Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi
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FLOSS project necromancer.

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

"One of the people responsible for the failure of the Linux desktop", according to a random YouTube user.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

Webhttps://www.bassi.io
Twitchhttps://twitch.tv/ebassi
Podcasthttps://www.bassi.io/category/history/podcast.xml
Buy me coffee!https://ko-fi.com/emmanueleb

Rewatching Dan Olson's "The Future is a Dead Mall" after the announcement that Meta is killing off the metaverse. It's been almost three years to the dot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

Even without acquihires…
This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start
Speaking of FOSDEM traditions…
Certain FOSDEM traditions have to be maintained…

Quick, tell me which selection will be pasted if I press the middle button of my mouse.

People either remember the '90s, where applications would only have one selection; or they remember when all they did was selecting text to and from the terminal and didn't have more than two windows. Once applications started retaining their own selected text, it was all over.

Folks, please stop using an application written like the world stopped in 2004
After nearly 15 years, and four house moves, the espresso machine has finally pulled its last shot; this means I had to break out the Old Reliable in order to get my fill of black blood of the Earth in the morning