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πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ lesbian hacker in Berlin!

heavily involved in #LinuxMobile and @postmarketOS. Don't dm me for support, ping me in a public matrix channel.

I maintain U-Boot for Qualcomm devices and do other cool embedded stuff @ Linaro

"you are never beating the down bad allegations" ~ @isa

This account is mostly for technical topics, my personal account is @casey

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@cas @ncopa @Foxboron @AdrianVovk FWIW regarding funding. There are 3000€ on this year's budget for systemd upstreaming that I expect we're able to execute. I also expect it to grow for the next years too, since that's little money, just to get started :)
@VulpineAmethyst @DoomHammerNG i am reasonably convinced that there is a path here to a happy ending to this story. gina has brought in leadership who i *can* trust.
For what it's worth, while we have committed to defederating Fosstodon at the end of the month should there be no meaningful change to the status quo, we are also still trying to find an alternative solution.
Sometimes it is useful to parameterize what comes before however, i.e. systemd-boot and systemd-stub. Since systemd v254 you could already configure the kernel command line via SMBIOS Type #11 vendor strings: that's what io.systemd.stub.kernel-cmdline-extra= and io.systemd.boot.kernel-cmdline-extra= are for. With v258 we are adding one more SMBIOS Type #11 vendor string: io.systemd.boot-entries.extra. It can carry one or more Boot Loader Spec Type #1 definitions of additional boot menu entries.

Such menu items are added to the boot menu, exactly as if they were placed in the ESP next to systemd-boot itself.

What's this good for? So that in VM environments the VMM can insert additional recovery or diagnostic boot menu items, that are then combined with those items already on the disk.

This is in particular useful when thinking about network booting: a boot menu entry defined that way could use the uki-url stanza to reference a UKI on some network server.

the pixel 4 is such a lil guy (gender neutral) i love him (gender neutral)
Idiots complaining about X11 are one step away from a greek statue pfp and posts akin to "This is what they stole from you"

@cas if you warm up an aquarium you get a (bad) fish soup. But if you cool down a fish soup you don't get an aquarium. You get cold fish soup.

"You cannot unpiss yourself" is so much concise.

GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make

The Register:

> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.

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GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make

The Register:

> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.

@alatiera You guys are doing good work! Sad that the small but loud bunch of detractors get any attention... and damn what a sloppy article.
@alatiera Just keep doing your best work, and don’t read that trash website!
@pwithnall It wasn't even me that has done most of the work for any of this, but I am fucking pissed when they claim exactly the opposite of what's happening.
@alatiera Don’t waste energy on being pissed! The articles they produce aren’t worth your time. Maybe spend that energy on writing a blog post showing exactly how good the accessibility is now on a Wayland GNOME session. Put the positive information out there so people can refer to it.
@alatiera *sigh*
@alatiera at least they could have gotten the fact straight πŸ™ƒ but it appears even that is too much to ask for...

@karolherbst Having "The Reg FOSS desk witnessed some remarkable levels of anti-X11 sentiment from Wayland proponents since the announcement"

I will there for discard you opinion you x11 hater!

@alatiera I take more offense in implying a person like that would be maintainer πŸ™ƒ or well.. lying about it even.

@karolherbst A Fascist makes a video and every homunculus trips over themselves while rushing to cover the "breaking news"

And the same guys will tell you all about meritocracy and all that, despite the whole thing having no technical substance at all.

These guys can't even avoid being duped by a neonazi clown on youtube but get to dictate the public discourse. Fuck this shit

@alatiera somebody forgot to put Liam to bed, and now he’s out on the lawn yelling at the clouds again
@alatiera DO YOU CONDEMN HGGGGGGGGHAAAMMMAA I MEAN WAAAAAYGGGGGLANNDDDD?
@alatiera The fork is just one mad guy, and it's great Gnome does the accessibility work - BUT please keep an eye on some of the reasons! People are still feeling their losing functionality that's slowly coming back in Wayland - and that's many years after Wayland was declared to be ready. See KiCAD's recent post about their problems with Wayland as one example.

@penguin42

@alatiera: didn't you ask for feedback on the move to Wayland only? Maybe get in contact with the people of KiCad?

@alatiera YouTubers and bloggers are equally guilty in playing a big role in this. They give all sorts of publicity to projects that are not remotely worth anyone's time, especially if metux got run over by a bus, nobody will replace him. Too many of them have been brainwashed that Linux is about choice and don't want Wayland to be that one choice when the reality is too many things on Linux are just that one project in Nebraska holding the world up.

Last word of request: call out Liam Proven (the author) because he writes all kinds of Linux loser pandering articles. I wonder if he's influenced by them.

@alatiera millennials and gen z killing the year of the linux desktop industry