Jordan Petridis

26 y/old kid without future.  GNOME, GStreamer, Release engineer, QA monkey. Multimedia Stuff. Flatpak and GNOME OS.

 Randomly complaining about computers and "foss". 

Pronouns: he/him
gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera
github: https://github.com/alatiera
blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/

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2026-04-22 11:23:05 UTC

Framework listens to their audience so much that they send another pre-release laptop to DHH.
Enjoy the new Nazibook 13 pro.
https://x.com/dhh/status/2046677012878708834
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2026-04-02 18:55:36 UTC

One of the funniest aspects of LLMs is how we went from "Untrusted input needs a Hazmat suit" to "everything is input data, including the names of the functions in the tool's source code"

2026-03-19 18:48:09 UTC

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Again
> Systemd merged age verification
Where is the verification part in systemd?

2026-03-19 18:24:21 UTC

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It doesn't show from the way you are rage baiting fake outrage for 2 seconds of fame.
Your post literary says:
> Systemd merged age verification to comply with California state law.
And you immediately walk it back the moment you are being called out for it.
> I'm also aware that there are no verification mechanisms currently implemented to validate the birthdate.

2026-03-19 13:54:34 UTC

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Being able to store the birthday of the user is useful metadata for the system to have in general. This is something that is needed to have regardless of any regulations. There are already other PII stored. Additionally there isn't any "Verification" mechanism in the PR you linked or proposed at all.
Jesus Christ read before spreading further misinformation. You also clearly haven't read the California legislation you are so worried about.

2026-02-23 20:31:10 UTC

We dodged a bullet with bcachefs. Kent has lost it.
https://poc.bcachefs.org/
comment link: https://old.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the_blog_of_an_llm_saying_its_owned_by_kent_and/o6tmlib/
#linux
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2026-01-16 01:04:48 UTC

GNOME 50.alpha is released
Officially X11 free.
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-50-alpha-released/33616?u=alatiera
#linux #gnome #wayland
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2025-12-04 18:43:13 UTC

For the love of god, can someone from the Signal team reach out so they don't end up making a fucking app image of all things?
Like I know you are serious about security, talk to us.

2025-11-27 12:22:44 UTC

@npub15f7…m7wr Framework's continued commitment to "deliberately create a big tent" is paying off.
More than a month since the last public statement comment from Framework on the subject and they still haven't distanced themselves from this guy.
The forum thread has over 2000 replies at this point..
https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986/
https://xcancel.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1993747042213249448
#framework #dhh #ruby #linux #omarchy
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2025-11-15 22:48:56 UTC

The Linux circlejerk has a "Great Man/Company theory" problem.
Every time there is an issue, they all go around clinging to the one company that "finally" will put some resources into fixing them. Endlessly hyping them up and elevating them to a deity status.
It happened with Canonical in the past and how it was "single handedly fixing GNOME".
More recently its Valve and how "they have graced us with gaming and fixing Wayland"
Like sure I appreciate everyone, but its a team effort you know.

2025-11-06 00:17:21 UTC

I wrote a post about DHH fash speedrun and crashout.
DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/
Crush Fascism.
#linux #framework #omarchy #ruby

2025-10-08 19:21:04 UTC

Fuck fascists and everyone who is willing to collaborate with them.
It's especially pathetic when its done to leech twitter clout.

2025-09-26 20:59:33 UTC

"First they came for the Fascists, and I spoke up cause I was a fascist"
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1971287738268909576
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2025-07-26 09:58:43 UTC

So happy to get to see @npub1lvc…cedh at GUADEC this year!
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2025-06-23 07:00:38 UTC

On X11 and the Fascists Maggots
I can't believe I needed to write this but here we are.
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/06/23/the-fascist-maggots/
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2025-06-10 22:33:50 UTC

You don't get to own Xorg. It belongs to the X.org foundation and community.
X.org literary hosts and runs Wayland and Weston
Xorg is dead and we killed it. And nobody regrets it.

