thibaultamartin

thibaultamartin, 1 month ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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

sonny, 2 months ago to random

💡 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

jsparber, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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, 2 months ago to random

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

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

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/

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to opensource

Software automates part of our lives. It is irresponsible for democracies to leave that much control to private entities owned by a few people.

Open-source is a potential answer to the problem, but it's not that easy.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/20-open-source-chainsaw/

#democracy #governance #openSource

tchx84, 2 months ago to random

I am looking for recommendations for (preferably retro) top-down video games to recreate with Gameeky 😁 🕹️

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

The Matrix Foundation hosts one of the largest Matrix servers in the open federation. But we don't want to become the Gmail of Matrix. So why keep registrations open? And what are we doing to stay true to our mission?

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/03/why-matrix-org/

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

The Matrix Website Office Hours are starting in one hour!

Join @MTRNord and me as we review issues and PRs, prioritise them, and hack around. Whether you want to exercise your web dev skills, help us keep the data up to date, or have other ideas, there's plenty you can do to contribute!

⏬ Details on how to join below ⏬

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/02/website-office-hours/

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

Fediverse, I need you to do your magic and assist me with Actual Intelligence. If you work for a company that produces software, please tell me your job title and what it consists of. Bonus points if the software created is NOT open-source.

Extra bonus points if you tag people who do a job that doesn't usually come to mind when thinking about software!

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

If that’s not exciting, I don’t know what is.

Massive kudos to @alice for her work on Highscore!

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

Signal received a lot of flak when they added stories to the app. Call me Mr Controversial, but the idea of having a way to broadcast life updates to friends and family safely makes a lot of sense to me!

But Signal is primarily meant for highly confidential correspondence in narrow groups. Stories are broadcast to everyone in my address book who’s on Signal.

There’s an option to narrow the audience, but there’s a fundamental clash between the chat and stories UX.

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

I just stumbled upon @A11yAwareness and that's and immediate subscription from me!

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

The Librem 5 is a very interesting project. It's fair to say the phone has a very low market penetration even within the niche of Linux phones enthusiasts.

It is a real-life example of what happens when free software engineers are in charge of the entirety of a product.

For example, the phone needs a cheat code to recharge the battery past a certain threshold.

https://docs.puri.sm/Librem_5/Troubleshooting/Charging.html#evergreen

Expect a blog post soon™ about the FOSS culture and what gets in the way of mass adoption.

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

I recently learnt about ente, an alternative to Photoprism, Immich and the likes.

Today they open sourced their server!

https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

I'm probably late to the party, but TIL that you can make your website much more printer friendly with a simple stylesheet.

It sounds like a nice way to let people get low-tech archives of your website!

https://petermolnar.net/article/how-to-make-a-print-css/

thibaultamartin, 3 months ago to random

"Avast was collecting users' browser information from 2014 to 2020, then selling it to more than 100 other companies through a since-shuttered entity known as Jumpshot, according to the Federal Trade Commission."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/avast-ordered-to-stop-selling-browsing-data-from-its-browsing-privacy-apps/