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also still looking to gain that single sponsor for this week. 😇

if you're on the fence (because GitHub/card) I also have the option to use Stripe which supports virtually every (local) payment method:

https://planetpeanut.studio/sponsors

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Emmanuele Bassi 2d ago

Bart Piotrowski 2d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/116356213007545397

No one (literally no one) is actually shitting any money into Flatpak but it's a fun read.

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Emmanuele Bassi 3d ago

Today:

- Houston, Integrity: we have this red icon with a white cross on the GoPro, please advise
- Integrity, Houston: try turning it off and on again

Astronauts are like me fr fr

Emmanuele Bassi 5d ago

Sergey Bugaev 5d ago

I started a thread on the GNOME forum about the state of #vala maintenance. I don't have the answers, but let's discuss & figure out as a community what we can do to make sure that Vala is sustainable and can keep moving forward

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/lets-move-vala-forward/34595

Let's move Vala forward

We in the Vala community love the language, but we are concerned about the lack of progress, and in particular our inability to get changes (fixes) into Vala. I’m not going to surprise anybody by saying that Vala is not seen as being very actively developed. This is most famously expressed in Emmanuele’s post from 2017, which links to a mailing list thread, which back in 2016 was raising much of the same issues I want to raise with this post here, a decade later. You might argue that as a prog...

GNOME Discourse

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Emmanuele Bassi 6d ago

I'm sad I missed the "can you remotely log into our tablets, and figure out why I have two copies of Outlook running at the same time" bit; I'm also glad I missed it, because I would have literally died on the spot

Emmanuele Bassi 6d ago

I'm leaving the Artemis 2 comms channel in the background while I work, like the nerdiest coffee shop chatter, and I caught the most beautiful exchange regarding the fact that the mic packs have minimal front/back differences, and capcom was making it clear that the astronauts have to talk into the black nub at one end, because that is the microphone

Emmanuele Bassi 6d ago

stuart reeves 6d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324988415693534

the Claude Code leak demonstrates that we are actually living in the Warhammer 40k universe and that software developers are Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests praying to the Machine God

Emmanuele Bassi Apr 1

Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼Apr 1

Here is a "podcast" between me and Matthias Clasen (GTK maintainer) on the release of GNOME 50. I hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/yCaEiiS5yuY?si=wBr-DQcYSmLvEpA_

Feedback welcome - especially if you would like me to do more of this.

#GNOME #opensource

Matthias Clasen(GTK Maintainer) and Sri GNOME 50 release

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Emmanuele Bassi Apr 1

Yes, I do have an alert on who takes my name in vain on the Internet… I take the second commandment very seriously, of course

Emmanuele Bassi Apr 1

"Why am I getting notifications on my name from slop news websites?"

Oh, there's a new Ubuntu LTS coming out, and folks found out that the unmaintained Google Drive integration that has been on the chopping block for four years has finally been turned off downstream as well, and I was the poor soul that said it last on Discourse.

Just another normal day in GNOME land.

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