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alatiera

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26 y/old kid without future. GNOME, GStreamer, Release engineer, QA monkey. Multimedia Stuff. Flatpak and GNOME OS.

Randomly complaining about computers and "foss".

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@pojntfx@mastodon.social avatar pojntfx , to random

We need to bless more software

alatiera ,
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@pojntfx systemd-bless-boot.service

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

The job of engineers is not to deploy some technology but to build robust, reliable and sustainable (in all meanings of that word) solutions for real world problems based on requirements directly derived from people's needs. Even for an engineer technology comes second at best.

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@tante Calling any of the turn it off and on again engineering is an insult to engineers.

When I am crossing a bridge, someone had run the math to prove that it won't collapse on its own or from an earthquake.

But with software we don't have a single clue what will happen let alone to how reproduce issues.

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@GerardThornley @tante All software ever written, unless its one of those special "formally verified" academic projects.

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@GerardThornley @tante To this day they are rebooting f35 subsystems mid-flight when they bug out.

Not all software is trash-tier quality but we are nowhere close to the reliability and determinism you'd expect for any engineering field. And its not getting any better with all the deregulation and outsourcing to contractors.

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The reason "AI" has settled on "chat" as interface is because what they are actually selling is domination. They are selling you having a personal slave. That's their hook.

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@tante It's either the personal slave or the mass psychosis cause the chatbot "gets you"

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

"I stood on the street after my haircut and let sink in how big this was, how this technology has become an essential aide for so many, how I could lead performance efforts and help save the planet. Joining OpenAI might be the biggest opportunity of my lifetime."

Look, I understand grabbing the bag and I have been a fan of Brendan Gregg's work.

But maybe don't be completely delusional about working for a yet another big tech company thats destroying the society/planet?

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html

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@tante I have similar stories with the people I chat with at the gym, but for some reason instead of finding fascinating I am filled with extreme dread about how everyone is relying on chatbots that make up things as they go and how it will shape how the next generation growing up.

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@tante Unironically why I will never afford my own home!

In fact, Germany and IMF forcefully kicked me and my parents out of our home so they could auction it to some hedgefund in the cayman islands.

But at least you bet such hedgefunds have been investing OpenAI and every other tech company with the profits so its probably a net positive for society!

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First year we can say merry wayland-mas

Still can't believe we no longer have to deal with x11

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@frameworkcomputer Framework's continued commitment to "deliberately create a big tent" is paying off.

More than a month since the last public statement comment from Framework on the subject and they still haven't distanced themselves from this guy.

The forum thread has over 2000 replies at this point..

https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448

Framework's CEO on a public forum thread: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.

Framework's CEO on a public forum thread: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individuals’ or organizations’ beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. We’ve sent out large quantities of hardware to folks at Fedora, Bluefin, Bazzite, NixOS, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Omarchy, and many other distros, and have sponsored either the organizations directly or events with Linux Foundation, LVFS, NixOS, Debian, KDE, Hyprland, and others. Within the team itself, personal distro and OS preferences span basically every Linux distro you can imagine along with FreeBSD. I personally am running machines with Fedora (for machine learning), Bazzite (for gaming), Omarchy (general productivity), and Windows 11 (when I have to). > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice.
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@frameworkcomputer It's abundantly clear from Framework's non-communication and silence on the subject that they hope this can be swept under and it will "go away".

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

if tilling window managers were the silver bullet to being "productive", these people wouldn't be over represented on reddit. just saying

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@YaLTeR Why are you underselling it though??

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Critical support to my arch enemies at KDE for dropping X11

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@thomholwerda Clearly KDE is an infiltrated and coopted project. There is no other reason we are kind to one another and collaborating.

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

Heh, tried submitting to the /r/opensource reddit and GamingOnLinux is banned because it's "low-effort news site".

Yay, just Reddit things.

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@gamingonlinux If reddit was nuked from orbit tomorrow no value would be lost to humanity. Fuck that thing and specifically fuck the circle jerks.

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

If you like and are excited about Bazaar, consider donating to support Kolunmi! it would help them a lot!

https://github.com/sponsors/kolunmi

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar

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@jorge Check it out, more bootc updates!

It’s fully functional, and no image rebuilds are needed.

