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As someone trying to keep fellow FLOSS maintainers from burning out, I believe I speak for many Free & Open-Source software folks out there when I say that this scene from John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) reflects the current vibe towards non-trivial inbound merge requests from people we don't already know…

#MaintainerLife #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GenAI #LLM #AI #Copilot #Claude #ChatGPT #AIslop #DeadInternet #capitalism #enshittification #TheThing

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As someone trying to keep fellow FLOSS maintainers from burning out, I believe I speak for many Free & Open-Source software folks out there when I say that this scene from John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) reflects the current vibe towards non-trivial inbound merge requests from people we don't already know…

#MaintainerLife #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GenAI #LLM #AI #Copilot #Claude #ChatGPT #AIslop #DeadInternet #capitalism #enshittification #TheThing

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The movie protagonist is sitting at dimly lit desk with a nearly empty glass of hard liquor, visibly exhausted and with an expression of despair and exasperation on his face.
The protagonist speaks into a dictaphone's microphone, saying: "Nobody trusts anybody now. And we're all very tired."

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FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.

Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c alendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar

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FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.

Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c alendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar

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Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"

Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!"

Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a #Linux middleware & #softwarepatents problem."

Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"

Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."

Them: "DO NOT WANT"

Source: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126 15135771775130

#opensource #freedesktop #softwarefreedom

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Me: "Obi Wan never told you why #GNOMEShell still uses the VP8 #codec to record screencasts, instead of newer codecs…"

Them: "He told me enough! He told me #GNOME hates its users!"

Me: "No. It's mostly a temporary performance tradeoff around a #Linux middleware & #softwarepatents problem."

Them: "No… No… It's not true… That's impossible!"

Me: "Search the commits log. You KNOW it to be true."

Them: "DO NOT WANT"

Source: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126 15135771775130

#opensource #freedesktop #softwarefreedom

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Photo of Luke Skywalker, hanging atop the abyss, screaming "Nooooooooooo!" as Darth Vader tries to plead with him.

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Honored to have been promoted to the prestigious rank of Lead GNOME Dev™, thanks to the warm endorsement received in https://octodon.social/@dgold/11262138 8637875424

Finally, my decades of #opensource contributions are being recognized in equal measure to my role as CEO or senior partner of various businesses & non-profits ☺️

I must clarify, however, that I never stated my personal workflow as the limiting factor in changing to more modern #codecs for #GNOMEShell's video recorder: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126 15076552383375

#GNOME #FLOSS

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Honored to have been promoted to the prestigious rank of Lead GNOME Dev™, thanks to the warm endorsement received in https://octodon.social/@dgold/11262138 8637875424

Finally, my decades of #opensource contributions are being recognized in equal measure to my role as CEO or senior partner of various businesses & non-profits ☺️

I must clarify, however, that I never stated my personal workflow as the limiting factor in changing to more modern #codecs for #GNOMEShell's video recorder: https://mastodon.social/@nekohayo/1126 15076552383375

#GNOME #FLOSS

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A post by a person whose display name is "just read the instructions", in reply to Aral Balkan's new rant against GNOME, replying with this claim:

"I adore that later in the thread, one of the lead gnome Devs chimes in with a think piece about how the status quo suits him, and his workflow, therefore any change is obviously bad. Fairly typical of the culture over there."

While I gladly accept the glamorous title of "Lead GNOME Dev", and I did say that the current situation was sufficient for my usecases, I have never said that "therefore any change is obviously bad" or anything along those lines.

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STOP DOING #MATH #anime
• TRIANGLES were not supposed to be given #animation
• YEARS of #trigonometry yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going sharper than a CIRCLE
• Wanted to remove all edginess for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called #moe
• "Yes please give me A Cruel Angle's Thesis. Please give me an OP version of it"—Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello I would like 📐️ anime please"

They have played us for absolute fools
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=qIZL5qeEKj0

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STOP DOING #MATH #anime
• TRIANGLES were not supposed to be given #animation
• YEARS of #trigonometry yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going sharper than a CIRCLE
• Wanted to remove all edginess for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called #moe
• "Yes please give me A Cruel Angle's Thesis. Please give me an OP version of it"—Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello I would like 📐️ anime please"

They have played us for absolute fools
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=qIZL5qeEKj0