Louis Salkeld

@salkeld
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Developer of software

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Websitehttps://salkeld.co
GitHubhttps://github.com/lsalkeld
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/salkeld

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.

Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.

Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.

No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

“It’s the most visible rejection of care in software: People proudly saying how much the software they work on is “vibe coded” or “written by Claude””

“It’s like a chef loudly stating that they didn’t even taste the menu they now want you to pay 200 EUR for.”

https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

Artisanal care

When we moved into our apartment we hired a contractor to build bespoke cupboards for a few niches that we wanted to use optimally. He built perfectly fitting, nice cupboards that make those areas look nice and clean while allowing us to store all kinds of stuff. And he took great care doing it. Even after the job had started he kept explaining us why certain decisions we thought were smart might have been not so smart and offered solutions - often without charging extra. He wanted to build […]

https://tante.cc/2026/03/04/artisanal-care/

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

Global Blog
We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Well, well, well. 😑

#linux #epsteinfiles

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@vkc a point in favour of the association between the sparkle emoji and generative AI: gnome's new icon set contains a sparkle icon called ai-slop, which is also tagged with generative and bullshit

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important