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/11/twig-225/

Excerpt from This week in GNOME 225 Tulip Blossom from Project Bluefin has been working on building bootc images of different Linux systems, including GNOME OS. To ensure bootc users have the best experience possible with our system, Jordan Petridis and Valentin David from the GNOME OS team are working on building an OCI image that can be directly used by bootc. It is currently a work in progress, but we expect to land it soon. This collaboration is a great opportunity to expand our community, contributor base and share our vision for how to build operating systems. Note that this does not represent a change in our plans for GNOME OS itself; It will continue using the same systemd tools for deploying and updating the system.

Excerpt from This week in GNOME 225 Tulip Blossom from Project Bluefin has been working on building bootc images of different Linux systems, including GNOME OS. To ensure bootc users have the best experience possible with our system, Jordan Petridis and Valentin David from the GNOME OS team are working on building an OCI image that can be directly used by bootc. It is currently a work in progress, but we expect to land it soon. This collaboration is a great opportunity to expand our community, contributor base and share our vision for how to build operating systems. Note that this does not represent a change in our plans for GNOME OS itself; It will continue using the same systemd tools for deploying and updating the system.
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@YaLTeR @jorge @tulilirockz Yea this is also I found out about the Niri image as well and made @thibaultamartin install it before I try it out at some point 😆

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@thibaultamartin @YaLTeR @jorge @tulilirockz I have so many thoughts about devcontianers, and they are mostly ranting ones.

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@thibaultamartin @YaLTeR @jorge @tulilirockz Make tooling that's a clone of flatpak-builder instead of RUN apt install npm && curl | sh

You don't want to build the build-environment, you want to build, run and test your app more or less. That my main beef with how everyone approaches it.

Additionally, the environment is part of the application. Devcontianers exist cause the images themselves have no clue how and with what permissions and env vars to initialize themselves.

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@thibaultamartin @YaLTeR @jorge @tulilirockz And everything defaults to being root in the container for no reason at all. The cardinal sin.

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

The three certainties in life:

  • Death
  • Taxes
  • The need of applications to have a Global Coordinate System

The year of the peanut gallery on the desktop.

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Also who the fuck called it ext-zones and not ext-GPS.

Can we also have a civilian and a military grade of the protocol too please?

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@YaLTeR Perfect we already have a usecase for this! It's exactly what the Vision Pro does!!!

@YaLTeR@mastodon.online avatar YaLTeR , to random

Is there a Firefox hotkey that reliably focuses the address bar in one press?

  • F6 focuses frames on some pages before the address bar
  • Alt+D doesn't work occasionally
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@YaLTeR control l same as nautilus and I think every browser

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

Bluefin knows what's up. It's been a joy to collaborate with and fix issues for everyone!

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/2025-10-28-bluefin-autumn/#helping-flathub

FlatHub is critical to the desktop We choose to help move application development forward via FlatHub instead of fragmenting the ecosystem with distribution-specific packaging. This includes shipping a premier FlatHub experience out of the box. You do not have to worry about misconfigured and low-quality Fedora flatpak remotes and packages on Bluefin systems.

FlatHub is critical to the desktop We choose to help move application development forward via FlatHub instead of fragmenting the ecosystem with distribution-specific packaging. This includes shipping a premier FlatHub experience out of the box. You do not have to worry about misconfigured and low-quality Fedora flatpak remotes and packages on Bluefin systems.
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@pojntfx@mastodon.social avatar pojntfx , to random

Glad to see Framework also supporting other Linux desktops now. Honestly, I think after the CEOs statement and this new level of transparency, I think it's all fine now: https://frame.work/bg/en/blog/framework-sponsorships

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@eberfreitas @pojntfx Rails Wolrd is DHH conference which he started after he got kicked out out RailsConf due to the Basecamp issues

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

Todays example of "Youtuber installs a distro package and the computer stops booting"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMfG6eFPwEk&t=328

"Four fresh installs later everything worked"

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

"First they came for the Fascists, and I spoke up cause I was a fascist"

https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1971287738268909576

Tweet of Andreas Kling reading: I stand with @dhh because they’ll come for me next. Eventually they’ll come for you, too. It’s time we put our feet down and say “no” to these losers who demand everyone share their exact opinions or get smeared, fired, etc. Let’s usher in a new era of OSS: one where everyone is welcome, and nobody tells other people what they must think and say.
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Absolutely insane that the EU digital wallet literally doesn't support any desktop system

alatiera ,
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@pojntfx I had not bothered to look at it at all till now but this will make for a fun evening! Thank you!

