For those of us receiving email in multiple languages, it would be awesome to have #Firefox Translate built in to Thunderbird. No sending your sensitive conversations to a corporate cloud, just a lean translation service running locally.
We've decided to make it a development priority for Q1 2024!
You'll be able to track the progress via this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1823007
But as always, we'll also keep you posted right here.
So close! The new video aggregator app from Louis Rossmann seems really nice… and then they make it source available, i.e., proprietary 🤦️ Maybe they still change their mind as the objections are better answered by trademark than copyright law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DePDzfyWkw
We’re excited to welcome Holly Million as Executive Director of the #GNOME Foundation! 🎉
Holly comes to us with valuable experience in nonprofit management and has served as executive director and board member for numerous organizations. https://foundation.gnome.org/2023/10/17/foundation-welcomes-new-executive-director/
We're excited to announce the release of GNOME 45! 🎉
This release brings many exciting updates thanks to the hard work of contributors all over the world! https://youtu.be/47aZgF6xmS0
You can learn more about what this release includes in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/45/
I think this is a new personal best for fps gain vs diffstat.. one line for >100x speedup in CS:GO
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/25298
GNOME 45 was released yesterday, and the release notes are BIG! Check them out: https://release.gnome.org/45/
The Software Longevity Team at Fairphone (which I'm part of 😀) is excited to announce that today, following the Fairphone 5 launch, we are also releasing the source code for its Android 13 operating system.
You can find instructions for browsing, viewing and downloading the source code on code.fairphone.com. The source tree contains all Android and Linux kernel sources that we can publish, excluding some proprietary components.
For more details see: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-5-source-code-release/99616
Work going on to restore the Libera Chat bridge, a neat new client, and the latest information from the matrix community summit… that and more happened this week in Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2023/09/01/this-week-in-matrix-2023-09-01/
Dear #GNOME community
If you are a German resident with an innovative idea; there is 1 month left to apply for the next round of @PrototypeFund for up to 47 500 €
Get in touch/DM if you need help with the application.
PrototypeFund previously funded @tbernard and @verdre work on GNOME Shell mobile #LinuxMobile #mobileLinux
First successful DB Komfort Check-In from within #KDE Itinerary :)
(Prototype code, not even in the nightly builds yet)
The activities indicator has landed 🚀
Thanks to @verdre for the prototype extension, Georges for implementing it in a clean way, and @fmuellner for timely reviews!
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2902
Jede Woche eine neue Dreistigkeit: Elon Musk's Twitter throttles links to Threads, Blue Sky and New York Times - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
Im Rahmen eines Projektes zur Codeanalyse von Open Source Software haben wir Videokonferenzsysteme und eID-Templates auf deren Sicherheitseigenschaften hin untersucht. 🔍
Aufgabe des Projekts ist die Schwachstellenanalyse mit dem Ziel, die Sicherheit von #OpenSource Software zu erhöhen. Das Projekt soll Entwicklerinnen und Entwickler bei der Erstellung sicherer Softwareanwendungen unterstützen und das Vertrauen in Open Source Software steigern. 🛡