Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

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Free & #OpenSource contributor (#Linux + #GNOME + #GStreamer) since 2004. Now co-maintaining the most magical desktop productivity apps combo (@GettingThingsGNOME & GNOME Calendar) as their benevolent lean engineering manager + occasional User Interaction & UX designer.

Waging war on mediocrity & unsustainability in business.
Founder of @ideemarque + @atypica, and Managing Partner at @regento.

Ex-Collabora, ex-psy, ex-Shinra.
I don't roleplay but I wear a cloak. ❄️
#fedi22

Personal websitehttps://fortintam.com
Company websitehttps://idmark.ca
Languages🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🐍 (#Python)
Geographic natural habitat#Montréal (#Montreal) #Québec #Canada
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 21

RE: https://mastodon.social/@regento/116785908809556956

This year, my co-director will be at the event too. I believe she will bring an incredible amount of wisdom and energy. Professionals in attendance would do well to meet her!

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 19
☃️karolherbst☃️Jun 18
Assumptions that programmers make that are wrong: Videos have a constant single resolution over their duration.
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 18
RakhimMar 19

This is a WILD take, but hear me out: Related UI elements should not appear unrelated

https://rakhim.exotext.com/related-ui-elements-should-not-appear-unrelated

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 17

That sample video provided by @slomo in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/showtime/-/work_items/288 is 10/10 high-quality bespoke GStreamer-powered performance trolling of GNOME's entire graphics stack—UI toolkits, window management, compositing, all at once—I love it! 😂

It's like half of @juni's "Shaker" (https://mew.tv/projects/shaker.html) without even needing to invent a new protocol for it!

#Showtime #cats #CatsOfMastodon #DaftPunk #Wayland #GNOME #GStreamer

Window resizing is confusing on clips that change the resolution all the time (#288) · Issues · GNOME / Video Player · GitLab

Try e.g. attached video, which changes the height on every single frame. Looks...

GitLab
Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 17
Cassidy James   Jun 17

If your desktop has a system tray, that *is* the correct place to surface background apps! Nice work, KDE.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/#background-apps-in-the-system-tray

This will help GNOME as well as more apps will be incentivized to use modern cross-desktop APIs that are less prescriptive with exactly *how* things are displayed.

#GNOME #KDE #Linux #Flatpak

Plasma 6.7

Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 17
Pierre-Yves NicolasJun 17

FairScan 2.0 is out!

Scan a paper document and get a PDF where you can search and copy text.

I wrote a blog post about this new OCR feature and the work behind it:
https://fairscan.org/blog/when-a-scan-becomes-a-searchable-pdf/

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 16

Looking at https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/6300638 and https://www.androidcentral.com/how-does-android-save-your-fingerprints, I'm curious what y'all think about modern #Android devices' "Trusted Execution Environment" storing #fingerprints (for authentication, unlocking, etc.) in, allegedly, a TPM-backed secure enclave that the OS doesn't have access to (really?)… For Pixel phones, Google claims biometrics never leave the TEE enclave, never touch servers, etc.

I wouldn't use it to travel… but local? I saw some geek friends using it.

#biometrics #security

It's fine even for travel, just poweroff/Lockdown
40%
It's fine for local use (not travel)
20%
I'm unsure / I don't know
13.3%
Absolutely don't trust the system!
26.7%
Poll ended at .
Understand fingerprint security - Pixel Phone Help

Your fingerprint data is stored securely and never leaves your Pixel device or Nexus phone. Your fingerprint data isn't shared with Google or any apps on your device. Apps are notified only wheth

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 15
brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉Jun 15

Nicolas Vivant répondant à une question sur la résistance des utilisateurs au passage aux #logicielslibres devant la commission parlementaire sur les vulnérabilités dans le secteur du #numérique.
"La résistance est plus du côté du service informatique que du côté des utilisateurs"

C'est tellement vrai ! Certains techniciens vont tout faire pour maintenir le statu quo de peur de se retrouver en difficulté à cause de leur manque de compétence hors des produits #Microsoft. Et ça peut aller jusqu'à désinformer les utilisateurs potentiels du libre et les décideurs.

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 14

A #GNOME / #LinuxMobile app like https://flathub.org/en/apps/me.sanchezrodriguez.passes handling your event tickets & transport boarding passes using the .pkpass format is pretty cool, but I've never actually encountered electronic passes like that, only paper.

I think it would be very cool if the "Passes" app could scan boarding pass barcodes and QR codes from your webcam or a PDF/image file, so I filed a feature request with the prior art I found: https://github.com/pablo-s/passes/issues/88

#pkpass #MobileLinux #transport #IATA

Install Passes on Linux | Flathub

Manage your digital passes

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)Jun 13
GNOMEJun 11

We're happy to announce we have our first fellows — Sophie Herold and Peter Eisenmann!

Thank you to all the donators who helped make this happen🩷 It wouldn't be possible without your financial contributions.

Read the announcement here👉 https://blogs.gnome.org/foundation/2026/06/11/announcing-our-first-fellows/

#GNOME #Fellowship #linux