Mastodawn

artificial stupidintelligence and airport sinks:

https://www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-01-13-artificial-stupidintelligence-and-airport-sinks/

Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks

I’m already a big fan of Boring Technology, but that term normally applies (and, within McKinley’s 2015 essay, certainly applies) only to tools for software development and not to apps and services. I want to use that term everywhere. The same principles — that a tool need not be new, flashy, shiny, complicated, intricate, or the absolute perfect fit — apply everywhere. Liquid Glass is dragging my iPhone 11 SE into a deep dark pit of performance collapse, despite the fact it’s every bit the useful little pocket computer it was back in 2020.

Steven Deobald

Andy Holmes Jan 14

This is great! I love seeing little purposeful applications like this.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.leolost2605.emergency-alerts

#gnome #foss #opensource

Install Emergency Alerts on Linux | Flathub

Receive emergency alerts

Andy Holmes Dec 29

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅Dec 29

A new release of my GitHub (and now Codeberg/Forgejo) backup tool, Octarchive, is out! It used to already have somewhat workable support from Gitea, but now Codeberg/Forgejo are properly supported out of the box, with a little guide for each!

https://github.com/pojntfx/octarchive

Andy Holmes Dec 23

Open Local First Dec 23

@adz and @tbernard will be talking about @modal , Reflection and @p2panda : Towards a Local-First Linux Desktop, at
@fosdem '26 #LocalFirst & #CRDTs devroom!

They'll introduce you to Modal, a collective focused on bringing local-first principles to Linux Desktop and Mobile. He'll also showcase Reflection, the GTK-based text editor, and p2panda, the underlying peer-to-peer stack.

Come listen to them and the 26 speakers on 1st Feb, from 9:00.

It is free! more details:
https://openlocalfirst.org/schedules/#8-p2panda-modal-reflection

Andy Holmes Dec 23

Angelo Verlain Dec 23

reminder: you can donate to me!

1: https://github.com/sponsors/vixalien/
2: https://buymeacoffee.com/vixalien

Sponsor @vixalien on GitHub Sponsors

Hi. I'm Angelo, a student web and GTK developer from Kigali, Rwanda

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Andy Holmes Dec 22

It's kind of cute how the opensource community has effected a cultural rendition of Nicky Nicky Nine Doors.

Tagging this as #GNOME because I don't want to talk about #GNOME with anyone that disagrees with me.

Andy Holmes Dec 21

GNOME Dec 21

Thanks to our contributors, #GNOME is translated in multiple languages which provides access to our users. Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, English(BrE), Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (CHN), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian (LAT), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian are over 90% translated.
#FriendsOfGNOME

Andy Holmes Dec 20

Steven Deobald Dec 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@haeckerfelix/115748216897343664

congrats, @ignapk and @revisto !

and...wow... that's a big foundation update. highlights:

* gnome.asia
* audit prep
* advisory board will meet @ fosdem ... some of the ad board have reached out to me and i hope it's a good chance for them to meet and catch up
* annual reports draft are happening — not sure if my original draft will be used or not 🤷‍♀️
* deepa has joined as a director! this is great news
* flathub perf issues resolved courtesy bart
* donate.gnome.org is open source now ❤️

congrats to everyone who's worked to make all this happen. the #gnome foundation continues to improve. if you're a member, maybe start thinking about the possibility of running for election in the spring?

Andy Holmes Dec 16

Tobias Bernard Dec 11

I always find it odd when people talking about high level policy stuff like EuroStack completely ignore end-user devices - Like, if you have fully sovereign EU AI cloud apps, where are you going to access them from? Your iPhone?

https://ecfr.eu/publication/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-escape-american-technology

Get over your X: A European plan to escape American technology – European Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign technology companies cannot be entrusted with meeting Europe’s growing digital needs. This includes American big tech firms. Here’s what Europeans shoul

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Andy Holmes Dec 16

Revisto Dec 16

Had my first contribution to the gnome-shell project, it was a fun process :D

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/4001

status/volume: Use default color for muted microphone indicator (!4001) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

The muted indicator status is currently hard to distinguish from the unmuted one. As there is no privacy concern when muted, don't apply the privacy-indicator styling in that...

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