Ivan Molodetskikh @YaLTeR@mastodon.technology

@liw It reminds me of the old joke: Debian has three versions, obsolete, boring, and broken :-)

We're excited to announce the launch of GNOME Circle! This new initiative supports apps and libraries that use the GNOME platform. Learn more about how GNOME Circle works in our news article:
https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/11/gnome-circle/

#GNOMECircle #opensource #FOSS

If you’re interested in gtk-rs, I just landed initial support for composite templates in gtk4-rs!

https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/pull/51

If you want to see how to use it, take a look at the example here:

https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs/tree/master/examples/src/bin

Did Matthias's talk during the Linux App Summit make you want to try the GTK4 demo? Jordan explains how you can give it a go in just a few steps.
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2020/11/17/try-gtk-4-now/

#GTK #demo #opensource

@bugaevc I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GN...

Announcing Rust 1.48.0 by The Rust Release Team: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/11/19/Rust-1.48.html #Rust #language

Oh dear.

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2020-November/031604.html

(discussion related to https://developers.googleblog.com/2020/08/guidance-for-our-effort-to-block-less-secure-browser-and-apps.html which is potentially gonna screw up WebKit)

I'm very happy with the progress made on GTK4 Rust bindings lately. I would appreciate if more people gave them a try to report broken/missing stuff. The bindings are available at https://github.com/gtk-rs/gtk4-rs & the docs at https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/gtk4/

Imagine there existed a cooperative dedicated to bringing GNOME forward, and its members worked full time on polishing the ecosystem.

If the designers and engineers announced their projects, and a communication team kept you posted of progress.

Would you throw money at it? And how would you contribute?

🔄 boosts welcome

The EU Council is pushing for encryption backdoors to messenger apps such as WhatsApp and Signal to fight terrorism (German article): https://fm4.orf.at/stories/3008930/

Despite the fact that errors of investigation in Austrian authorities had made the attack possible in the first place and not a lack of digital surveillance powers. Politicians must start to understand that more surveillance will not lead to more security. That's why we fight any attempt for an encryption backdoor: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/

BIG update post: #postmarketOS in 2020-11: Apps, UIs & Devices

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2020/11/06/postmarketOS-in-2020-11-part-1/

#revive #old #android #phones #porting #mainline #linux #pinephone #librem5 #freesoftware #firefox #camera @PINE64 @purism

- I've shot myself in the foot and my foot doesn't work anymore
- Why would you shoot in your foot?
- Have you seen feet, it boggles me that you don't want that, there are other reasons which you cannot comprehend, you're implying i didnt deserve freedom

Okay🤷️

(topic changed to protect the guilty)

Now that there exists way more open hardware, it would be nice if we could come together and agree on a symbol for the super key. As a software platform, it’s not practical to use the company logo of every hardware company

Accidentally loaded Phoronix with ad blocking off

Learn more about how GNOME Shell & Mutter paints pixels to your monitors, and changes we can expect to see with the GNOME 40 development cycle: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/10/29/the-art-of-not-painting-pixels/

#opensource #FOSS #GNOME