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As part of the GNOME @sovtechfund project we've been working on improving notifications in GNOME (and the wider free desktop)

In this blog post @jsparber gives an update on the current state, what's already landed in 46, and what's coming in the near future!

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/04/23/notifications-46-and-beyond

GNOME Plans for A New File Chooser Dialog
https://debugpointnews.com/gnome-file-chooser-new/

I'm excited to announce Openreads 2.7.0

In the newest version:
- You can get book covers from web search
- We have option to choose #accessibility fonts in the app
- Three new languages: #korean #punjabi and #galician

Download from #github #appstore #googleplay and #fdroid

: https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads
Big thanks to contributors!

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#142 Portalled Nautilus
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/04/twig-142/

PipeWire 1.0.4 is out now! This is a quite exciting bugfix release. More info here:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/releases/1.0.4

OBS Studio 30.1 Released with AV1 Support for VA-API, #PipeWire Camera Source, and Much More https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-30-1-released-with-av1-support-for-va-api-pipewire-camera-source

@pipewire #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Wim (@wtaymans) got the Firewire device yesterday and is now working on making PipeWire work with the FFADO drivers. He got it working on his own system now, but with a latency of 5.3ms but he is now working on getting to the 4.7ms that JACK currently got. #pipewire #linux #fedora

“I’m a Google Cloud software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide [and] apartheid”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-protest-israel/

Watch the others in the room. The assholes who jeer and manhandle the protestors. These are your peers in the tech industry. These are the “acceptable folks” in tech. Fuck these people.

Look at their faces. They know exactly what they’re complict in. Look at their smug smiles. Dickheads each one.

People are excited about @system76's new, homegrown COSMIC desktop environment. So are members of the Fedora community!

@ryanabx has been working hard to explore this option. However, bringing a spin to life is not an easy task.

If you want to see a Fedora COSMIC spin, pleasing consider contributing! More details below.

Help with contributions: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/help-wanted-for-fedora-cosmic/106769
Get up to speed on the effort (thanks @BrodieOnLinux!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZOxZs3wD6w

Reading my poems of Peace & Hope for #Gaza invited by the #unitednations SRC Society of Writers to participate in the 3rd annual World #Poetry Day 24-hour marathon:

https://youtu.be/Rj-co0STwQ0?si=h421QuRWVxUkMa8H

Chapter 5 of Heavens Official Blessings....y'all I am falling asleep
I think the book is too "young" for me. Doesn't help that the translation is woeful with the characters speaking in American slang
Also, maybe cos BL doesn't appeal to me too.
I will read until the end of the ghost bride arc but if it still doesn't capture my attention I will say 再见.
Will be #Reading Strange Tales of the Chinese Studio instead. More my jam.

Happy Friday Fediverse family! In case you missed it:
We're working on Exchange support
Thunderbird Sync is almost ready for testing
As we did with Flatpak, we're taking ownership of the Linux Snap package.

Read the monthly update from Alex, Thunderbird’s Director of Product Engineering:
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2024/

Flathub is about to be a whole lot more colorful - but we need your help!

Thanks to the recent port to libappstream Flathub now supports the AppStream brand colors, which we'll need for curated banners on the homepage.

If you maintain an app on Flathub, add brand colors to your app's MetaInfo file today ️️

Blog post: https://docs.flathub.org/blog/introducing-app-brand-colors

Documentation: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/metainfo-guidelines/quality-guidelines/#brand-colors

The thumbnail continues to evolve.

For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2!

Unlike the vendor’s drivers, our open source Linux drivers are conformant to the latest OpenGL versions, finally promising broad compatibility with modern OpenGL workloads, like Blender, Ryujinx, and Citra.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/conformant-gl46-on-the-m1.html

Hopefully this silly joke doesn't offend anyone @thelinuxcast
@BrodieOnLinux

Really happy to see first beta release of @OBSProject featuring PipeWire camera support. Along with the recent Firefox support for PipeWire camera this is a big step forward.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-30.1-Beta
#linux #pipewire #fedora #obsstudio #libcamera

Some of you said there's no way I book ThePrimeagen but look who it is #Linux #OpenSource #Programming

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92d2hAwpzCk

Audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-over-tea/episodes/Vim-Is-The-Only-REAL-CODE-EDITOR--ThePrimeagen-e2eur2e

Look what I merged just now on @GIMP main development branch.

For people who don't get what this screencast is, it means non-destructive editing will be in GIMP 3.0!