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@pojntfx Holy fuck, why is the EU Wallet - Age Verification , even a thing, dear god, let alone the implementation

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

We should put being anti-fascist in the code of conduct texts, if nothing else as yet another litmus test

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social avatar thelinuxEXP , (edited ) to random

Here is this week's and news video!
in this one, we have a date for the Beta, deciding to keep X11 sessions a bit longer, plenty of related news, and more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQw8m4X4Zk

alatiera ,
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@thelinuxEXP The x11 GNOME session is still disabled. This isn’t about gnome but so GDM can keep launching XFCE sessions and the like. GNOME on Xorg is and will stay disabled for 49.

@deobald@fantastic.earth avatar deobald , to random

today was my last day as the @gnome foundation executive director:

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08/29/thanks-and-farewell-to-steven-deobald/

https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/08/29/so-short-and-thanks-for-all-the-flinch/

still around as a foundation member, though. see you on matrix. :)

if you need help in the land of free software (and the free desktop, in particular), i'm still hoping to stay in the space. ❤️

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@deobald @pojntfx Circle developers qualify, part why we made circle. I would totally +1

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

On X11 and the Fascists Maggots

I can't believe I needed to write this but here we are.

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/23/the-fascist-maggots/

Last paragraph of the blogpost. On behalf of all the desktop developers I have to state the following: There is no place for Fascists within the Open Source and Free Software communities or the society at large. You will never fester your poisonous roots here. Go back to the cave you crawled out from where no sunlight can reach.

Last paragraph of the blogpost. On behalf of all the desktop developers I have to state the following: There is no place for Fascists within the Open Source and Free Software communities or the society at large. You will never fester your poisonous roots here. Go back to the cave you crawled out from where no sunlight can reach.
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Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/xlibre_new_xorg_fork/

Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversy

<- by me on @theregister

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@lproven @theregister I am sorry but the last paragraph about accessibility is complete and utter bullshit. Jesus fucking Christ.

I don't know what's worse, giving the metux more attention or not having a clue what you write about.

There isn't any " remarkable levels of anti-X11 sentiment from Wayland proponents since the announcement" either. Your perception of reality is so wrapped its basically an Ouroboros by now.

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@lproven @theregister Not only is accessibility the only real blocker mentioned in the gnome-session MRs but I also mentioned this in the blogpost you linked.

Yet you don't even give a shit and decide to make up your own horseshit that none of us cares about accessibility at all.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/99#note_1867026

and

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/98#note_1907233

Here is a direct and accessible link cause clearly you can't be bothered.

I will expect to be paid for doing your work and being dragged through the mud.

@alatiera@mastodon.social avatar alatiera , to random

You can find the slides for the talk I gave today about Flathub here:

https://conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/7/contributions/216/

A slide from the talk, reading: Flathub Won, Stop packaging apps
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@BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social avatar BrodieOnLinux , to random

We Were Wrong About Flathub https://youtu.be/9RhOzLl1CTU

alatiera ,
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@BrodieOnLinux @mattdm About the verified part, it wasn't out of context cause it came right after saying there are No reviews, as in, none at all was the implication. When you hear it like and the implication is that everyone uploads things with no oversight, it quickly becomes to same quality guarantee as Twitter's blue check mark and useless.

Perhaps I should have phrased it a bit better and expanded into it in the post but I thought it would have been fine since it was back to back.

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@alatiera I just found out you took a lot of issue with what Matt said on my channel about Flatpak and Flathub, if you want to come and correct the record I'd me more than happy to have you on to chat. No pressure, totally up to you.

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@BrodieOnLinux Hi, thanks for the invite but all I had to say about this was in the post. I am also not involved with Flathub directly and don't want to speak on their behalf, cause regardless people will interpret it as such.

I would love to see an interview of @razze and other folks however!

Will be looking forward to your video!