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Leader of the #OpenPrinting project since it was founded in 2001, introduced the CUPS printing system in Mandrake Linux in 2000 working at MandrakeSoft and with this and a lot of evangelism (booths, talks, tutorials) made the other distros also switch to CUPS, since 2006 printing maintainer at Canonical, co-organizing annual meetings with the Printer Working Group (PWG), since 2008 every year mentoring in Google Summer of Code, doing everything to make printing on Linux and similar "just work".

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till, to random
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@killyourfm probably the attack you are suffering is the one talked about here:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

This shows the vulnerability of the Fediverse, which seems not to be a bug but a design flaw.

till, to firefox
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as a part of the is participating in the 20th , !!

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2024-openprinting-projects

We have lots of amazing project ideas this year:

Contact us ASAP to get onboarded at OpenPrinting and to work out your proposal.

popey, to random
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This is a good news follow-up to yesterday's blog post about that Exodus scammy app in the Snap store.

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-follow-up/

video/mp4

till,
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@popey @cwayne @cassidy Especially for an empty package which has to be found and installed consciously, and not a "killer update" issued by the store organizers to get rid of some unwished package ...

popey, to random
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23 years ago today I took this selfie of me and the wife on a ski lift. Never been skiing since 👍

Photo taken with a Sony Cybershot camera which had a funky flip-over lens. My first digital camera.

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till,
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@popey My first digital camera was also 23 years ago!, mid-2001, so exactly 22.5 years. It was an Olympus C3000Z (3 MPix, 32-96 mm eq.).

I bought it because I was running an booth on the LinuxTag for the first time, got lended a bunch of nice photo printers from Epson and also from HP and wanted to be able to demo them.

I also printed a photo taken with it in A1 size (using Mandrake Linux) from this camera for the LinuxTag, view from the Eiffel Tower ...

https://www.dpreview.com/products/olympus/compacts/oly_c3000z

till,
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@popey your camera is REALLY ancient, from 1996, Sony's very first consumer digital camera, whopping 0.3 MPix!! Prime lens, sorry, no zoom ...

https://www.cameralabs.com/sony-dsc-f1-review/

So it was already 5 years on the market when you took that image ...

... and too old for https://www.dpreview.com/ (thanks Gear Patrol for buying my favorite camera site from Amazon who gave up on it), no mention of this model there at all.

till, to random
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Earlier I told here already that the Open Source Summit Europe will take place on Sep 16-18, 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

Vienna is a nice place to travel to, so having only a 3-day conference there is a little sad ...

... but it got solved! On Sep 18-20, 2024 there will be the Linux Plumbers Conference, same week, same venue, and so you will enjoy a full work week (Mon-Fri) in this beautiful city!

So let's go plumbing in Vienna!!

https://lpc.events/

I will be there, too ...

till, to windows
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The video of my talk

OpenPrinting - We make printing just work!

on (Main Track K) has been released:

https://video.fosdem.org/2024/k1105/fosdem-2024-1930-openprinting-we-make-printing-just-work-.av1.webm

It is about how it emerged, what we are doing, Protected Print

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Now that we're all back and recovering from FOSDEM, we'd love to know two things: what were your favorite talks, and just as importantly, what were your favorite moments in between the talks? 🤔

(And no, those talks and moments don't have to be Thunderbird related! This is not a shameless ploy for attention, we promise. We'll be MUCH more obvious about those! 😜 💙 )

till,
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@thunderbird I liked most the joint dinner of #OpenPrinting and #Thunderbird on Sunday, 13 Thunderbirdies and 1 from OpenPrinting ...

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2024

till, to random
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My talk

Desktop Linux as easy as a smartphone – Just in a Snap!

(in the Distributions devroom) made it into

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FOSDEM-2024-Snaps

Usual complaining about in the comments ...

till, to ubuntu
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@fredldotme has made the working on :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsT_Wl5oQ4&t=2730s

and thanks everyone who make the CUPS Snap possible (not mentioned by him, and / folks).

