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ebassi

@ebassi@mastodon.social

Geek, husband, lover, software developer, Londoner. Not necessarily in that order.

he/him

Proud #GTK and #GNOME dev; member of the GNOME Foundation.

You may remember me for my work at OpenedHand, Intel, Endless, and the GNOME Foundation. Otherwise, you heard about me being a scary person on the Internet.

Opinions are always my own, but if you don't like them that's too bad.

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ebassi, (edited ) to random
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Whose streets? Our streets

ebassi,
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The astroturfing of the fash was absurdly blatant: people with MAGA and Trump hats, a lot of them recording themselves into a phone; bunch of terfs shouting “something something biology”; lots of gammons pretty close to a heart attack or a liver failure by the looks of them

ebassi, to random
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It's almost life affirming knowing that, over 10 years after the fact, you're still living rent-free in the head of someone who hates everything you gave them, for free

ebassi,
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Loath as I am to quote from a dumb show like "Rick & Morty": every breath I take without your permission raises my self-esteem.

ebassi,
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@charadon Who knows…

mattdm, to random
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Well. Thread where I propose moving Change Proposal discussion (and eventually more) is hitting all of the points of self-parody. Just waiting to literally be compared to Hitler at this point....

ebassi,
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@mattdm I have to say I admire the guy trying to bring OpenPGP and email back, and use it as a selling point for mailing lists.

Also: thanks for doing this. As a reader-only of the fedora lists via hyperkitty I think moving to Discourse would be a massive improvement.

ebassi, to random
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Flights booked for Riga, so I guess I'm going to be at GUADEC, this July

ebassi,
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Still undecided whether I'm also going to be presenting a talk; I guess we'll have to wait until the schedule gets published…

ebassi,
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@bittin the GUADEC website lists two preferred accommodations: https://events.gnome.org/event/101/page/170-accommodation-options

super_user_do, to linux Italian
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@gnome There's this great issue of extensions breaking after every major gnome release. Do you have anything in plan to fix this?

ebassi,
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@super_user_do @gnome I recommend reading the extensions guide on the matter: https://gjs.guide/extensions/overview/updates-and-breakage.html#why-extensions-break

This should explain everything you need to know.

FediThing, (edited ) to linux

UPDATE: GNOME has now been verified thanks to the action of @ebassi 🥳

Well done! 👏

Does anyone know any way to verify that the account at https://floss.social/@gnome is official?

I suggested to them they might verify their web link, but as far as I can tell the haven't? Also emailed GNOME via their official website to check if this is their account, but didn't receive a response.

Any ideas? Anyone know someone at GNOME who could verify?

I'm not suggesting it's fake by the way, it's just frustrating not to be able to verify! :)

ebassi,
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@FediThing It's the official account, yes; it should have been verified, though. I'll ping the admins

ebassi,
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@FediThing should be fixed, now

mjg59, to random
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Why is https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3438/jiggle/ not core gnome-shell functionality

ebassi,
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@mjg59 Likely because we're still using the "press Left Control to locate the pointer" option in the accessibility settings; the wobble would be a nice addition, though, and it would probably be easier to implement in the shell. Make sure to open an issue!

mcc, to random
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How big is an typical regular Linux install these days. Like just the OS. Not /home and maybe not even the snaps or pops or whatever. How many gigabytes.

ebassi,
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@mcc Around 5-6 GB for a full desktop installation

saluki, to random
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Are there any good, general-purpose for Linux that have a congruent look with ? On KDE, Kate is perfect, but it is a bit jarring to use on a Gnome desktop.

VsCode or something heavily themeable would be fine, although of course VsCode is Microsoft, which is something I want to try and avoid.

I'm currently basically just using vim, which is awesome but sometimes you just want something with a full graphical interface.

ebassi,
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@saluki @nekohayo It's definitely optimised for building GNOME applications, but you can use it for general IDE reasons.

ebassi, to random
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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"

ebassi, (edited )
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@TheEvilSkeleton Or, worse: Discord.

To be fair, though, at least I can search Bugzilla for bugs; looking over the past three years of emails in a barely indexed mailman archive is just a waste of everybody's time.

ebassi, to random
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Buona festa della Liberazione

ebassi, to random
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#Amberol 0.10.0 is out! After a tragic mess with a #GNOME run time update, and with lots of fixes accumulating over a development branch, I decided to spin up a release. Highlights:

  • tweaked UI, to avoid confusing the waveform control and the volume control
  • improved scaling of textures using #GTK 4.10
  • ability to restore the last playlist at startup
  • optional background playback

Plus the usual lots and lots of small fixes, tweaks, and performance improvements.

Amberol's compact/mobile mode, showing just the main UI.
The newly added "Restore Playlist" option, which appears only when you launch Amberol and there's a playlist from the previous session available.
The drop UI for Amberol, with a new blurred background to increase legibility.

ebassi,
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It's been a year and a couple of weeks since I released Amberol 0.1.0 on Flathub, and it's been downloaded 100k times, which is absolutely unfathomable to me, considering that I started the project to figure out how GTK and Rust worked together, and had no pretence of making an application that would be useful for anybody but me.

ebassi,
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@dvogel it’s just the window resized to its minimum size; thanks to libadwaita, the UI is responsive, and the playlist becomes an overlay

ebassi,
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@doomsdayrs yeah, after 2020 and 2021, time is getting unstuck

ebassi, to GNOME
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My last was in 2018, so let's update it:

  • I'm a free and open source software developer, mainly contributing to the ecosystem and software development platform
  • I am, through no fault of my own, the maintainer of the GNOME developer documentation website
  • I write the occasional app, like Amberol
  • I stream my work on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/ebassi
  • I still plan on finishing the History of GNOME podcast
  • I build plastic models
  • trans rights are human rights

A picture of my cat, Rey, looking incredibly cute on the bed
A photo of the Gundam RX-78-2 shield, painted and with battle damage, sitting on the build instructions for the model
The landing card for the GNOME developer documentation website, showing a pencil, a pair of glasses, documents, and a cup of espresso over an abstract shape, with the words "Developer Docs" underneath it.

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