Simon Ser @emersion@octodon.social

If you like #xmonad but would like to have some #Wayland goodness in your life: The #Waymonad project is looking for a new maintainer. #haskell https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad

"How do I get started contributing to open source? What are some good entry-level tasks to work on?"

These are questions I am often asked, so here's the answer for everyone to read:

Scratch your own itches. Find bugs that are causing you problems, conspicuously missing features you would find useful, and implement them - in literally any free/open-source software you're using. Don't worry about not being familiar with the codebase or programming language or whatever, just solve one problem at a time.

Try this: next time you go to report a bug, report it, and immediately start working on a patch which fixes the problem.

Scratching your own itches is the best source of motivation and maximizes your productivity.

Often that means not contributing to my projects at all, if you're asking how to get started with a specific project. Maybe you like it because it's flawless 😉 (hah!), in which case it wouldn't need your help anyway. Go fix something which is bugging you in another project. Spread the contributor wealth around and eventually it'll come back to my projects, too.

They played bad apple on a ryzen.

THEY PLAYED BAD APPLE!

ON A RYZEN!

Email service provider recommendations

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-recommendations.html

‪my final update before the end of the campaign (~ 40 hours left). this one has a bunch of pictures of making Reform beta devices: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/ending-soon-and-building-beta-units‬

free and open source music composition software now with ~design~. amazing! https://musescore.org/en/MuseScore4

Update on the MNT Reform campaign is out, in which I give a quick intro to etnaviv reverse engineering and hacking on graphics problems with the example of KiCAD: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/graphics-improvements-4k-hdmi-and-proper-kicad-support

i bumped the bounty for my etnaviv bug to 1000 EUR. maybe someone can relieve my pain? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/3090

I bought a domain to illustrate my point:

https://shouldiusethreads.com

MNT Reform (open hardware laptop) campaign is live: https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

And here's the Launch Announcement:
https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/the-campaign-is-live

Thanks to everyone who helped and supported us to make this happen.

Keybase, the company that asks you to upload your private keys to their servers, has just been acquired by Zoom, an essentially Chinese company notorious for having terrible concepts on how encryption should be implemented.

Even if you gave Keybase the benefit of the doubt beforehand, this is corporate suicide at it's most graphic. Delete your Keybase keys. Close your account. Rotate everything that Keybase touched, be that password or cryptomaterial.

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/05/07/zoom-acquires-keybase-and-announces-goal-of-developing-the-most-broadly-used-enterprise-end-to-end-encryption-offering/