It’s a shame they changed the name.

For just the “finding GPS tracks for biking trips” part, https://cycle.travel/ is pretty neat.

Yes, but that amounts to the same thing. The restrictions that prevent you from manually overriding it are there to prevent any app from freely overriding it. There’s a way to only explicitly allow you to manually override it, and that’s the way that’s currently being built and requires ecosystem support.

Because if it is freely overridable (which it used to be, on X11), other apps can override it as well - including malicious apps. The portal adds an explicit path that ensures that the user is in control, but does need to see wider adoption first. Which will surely be helped by GNOME support.

There’s always talk about that (see alternative 2), but that could block packaging core apps as Flatpaks.

Ha OK, I don’t know what ozon is and I don’t think I’ve had to edit .desktop files so far, so I’m probably good. I’m on Silverblue, so I suppose they’re still doing system installs, or are looking at existing packages and following their lead.

Thanks for the clarification!

Wait, if I run flatpak list --system --columns=application, it looks like all my Flatpaks are system Flatpaks. Running flatpak list --user --columns=application shoulds just a couple of platform packages. What am I missing out on? What is this needed for:

like forcing crappy electron apps to use wayland

(Either way, thanks for writing up a detailed guide!)

Almost my entire career I’ve worked in open source, so it’s very easy to see what my technical work looks like. No one has ever looked at it.

When I have been on the other side, I have looked at the GitHub “portfolio” of junior applicants, but TBH, it didn’t bring me much. There will always be lots of opportunities for improvements in those examples, but that’s the point - I expect them to improve on the job.

More experienced developers will almost never have significant work on GitHub, and if they do, it’s not a “portfolio”, but just their past work.

Maybe learn to take screenshots first? :P

we remain committed to being the responsible steward of the Chromium project

https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html?m=1

So this neutral space is still subservient to Google’s whims.

And llamafile is a binary you can just download and run, no installation required. “Uninstallation” is deleting the file.

I think it’s for the Hacker News crowd that’s always clamoring for smaller phones, or phones with a physical keyboard. Potentially for parents to give to their young children, to be able to contact them without getting them addicted to screens right away.

Not sure how big those markets are though.

The Sovereign Tech Fund has supported a lot of @[email protected] development in the last year, great org.

Published 8 years ago

I didn’t know that the new generation of developers were that far along in their careers already.

Man, so much attempt to stir up drama. Can they just talk about why they initially added the MIT license if they didn’t intend to make it public, why they didn’t make it public and open source, and what needs to happen to do that in a way and at a time that everyone is happy with, without having to do so with the eyes of the internet on them?

Nah, it’s a Next.js error.

It’ll be at the hands of whatever jurisdiction the forker is in. It’s not like you can escape governments.

No, I’m telling people not to suspect anything, because we don’t know anything.

This is all hypothetical

Yes, that is exactly my point: let’s not get all worked up about something where we have almost zero facts. Although:

open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices

is definitely the case for the Linux Foundation: it’s beholden to US laws. And wake-up call or not, a foundation would always be incorporated somewhere, and beholden to the laws of that somewhere.

Oh geez, this the third reply by the same account… Again, I’m just saying that we don’t know whether the contributors were assumed guilty, or if they have actual ties to sanctioned companies.