Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

There is a lot of alarmist stuff going around about .io ccTLD being "retired", fedi instances that use it having to move, etc. 👀

Keep calm. Here's the one thing you need to know about this right now:

👉 Even if .io ever gets "retired", it will take *years* for this to affect already delegated .io domains in any way at all.

I cannot stress this enough, we are talking years if not decades.

Soviet Union dissolved 33 years ago, but .su domains still resolve.

Deep breaths.Carry on.

#Fediverse

In a move that absolutely no one asked for:
I am porting the Windows Vista/7 desktop Gadgets to Wayland with some GTK sorcery.

These widgets are actually zip files with web resources plus some metadata.
I got the Machine CPU and RAM stats working, along with some of Microsoft's weird JS API's.

A feature that has been in development for some time is finally here—Multiple Render Targets. This paves the way for necessary emulation work for GL_RGBA32F to enable GLES 3.0 support.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/26565

#etnaviv #mesa

We are happy to let you know that 49 fantastic free and open source projects will receive NGI0 Core grants.

It's a wide variety of projects covering all 10 layers of the technology stack, from open hardware to applications.

But what unites them is they all contribute to alternatives and improvements to core internet architecture.

Together they are working on an open, resilient and trustworthy internet for all.

Come over and meet the projects! https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241003-announcing-Core-call.html

#NGI0 #NGI #FOSS

At @phosh, we are working on making the quick-settings panel more responsive and snappy.

This new layout lets you access the preferences (i.e. status pages) quickly and in a responsive manner.

Feel free to join the merge request discussion (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1498) and test this new feature, so we can land it soon!

#phosh #linux #linuxmobile #mobile #wayland

If you're attending All Systems Go in Berlin, come see the talk by @cas and I today at 10:50am (local time) about #systemd-ifying #postmarketos 😁

https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/all-systems-go-2024/talk/LJXCKK/

#allsystemsgo

For anyone doubting that autism self-diagnosis is valid, look at this graph.

Note how well the diagnosed and undiagnosed-but-assumed autistic people overlap, compared to the near mirror image from non-autistic people.

OMG. DirectX is adopting SPIR-V, and will eventually use it to replace DXIL! 🤯 (Yes, I triple checked. Today isn't April Fools.)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/

It's the small things: If you've been bothered with #calls and #chatty seemingly starting up slowly in #phosh (while most other apps startup fast): I've posted MRs to fix this in chatty and calls (which then also prompted a small fix in phosh). Here's a quick demo of calls before and after the change:

Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

The acceptable number of people getting SARS at any given event should be zero. Not ten. Not one hundred. Zero.

SARS-CoV-2 causes chronic disease in 10-30% of infections. That means for every 10 people who are infected, for 1-3 of them that will be a life-altering experience. Some will eventually recover. Others may not.

As reports of people getting infected with SARS at RustConf roll in, it’s hard not to think of those whose life will inevitably change because of this.

I released #GNOME #Calls 47.0 yesterday 🚀 \o/

This is the first release running #gtk4 and #libadwaita

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed code, translations and bug reports!

Find the release notes at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/releases/v47.0

And of course, it has already been uploaded to 🎉

#LinuxMobile #phosh #Debian #Mobian #Librem5

Quite some years ago, we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Rwanda [1]. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED. It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/3

[1] https://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Rwanda