2025-04-28 17:57:47 UTC

Made it home, #las2025 was great and a ton of fun. So good to see many old friends again. Special shoutout to the organizers for all the work and being so friendly and helpful!

2025-04-26 10:01:01 UTC

@npub1u74…ch96 is presenting at #las2025
“An analysis of a changing linux ecosystem”
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2025-04-25 13:08:32 UTC

You can find the slides for the #las2025 talk I gave today about Flathub here:
https://conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/7/contributions/216/
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2025-02-20 00:21:54 UTC

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Now with 92% less typos, Eloquent is a nice app.
https://flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Eloquent

2025-02-19 22:16:43 UTC

I wrote a thing
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/02/19/the-fedora-project-leader-is-willfully-ignorant-about-flathub/

2025-01-21 21:03:34 UTC

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I’ve settled on icecubes couple years ago

2024-11-20 19:12:04 UTC

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very disappointed the post doesn't include a link to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh0Y2hVe_bw

2024-08-21 23:42:58 UTC

Rejoice! GNOME 47.Beta is released!
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-beta-released/22919?u=alatiera
#gnome #linux #gtk #flatpak
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2024-08-05 20:53:37 UTC

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yeap, looking at the 23.08 branch of that extension should be a good enough approximation

2024-07-17 13:59:45 UTC

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Finally, I had not talked about this in public nor was going to before reaching out to the asahi team. We've been talking about different to addressing this issue among Flatpak/runtime developers for a while and wanted to explore the different solutions once I had access to an asahi machine again.
Likewise you could have asked why shipping an extension as a distro package and using that flatpak-builder manifest is a dead end and how it would explode ;)

2024-07-17 13:59:36 UTC

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Again similarly, the only systems affected by this logic in Flatpak would be asahi ones, which already control what version of Flatpak they ship so there shouldn't be any issue with transitioning through schemes or fully upstreamin the drivers.

2024-07-17 13:59:15 UTC

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Additionally, we could be looking at any factor/number/version you need, be it uabi, kernel or completely different one. You already control what version of mesa, kernel and flatpak you ship so it can always be kept working in that sense. Just that it will need a heads up to rebuild the extension against the new identifier but otherwise the update will work seamless and will only have to ship and build it once.

2024-07-17 13:59:01 UTC

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Having each distro try to build and ship a driver extension for each Runtime and Runtime versions is certainly not the way to go as well and it's much easier to go wrong as you saw and a lot harder to debug as now you have to debug each homegrown distro stack as well. Host managed extensions can work for specific usecases but I don't think it's better in this one and especially since mesa links against a bunch of other things.

2024-07-17 13:58:50 UTC

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Hi, been travelling to guadec, didn't have time to respond and it's hard to quote on the go.
In general I don't think there would be a problem with teaching flatpak itself about a temporary way to resolve asahi things and pull them automatically. It doesn't even have to be merged, you could only ship a patched flatpak binary on the distro side. It would be more of a way for us (runtime developers) to figure out how to publish working asahi extensions.

2024-07-15 19:51:42 UTC

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Some of us have been working on an upstream patch that teaches flatpak itself about the asahi uabi versions and mounts the appropriate GL extension if found. Pretty much same thing we do for nvidia.
Sadly I only have access to an asahi machine when my friend Jonas is around so didn't have time to finish the work

2024-07-15 19:46:55 UTC

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Hi,
This workaround is breaking applications if they happen to be using a runtime which won't match/mount the `org.freedesktop.Platform//{22.08, 23.08}` versions
What happens is that flatpak will happily only try to mount that driver, as it's an env var not configuration, and your apps will end up without a GL extension mounted at all.
This means that any flathub-beta application using 24.08 or gnome-nightly are currently broken due to the FLATPAK_GL_DRIVERS override.

2024-04-22 20:18:20 UTC

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