Sim, é verdade: a Mozilla está metida com esse negócio de inteligência artificial. Apesar do desgosto de parte dos usuários do Firefox, nem tudo são mãos com sete dedos. Uma das primeiras iniciativas da Mozilla em IA generativa foi desenvolver modelos de tradução eficientes a ponto de rodarem no próprio dispositivo. O recurso já existe […]| Manual do Usuário
Preview.app shown in NeXTStep 1.0 courtesy of infinitemac.org In yesterday's post, I talked about the things I do and don't miss about MacOS, mainly focusing on the global menubar search as the main positive from my experience with Mac OS X. Looking over blog post ideas note …| R.L. Dane
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.| Elena Rossini
Software is never a temporary feature, especially in the fast-moving world of embedded systems. In industries like automotive, software is at the core of the product’s function, but time and time again, companies treat it like a short-term asset.| www.codethink.co.uk
Background In yesterday's article, I went over the GUI programs that I enjoyed using over the years and remembered fondly. While I was going to go over TUI programs today, I realized that there's a category of GUI that straddles the line between GUI and TUI that deserved its own …| R.L. Dane
I was going to post a much more serious blog post about anhedonia yesterday, but I didn't get to do so, as I was feeling... anhedonic! One thing I do when I'm struggling to feel... anything (because I've spent way too much time feeling way too much, but that's a …| R.L. Dane
Time for another little hardware review. Background I've been getting complaints that the small, inexpensive bluetooth earbuds (Skullcandy Dime XT/XT2) I had been carrying around for the past five years have pretty poor audio quality during phone calls (likely no microphone noise cancellation), so I started looking around again …| R.L. Dane
Why I love vim| rldane.space
The many reasons why I am grateful for free, open-source software and the ability to self-host essential digital services.| Elena Rossini
Coder Radio listeners will know that I love to do little techie weekend projects with my son and this past weekend we hit the jackpot with the Framework 13. We had a wonderful experience of building the Framework from its component parts and setting up desktop Linux on the OS-less machine. Here’s some quick thoughts […]| dominickm.com
Note: When I say "Online" in this context, I literally mean "on a computer," vs. "on paper." This is the older, more classic meaning of the word, similar to "on-line documentation" (i.e., "on the computer," not "on the internet"). Background I know a lot of folks like solutions like …| R.L. Dane
About two and a half months ago, I bought a Wacom digitizer to do doodles with, but I found the process of sketching with a standalone digitizer a bit dissatisfying after using an iPad in years past. To be clear, the fact that the screen and digitizer are separate devices …| R.L. Dane
Background I've used android as my main mobile OS for about four and a half years, and used it previously for about a year and a half before then. In total, I've spent eight and two thirds years on iOS, and six and one third years on Android (so far …| R.L. Dane
This page is continuously updated; it’s publication date reflects the last time changes were made.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
The newly discovered backdoor1 in the XZ Utils package2 affecting numerous Linux distributions3 and assigned CVE-2024-30944 is being dismissed by some members of the technology and security communities as yet another supply chain attack; relevant only because of how blatant it was and that it affected the Open Source ecosystem but in essence nothing out of the ordinary. Regardless of whether this perspective is gaining traction due to cynicism, as hyperbole for clicks or as a coping mechanism...| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
What I've been up to this month? Work on a promotional film for the fediverse... and preparations to speak at a FOSS conference in Lyon| Elena Rossini
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.| Elena Rossini
The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.| Elena Rossini
Learn how the REUSE specification from FSFE helps bring clarity to open source licensing. This article covers real-world examples, and tips to make your project REUSE compliant.| Fedora Magazine
I need to be honest, I am very frustrated. For the last two months, I spent almost all of my free time adding triggers for the walkie-talkie system for my game, Unhaunter. It gives in-character voice lines and hints to guide new players. I poured hundreds of hours into it. And the results are confusing. … Continue reading Hundreds of Hours Wasted? The Brutal Truth About Onboarding For Unhaunter v0.3.0| DeavidSedice's blog
