Interesting to see #gnome post about their #macOS CI builder issues the day after I posted a video about "understanding who your open source constituency is".

It's pretty clear that macOS users are not Gnome's constituency. Fine. But it also goes to show just how much #inkscape, #gimp and other Free Software downstream must also not be their constituency because we're so misaligned on this topic and there's no discussion about our relationship with gnome

Original Video: youtube.com/watch?v=w1QcEHzwlB…

Are you Being Served by Free Software?

This is a off the cuff discussion which is a response to some other videos about the whole RedHat news more recently. But looking at it from a the thousand m...

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If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/potentia…

#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab

Potential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTK

The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare met…

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Does anyone care deeply about macOS support for GLib? If so, you might want to get involved

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/…

#GLib #macOS

ci: Disable the macOS CI (!3463) · Merge requests · GNOME / GLib · GitLab

It’s almost a complete waste of time at the moment. For several reasons, jobs flakily fail on it more often than they succeed. It’s wasting resources, slowing down...

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Are #apple #macos users here who would want to test one of the submissions to the #game jam for #blind gamers?

It’s the only one that didn’t get any ratings yet, and that’s just sad to see. It looks like a pretty nice blind-friendly 3D stealth system: itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…

Agent Stealth jam comments

Stealthy rescue mission in the darkness of the night

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You want to help #Monal but you can't code?

Just help out translating the app! We have many unmaintained languages only half translated right now:
hosted.weblate.org/projects/mo…

Every contribution welcome :)

#xmpp #ios #macos #federated

Monal

Monal is being translated into 35 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.

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Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!

#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:

* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation

fedimeister.onyxbits.de

@fediversenews
@fediverse

#Monal is taking part in this year's #GSoC (google summer of code). There are already lots of interesting project proposals over here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

If you can write code and always wanted to take part in #GSoC, we'd love to have you on board!

Just pick a proposal or suggest your own project idea and simply drol us an email to info@monal-im.org

Let's move #Monal forward together! 😊

#gsoc #gsoc23 #GSoC2023 #xmpp #ios #macos

#libreoffice, #macos and #darkmode, a dark topic indeed...

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Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.

It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.

Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.

XMPP + Google Summer of Code 2023

Project presentation:

@Monal - Monal is a modern #iOS and #MacOS XMPP chat client

wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

monal-im.org/

#XMPP #GSoC2023 #GSOC, #Google #interoperability #standards #federation #SwiftUI #Swift #ObjC

Super post from @SaraSoueidan on how to set up a screen reader testing environment.

sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-…

Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?

#accessibility #a11y #inclusion #mac #macos #windows #testing

Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer

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Announcement: Macstodon 0.3 is here! 🥳​

Macstodon is a Mastodon client for 68k Macintosh computers! With it, you can post plain-text toots, view your home and local timelines, and view your notifications!

System Requirements:
- A 68020/68030/68040 Macintosh
- System 7.1 through 8.1
- At least 1.5 MB of free memory
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy running on another machine

You can download the latest release from GitHub: github.com/smallsco/macstodon
(but please read the Read Me, I worked hard on it!)

And with that, I'm going to take a break from this project for a few days! But do let me know if you've successfully used it!

#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac

Love all the information #Apple provide with their #macOS software updates. 🙄

606MB update with apparently no changes I need to be aware of...

Just learned today there's a pendant to #FDroid for #macOS & #iOS users called "App Fair". I'm not using any #Apple device – but if you are, you might be interested to take a look. And if you're a developer and want your #FOSS #app there, I'm sure you'll want to take a look as well:

appfair.net/

We just released #CollaboraOffice 22.05 🌻

The new major release for #Windows, #macOS & #Linux includes:

🐘 Jumbo spreadsheets with 16k columns
📈 Sparklines in Calc
⏱️ Performance improvements across all modules

Find out more in the announcement 📢 collaboraoffice.com/press-rele…

Just watched the video youtu.be/-KYbHJulEo8 as suggested by @Suzie97 and as usual, while I agree about most of the complaints about macOS window management (it's awful), there's always something that's been overlooked.

There IS a real 'maximize' action in macOS:

- hold ALT (or option)
- double click the bottom right corner of any app
- thank me later :)

#macos #macostips

Linux Fanboy Reviews macOS: Feels OLD.

Try OnlyOffice, the best open source office suite for Linux: https://www.onlyoffice.com/desktop.aspxGrad a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux out of t...

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