Notices by Thib (thibaultamartin@mamot.fr)

@killyourfm year ends are increasingly difficult as I age.

I'll be enthusiastic in the summer, I will find things a bit more difficult in fall.

And I will want to spend my whole winter away from computers, next to the fireplace with a warm cocoa and books. Or go outside, have a walk and enjoy the few hours of sunlight I can get.

Winters are cold, dark, and they suck the joy out of us. Working in winter is an ordeal.

I'm sorry Mozilla but no. I love Firefox, but I'm worried about the direction Mozilla is taking.

I've given already and I'll give again to @thunderbird. I fully trust the team to make good use of that money.

Mozilla slashing its advocacy division tells me it doesn't have its heart in the right place.

Do better.

#mozilla #firefox #openweb

And I’m off for the week. No socials, no IM, no YouTube.

It’s time to make the world big again, and myself small.

Time to touch grass.

👋

If that makes you happy, you can afford it, and it (optionally) means we also get to read about Linux power efficiency from you, then by all means please do it!

Your adventures are pretty inspiring @killyourfm, keep the cool pictures and story coming

The general public doesn’t adopt digital technologies. It adopts products.

People don’t use TCP/IP and HTTP. They browse websites on the web with a browser.

They don’t use SMTP and IMAP. They send and receive emails.

One of the toughest challenges of our time is to develop appealing products and open standards simultaneously.

Those are primarily not technical but social and political problems.

"The web doesn't belong just to software engineers. The more we make the web complex, the more we push normal users into the enclosures that we like to call social networks."

https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

I'm an OSS and existential crisis type of person, so writing about the impact of OSS on society is how I relax, but I still feel like a slowpoke doing 😁

You've probably been there already, but as someone who has a lot of overlap between what they love and what they're paid to do I can only recommend to pay close attention to early signs of burnout.

In any case, keep up the good work, it's a joy to follow and read you :)

@killyourfm

Damn @killyourfm, how many words do you write per day?

I already struggle to publish a blog post per month on my free time, and you seem to be an article-dispensing gatling!

Last week I mentioned the open source privilege. It has a big brother: the self-hosting privilege. Escaping surveillance is one valid motive to self-host, but not everyone can do it.

Let’s design tech that solves systemic problems. Let’s include the busy ones, the families, the elders, those who don’t know and those who can’t afford to care.

Let’s take care of society as a whole.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/01/18-escaping-surveillance-capitalism-at-scale/

#opensource #surveillance #privilege

Travelling by sleeper train beats travelling by plane. Hands down.

I’m travelling in a small hotel room with a view. It almost feels as soothing as sleeping in a boat. I got to the train by foot and I’ll arrive in the city centre.

Compare that to a cramped seat in a crowded plane and traffic jam before and after the trip.

Trains are the future of transportation.

How about https://taiga.io/ ?

@killyourfm @Linux4Everyone @nextcloud

Pardon my French, but: Fuck.

KDEnlive is really great! I used it to edit out a lot of “um”, “errr” and “y’know” from the last Matrix Live, and it was very pleasant to use.

After a year and a half of doing very basic editing on iMovie (yup!), @kdenlive is unlocking so many possibilities!

@wraptile @kde

I'm really not impressed to see some accounts with a large follower count rant against open source projects largely built by volunteers.

Dragging volunteers in the mud and making false assumptions about projects and their dynamics is immature and harmful.

Let's all remember that most open source projects suffer from chronic underfunding and understaffing.

Normalise kindness and encouragement. We're all small, trying to build a bigger something.

Amazing to see @nextcloud launching a SaaS offering both for individuals and organisations!

€15/month for 500GB is more than what you will find on Big Tech offerings, but they don't offer the same guarantees.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for making Nextcloud accessible to the masses 🥳

https://www.nextcloud-one.com/

Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

We tried to wreck Element Call but didn’t succeed! We can answer the most dreaded question in IT: it scales!

@killyourfm I don't know if I told you already, but Hurricane Blonde rocks.

Not that you need to do anything productive when you're not online… but this is definitely time well spent

@killyourfm oof, this one hits way too close to home

I can vouch for @sonny as an excellent project manager. He's working closely with @gnome designers and developers.

I'm confident Sonny and the Foundation will make sure it's not a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it certainly is a fantastic one!

@XOrgFoundation @kde