Nostr notes by Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

Very happy about the new @npub1dug…kxeq release, and I'm ...

2026-03-19T06:36:46Z

Very happy about the new GNOME (npub1dug…kxeq) release, and I'm proud about what my fellow contributors have accomplished together in this cycle. Tons and tons of bugfixes and new features! The release notes at https://release.gnome.org/50/ cover a small portion of the most user-visible changes, but there's a lot more to discover.

Meanwhile, in the #GNOME hashtag…

(after 40 minutes of reading through https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/B4O8ucxRQoQyBxrrpg, I cannot imagine a more insane thread in the #fediverse)

#FLOSS #OpenSource #gratefulness

PSA: following the example from various other projects within ...

2026-03-14T00:07:56Z

PSA: following the example from various other projects within GNOME, and based on libadwaita's policy document, GNOME Calendar now explicitly forbids AI-generated contributions: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/merge_requests/725

We honor the exquisite art of organic homegrown code made with care and a willingness to learn the craft, and want to protect the time of people who help review merge requests.

#MaintainerLife #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #OpenSource #GNOMECalendar #NoAI #aislop #genAI #LLM #GNOME #libadwaita

Incredible how twist-lock powerbars are absolutely not a thing in ...

2025-04-08T20:00:56Z

Incredible how twist-lock powerbars are absolutely not a thing in North-American #hardware / #electronics stores (or any online store, even Chinese ones), and only found at reasonable prices in their natural habitat: #Japan.

I don't mean "twist to close", I mean twist-lock with the device plugged in. Incredibly useful for under-desk mounting, so that you can lock your "wall warts" in place without gravity (or any slight pull on the cord) unplugging them… this should be standard design.

GUI toolkits deal with widgets. The backgrounded app status is ...

2025-03-15T23:15:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…6l0q
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GUI toolkits deal with widgets.
The backgrounded app status is not a widget.

That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure ...

2025-03-15T13:02:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…m944
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That doesn't make intuitive sense to me, and I'm not sure the widget toolkits people are going to think it makes sense either.

The background apps API is not a direct "do this specific graphical widget" kind of thing, it's an "operating system behavior" API.
It is the same to me than inhibiting screenlock or suspend (it does not involve a GUI toolkit) or emitting desktop notifications (you don't ask a widgets GUI toolkit to do it for you, you just do it)—the behavior is up to the DE.

As courtesy, after I was recently made to comment on ...

2025-03-09T21:35:09Z

As courtesy, after I was recently made to comment on qBittorrent's ticket about supporting the XDG background application status APIs (i.e. the replacement for traditional system tray icons, and more), I have now provided that kind of information to the Transmission project as well: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484#issuecomment-2709060231

#FreeDesktop #Wayland #Flatpak #Linux

Ever wondered why websites and web applications keep consuming ...

2025-01-08T13:58:21Z

Ever wondered why websites and web applications keep consuming CPU/power in the background with #GNOMEWeb?

This is the #WebKitGTK enhancement request I have filed to allow stopping the animations frame clock and telling websites that the window is not in focus (so that they can throttle themselves): https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285167

Not sure how widespread power throttling is among #web apps, but this provides a path for pretty significant power savings in #GNOME, #LinuxMobile & #embedded with #Wayland.

"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware? No no ...

2024-09-02T16:41:17Z

"Whaddyamean, you could remove the built-in spyware?
No no no, that's a bug, the removal option was not supposed to be available, let's fix that…"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/2/24233992/microsoft-recall-windows-11-uninstall-feature-bug

I do pity the general population who has to be subjected to that sort of built-in data collection, and all the security and privacy problems it entails. Too bad #Linux is not even a blip on the public consciousness & cultural upbringing.

#Windows11 #WindowsRecall #SurveillanceCapitalism

For what it's worth, Astra Monitor claims to be ...

2024-08-21T00:55:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…pzey
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For what it's worth, Astra Monitor claims to be "performance-focused" and "Designed to be lightweight and efficient. Resources are only queried when needed. No polling. No wasted resources. Hidden components are not queried nor rendered."

Even then, I have configured it to set very slow refresh intervals, like "once per 3 to 10 seconds" for most things, particularly on my laptop, to have the smallest possible impact on energy consumption.

I don't have a #LinuxMobile phone, but if I did, and I were ...

2024-08-13T13:20:41Z

I don't have a #LinuxMobile phone, but if I did, and I were to be using the #GNOME Snapshots app to take pictures, I would want to have exposure locking, focus locking and white balance locking and manual controls, like I do on #OpenCamera (incidentally, that's why I can take decent pictures on a phone, at all).
Here's the ponies-on-rainbows feature suggestion for this mobile #photography trick: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/215

Wow, a friend of a friend gave me a #Monstera Deliciosa to thank ...

2024-08-07T02:53:51Z

Wow, a friend of a friend gave me a #Monstera Deliciosa to thank me for giving them 2 🚲 to get settled in the city :blobaww:

I'm a bit worried as to how to not kill this plant. #houseplants don't do terribly well here when they need "bright indirect light", as my windows block 80% of rays outside visible spectrum, and it seems most plants & devices think it's dusk all the time.

Should I place it east-facing? Or 1-2m away from a south-facing window & gradually bring to the edge (acclimate it)?