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The Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for today (well, tomorrow really) is an absolute 10/10:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20260909000000/en
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Nathan Dyer
@nathandyer@hachyderm.io
mastodon 4.7.3Public interest technologist. Hopeless enjoyer of the little things.
📰 Newsroom Support Engineer for Freedom of the Press Foundation
💡 FOSS enthusiast
⌨️ Occasional blogger
🧑💻 Not a great developer but I dabble
🫘 2x Kidney Transplant recipient
🌿 Minimalist, humanist, and (aspiring) environmentalist
🏡 Tri-cities TN / Asheville NC
🤵 Husband
All my toots are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Friend to almost all, but racists, nationalists, and transphobes need not apply.
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Joined January 13, 2026
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Aaron Swartz joined the RSS working group when he was 13. At 15 he became a foundational member of Creative Commons. He was working on precursors to markdown at 16.
We should not be locking young people out of our communities and keeping them away from digital tools that can open doors for them, expand their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and help them grow into well-rounded adults.
Pro-tip for running a booth at the flea market: make friends with the lady selling homemade carrot cake 😋
GNOME Calendar has gotten *so good*, it just handles ICS files, multi-day events, multiple calendars, and mismatched timezones so well now. Hands down my favorite calendar app on any platform. If there's a "most improved app award", surely it must be a contender.
When you haven't had it in months, you really forget how Starbucks coffee tastes like someone extinguished a cigarette in it before they hand it to you.
Finally had a chance to sit down and blog about why I wrote my new app, Kepublicity:
You should hire Kim! She's amazing!
I know it's dorky and cliche, but throwing Bob Marley on the bluetooth speaker while you make coffee in the morning elevates the experience from A tier to S tier.
Had a chance to watch The Odyssey in IMAX (my first IMAX movie ever), so I took it! Even better than the first viewing. What a film!
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@ahoneybun@hachyderm.io If people enjoy having a copy of something that they can hold in their hands, or display on a shelf, I'm all for it -- I don't want to yuck anyone's yum.
But I hate that we're setting up a narrative of "you don't own digital copies, to own something you have to have a physical copy."
DRM is the real thing we should be fighting against. If you have a DRM-free file you can back it up, move it around, and generally do whatever you want with it. It doesn't matter if it's on an SSD or a piece of plastic. And vice-versa, having a game or movie on a physical disc doesn't help if it still requires unlocking with a key or authenticating with an online server. Plus, physical media is prone to damage, loss, theft, disc rot, etc.
IMO a digital file is the ultimate form of media in terms of instant access and an infinitely long shelf life. I hate to see it dragged through the mud because of DRM and greedy companies.
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@lehtimaeki@snapp.social Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, but maybe an email app doesn't also need to include an RSS reader, a calendar application, and instant messaging client, and basically an entire web browser.
Linux (the kernel) is completely uninteresting to me as a technology.
The only interesting thing about it is that it serves as a foundation for other projects to build on top of it, for the purposes of empowerment and liberation. My computing devices do my bidding, not the bidding of others whose interests are counter to mine.
Plus, I love the feeling of building software as a community. That the tools we're making benefit not just the people building them, but everyone, and that anyone can make a difference and shape the future. We have to actively work to address the fact that some people are privileged and have a louder voice than others, but equality is an ideal we have to work toward.
For me, the social and political aspects of the free desktop are the entire point.
Wow, the most mealy-mouthed statement from Mullvad I can imagine.
"It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it. It most likely was a bad idea;"
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/donation-controversy
Been working on enabling translations for Kepublicity, and wrapping my mind around all the various workflows.
I'm familiar with Transifex and Weblate (and have used both), and have passing knowledge about GNOME's Damned Lies platform, but I want to understand something at a higher level. Is the main benefit of a translations platform that it lowers the barrier to contributing language changes for people who might not be familiar with git?
As a temporary workflow, is there anything inherently wrong with pointing translators to a tool like https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Gtranslator, and then having them edit the .po files and file a pull request?
