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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 random
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A great chronology of humankind by XKCD, with a brutal ending.

We can collectively do something about it. Vote. Go vegetarian or vegan. Ditch the car if you can.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

thibaultamartin, to random
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Happy LGBTQIA+ pride month to everyone 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

A reminder to the FOSS community at large that people’s value is not defined by how productive they are.

We must celebrate, support, and stand with LGBTQIA+ people just because they exist, not because without them the global IT infrastructure would collapse.

gnome, to GNOME
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GNOME Foundation Executive Director Holly Million shares exciting updates on continuing work with the Sovereign Tech Fund and launching the GNOME Development Fund: https://foundation.gnome.org/2024/05/31/gnome-development-initiative-update/

thibaultamartin,
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@gnome let’s credit @sonny and @tbernard for putting together the application, defending the case, earning the grant and leading the development initiative 👏

thibaultamartin, to random
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EU countries need to implement right to repair law within 2 years.

Your time to shine @postmarketOS !

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024/05/30/circular-economy-council-gives-final-approval-to-right-to-repair-directive/

thibaultamartin, to random
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I like the low-tech movement because it's about lowering our dependence to brittle technology, that could dysfunction during the next significant event (war, heatwave, flood, etc). It's fundamentally about finding resilience in cooperation.

The "off the grid" movement on the other hand gives me an anti-social, apocalypse-prepper vibe. It's individualistic, and is only viable very temporarily.

thibaultamartin, to random
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I've never set a foot in Berlin (yet!) but many of my friends are Berliners, and I'm seeing a lot of events I would like to attend there.

Berlin looks like a very attractive city with a healthy culture. With sleeper trains back in service between Paris and Berlin, I'll have to visit more often!

gabrielesvelto, to random
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I'm usually not particularly fond of UI changes, but @Inoreader beta version is a marked improvement over the existing web UI.

I found the previous web UI to do its job well on desktop, but it didn't work particularly well when using Firefox on mobile devices. The beta version on the other hand works flawlessly, and the bigger UI elements make it easier to use on the small screens of a phone or 8" tablet. That's some really nice improvements, bravo!

thibaultamartin,
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It looks like free tiers don't have access to the beta interface (or at least I don't). Care to share a screenshot or two @gabrielesvelto ?

@Inoreader

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

blinry, to random
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Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to , a hacker camp in the UK!

Getting excited! 😆 This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

thibaultamartin,
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Lille is a lovely city, I hope you'll enjoy your stay! Most of its cuisine is fantastic, but very little of it (probably even none of it) is vegan unfortunately.

Still nice architecture and people though :)

@blinry

josh, to random
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Happy six year anniversary, my dearest @chrisjrn 🥰

Folks with Chris at : do me a favor and make sure to treat my guy today!

thibaultamartin,
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Happy anniversary to you two lovely people @josh @chrisjrn 🥳

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,
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@jpmens I did a review a little while ago and considered Joplin too! Admittedly, this was in the context of personal note taking, and Joplin was a strong contender.

Here I'm mostly interested in the collaborative side, and nothing quite fits the bill for me these days.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/07/26-onenote-but-interoperable/

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,
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See for example the incredible work @sonny, @tbernard and the whole team is doing with a SINGLE million of euros from the @sovtechfund

This is not a tech project fantasy. This is an answer to real life problems that require collaboration. This is critical infrastructure.

https://thisweek.gnome.org/

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,
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With the months of sleep deprivation I've been through after my second kid was born, I have first hand experience to say this absolutely doesn't work for me!

@deepbluev7

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,
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@gverdun I'm a self-hoster and work for a company doing SaaS offerings: I know that pricing a service is HARD.

Hetzner's core mission is infrastructure, which certainly allows them to do economies of scale that @nextcloud can't afford to do (yet?)

Hetzner is also using Nextcloud without contributing anything back. The GPL licence allows them to do it, but they benefit from the free R&D, while Nextcloud bears all the costs

This post has more information about it.

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

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