hey. hey fediverse. let’s play a game.
give me a number from 1 to 1528 and i’ll give you a weird old slang term from that page of “A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English” by Eric Partridge, published 1971, but first compiled much earlier.
boosts encouraged! i’m excited, this book is so entertaining.
Some of my ramblings about using git with email:
The latest GNOME Shell & Mutter article gives us a look at upcoming GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40. Check out the blog for all the details: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
Drew DeVault and Joseph Jacks chat about Open Core at Open Core Summit 2020
https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/67d8bc1b-6de1-4a56-a377-109be2cc15ff
I dunno about you but I feel like "companies should follow the law" should not be a controversial opinion
GTK 4.0 is here! After four years of hard work from our dedicated developers, GTK 4.0 was released today. Some highlights from this release include media playback, drag-and-drop, and scalable lists and grids. Learn more about what's new in GTK 4.0: https://blog.gtk.org/
With latest updates, GNOME Web (Epiphany) can play YouTube videos on the Librem 5, so you won't have to switch to Firefox to do that anymore. And you won't believe where the bug was located[1]! ;) Call `sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-libav` or wait a few days until it's installed by default with the next update and enjoy. @purism
[1] it was in glibc...
Very sad to learn of the end of ZaReason https://zareason.com/ . Still fondly remember a reply the CEO sent me when I asked questions before buying: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2010/03/03/2
apple is censoring the covid-themed display hack from xscreensaver in the ios app store:
I'm a Vietnamese undergrad student and a free software enthusiast.