Most of the world has standardized on FLAC, a highly capable and patent-free audio codec, for its hi-res music delivery format of choice.
I wish we could now do the same for video, using AV1.
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@legoktm wow you're not kidding, TIL https://www.redhat.com/en/engage/compress-the-kill-cycle-overview
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@swick @decathorpe I'm afraid I don't, but https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf is still up (and @legoktm saved it on IA just in case it "disappears" too)
RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116951721140063749
Pretty soon the only use I'll have for my GitHub account is work. Nice to see so many projects moving to self-hosted Forgejo instances!
Quoting
During yesterday's Annual General Meeting we learned about upcoming Flathub plans:
- Github → self-hosted Forgejo instance migration
- Website SSO
- App submission website
- Partial OSTree → OCI registry migration
- Improve build reproducibility
Thank goodness Apple blocks installing apps outside of the app store (outside the EU), so that everyone stays safe.
Finally sat down and blogged about my recent switch back to Android, and the FOSS apps I've landed on.
TIL the place I clone all my git repos is actually an XDG standard
https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html
As is tradition, I updated to the latest Fedora release in a hotel room hundreds of miles away from home.
Flawless and uneventful, as always.
Being able to use the GTK emoji chooser in Firefox rules
😍️🚀️👑️
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@legoktm Was just alerted to the fact that apparently you can still request it from The Register
(I'm guessing that link will disappear soon, too)
https://toots.nu/@fnrd/116374893050404029
First "proper" test of CoMaps and its lane guidance on Android. Can it get me all the way from Tennessee to Duke in Durham, NC without sending me on a wild adventure?
The road awaits!
I found this to be gripping and terrifying (and also, not remotely surprising)
@hbons@mastodon.social 'fraid they can't spare the CPU cycles on maintaining important free software projects like these, they have to find more efficient ways to help murder brown people overseas
Because I signed up for a printables.com account a million years ago, I just got an email letting me know I can reserve a custom oak cabinet to store a 3D printer for... *checks notes*... €6,200. Who could possibly be the target audience for something like this?
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@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems
"This site runs Microsoft Clarity for behavioral insights. By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of your data, such as how you interact with this website, by Microsoft for product improvements."
Sounds like they're struggling with the whole "consent" concept, too :)
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@jimmac@mastodon.social This is amazing, but I can't seem to get it to work on any of the apps I've tried. If I click the scrollbar handle and hold it for a few seconds it turns orange (accent color?), but if I move my cursor it never engages the autoscroll.
What am I doing wrong?
Disability pride month is coming to a close, so I took some time to blog about my own disabilities and some of the accessibility features I appreciate: https://nathandyer.me/2026/07/30/disability-pride.html
DK64 Rekongpiled is out!!
And, as with Banjo-Kazooie, there's an official Flatpak build 🎉
I was craving a cheeseburger tonight so my wife and I tried a new place that opened up in town.
It was basically an ideal burger. Patties that were neither too thick nor too thin. Gooey cheese. The right amount of toppings. Soft potato bun.
I've had a few better burgers in my life, but not many. For a basic $10 burger and fry meal, I was over the moon!
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@pieq@floss.social @jimmac@mastodon.social
Spot on! I was putting the cursor at the bottom of the window, not fully below the scrollable. Very cool!
And +1 to capturing the cursor by default with the built-in screencast tool :)
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@tragivictoria@mastodon.com.pl I'm sorry to hear 😢 I have astigmatism, and being able to use Luminus really helped me avoid eye strain
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Never thought I'd become fedi's number one physical media hater, but I guess here I am
Does anyone out there use Forge Sparks (https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.mardojai.ForgeSparks)
I'm curious if others reliably get notifications.
I've had it running in the background for a few weeks, and today is the first time I've seen any notifications come through (and these were all from Codeberg). Nothing from GitLab or GitHub. Curious if it's a me thing, or if something is broken. I'm fairly confident I set up the tokens correctly, and running from CLI I see HTTP 200 responses from the various services.
