I’m trying to wrap my head around the fact that 10-15 years ago Linux was the OS with the worst UX, now it’s the one with the best UX.

Because it’s made by volunteers who only care about the result and their users, but Microsoft and Apple mostly care only about themselves.

Lots of fun stuff at Boiling The Ocean 10 today, including

- Fairphone 5 audio hacking
- Reflection newcomer session
- Fixed document sorting by editing date in Reflection
- Fixed multi-window zooming bug in Reflection
- Reflection on macOS
- GNOME Maps UX
- Bazaar app version pinning UX
- GNOME 50 celebration
- Talk: "Readability, Legibility, Usability" by @frankrausch
- and more!

#gnome #linuxmobile #postmarketos #gtk #localfirst #berlin

A privacy notice is not consent. Reading a multi-page document written by corporate lawyers just to find out how you're being tracked isn't "agreeing" to anything. It is a digital ransom note.

True consent is:

Granular: I choose exactly what you see.

Revocable: I can take it back at any time.

Opt-in: Off by default, always.

Stop confusing notifying us with asking us.

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #TechEthics #TerminalTilt

So, are we putting together openstreetmap group excursions this summer or what.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apple-confirms-that-its-maps-app-will-begin-showing-ads-to-users-this-summer/

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.