This week, we have #Ubuntu working on an immutable system using Snaps, Red Hat dropping the LibreOffice RPMs to use the Flatpak instead (also impacts Fedora), and a lot of cool @gnome projects being worked on!
1.5.8rc8-nightly (for Mastodon 4.1.2 main branch):
Add ultra accessible colors to README
Minor CSS var improvements
Fix profile media gallery thumbnails' border-radius
Fix regression with detailed status update font size
1.5.8 (for Mastodon 4.1.2 stable)
Please note: This is the last release I will continue to develop for 4.1.2 stable. More things will be present in the upcoming version (as of writing this: 1.5.8rc8-nightly-mastodon-4.1.2-nightly). I will focus on the nightly version, because it's quite hard to keep up with multiple versions. Version for 4.1.2 stable will stay as is for the time being.
Fix profile media gallery thumbnails' border-radius
Backfill improvements from nightly branch, those which affect also the stable branch
Update instructions in README
Backfill color and CSS var improvements
Fix regressions with font-sizes
Fixed fa-fw (Federated) icon size for mobile view #37 (thanks @Itbeard!)
Fix search icon overlaping with the long search input placeholder text #40 (thanks @Itbeard!)
Anyone else remember how #MariaDB company adopting the "Business Source License" for MaxScale made MaxScale and the company super-profitable? No one? Oh yeah, that's because it didn't. #Hashicorp#BUSL#opensource
Since a lot of people seemed to enjoy the video where I talked about the #OpenSource software I use, here is a video with all the stuff I run on my #NAS, and the things that I still need to set up on it:
By popular demand, I took a look at #Nobara, the gaming focused derivative of #Fedora.
I compared the default experience, various ease of use tweaks, controller support, gaming performance, and highlighted the major differences, after installing both distros on the same device.
So, is Nobara truly better than Fedora for gaming? Let’s see!
OMG. This is the real deal. Bython: Python with braces. Because Python is awesome, but whitespace is awful. Bython is a Python preprosessor which translates curly brackets into indentation. Would you use this? https://pypi.org/project/Bython/#pyhton#programming#opensource
In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource news video, we have a plan to add support for HDR and Variable Refresh Rate on Linux, chips from AMD that surpass Apple Silicon, and more dominant position abuse from Microsoft, plus updates on #LinuxMint 21.2, some new #GNOME apps, progress on #KDE Plasma 6, and more!
And also, I'm trying to replace the "walls of scrolling text" with more focused snippets so it's a bit more entertaining to watch! Let me know what you think!
I try now #Logseq and this is #OpenSource and I would like to like it but somewhere I can't manage to understand and use it. I don't just want to write down my thoughts and #ideas, I also want to be able to check off a #todo list… 😐
> Note that if there is an End User License Agreement (EULA) or other terms required to download the software, it is not open source and those terms would have to be reviewed further.
And a Red Hat engineer, upon seeing it, claimed "Red hat enterprise Linux is not an opensource project" [sic] — if so, my perception of reality is blown.
Alright, Monday means it's time for another #bevymergetrain. Hold onto your papers(?), because there's 20 (twenty!) PRs in the backlog this week, including some real stars.
Follow along, and see how the #opensource#rust#gamedev sausage is made. Like always, we're going to start with the oldest first (to prioritize them in case of merge conflicts).
OS devs: please provide regularly-refreshed install images/ISOs with your cumulative updates between major releases.
I don't love downloading your entire multi-GB OS image just to have to wait for hours for all the updates to the OS and included apps to download and install.
Also, security updates! If CVEs have been fixed since your release, you're shipping known-insecure software, expecting a user to install all updates before they do anything on the web.
Your periodic reminder that Stellarium is an amazing planetarium tool. Free, #OpenSource and very easy to use. There are desktop apps, mobile apps and a web version.
OH: "Open Source software has an easier time copying than creating new things"
This statement is clearly too simple, but I've been thinking about it all day. In fact, I don't want it to be true. But the copying point being easier isn't wrong.
My theory is that communal decision making is hard to do well. That doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. Curious if others have written about how to manage consensus based teams? #FOSS#OpenSource
Months ago, I saw youtubers insisting that Creality was going to start honoring open source license terms soon after actually shipping the K1 and K1 Max products to the general market. Did that ever actually happen? #3DPrinting#openSource
To me #DigitalSovereignty is about the empowerment of the individual to be informed and in control on the use of data concerning that individual using #OpenSource and #OpenStandards.
To others it is about some weird form of data patriotism based on „us versus THEM“. I remember those arguments from the times of „we must create national clouds“.
This typically resulted in a grab for taxpayers money that got distributed with no real results. Let’s not go there again.
I can't wrap my head around how almost all of the #xz reporting focuses on the failures of #opensource.
Yeah, sure, but ...
Good luck finding such an attack in proprietary code.
Via the cliché paid off/blackmailed employee, hacked dev servers/repos, or via capitalism's favorite cost-cutting measure: a remote "offshored" contracted temporary developer (or nowadays, embedded into some LLM output).
Hi! It's time for this week's edition of the #bevymergetrain. If this is your first time here, every week a do a round up of the community-reviewed PRs for @bevy, the #opensource#rustlang engine for #gamedev that it's now my full-time job to help maintain!
There's a whopping 20 PRs ready this week; let's check in on and each of them and I'll make the final call: