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thibaultamartin

@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr

Chronic enthusiast. Software should be about making people's life better.

Director of Program Development @matrix, Senior Developer Advocate at Element

Providing the general public and organisations the tools they need to protect their digital communications' privacy and sovereignty.

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josh, to random
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Happy six year anniversary, my dearest @chrisjrn 🥰

Folks with Chris at : do me a favor and make sure to treat my guy today!

thibaultamartin,
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Happy anniversary to you two lovely people @josh @chrisjrn 🥳

thibaultamartin, to GNOME
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A new issue of is now online!

Variable Styles
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-148/

A collage of two screenshots of the bottom right part of the file manager window. The "before" screenshot shows the details bar touching the border of the window. The "after" screenshot shows the details bar floating. The details bar contains the name and size of the file selected.
A screenshot of a portion of an app. It shows two toggles. One of them has the classic libadwaita blue. The other one has a purple. In the foreground there's the GTK inspector, with the CSS panel open. It shows a CSS variable with the name @purple_3

thibaultamartin, to random
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I badly want a collaborative markdown editor that:

  • Supports folders, and linking to other notes
  • Works well on mobile
  • Has fine grained permissions
  • Is open source and self-hostable
thibaultamartin,
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@jpmens I did a review a little while ago and considered Joplin too! Admittedly, this was in the context of personal note taking, and Joplin was a strong contender.

Here I'm mostly interested in the collaborative side, and nothing quite fits the bill for me these days.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/07/26-onenote-but-interoperable/

thibaultamartin, to random
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We reached the point where my brain autocorrects "AI" to "pollution".

All the companies touting AI in their products are now telling me they don't care about making human life more difficult if it can earn them a few extra dollars.

thibaultamartin, to random
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Source code is a snapshot of the collective and opinionated solution to a problem at a specific moment in time.

The real value comes from the people who:

  1. Understand the problem to solve
  2. Can articulate, and test an opinionated way to solve the problem
  3. Know how to implement the solution

Open source projects need to make sure they don't focus exclusively on the latter.

thibaultamartin, to random
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Planify is a neat todo app for @gnome that supports sync with todoist and @nextcloud. It even works on (Linux) phones!

I’m so thrilled to see the number of high-quality apps independent people create for GNOME! I’m certain the hard work of the GNOME team on the documentation and on libadwaita is no stranger to that 🚀

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify

thibaultamartin, to random
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I just stumbled upon a markdown editor for @gnome, with shell search integration, that works on mobile and syncs with @nextcloud .

Iotas looks really neat, and is available on @flathub!

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.World.Iotas

thibaultamartin, to random
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I regularly think about this essay about the evolution of in computing. It focuses on businesses and research, but I have a feeling that the next stage of will happen via the general public.

We don't have to rely on energy-hungry, leak-prone servers to run 24/7 to do our basic tasks. We need more local-first computing.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

thibaultamartin, to random
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“With multi-billion-dollar grants to [chip makers], the US govt has spent over half its $39bn in Chips Act incentives”

“This won’t mean complete self-sufficiency. Production of smartphones and consumer electronics would be disrupted in the event of a crisis in east Asia”

BILLIONS of dollars in grants are not enough to make the US self-sufficient.

Meanwhile a few dozens of millions going to @gnome and @postmarketOS would make the US and EU much less vulnerable.

https://archive.is/FZdNA

thibaultamartin,
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See for example the incredible work @sonny, @tbernard and the whole team is doing with a SINGLE million of euros from the @sovtechfund

This is not a tech project fantasy. This is an answer to real life problems that require collaboration. This is critical infrastructure.

https://thisweek.gnome.org/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Why are there so few hours in a day?

I want to be a dad, husband, strategist, program manager, policy analyst, developer advocate, SRE, developer and blogger.

So many problems are at the intersection of these! Or as you would say on LinkedIn: "we need a holistic view of the problem".

thibaultamartin,
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With the months of sleep deprivation I've been through after my second kid was born, I have first hand experience to say this absolutely doesn't work for me!

@deepbluev7

thibaultamartin, to random
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Amazing to see @nextcloud launching a SaaS offering both for individuals and organisations!

€15/month for 500GB is more than what you will find on Big Tech offerings, but they don't offer the same guarantees.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for making Nextcloud accessible to the masses 🥳

https://www.nextcloud-one.com/

thibaultamartin,
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@gverdun I'm a self-hoster and work for a company doing SaaS offerings: I know that pricing a service is HARD.

Hetzner's core mission is infrastructure, which certainly allows them to do economies of scale that @nextcloud can't afford to do (yet?)

Hetzner is also using Nextcloud without contributing anything back. The GPL licence allows them to do it, but they benefit from the free R&D, while Nextcloud bears all the costs

This post has more information about it.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

sovtechfund, to random
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We’re excited to share details about STF’s investment in @gnome to improve accessibility, tooling, and security for the Linux desktop ecosystem. Learn more about the comprehensive plan to modernize the platform and support features in the public interest:

https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/gnome

thibaultamartin,
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Words can't describe how ecstatic I am to see @sovtechfund funding @gnome

The GNOME project is ridiculously resource-efficient in terms of delivery. Investing the same amount in proprietary software wouldn't yield nearly the same results.

With this grant, the STF helps make GNOME more accessible, sustainable, secure, AND one step closer to mobile. The impacts are absolutely massive, and it's only a beginning.

This is what it looks like when Europe takes sovereignty seriously.

sonny, to random
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💡 portal for anonymous telemetry. Hear me out!

Many developers want to have telemetry so that they can learn about how their app is used and how they perform.

It can lead to better software, but it's also a privacy nightmare 😮‍💨

Currently, apps need to enable full network for it (or more) and users have 0 control over it. This is happening. Right now.

What if there was a way to remove all the negative aspects of telemetry so that we can consider it safe? 🛡️

1/2 🧵

#Flatpak #Snap #Flathub

thibaultamartin,
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@sonny it sounds like a lot of effort, and I’m unsure about the benefits.

Given the tremendous task (not only in terms of build but also of run), user testing with mockups sounds like an install important step.

It would also be interesting to know how many apps are actively maintained and don't require network access. A biased indicator, but it can help get an order of magnitude of the number of apps concerned.

jsparber, to random
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Any suggestions for a new monitor?

Currently I have a FULL HD 27" monitor and the low resolution bugged me since i bought it around 10 years ago.

The new one should be at least 4k, probably similar size, have a nice height adjustable stand, and ideally have small bezels.

Edit: price limit 300 Euros

thibaultamartin,
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@jsparber my only advice is to check what https://cassidyjames.com/dippi/ thinks about the display and resolution, to avoid fractional scaling

thibaultamartin, to random
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I just tried the new @penpot 2.0 and it's significant improvement over the last time I tried it.

It's really polished, kudos to the team and congrats on the release 👏

thibaultamartin, to random
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Dopamine culture is one of the main reasons why I care about local-first, offline computing (the other being resilience).

@gnome has a strong "native apps first" culture, that local-first computing depends on.

It's making tremendous progress to be adapted to phones, the most ubiquitous devices in real life, where it can run in large parts to the efforts of @postmarketOS.

It's my biggest source of hope for computing the respects people.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

thibaultamartin, to random
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It's been a while since I last browsed the GNOME Circle curated apps directory and wow. So many focused apps that do one thing and do it well. So many utilities to tackle tasks easily. Can't recommend enough to have a look at it.

https://circle.gnome.org/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Fediverse, what nonprofits do you donate to, and why did you choose them?

If you don't mind specifying, I'd love to know what region of the world you're from!

🔄 Please boost to help me discover the problems people want to solve and the orgs solving them!

thibaultamartin, to random
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I don’t miss the dark, cold winter, but we might want to squeeze in a bit of spring before summer?

thibaultamartin, to random
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Actually unpopular opinion: AGPL + CLA can be terrible or fine, depending on the clauses of the CLA, the project's ecosystem, and its purpose.

Organisations contributing to an open source project (should) have lawyers to tell them what to expect. Individuals don't.

As an individual, I would only sign a CLA with a clause forcing the upstream to keep releasing the project under an @osi approved licence.

More soon™ in the sequel of https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/20-open-source-chainsaw/

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