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@deobald Yeah, I'm in this new "co-live" style apartment.

Basically like dorm rooms, big shared kitchen, no living room, heavy on building amenities. According to the pamphlet, this is how Europeans live.

The building community actually is pretty great, though.

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Andy Holmes Jan 14

@deobald I just moved into a *new* new apartment at the end of summer. Highlights:

* I need 4 apps to live here (building app, buzzer app, laundry app, mailroom app).
* I report maintenance requests by chatting with an AI bot.
* I have to fob into my lobby, apartment and bedroom.
* If l lock my keys/phone in, I can't re-enter any door I exit. I could log into another person's phone app to fob in, but the 2fa code goes to my phone number.

In other words, I relate to this post 🙂

Andy Holmes Jan 14

Steven Deobald Jan 14

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.

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Andy Holmes Dec 21

@vixalientoots Haha, fair. Rust does look a lot like a Regex language sometimes.

Andy Holmes Dec 21

GNOME Dec 21

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