TheEvilSkeleton

@TheEvilSkeleton@fosstodon.org

https://fosstodon.org/@FlatpakApps contributor, https://mastodon.online/@usebottles developer, @gnome Foundation and Fedora Project member. https://fosstodon.org/@vanillaos developer.

I write articles for educational purposes.

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bragefuglseth, to random
@bragefuglseth@fosstodon.org avatar

It’s not your experience with Wayland that is terrible when using Nvidia. It’s your experience with Nvidia that is terrible when using Wayland. They are neglecting Wayland and Linux as a whole.

TheEvilSkeleton,

@bragefuglseth you know, I feel the same with apps. When apps don't run well on Wayland, chances are the app is at fault and not Wayland

Looks at Discord

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

Is there a project that lists app ideas for Linux? I'm considering starting one if there isn't an existing project

TheEvilSkeleton, to ai

is now part of GNOME World! Later today, it'll be primarily developed on GNOME World and the source code on gitlab.com will be archived.

Next up, GNOME Circle :)

Updated link: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Upscaler
Upscaler download link: https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.theevilskeleton.Upscaler

TheEvilSkeleton,

@moffintosh no, it's a Real-ESRGAN ncnn Vulkan interface https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

@XOrgFoundation hey, I have a question for you: is there a reason why developers haven't come together to create a compositor strictly for the Linux desktop (and then a separate one for server, IoT, etc.)? Currently, we're looking at Mutter for GNOME, kwin for Plasma, and other compositors for each desktop. I feel like it causes fragmentation; some desktops have features that others don't have, for example Mutter doesn't support VRR, but kwin does.

sonny, to linux
@sonny@floss.social avatar

Teaser

TheEvilSkeleton,

@sonny can't wait! This will hopefully help my next articles :)

TheEvilSkeleton, to linux

New article: "Overview of Flatpak's Permission Models"

https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023/05/11/overview-of-flatpaks-permission-models.html

Huge thanks to @orowith2os for proofreading the article :)

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

You know you're an open source dev when you're regularly accused of being a terrorist, authoritarian, dictator, or the likes

Context: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles/issues/2890

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

"People these days don't want to work anymore because they're too lazy"

Job postings: 10 years of experience in XYZ field; 5 or more years of experience professionally; Bachelor's degree; 2 more degrees because yes; 2 years of experience in these obscure platforms; experience in 5 programming languages

Or: customer service, where you'll be treated like trash by everyone, while being underpaid

Yeah sure, totally because we're lazy and not because we don't have the opportunity /s

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

Super cool that developers are basing their projects' interface on ! In case you're unaware, Upscaler allows you to upscale images. https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.theevilskeleton.Upscaler

There's an Upscaler fork named , that allows you to convert and manipulate images. https://flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.adhami3310.Converter

Recently published allows you to generate pictures using with , , and others. https://flathub.org/apps/page.codeberg.Imaginer.Imaginer

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

Shout out to nano devs for protecting user freedom: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2023-04/msg00003.html

TL;DR: an Apple dev (not on the behalf of Apple) asked nano to relicense the code to a permissive license to pre-install it in macOS. The nano devs politely refused and stated that they'll stick with GPL

I'm a strong supporter of protecting user freedom and openness, as I'm no fan closed-source software. Permissive licenses often enable entities to use these software to exploit users and it disgusts me.

Huge GPL W

TheEvilSkeleton,

@voltrina no, they use pico instead. macOS used to ship bash, but swapped it with zsh, because zsh is under MIT and bash is under GPLv3

TheEvilSkeleton,

If you couldn't tell, I dislike permissive licenses. I would prefer to use weak copyleft licenses over them.

This also worries me when I hear about Rust rewrites. I'm a huge supporter of rewriting programs in Rust for increased security, but these rewrites are often licensed under some permissive license. GNU coreutils is under the GPLv3, but uutils coreutils (Rust rewrite) under MIT. Nothing fundamentally wrong with the project, though, to be clear

TheEvilSkeleton,

@pedramardakani I can't give a definite answer on intentionality, as I've never worked directly on any of those projects.

Anyway, that article was worth reading. This is my favorite sentence:

> But we are not excluding them from our community; they are choosing not to enter.

It's an interesting and unique perspective, and I agree. I used to see it in a way that we exclude them, but this changed my opinion on it. Thanks for sharing!

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

Live Captions, a + app that provides live captioning for the Linux desktop, was featured in Louis Rossmann's channel :)

App link: https://flathub.org/apps/net.sapples.LiveCaptions

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r09Hm2zd2lY

openandroidinstaller, to linux
@openandroidinstaller@fosstodon.org avatar

Hey everyone! We are looking for some help packaging as a to make it more accessible for people. Any or flatpak experts out there willing to lend a hand?

TheEvilSkeleton,

@openandroidinstaller: @orowith2os and I can help.

We both have a background on Flatpak and we maintain a few of them, see our GitHub profiles:

ebassi, to random
@ebassi@mastodon.social avatar

How to ensure I'm never going to contribute to your project and I'll endeavour with all my strength to rip it out of every project I maintain, in one easy step:

"Please first see the manual on how to report bugs. The proper address for bug reports is mailing-list at project.org"

TheEvilSkeleton,

@ebassi that or "report to Bugzilla or IRC"

TheEvilSkeleton, to random

but with + anyone? :)

Huge thanks to @maximiliano for the work!

Work in progress merge request: https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/pull/515

TheEvilSkeleton,

@maximiliano 2.0 with + port :)

https://github.com/tchx84/Flatseal/commit/49d2a550b5f21ca8dee64879f92c4f32a569d320

TheEvilSkeleton, to trans

It's such a shame when cool projects are maintained by bigots.

I wanted to give Hyprland a try, since I love the (technical) direction it's going. Sadly, the maintainers are transphobic and will treat you like garbage if you are a trans person. @orowith2os, a great friend of mine, shared some screenshots about the bigotry on the Discord server that made me reconsider my decision.

A screenshot of a Discord user profile Oro's username (display name) was deliberately changed and locked into "Oro (who/cares)" by one of the Hyprland Discord admins/moderators. Roles are "no" (which is meant to lock the username), "Active", and "human (probably)" which is a generic role for users in the Discord server.
vaxry, the lead developer of the Hyprland project, admitting that the Discord server is a transphobic server. Screenshot of two Discord messages: polski: "this server is a 16yo transphobe echo chamber" vaxry: "EXACTLY"

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