Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)

@aral dude what are you doing. This is a super uncool post

@Linux4Everyone yes it was called Wubi! https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi

Stop promoting fascists and alt right extremists. Don’t link to their blogs or videos. Don’t let them speak at your conferences. Don’t have them on your podcast. Don’t amplify their voices.

Do your fucking voice training

@owen Something else I don’t hear people mentioning enough is that hydrogen also slots in “nicely” with fossil fuels in regards to centralized production, requiring transportation infrastructure, refueling stations, etc. You can’t make hydrogen in your own house. It keeps energy centralized and scarce and profitable

@aral haha this made me laugh out loud, thank you! 🩷😂

I guess It’s my turn to echo what other trans people in the Linux space have been saying: if all you care about is the software, you still need to care about trans people. An attack on trans rights is an attack on desktop Linux. Several of the major things you probably care about and use every day are made or maintained by trans people. Even if you only care about the software, you still need to care about what happens to the people who make it. We need you to show up.

I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.

If you’re not already aware, Equality Florida recently released a travel advisory warning encouraging queer folks to avoid the state for travel and not to move there https://www.eqfl.org/florida-travel-advisory

Florida is getting real scary real fast. They will now allow death penalty sentences with an 8-4 jury vote instead of unanimous, they’ve passed a bill to make sex crimes against children punishable by death, and they’re working to make being trans near children a sex crime. For all the “it could never happen here” folks, we’re inching closer to state sanctioned mass murder all the time.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/apr/15/florida-legislature-passes-law-removes-unanimous-j/

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/florida-house-backs-death-penalty-in-child-rapes/

https://translegislation.com/bills/2023/FL

On this #TransDayOfVisibility I think it’s important to remind people that we exist in your communities and in the workplace and in the world as regular people. You may see and interact with us or benefit from our labor without ever knowing it. We’re people just like you. We have the same kinds of hopes and dreams as you do. We just want to be happy and safe and loved and free, just like you.

Did a thing to make sideloading more obvious during onboarding. I really want to get away from this “curated” term https://github.com/elementary/onboarding/pull/190

Spent some time updating some of the network indicator icons and cleaning up old unused ones. Really proud of all the work done in this area this month.

Also shoutouts to @lenemter, the upcoming release of Gala fixes 15 reported issues so far, the oldest of which dates back to 2017. Really great work digging through old issues, modernizing the code base, etc

Okay, it's ready to be tested I think! If you use a VPN or especially multiple VPNs, give this branch an install and restart and comment on github if you have issues :) https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-network/pull/268

Redid the landing page for https://docs.elementary.io/develop/ and updated the (very outdated oops) AppCenter submission docs 🎉

Toggle all the things! Did some icons for cellular networks here as well. Should ultimately be able to show devices with pretty complex ranges of network devices in a more compact area and provide more state information

Shoutouts to @alexm and the @gnome community in general, it looks like the next version of LibAdwaita will be able to detect when you’ve already intitialized Granite in your app and it’ll skip loading styles. Necessary for us for shipping GNOME Web, but just generally nice for any apps who want to support both GNOME and elementary platforms

Got some of our taxes paid and tagged a new Granite release today to unblock the GNOME Web 44 work and I think that’s what I’m capable of today. Still recovering from surgery. There are several other juicy releases queued including over a dozen bug fixes for Gala, the new app menu in Files, all that network indicator work, Gtk 4 port of Portals, and more! Like seriously gonna be a great updates month. So hang tight :)

I’m so bored right now, I made a draft of a thing. So much room for activities https://github.com/elementary/wingpanel-indicator-session/pull/174

Happy Tuesday! Releases are building. I’ll get a blogpost up soonish. Still recovering and sitting in an office chair too long hurts 😅