We spent a whole week rewriting nouveau's website --- the drivers for NVIDIA cards. It started as a one-person effort, but it led to a few people helping me out. We addressed several issues in the nouveau website and improved it a lot. The redesign is live on [nouveau.freedesktop.org](https://nouveau.freedesktop.org). In this article, we'll go over the problems with the old site and the work we've done to fix them.| TheEvilSkeleton
I find that many Linux users have a misconception about immutable distributions without knowing what it actually *is*. There is a lot of misinformation and generalization in the Internet about immutable distributions being “locked down”, “inflexible”, etc., when we could argue the same with many traditional distributions. In this article, we'll look at what makes an immutable distribution, the concept of an immutable distribution versus implementations, misconceptions about immutable ...| TheEvilSkeleton
Telemetry is one of the biggest controversial topics in the Linux community. Many people believe that telemetry is entirely meaningless, because developers can "just" ask their users. Some people also argue that users can opt into telemetry if they want to participate, but most of these users are in consensus that opt-out telemetry shouldn't be there in the first place. However, I don't believe that asking users or explicitly opting into telemetry helps to a degree where developers and design...| TheEvilSkeleton
I wanted to try a new-to-me compressor, lz4, but it turned into a full ADHD-fueled file compression shoot-out: Dang, lz4 is crazy fast! Data/setup The corpus is a 2.29 GiB uncompressed tar file consisting of several years worth of GPS data in various plain-text formats. The computer is …| R.L. Dane
One of the things I hear people on the Fediverse celebrate is its incredible transience. There's no one big central network, so posts have nebulous reach throughout the network, depending on how well-"connected" your instance is, and many people set posts to auto-delete after a set period of time …| R.L. Dane
Background One minor foible of the fediverse instance I'm on is that searching (for accounts or hashtags) can be quite slow. As a workaround for now, I've saved a list of accounts I've followed for easy reference, but I also wanted some way of saving a list of hashtags to …| R.L. Dane
Partially for the sake of my daily doodles, which I've been posting to the Fediverse, and also because I've been learning the Persian alphabet, I recently purchased a small USB pen digitizer, the "One by Wacom," by Wacom (great branding 😄). For those of you not familiar with digitizers, think of …| R.L. Dane
I wanted to take some time out today to acknowledge some folks on the fediverse that are remarkably prolific, just for fun. Prolific blogger — Rubenerd Oh holy moly. This fella has words. Lots of words. Many very fine words. Just look at bro's output for 2024: ~ $ curl -s https://rubenerd …| R.L. Dane
Why I love Markdown| rldane.space
For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies (see for example my talk at Fluconf). This criticism comes from a place of love. All the writing on this blog is licensed CC-BY-SA to allow others to take the texts and […]| Smashing Frames
The Linux Cast is one of my favorite Linux youtubers, as he usually posts very interesting videos and isn't afraid to share his off-the-cuff opinions of things in the Linux world, yet is usually not toxic, unlike some of that space's moreinfamousmembers. He published a slightly ranty …| R.L. Dane
Disclaimer: Right off the bat, I am NOT an imaging expert, a compression expert, or really an anything expert. I'm just speaking from my own experiences as a relatively ordinary user of image formats. When I was a young-un in the early, early 90s, PICT was the day-to-day image format …| R.L. Dane
This morning, I enjoyed a blog post by James Ashford about whether or not it's good to use a bible app. I commented on a tangential issue: the fact that bible apps have so many trackers! I mentioned that I do use YouVersion, even though it has many trackers (including …| R.L. Dane
I, like many, have taken an interest in Daniel Supernault's new Loops video service. Unlike many, I'm not so much interested in a FOSS, Federated clone of TikTok, YT Shorts, or Vine. I honestly don't care for that kind of media. I don't object to the format (other than …| R.L. Dane
"Online" documentation should be offline| rldane.space
Recently, a number of people have expressed desire in "taking over" [1]| blog.ian.stapletoncordas.co
This is Part IV of the series, "Don't use what works for you." --- Being an armchair FOSS advocate, there are a lot of anti-FOSS arguments I've become quite used to seeing and answering. Some of them are honestly just pretty dumb: eloquent_FOSS_apologia(); Well, I just don't CARE about that! Well …| R.L. Dane
1920x1080. That's it. Goodnight, folks! [phonograph-needle-rip.wav] Wait, WAIT. My actual resolution is to use RSS feeds as my primary source of diversion on the go, vs. Pavlovically checking the Fediverse every five minutes, or even worse, getting stuck in an hours-long YT Shorts brainrot watching spree. If you're looking …| R.L. Dane
