Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

If you followed the latest #FOSDEM news,
you may have already learned that the
FOSS on mobile devices devroom
is back for another round in 2025 🚀

You can view the Call for Proposals here:
https://gitlab.com/fosdem_mobile/devroom/-/blob/main/README.md

It should also show up soon on the mailing list archive:
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2024q4/date.html

We are looking forward to all submissions 🎉
Submit today! 👌
or at least no later than the first of December ⛄

#MobileLinux #Mobile #FOSS #Mobian #postmarketOS #phosh #GNOME #KDE #sxmo #embedded #FOSDEM25

Do I know anyone who works at DuckDuckGo (or anyone who knows someone who does)?

We’ve been seeing a persistent issue with search results in GNOME Web failing due to an issue with the r.duckduckgo.com¹ redirect. As far as we can tell, this is on DuckDuckGo’s side, but we’d love to work with them to better understand what’s going on.

¹https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/rduckduckgocom/

#DuckDuckGo #GNOME

These past few years have been quite dark times for me, financially and mentally. But a new story has been brewing in my head and I finally started designing a new game in the world of "Karambola".

But I can't do it without your support. Now is your chance to help me out, while also getting this shiny new artbook with lots of sketches and design secrets from behind the scenes. And I've just made it 25% OFF.

Thank you <3

https://holypangolin.itch.io/the-art-and-secrets-of-karambola

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172920/The_Art_and_Secrets_of_Karambola/

#gamedev #indiedev #art

Eugenio (@g7) has contributed accent color support to #phosh (we're targeting 0.43.0):

Indie Game Roundup (Oct. 18, 2024) https://virtualmoose.org/2024/10/18/indie-game-roundup-oct-18-2024/

In terms of accessible #UX for neurodiversity, one of the wonders of @Mastodon in my experience is the ability to remember things I saw in my timeline in a consistent order.

The fact I can often rebuild thought processes just by moving through the timeline again is something I missed from real-world environments.

On other platforms, one click will result in a re-randomization of the posts interleaved by viral slop, which keeps bombing the attention span back to zero.

Please keep it this way.

Don't say you've used a Linux phone if you haven't 100%'d Animatch (it only took me like two years)

Read someone claiming that "today's kids are the first native digital generation". As that was said about my generation as well, and I have my own kids now, that was somewhat surprising to me. On second thougt there's a merit to it. They are digital natives, but natives in a colonized space. The digital commons is closed off and hemmed in, the only skills they learn are the ones provided by the digital colonial masters and while they live their lives in the digital spaces, they have no control over it.

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