wow android 16 material 3 expressive looks so ugly

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

oh good, my 25G NIC was manufactured by NVIDIA

that means I can use this meme every time it pisses me off

@danirabbit Yeah I believe trashing other DEs to be dumb and just wasting time. I feel like Linux having so many desktop options and customisability to be a strength, and *especially* if these DEs actually collaborate with each other.

This isn't about competition, but about choice, something other OSes tend to lack, that is given to you for free.

For example, I run sway on my computer, I quite like it and I feel quite productive with it - but I still recommend other envs besides sway - I have friends I helped move to linux use completely different DEs I don't use, yet recommended to them (gnome, cinammon, Pantheon, KDE, etc...) and they love it. Despite not having really used KDE or gnome (etc) much in the last few years, I still enjoy seeing progress in these, I feel very happy seeing these get more and more polished over time, and the developers are super nice and helpful too :)

@ptrc hmm as far as I can tell they tell you to unlock the drive first before running photorec..

@ptrc pretty sure photorec supports encrypted FS?

@ariadne move to efnet

@ptrc testdisk/photorec?

@CyReVolt that's one of the reasons why I tend to not really like e.g. windows and in general some apps pretending to be user-friendly..

Like, being this non-specific is not user-friendly at all... it's like saying "well there was an error, please figure it out yourself, too lazy to tell you what actually happened" in the name of user-friendliness...

Hot #UX take: Instead of showing "unexpected #error", apps should expect more errors.

@danirabbit Yeah I believe trashing other DEs to be dumb and just wasting time. I feel like Linux having so many desktop options and customisability to be a strength, and *especially* if these DEs actually collaborate with each other.

This isn't about competition, but about choice, something other OSes tend to lack, that is given to you for free.

For example, I run sway on my computer, I quite like it and I feel quite productive with it - but I still recommend other envs besides sway - I have friends I helped move to linux use completely different DEs I don't use, yet recommended to them (gnome, cinammon, Pantheon, KDE, etc...) and they love it. Despite not having really used KDE or gnome (etc) much in the last few years, I still enjoy seeing progress in these, I feel very happy seeing these get more and more polished over time, and the developers are super nice and helpful too :)

You may have a favorite desktop that you really love and feel passionate about and that’s great, but we should not be putting down other desktops or their developers for having their own way of doing things. They are our colleagues and often our friends. Just about everyone who works on desktop Linux is an expert in their field in one way or another. And everyone is passionate about what they do and cares deeply about the experience they deliver their users.

Story time!

We've had our cats for 2 years, they were 5 months old when we got them.

They both have their favorite toys, but Rory will carry his around howling into it. He sounds like he is in pain! (He is not, he has been checked out. I have trauma from an incompetent vet) He likes to take his toy, sit on the edge of the sink with the toy in his mouth and sing like Taylor Swift, if she were being strangled during a concert. (Sorry swifties!)

So at night we pick up their favorite toys.

Now reader, you may be thinking, "That's mean!" and we felt mean at first but we can SLEEP. And they have 2 large cat towers, 1 medium cat tower, 3 scratching posts, 2 cat tunnels, 2 interactive toys, and a toy box with a plethora of toys. They are fine.

But those toys aren't their FAVORITE.

Until last night.

The toy box is empty, I could hardly walk into my bathroom and I will spend a good part of the morning picking up the toys because apparently they "discovered" the toy box! 😳😆

Teenage cats are fun!
#CatsOfMastodon with #AltText always.

Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

Fujitsu LifeBook T4215 Tablet PC from 2006

The company is currently investigating what happened. FOR NOW, they are judging these emails as unintended, but not malicious. ➡️
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/unexpected-emails-from-fairphone/129612/11?u=wearefairphone

It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.

I recently saw someone leave fedi at least temporarily as a result of harassment, and one thing they highlighted was that most of us don't see the harassment they were getting because of how federation works and the fact that our instances block all the vile ones most of the harassment was coming from.

They were running their own single-user instance. 🙁

We really need better resources for single user instances to benefit from third-party moderation resources, but we also need to get the narrative out that running a single user instance is a horrible idea unless you want to be your own fulltime moderator or drowned in engagement from the worst parts of the net. Treating it as a viable option now really sours folks to the whole concept.