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, TuxJam the other day, and they were discussing ways to watch YouTube without the annoyances that Google has added to the experience, namely ads and the inability to download videos for later viewing (also, YouTube stopped letting you listen to videos …| R.L. Dane
As I wrote in yesterday's article, I have a soft spot in my heart for laptops. They exist in this incredibly sweet spot where convenience and agency/freedom converge in the very best way, possible. I bought my first laptop in 1995 with my very hard-earned money, but let's start …| R.L. Dane
I set 4 goals for the next 4 years, giving myself "sudo" privileges and striving to have more digital sovereignty and new language skills| Elena Rossini
Unlike most young people, and not unlike many of my GenX peers, I haven't played much Minecraft. I got into it a little bit with my cousin's kids when they were young around 2010, and I even played it a little bit on my own at the time, but the …| R.L. Dane
In Part IV, I discussed wristwatches. In this article, I'm jumping back into my pocket, so to speak, with a look at what's on my phone itself. This was a rather exhausting article to write, because I have a lot of apps on my phone. I have even been ridiculed …| R.L. Dane
Note: This article was originally written last December, and was sidelined because I didn't feel it was finished. Reading through it this morning, I realized reason that I never "finished" it is because the next step would've been to write a 1280-word chapter, which is no small feat. But honestly …| R.L. Dane
In Part III, I discussed fountain pens, and how they revolutionized writing for me. I thought I was done with my EDC series, until a toot from my FediFriendOrbitalMartian reminded me of one more every-day carry …| R.L. Dane
In Part II, I went over the items in my backpack. In this edition, I will talk about a single item in detail: fountain pens. Growing up, I really disliked writing by hand. It was very uncomfortable, and my handwriting was extremely messy, to the point that my classmates would …| R.L. Dane
In Part I, I went over the items in my pockets. In this installment, I will go over the items in my backpack. Yes, I'm milking the posts to try to catch up to my WritingMonth quota. Hush. 😄 --- Here's what's currently in my backpack: Large items LaptopCurrently a Thinkpad …| R.L. Dane
My EDC is kind of boring, but sometimes even the most boring items have an interesting history. I used to carry around a Photon Microlight, but haven't needed a pocket light since 2010, thanks to modern phones. I also used to carry a mini Swiss Army Knife in my pocket …| R.L. Dane
The rise and fall of the popularity of programming languages is fun to watch. Quick disclaimer: I'm not a programmer. I've never held a programming job. I have been interested in programming as a hobby for several decades, and have written shell scripts as a part of my job in …| R.L. Dane
In Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes. What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client? Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …| R.L. Dane
FOSS ROMS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad State of Native Messaging on Android| rldane.space
Nachtrag, Meldung aus dem Juni d.J., Kontext: Debatten um Digitale Souveränität, die nicht nur, aber auch finanzielle Souveränität bei Software-Beschaffung und -Betrieb bedeutet: Bund: Lizenzkosten für Microsoft auf hohem Niveau, insgesamt neuer Rekord Das Finanzministerium wollte die Zahlen für 2023 zunächst geheim halten, doch der Protest war zu groß. Ein Haushaltspolitiker spricht von explodierenden Kosten. […] Der Beitrag Digitalisierungs-Etats umverteilen: Von überteuerten Liz...| Netz Für Alle
A fedifriend mentioned me yesterday on a post about a recent kerfuffle regarding some decisions that Mozilla has been making, particularly in regards to buying an advertising company (and integrating advertising into the browser) and adding "A.I." features into recent builds of Firefox. I had intended to reply with …| R.L. Dane
I’ve been “cooking” this for years. Since Phasmophobia was released, I got interested on the genre and quickly began thinking that this type of game was something I would like to make a game about. Around 2021 I began already thinking about it but it wasn’t until 2022 when I said, screw it, I’m gonna … Continue reading I’m making a new FOSS Game! Unhaunter: 2D Paranormal Investigation| DeavidSedice's blog
A security audit of the Homebrew package manager, widely used by developers on macOS and also available on […]| DEVCLASS
A personal reflection on how I moved from my Debian home to find two new homes with Trisquel and Guix for my own ethical computing, and while doing so settled my dilemma about further Debian contributions. Debian‘s contributions to the Continue reading Coping with non-free software in Debian→| Simon Josefsson's blog
