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thibaultamartin

@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr

Chronic enthusiast. Software should be about making people's life better.

Director of Program Development @matrix, Senior Developer Advocate at Element

Providing the general public and organisations the tools they need to protect their digital communications' privacy and sovereignty.

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thibaultamartin, to GNOME
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A new issue of is now online!

Installer Installment

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-149/

A screenshot of GNOME Software. It shows a pop up in the middle with the title "Google Chrome is potentially unsafe". There's a list of permissions the app has requested. Those permissions are "Network Access", "User Device Access", "Microphone Access", "Screen Contents Access", "Legacy Windowing System", "User Settings". There are more items in the list, but we would need to scroll down to see them.
A screenshot of the app "Morphosis". A label shows that the file is managing a docx document. There are two dropdowns. The first allows to select the Export Format and is set to "PDF". The second allows to select the Font Style and is set to "Sans". There is a green "Convert..." button at the bottom.

thibaultamartin, to GNOME
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A new issue of is now online!

Installer Installment

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-149/

A screenshot of GNOME Software. It shows a pop up in the middle with the title "Google Chrome is potentially unsafe". There's a list of permissions the app has requested. Those permissions are "Network Access", "User Device Access", "Microphone Access", "Screen Contents Access", "Legacy Windowing System", "User Settings". There are more items in the list, but we would need to scroll down to see them.
A screenshot of the app "Morphosis". A label shows that the file is managing a docx document. There are two dropdowns. The first allows to select the Export Format and is set to "PDF". The second allows to select the Font Style and is set to "Sans". There is a green "Convert..." button at the bottom.

thibaultamartin, to medical
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I didn't expect to have fun talking about GDPR, CRA, DMA, DSA, and all those WTFs but my colleague Denise did a stellar job at making her policy work accessible!

Because tech doesn't exist in the void, it's important to understand the role of policy & compliance people and how their expertise is crucial to us.

https://youtu.be/JhDB9APCnDE

thibaultamartin, to GNOME
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A new issue of is now online!

Variable Styles
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/05/twig-148/

A collage of two screenshots of the bottom right part of the file manager window. The "before" screenshot shows the details bar touching the border of the window. The "after" screenshot shows the details bar floating. The details bar contains the name and size of the file selected.
A screenshot of a portion of an app. It shows two toggles. One of them has the classic libadwaita blue. The other one has a purple. In the foreground there's the GTK inspector, with the CSS panel open. It shows a CSS variable with the name @purple_3

thibaultamartin, to random
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I badly want a collaborative markdown editor that:

  • Supports folders, and linking to other notes
  • Works well on mobile
  • Has fine grained permissions
  • Is open source and self-hostable
thibaultamartin, to random
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We reached the point where my brain autocorrects "AI" to "pollution".

All the companies touting AI in their products are now telling me they don't care about making human life more difficult if it can earn them a few extra dollars.

thibaultamartin, to random
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Source code is a snapshot of the collective and opinionated solution to a problem at a specific moment in time.

The real value comes from the people who:

  1. Understand the problem to solve
  2. Can articulate, and test an opinionated way to solve the problem
  3. Know how to implement the solution

Open source projects need to make sure they don't focus exclusively on the latter.

thibaultamartin, to random
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Planify is a neat todo app for @gnome that supports sync with todoist and @nextcloud. It even works on (Linux) phones!

I’m so thrilled to see the number of high-quality apps independent people create for GNOME! I’m certain the hard work of the GNOME team on the documentation and on libadwaita is no stranger to that 🚀

https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify

thibaultamartin, to random
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I just stumbled upon a markdown editor for @gnome, with shell search integration, that works on mobile and syncs with @nextcloud .

Iotas looks really neat, and is available on @flathub!

https://flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.World.Iotas

thibaultamartin, to random
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I regularly think about this essay about the evolution of in computing. It focuses on businesses and research, but I have a feeling that the next stage of will happen via the general public.

We don't have to rely on energy-hungry, leak-prone servers to run 24/7 to do our basic tasks. We need more local-first computing.

http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html

thibaultamartin, to random
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“With multi-billion-dollar grants to [chip makers], the US govt has spent over half its $39bn in Chips Act incentives”

“This won’t mean complete self-sufficiency. Production of smartphones and consumer electronics would be disrupted in the event of a crisis in east Asia”

BILLIONS of dollars in grants are not enough to make the US self-sufficient.

Meanwhile a few dozens of millions going to @gnome and @postmarketOS would make the US and EU much less vulnerable.

https://archive.is/FZdNA

thibaultamartin, to random
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Why are there so few hours in a day?

I want to be a dad, husband, strategist, program manager, policy analyst, developer advocate, SRE, developer and blogger.

So many problems are at the intersection of these! Or as you would say on LinkedIn: "we need a holistic view of the problem".

thibaultamartin, to random
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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/

thibaultamartin, to random
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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

thibaultamartin, to random
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I just tried the new @penpot 2.0 and it's significant improvement over the last time I tried it.

It's really polished, kudos to the team and congrats on the release 👏

thibaultamartin, to random
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Dopamine culture is one of the main reasons why I care about local-first, offline computing (the other being resilience).

@gnome has a strong "native apps first" culture, that local-first computing depends on.

It's making tremendous progress to be adapted to phones, the most ubiquitous devices in real life, where it can run in large parts to the efforts of @postmarketOS.

It's my biggest source of hope for computing the respects people.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-state-of-the-culture-2024

thibaultamartin, to random
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It's been a while since I last browsed the GNOME Circle curated apps directory and wow. So many focused apps that do one thing and do it well. So many utilities to tackle tasks easily. Can't recommend enough to have a look at it.

https://circle.gnome.org/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Fediverse, what nonprofits do you donate to, and why did you choose them?

If you don't mind specifying, I'd love to know what region of the world you're from!

🔄 Please boost to help me discover the problems people want to solve and the orgs solving them!

thibaultamartin, to random
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I don’t miss the dark, cold winter, but we might want to squeeze in a bit of spring before summer?

thibaultamartin, to random
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Actually unpopular opinion: AGPL + CLA can be terrible or fine, depending on the clauses of the CLA, the project's ecosystem, and its purpose.

Organisations contributing to an open source project (should) have lawyers to tell them what to expect. Individuals don't.

As an individual, I would only sign a CLA with a clause forcing the upstream to keep releasing the project under an @osi approved licence.

More soon™ in the sequel of https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/20-open-source-chainsaw/

thibaultamartin, to opensource
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Software automates part of our lives. It is irresponsible for democracies to leave that much control to private entities owned by a few people.

Open-source is a potential answer to the problem, but it's not that easy.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/20-open-source-chainsaw/

thibaultamartin, to random
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The Matrix Foundation hosts one of the largest Matrix servers in the open federation. But we don't want to become the Gmail of Matrix. So why keep registrations open? And what are we doing to stay true to our mission?

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/03/why-matrix-org/

thibaultamartin, to random
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The Matrix Website Office Hours are starting in one hour!

Join @MTRNord and me as we review issues and PRs, prioritise them, and hack around. Whether you want to exercise your web dev skills, help us keep the data up to date, or have other ideas, there's plenty you can do to contribute!

⏬ Details on how to join below ⏬

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/02/website-office-hours/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Fediverse, I need you to do your magic and assist me with Actual Intelligence. If you work for a company that produces software, please tell me your job title and what it consists of. Bonus points if the software created is NOT open-source.

Extra bonus points if you tag people who do a job that doesn't usually come to mind when thinking about software!

thibaultamartin, to random
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If that’s not exciting, I don’t know what is.

Massive kudos to @alice for her work on Highscore!

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