Aleca

@alecaddd
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Director of Product Engineering @ Mozilla Thunderbird
 https://youtube.com/c/AlessandroCastellani
Websitehttps://alecaddd.com
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As consumers electronic becomes more expensive thanks to fairy tales strategies to add more zeros to someone's paycheck, and the "is this real or AI?" question will be the new norm on the Internet, falling back to local, memory efficient, and offline tools will be the way to safeguard our sanity.
Making these local tools convenient and easy to adopt will be key to their success, because at the end of the day privacy and ethics are widely ignored for the sake of profit, speed, and convenience
Anyone who's smarter than me with meson and github actions, please be my guest at telling me if I'm doing something silly https://github.com/akiraux/Akira/pull/776
Meson clean up by Alecaddd · Pull Request #776 · akiraux/Akira

Use gnome scripts and remove the custom Python post install Add meson minimum version Remove a couple of deprecated utils Replace deprecated meson source_root() and build_root() methods Use the rec...

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@danirabbit This is also sometimes an issue at Thunderbird where publications point directly to our FTP so when we build a bug fixed new version users still end up downloading the old one.
Brilliant
Yo, @elementary 8.1 is wonderful

elementary OS 8.1 is available as a pay-what-you-can purchase at https://elementary.io now! Localized direct downloads and a torrent magnet link are provided.

OS 8.1 will receive additional feature and bug fix updates on a monthly schedule that will be reported on here and on our blog, so stay tuned for even more updates in the future!

Restarting something that shouldn't have been paused, and even if it seems feeble, redundant, or far behind everything else, I think it's still needed and even more so these days
https://github.com/akiraux/Akira/projects?query=is%3Aopen
Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

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This is your city on driverless cars.

A blackout in San Francisco yesterday cut power to traffic lights. Drivers coped; Waymos just stopped moving, often in intersections, stranding passengers and compounding gridlock.

https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/20/waymo-sf-blackout-robotaxi-traffic-jams/

@flod yeah I was super vague, sorry.
Decently sized in terms of community engagement and participation for issues and PRs, with good reviewing and moderation tools.
"Safe" as in avoiding things like "we're now charging you 10 times more for runners" or "we're sponsoring ICE".
I know the second point is mostly impossible to account for in perpetuity
Hey open source folks that have large repositories and contributors on their projects, is GitHub still a safe and viable option?
What alternatives are worth considering?
And are the pipelines available well tuned and compatible to build flatpacks and snaps?
#askfedi #openspurce #github
I have a few projects for this holiday break, most of my time will be spent hanging out with my wife, friends, playing Pokemon, and sleeping a lot, but around that I'll also record a lot of music and try to convert Akira to Gtk4