to the development process. At this point, it is reasonable to expect these valuable improvements to appear in a release during the first half of 2024, presumably as part of GNOME 46.
#linux #orca #ScreenReader #AssistiveTechnology #accessibility #Gnome
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is… a what user? • The Register theregister.com/2023/03/17/ken…
«I have for most of my life – because I was sort of born into it – run Apple. Now recently, meaning within the last five years, I've become more and more and more depressed [...] And I've come, within the last month or two, to say: even though I've invested a zillion years in Apple, I'm throwing it away, and I'm going to Linux. To Raspbian, in particular».
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?
Elder statesman of system software makes a shocking revelationLiam Proven (The Register)
@verdre published his work about reverse engineering Android app support in Sailfish OS and bringing it to GNOME/Linux mobile. 
📱
Great read
blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023…
#Linux #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux #GNOME #Wayland #Android #reverseEngineering #SailfishOS
The s390x open source team at IBM confirms the latest versions of various software packages run well on #Linux on #IBMZ and #LinuxONE. In November 2023 validation was maintained for over 30 projects, including: #HAProxy #PostgreSQL & #Puppet
Full report: community.ibm.com/community/us… 🐧
same reason for #Linux I guess and same reason why I do all the #OS1337 code in #bash with only .config makefiles where needed:
Readable and thus easy to #audit code allows for #transparency, which is vital for #maintainability and #security...
After all, mistakes do happen and I'd rather have it easy find and fix than optimize every bit at the cost of unmaintainable code.
The #ext4 data corruption issue[1] in #Linux #kernel v6.1.64 and v6.1.65 that was fixed with #LinuxKernel 6.1.66[2] apparently hit #Debian 12.3 bookworm point release[3]. Fixes are in the works, but preparing them will take a bit[4].
[1] lore.kernel.org/stable/2023120…
[2] git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/k…
[3] bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep…
[4] fulda.social/@Ganneff/11155162…
For the past couple of months I've been working on Pied (pied.mikeasoft.com), an application that makes it easy to use modern, natural sounding, text-to-speech voices on Linux. It does this by integrating the Piper neural text-to-speech engine with speech-dispatcher, so most existing software will work with it out of the box.
The first beta version is now available in the snap store: snapcraft.io/pied
And available as a Flatpak from pied.mikeasoft.com
(Other package formats will follow)
I'd appreciate any feedback if you're able to test it, thanks!
#TTS #accessibility #ScreenReader #linux #TextToSpeech
Hello Fediverse,
We are looking for Text-To-Speak (TTS) expertise to help or advise us on improving the default voice of the Linux desktop. 📣
Please reach out or boost 
Thanks!
#Linux #tts #accessibility #a11y #GNOME #KDE #FreeSoftware #freedesktop #ml
PipeWire 1.0: Linux audio comes of age zdnet.com/article/pipewire-1-0… by @sjvn
#Linux audio is finally fully mature for recording artists and engineers.
PipeWire 1.0: Linux audio comes of age
Once upon a time, serious audio users like musicians and audio engineers had real trouble with Linux. With the arrival of PipeWire 1.0, that's no longer the case.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
People familiar with Flatpak and Blender... want to help Blender on board with Flatpak, officially upstream?
There's an open issue with initial tasks to be completed: projects.blender.org/blender/b…
They could use some help around packaging and permissions. :)
#b3d #OpenSource #Flatpak #Flathub #Linux #Blender
Flatpak package for Linux releases
Blender on Linux is already available as a Snap package. Flatpak seems to be the more popular format at least on non-Ubuntu based distributions, so it would sense to officially support it as well.Blender Projects
PipeWire 1.0 Officially Released » Linux Magazine
PipeWire was created to take the place of the oft-troubled PulseAudio and has finally reached the 1.0 status as a major update with plenty of impro...Linux Magazine
linuxunplugged.com/538 #linux #linuxunplugged #pipewire
Surprisingly Smooth Transition
PipeWire hits 1.0, and Wim Taymans joins us to reflect on the smooth success of PipeWire. Plus the details on the first NixCon North America, and more.LINUX Unplugged
Fedora Magazine got an interview up of Wim Taymans about the PipeWire 1.0 release and plans going forward.
fedoramagazine.org/pipewire-1-…
#linux #pipewire #fedora #audio
PipeWire 1.0 - An interview with PipeWire creator Wim Taymans - Fedora Magazine
With PIpeWire hitting its 1.0 release we speak with project lead Wim Taymans about what has been achieved and where we go from here.Christian Fredrik Schaller (Fedora Project)