Notices by X.Org Foundation (xorgfoundation@floss.social)

Help I'm trapped in a Lennart Poettering clickbait factory— I mean, you won't want to miss "Announcing systemd v256"! https://0pointer.net/blog/announcing-systemd-v256.html 🙀

Why doomscroll when you could read "What is shader linking?" by Timur Kristóf? https://timur.hu/blog/2024/shader-linking-intro 🧠

Another post from Peter Hutterer, "goodbye xsetwacom, hello gsetwacom" http://who-t.blogspot.com/2024/06/goodbye-xsetwacom-hello-gsetwacom.html 😲

Help I'm trapped in a Lennart Poettering clickbait factory— I mean, you won't want to miss "A re-introduction to mkosi -- A Tool for Generating OS Images"! https://0pointer.net/blog/a-re-introduction-to-mkosi-a-tool-for-generating-os-images.html 🙀

@emersion's new blog just landed: "Status update, January 2024". https://emersion.fr/blog/2024/status-update-60/ 😎

Read the latest from Mike Blumenkrantz, "WSI Was A Mistake" https://www.supergoodcode.com/wsi-was-a-mistake/ 📚

Unfortunately, what should have been a largely-seamless migration was made impossible due to a flaky network connection between the two datacenters (even though it had been stable for the past 2 months). The plan was thus changed to perform the database upgrade in the current datacenter until the networking issue is addressed.

At the current rate of progress, we are expecting the outage to last for another 12h.

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We are sorry for the inconvenience and the sudden change of plans. Stay tuned for updates!

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As you may have seen, gitlab.freedesktop.org has been offline for maintenance for the past 24h.

This maintenance operation was supposed to last ~4h on Sunday morning, but was extended to expedite a number of much-needed upgrades:

- migration to a new datacenter which would save us ~$20K/year
- updated postgresql, allowing us to upgrade to gitlab 16.x

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:wayland: fight Big Tearing, stop using X :wayland:

@ebassi anime trans girls coming soon to a linux desktop near you :wayland:

@llewelly Or hear me out, we could rename X11 to Natick. It's not too late. I think @krh was really onto something with the whole "name important software after obscure Massachusetts suburbs" idea!

Per the bylaws, does the board need to vote on renaming to be more accurate? Namely,

"The 'Freedesktop.org, Mesa, Wayland, and Linux in a Trench Coat Shilling as X.Org' Foundation

@TauPan formula for fediverse success

1. shitpost.
2. thousands of catgirls follow you.
3. post serious stuff.
4. thousands of catgirls read your serious stuff.
5. automate posting serious stuff so you can concentrate on shitposting.
6. ??
7. ??
8. nonprofit

(No hard feelings however you vote - X11, Wayland, and shrugging are all supported by the X.Org Foundation 😋)

@lanodan

In the algorithm, MUST and MAY are to be interpreted according to RFC 2119.

1. MUST put oneself in an upright position, like sitting or standing.
2. MUST put both elbows down. MUST NOT move the elbows outside their rest positions.
3. MUST raise both hands up away from the body, remaining approximately planar with the chest.
4. MAY tilt hands away from body, as above.
5. MAY tilt head (as above), like a confused puppy
6. MAY raise both shoulders. MUST NOT raise exactly one shoulder.

@lambda @obsidianical X.O :wayland: Org

@lea O :wayland: O

@obsidianical @lea u :wayland: u

@LynnC Haha, thank you! We're a nonprofit "umbrella" for projects building free and open source desktop systems. Our projects (like Mesa, Linux kernel graphics, X11, and Wayland) are key infrastructure for Linux, ChromeOS, and even Android phones!

You can read more about our organization at https://x.org/ and about free and open source software at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

(By the way: Mastodon, Pleroma, etc are all free/open source software, too! So it's a natural fit for us.)