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We need more talks! The #LAS2026 Call for Proposals has been extended again. You have until April 10 to submit.

We're looking for in-person presentations on app development, digital sovereignty, AI, ecosystem growth, and more.

Submit your proposal today!
https://linuxappsummit.org/cfp/

#KDE #GNOME #Linux

Time is running out!

Register now for Linux App Summit 2026; attendance is free, but you must register to attend the event.

Register here: https://linuxappsummit.org/register/

#LAS is happening in Berlin this year. For more details, please visit: https://linuxappsummit.org/

#Linux #opensource #Apps #kde #gnome

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Hey Berliners, did you know that there are two petitions going that really need more signatures. One is to start reducing cars in the city, similar to what Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Paris have done, and the other is to ban a lot of street advertising. Sadly both of them need to be printed out and sent by mail, and they have to arrive before 8 May.

You can find information and the forms for these at the following addresses:

https://verkehrsentscheid.de
https://berlin-werbefrei.de

Do us all a favour, and print out the forms, sign it yourself, and get everyone around you to sign it as well and send it in, as this city would be much better to live in with less cars and advertising.

And please boost this for reach, as we urgently need a lot more signatures on both.

#Berlin #Verkehrswende #Urbanism

GTK-NoCSD: an LD_PRELOAD library to disable CSDs

While Libadwaita applications running in a GNOME desktop environment look great and nicely consistent, they look utterly out of place and jarring when run in Xfce, Pantheon, KDE, and others. The biggest reason for this is GNOME's insistence on using client-side decorations, which feel at home inside a GNOME environment, but out of place in envi

https://www.osnews.com/story/144473/gtk-nocsd-an-ld_preload-library-to-disable-csds/

#GTK

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil

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PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

You don't need to pay Apple or start a new subscription to unleash your creativity. We asked creatives what free software they use to get the job done and here are their picks.

A thread 🧵

#creativity #design #audio #art #video

Secret Panel HERE 😌 https://tapas.io/episode/2676049

🎶 On our Lorenzo's Music Podcast, I talk with Paul Davis, creator of Ardour! Learn about the challenges and triumphs of developing a digital audio workstation. https://www.lorenzosmusic.com/podcast/ardour-paul-davis-lorenzos-music-podcast

#MusicProduction #Ardour #music #opensource

If you are 🇩🇪 German, you can now call many of your Bundestag members directly via https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ by clicking the "Call" button!

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.

Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.

Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.

(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)