#postmarketOS 24.12 is coming out, and we just can't pick a wallpaper....

can you guys help us? Poll in the replies.

interested in helping with with #postmarketOS ? Have an interest in Freedesktop, #GNOME, or app development?

Check out the help wanted section at the bottom of our November status update

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/09/pmOS-update-2024-11/

For some last-minute, end-of year #permacomputing joy, please join us in Berlin for a workshop:

## POST:COM:POST
** Regenerating rotting devices.**

* A Permacomputing Berlin Workshop *

15.12.2024 from 12-17:00h

kindly hosted by:
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin

In this workshop, we will attempt to install the Linux-based PostmarketOS on "obsolete" Android devices and find convivial new uses for them. This event will be more of a collective hacking and experimentation session than a traditional pedagogical instruction format. We can't promise to make every old device work again but we can offer a fun, informative and supportive environment.

For sign-up and more info: https://berlin.permacomputing.net/

🚀 Join the GNOME Foundation Team! 🌱

We’re excited to announce two contractor opportunities funded by Endless:

1️⃣ Digital Wellbeing / Parental Controls
2️⃣ Flathub Payments

We’re looking for passionate individuals to help with GNOME Desktop-wide web/network filtering and Flathub program management.

🔍 For full details & to apply:
Visit the GNOME project Discourse forum links:

1. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/request-for-proposals-gnome-desktop-wide-web-network-filtering-solution/25483

2. https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276

Have experience in open source program management, especially within the US legislative landscape? We’re seeking a contractor to help bootstrap Flathub into a self-sustaining entity. Help us:

• Launch payment & donation systems
• Establish operational governance
• Coordinate financial & legal operations
• Ensure community engagement & transparency
https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276

#Flathub #FediHire #GetFediHired #Flatpak #job #JobAlert #OpenSource #Flatpak #Linux

At last, the USB portal originally authored by @refi64 in 2021, later continued by Georges Stavracas in 2023, and finalized by @hub and @swick, has been merged!

The USB portal allows sandboxed formats like Flatpak to access USB devices without poking holes in the sandbox. This is great for security, as accessing USB devices will now need to be explicitly granted by the user.

Now we just need to wait for implementers to implement them in their respective portal implementations, starting with GNOME: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/159

The documentation for the USB portal is available on the xdg-desktop-portal website: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Usb.html

#Flatpak #Security #GNOME

Happy to share that my implementation of xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol for Mutter has landed and should start shipping in Gnome 48 🎉 That's part of an ongoing effort @ @igalia to officially ship Chromium Ozone/Wayland backend.

https://youtu.be/GAPjtLUBa_E
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4107

For the ones curious about the technical bits and challenges for a first-time contributor for Gnome/Mutter, I'll be covering it in a blog post series in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!

As people may have noticed, we've had some issues with GitLab (repository, issues, merge requests, and documentation are all affected), and the admins have decided to move up the migration day to December 4, 2024:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/scheduled-maintenance-gitlab-gitlab-pages-04th-of-december-2024-at-2-pm-utc/25271

Ideally, this should bring us back to a stable environment. Stay tuned for more information next week.

The era of ChatGPT is kind of horrifying for me as an instructor of mathematics... Not because I am worried students will use it to cheat (I don't care! All the worse for them!), but rather because many students may try to use it to *learn*.

For example, imagine that I give a proof in lecture and it is just a bit too breezy for a student (or, similarly, they find such a proof in a textbook). They don't understand it, so they ask ChatGPT to reproduce it for them, and they ask followup questions to the LLM as they go.

I experimented with this today, on a basic result in elementary number theory, and the results were disastrous... ChatGPT sent me on five different wild goose-chases with subtle and plausible-sounding intermediate claims that were just false. Every time I responded with "Hmm, but I don't think it is true that [XXX]", the LLM responded with something like "You are right to point out this error, thank you. It is indeed not true that [XXX], but nonetheless the overall proof strategy remains valid, because we can [...further gish-gallop containing subtle and plausible-sounding claims that happen to be false]."

I know enough to be able to pinpoint these false claims relatively quickly, but my students will probably not. They'll instead see them as valid steps that they can perform in their own proofs.

I have made the sad decision to stop working on Muzika (https://github.com/vixalien/muzika) and the related muse (https://github.com/vixalien/muse) projects.

Firstly, Muzika is a YouTube Music client and I don't like the decision the service has been making these days like incessant price hikes¹ and YouTube removing OAuth² support, effectively burying 3rd party clients like these. I also need to commit more time to myself and school, which Muzika has been stealing from me.

Finally, you can run U-Boot on #Qualcomm WoA laptops!

Sent an RFC for EFISTUB support, so we can kill the buggy EFI and run our own :D

https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/20241124-b4-efistub-arm64-v1-0-3e33f0340071@linaro.org/

It's been a long while since I've felt I kept GNOME Software's APK plugin at the very end of my TODO-list. It means, right now the plugin works unreliably, and the once fast-and-simple experience in postmarketOS/alpine is not there anymore. If you want to help with it, today it's the day: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/16637

#postmarketOS

GNOME 48 will include a new feature that allows users to limit battery charging. This will help preserve battery capacity on laptops and smartphones!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/merge_requests/2176#note_b78e72d422be6f0dee9061c865f33a62f36c73a1

#GNOME

Coming soon to a #Fairphone 5 running @postmarketOS near you!

#LinuxMobile #MainlineLinux

our #FOSDEM stand is confirmed!

this time we'll have our very own, with plenty of space to show off more amazing device ports and user interfaces.

#LinuxMobile

vesktop is broken and won't open so now i just have my own lil bonzi buddy