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Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:
@Cassidy James :roost: :gnome:

Building open communities and useful, usable tech for good.

:roost: @roost OSS Community Manager
:gnome: @gnome Foundation Director

Previously: partners & community @EndlessAccess, co-founder & CXO at @elementary; UX & web at @system76.

Still an emo kid at heart đź–¤

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I recently (re?)discovered The Open Source Way guidebook, and it is SO GOOD.

If you want to understand healthy, successful open source projects and community, I implore you to give it a read. Even a skim over interesting chapters is worthwhile! The whole thing completely reflects my own experiences in the best open source projects and communities.

Thanks to @nprofile1q..., @nprofile1q..., @nprofile1q..., and more for putting it together.

https://guidebook.theopensourceway.org/

#OpenSourceWay #OpenSource #FOSS #community
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I’m not sure about the taskbar-style compose dialog (I also find it strange in Gmail), but generally I really like where Mastodon is going design-wise.

For accent colors/custom themes I will once again bang the drum: modern CSS is so freaking powerful! You can do a ton of color science stuff when given even a single accent color; the Mastodon web client should 100% be built around that assumption to enable arbitrary accent colors while guaranteeing minimum levels of contrast.

#Mastodon
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Renaud Chaput · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq2f7r2gjj0ch84wdh5kg03gkmjyskya6zlxq70cxlk5qm5sysjhuq9wjlkz There will be another post about the new visual design. All I can say is that we have very good knowledge on what can be done with CSS, and we learned a lot about colour computation in t...
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As I continue to see official Linux releases of AI companies’ desktop apps, remember:

Installing something from a .deb file gives the creator of the app ROOT ACCESS TO YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER. These .debs also add a persistent repo to your computer, meaning they have PERSISTENT root access.

I’m not sure that’s something you really want to give these companies. Maybe it’s why they’re not releasing Flatpaks?

#Linux #Flatpak #OpenSource #AI #LLM #Claude #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Anthropic #Ubuntu
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michimichael · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq2f7r2gjj0ch84wdh5kg03gkmjyskya6zlxq70cxlk5qm5sysjhuq9wjlkz Hello! For those of us who have not seen those releases of those AI companies, are they in the official stores of the distributions? Or are they unofficial packages?