Or FOFAFOSS. Rolls right off your tongue. Like in many families, there's always a bit of.. turmoil and drama in FOSS. Something breaks (either on purpose or by accident), people get frustrated.. The usual. It is kind of to be expected when it comes to very social projects, like let's say, Linux desktop environments. People have their own visions and ways to see things. They often clash. That's normal. It's quite human. I do like to think that Linux desktop environments especially are like sib...| AksDev
Rant incoming. This isn't written that well but idgaf. I just need to get this out of my system. I really enjoy chatting in FOSS communities. KDE, Linux in general, other desktop environments, so on and so forth. What I don't like is that we have these very silly "feuds" over some things. Like we're some weird tribes, fighting over who has the nicest looking flag. It doesn't serve any purpose but putting others down. It drives away users, new and old, and potential contributors. It makes peop...| AksDev
I have really enjoyed using my PineTime as a watch, so I really wanted to make my own watchface. I based it around the colors of my KDE Plasma theme. Here's what it looks like: Link to Codeberg repository And next I'm gonna ramble how I did it, what I learned etc. I wanted to share this due to being asked how it was like. Preface PineTime uses something called InfiniTime as it's OS. By default it has four different watchfaces: analog, digital, PineTimeStyle and terminal. It also has plenty of...| AksDev
Hey, just a quick post, I uploaded some themes I've made for Aurorae and Plasma to KDE store. They're simple themes that follow your colorscheme but are made for dark color schemes. The accent themes follow your accent color for the outlines. The reason I made these themes is that I need a strong outline around my windows and other elements: Otherwise all the windows I have just "blend" together no matter how strong shadow I have enabled. Aurorae Themes: Without accent color With accent color...| AksDev
This was my biggest contribution so far! And it was a bit more involved than I expected, so I wanted to write down what I learned. Here's a screenshot: I added the settings there that are in the red box. I also added the Paper size setting earlier in another contribution, but it was pretty simple. This was not, since Qt did not have builtin functions for these three settings: LC_ADDRESS, LC_NAME and LC_TELEPHONE. I assume it's because only glibc has these settings. Before I go any further, yo...| AksDev
Gesture navigation is lame| rldane.space
Maintainers and authors are found everywhere throughout our dependency trees. This includes the authors of the tooling others use for maintaining, building, testing, writing and running the infrastructure they depend on. Even maintainers depend on other maintainers.| blogs.perl.org
The Toxicity Dance| rldane.space
«Die Feiertage. Die ganzen IT-Abteilungen feiern mit der Familie… Die ganzen IT-Abteilungen? Nein! Eine von unbeugsamen Open-Source-Enthusiasten bevölkerte| Das Netz ist politisch
Maintainers and authors are found everywhere throughout our dependency trees. This includes the authors of the tooling others use for maintaining, building, testing, writing and running the infrastructure they depend on. Even maintainers depend on other maintainers.| Code = Conversation
FLOSS alternative for Whatsapp.| Random Ramblings
You can always turn your 'no' into a 'yes', but it doesn't always go the other way| cat /dev/brain
Summary: I've been writing and maintaining Open Source Software for over 8 years now and it has been simultaneously the catalyst for the success I've had professionally and the misery I feel on a daily basis. --- Open Source Software (a.k.a, Free and Open Source Software, F/OSS) has …| cat /dev/brain
Everyone has a different motivation when working on Open Source Software. That motivation can change over time both in quantity and in actual motivation. When the Free and Open Source Software (a.k.a., F/OSS) movement began, the motivation was clear: I have hardware and I should be able …| cat /dev/brain
organice is an implementation| 200ok - Accelerating Publishing
What has powered open source to become part of 75% of all software and drive nearly €100 bn of EU GDP? I suggest it’s ultimately developer confidence — and that the effects involved are…| Meshed Insights Ltd
Use what works for good| rldane.space
Web 1.0 is (unironically) going great| rldane.space
The fediverse is a loose cooperative (or federation) of independent servers which can choose to communicate with each other (or not — in the case of bad actors or chronically under-moderated instances). These servers do not operating a single type/brand of software, but rather run many different services that all share information via the "ActivityPub" standard. There are federated equivalents for "X" (Mastodon), Facebook (Friendica), Instagram (Pixelfed), YouTube (PeerTube), and others, an...| rldane.space
My family wasn't poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught "it's a poor craftsman that blames th...| fasterthanli.me