I got note of this on the , at the booth. Thanks, @ruds for bringing me to the UBports booth!

(@fredldotme I am still waiting for your write-up)

popey, to animals
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The cat has decided the most comfortable place to sleep right now is over the lid of my laptop. Weirdo.

till,
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@popey Your cat loves debugging ...

popey, to random
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I'm going to #FOSDEM tomorrow. If you see me there, and want to have a chat, please introduce yourself. I love meeting people there!

My brain is not great at associating and remembering names and faces.

So don't be offended if I can't remember you. It's not you, it's me. 👍

till,
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@popey I am looking forward to meet you, too.

And may your Steam Deck with be with you! And tell the people about my talk on Sunday when demoing.

https://popey.com/blog/2023/11/ubuntu-core-snapdeck/

till,
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@popey No problem. Will you have a demo of on your laptop (as VM) though?

I will remove/edit the references in my talk description and in the News ...

till,
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@popey No problem, I have now a working and updated VM on my laptop, using Virtual Machine Manager. Important is to give 4 GB of RAM to the VM.

Also @kewisch is creating a VM currently.

And thanks, @kenvandine for helping @kewisch and me to get the VMs going ...

till, to GNOME
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And is not only my 2 talks ...

It will start with inflight sessions with @pemensik, working on Avahi, and others from Red Hat.

In the evening I will have a dinner with Canonical/Ubuntu colleages and friends: @linuxflower @3v1n0 @laney @kewisch @popey and more

Saturday evening I will meet mentor fellows on a GSoC evening event and afterwards join the

I will visit booths of GSoC and @thunderbird @killyourfm

till, to random
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News January: madness, printer?, tattoo printer, , 2024, automation, User mailing list: https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-January-2024/

till, to random
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#OpenPrinting will participate in the 20th edition of the #GSoC, #GSoC2024, as usual as part of the #linuxfoundation

The project ideas list is here:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2024-openprinting-projects

9 ideas are already there, more can come! And we are already selecting and onboarding interested contributors.

Google will list the accepted mentoring organizations on Feb 21, 2024.

till, to random
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As I did since 2008 every year I will do the mentoring organization application at the 20th edition of the for the again. Many workgroups of it, as , , ( workflow), , ( Grade Linux), and many more are participating.

More info and project ideas lists here:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2024

Results of organization applications will be published on Feb 21, 2024.

till, to openSUSE
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An user posts his report from the :

https://cubiclenate.com/2023/12/31/attending-ubuntu-summit-2023-as-an-opensuse-user/

Great blog, @CubicleNate !!

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What would you like to see from us in 2024?

till,
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@frameworkcomputer A modular, repairable printer/multi-function device:

https://community.frame.work/t/framework-could-make-repairable-printers-multi-function-devices/

till, to random
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This was great, the @linuxlads podcast produced live with audience interaction on the . Now it finally got published as the actual podcast.

And I have contributed to it. First, around 20 min into it I give an example how meeting on conferences causes actions and tell why the Linux App Summit 2024 will take place in Monterrey, Mexico, and near the end I give an example how conference attendees come well equipped for winter weather.

https://linuxlads.com/episodes/114/

till, to random
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News December: Fax?!, New Architecture under Windows, from into YouTube and Podcasts, , , Mailing list moving: https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-December-2023/

till, to Podcast
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Noah J. Chelliah interviewed me about my work for his "Ask Noah" when he met me on the and finally posted in his episode 368. His editing was amazing. Listen to it here, starting at 47:17 min:

https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/368

till, to random
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New episode of Destination Linux, 1:20 hours about why printing with Linux just works! With Michael Sweet author of #CUPS and creator of driverless printing and me, leader of #OpenPrinting:

https://youtu.be/CLEMiM0L2Jk

popey, to random
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Went into the loft to get the Christmas decorations. Stumbled on this old thing. No idea if it all works. I guess that’s my Sunday sorted.

till,
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@popey @CubicleNate has the newest model, the C64x ...

https://cubiclenate.com/linux/machines/c64x/

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