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in related news, there’s ads on my bananas now.
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“#Flathub is now accepting AI slop”
the Flathub reviewers have blocked over 1,000 slop apps in 2026 alone. that’s half of the verified app count.
close to a quarter of the store could have been ensloppified by now!
if you want to know what a slopnami looks like, just have a look at this link:
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls?q=is%3Apr+state%3Aclosed+label%3A%22AI+Slop%22
#linux #apps #flatpak #gnome #kde #ai
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@DavidNielsen@mastodon.social a lot of people seem to read them! as big an effect as being on the Flathub front page.
#gnome #flatpak #flathub
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sketches for @deimoshall@mastodon.social's Metamorphosis.
#gnome #app #icon #design #sketch #butterfly
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/117069670583842298
it's all sludge.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@colincornaby/117069185435215102
Holy shit, so the "Claude plagiarised an app" story is actually "Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers" 😅
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@_elena@mastodon.social @cercle@reseauculture.fr @MuseeOrsay@reseauculture.fr and they’re writing alt text!
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this is something that has always bothered me. a lot of icons thought to be universal are actually U.S. American when you think about it.
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July sponsors update! 🌱
https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/07/13/july-sponsors-update
recently reached the first milestone if 64 sponsors thanks to you all, so I bumped that to 128. :)
at 256 the coming 2 years I will be "safe". I'm going to work hard to make that happen. lots of good stuff coming!
#foss #floss #opensource #linux #gnome #design
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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@hub/116947697243793933
seeing stuff like this makes me realise companies that have an impact for good are an accident. a glitch in the matrix. something that will get sorted out sooner or later.
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I’m curious about everyone’s opinion about an app icon for a calendar that is not a traditional (let’s be honest: “western”) style sheet with a colourful bar…
RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116985931062911189
I never knew I needed a counting app and this one is beautiful.
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@pojntfx@mastodon.social oh nice! love the birds! the previous ones were so bland with the fake bridges because nobody could agree on anything (which is typical EU).
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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family that looks better. I also like that it overlaps the dock icons. there was too much going on in the prototype.
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@sri@mastodon.social on Dutch TV the commentator said "here's the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize". 🙃
it never ends!
kind of happy about this though. there’s a steady stream of new apps being supplied.
have witnessed the Linux app draught before.
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@downey@floss.social it’s great that they cover the social aspects in the post. AI bros never address that.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116986805020926545
publishing slop is essentially doing pollution.
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“Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination." https://www.404media.co/ai-companies-are-buying-tons-of-old-books-because-theyre-free-of-ai-slop/
Open quoted postI think it's overdue for #Flathub to start charging for app submission reviews. or charge app publishers $5/month.
then hire 3 full-time reviewers with the money.
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@vtrlx@mastodon.social @tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl yea that popped into my head just now as well. 😅
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@bragefuglseth@sunny.garden #gnome in is one of the few places where this is possible. if you venture a little bit out it's like wading through mud. it's exhausting...
we all laugh about the vanity metrics on GitHub, but if that’s what’s keeping people there, I’d implement star import first thing.
“2k stars*” *imported from GitHub on X date.
“48 collaborators”
“32 forks”
it’s not meaningless…
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems didn’t know the GPL had this or had forgotten. it’s better than I thought. good to know. :)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlexanderVanhee/116835422383823627
yay for snappy starts!
what if we had a special day of the month where we all looked at stuff like this?
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@cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family not really a fan… it seems kind of arbitrary. what’s it trying to fix?
some people should really look up the definition of knee-jerk reaction.
tip: it's not a movement going on for months/years of time.
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@begasus@mastodon-belgium.be @gnome@floss.social I've been meaning to push some database files for testing to the repo. :)
meanwhile you can use these: http://2016.padjo.org/tutorials/sqlite-data-starterpacks
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl at this point I wonder if we're even ever going to get to paid apps...
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@chrisinoakland@techhub.social thanks! these would never happen back in the corporate environment. so fun. :P
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RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@tragivictoria/116997594169215204
as a social experiment someone should fork GNOME OS and automerge every vibed PR. then release a monthly .iso for people to use.
see how it works out. 🙃