Notices by Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)

Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Aug-2021 23:55:19 UTC Chris

Hey folks, I’m hoping this is the last time I need to ask for help, but right now I need it. I recently got started on ADHD medications and I’m hoping that will help me get on track soon. But in the meantime, I need help.
Job hunting has produced nothing for me, and don’t have much money left. I don’t have enough to pay rent or bills right now. If you can spare it, I would really appreciate if you could help me out.
If you know of any job opportunities, I would also appreciate it if you would DM me.
Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/chrisdavisgnome Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome GitHub Sponsors (won’t get a payout until November): https://github.com/sponsors/BrainBlasted
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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jan-2021 23:55:13 UTC Chris

A while back I was given maintainership of a program I use. Soon I’m going to land a complete redesign and rewrite on the repo, implemented without referencing the old code at all. How much should I credit the original author in the repo/program itself?

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Sep-2020 00:28:32 UTC Chris

DRM not only punishes users for using new systems, but it also prevents developers from creating them.
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Monday, 21-Sep-2020 23:27:09 UTC Chris
- Chris
DRM needs to die. In hellfire.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2019 00:42:10 UTC Chris
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- Laurelai Bailey
@Laurelai I did not, and now I hate that I have, thanks

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2019 18:45:35 UTC Chris

If anyone wants to try out my latest improvements to Social, check out the flatpak bundle from the latest commit:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/BrainBlasted/Social/-/jobs/391150/artifacts/file/gnome-social-dev.flatpak

Hopefully there will be a nightly repo to make things simpler.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2019 02:42:01 UTC Chris

Hi everyone! My name is Chris. I develop apps for the GNOME desktop, and host social.libre.fi. I’m currently looking for full-time work so that I can pay essential things like food and rent. I would really appreciate any financial help you can spare.

One-time donations are at https://www.paypal.me/chrisdavisgnome

My Patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome
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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 00:04:25 UTC Chris

Hey everyone! I just luanched my Patreon page:

https://www.patreon.com/chrisgnome

I'm currently strapped for income after ending my Purism contract, so any donation you can provide is greatly appreciated.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2019 00:15:35 UTC Chris

Instead of supporting projects lead by TERFs, support people on the #transcrowdfund tag with money or by boosting if you don't have funds yourself!

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 20:01:28 UTC Chris

Huh, so even Eugen wasn't able to convince them. They've also lost his support. This company seems to be determined to make the wrong decision here.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 20:19:22 UTC Chris

The conversation with Todd from Purism was completely unproductive in my mind. In his view, there are only two possible options for moderation:

• Become a complete censorship machine with a slippery slope of who can or cannot speak

• Go by the jurisdiction users are in, hiding content illegal in certain jurisdictions and then removing content illegal in the poster's jurisdiction, for example a Chinese user's dissent against the Chinese gov't would be removed.

There are two problems that I brought up that, being that:

• Purism would be participating in the injustices of those countries

• Legal but harmful content would still be allowed, thus spreading harm.

I felt completely ignored when trying to get this across to him, especially that last bit. I also tried explaining to him that a slippery slope does not exist when you have set principles that you stick to within rules, but that completely flew over his head. It also ended with him basically telling me to solve the problem with a solution that works for every country everywhere and then get back to him. So, the block & boycott of Purism continues.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2019 20:50:40 UTC Chris

Purism has decided that they will explicitly allow bigoted content on their servers. For that reason I will not lift my ban on them, and I recommend that servers that have not blocked them yet do. I cannot in good conscious support their products if they will allow the spread of content that harms minorities.

Below is the conversation I had in their public Librem One room after they published their CoC.
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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Jan-2019 17:22:31 UTC Chris

I'm happy to announce that I am working a short term contract for Purism to work on adapting Fractal, a Matrix client for GNOME, to work on the Librem 5! Here's a blog post with details:

https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2019/01/30/adaptive-fractal-contract/

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Dec-2018 23:19:39 UTC Chris

Facebook … gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.

What the fuck?!

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Nov-2018 19:12:50 UTC Chris

💀: using tired/wired format
🧠🎇: using the expand brain format with emoji

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Oct-2018 14:58:04 UTC Chris

Today someone pointed out http://flatkill.org/, and I saw some discussions around it today on fedi. As a user of Flatpak for both installing and developing applications I wanted to address it.

A lot of the issues they attribute to flatpak itself are really issues with the consumers of flatpak. Flatpak's sandbox is not useless, but the fact of the matter is many popular applications cannot fully use the sandbox in order to function. Inkscape is a good example. With Inkscape I can drag an icon from anywhere on my system and integrate it into the mockups I am working on. With a full sandbox that would not be possible, and the thing most important to most users is whether or not they can do their work with an application. So, as a trade-off, some apps choose their level of sandboxing.

There is a way to have a functioning app that interacts with the filesystem without turning off the sandbox, and that's through portals. Portals are not something that are automatically used, however. Applications need to be modified to support them - GtkFileChooserDialog becomes GtkFileChooserNative. This takes effort on the part of application developers, and if they aren't targeting flatpak themselves it's an effort they might not put in. This makes it so anyone packaging the flatpak needs to make the app work without portals, and that's through changing their sandboxing level.

Because some apps need to have permissions outside of the basic sandbox level, the author of flatkill states that "the users are misled to believe the apps run sandboxed". Contrarily, the flatpak CLI explicitly tells you what permissions are needed at install time. You can also use `flatpak info --show-permissions` after installation, and override permissions you don't want. The real issue lies once again with the consumers - package management interfaces like GNOME Software. To solve these issues these interfaces could:

• Show each permission the app requests explicitly
• Have a way to deny permissions at install time or post-install.

These are things that need to be worked on,
and likely will be worked on in the near-future as flatpak matures.

Flatpak is a new technology. There are growing pains, but I wouldn't write it off. The issues pointed out will be fixed as applications target the sandbox. There still might be some issues with third-party apps like Steam and Spotify, but those issues would still be present without flatpak. When used as a system for developers to distribute their own apps, flatpak has great potential.
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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Friday, 07-Sep-2018 18:39:23 UTC Chris

So this tickles me. According to the bofa admin I am Laurelai. He thinks everyone who knows about his bullshit and will call him out on it is Laurelai.

I don't even know how to respond because this is so interesting.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 05:04:37 UTC Chris

I wish more of the other people working on GNOME stuff were on the fediverse. So many people I can't interact with like I do the people here because they're only active on Twitter.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Friday, 03-Aug-2018 19:41:25 UTC Chris

Only trust software as well as you can host it.

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 04:13:39 UTC Chris

Pleroma updates are super fast. Just `git pull` and `MIX_ENV=prod mix ecto.migrate` and you're done

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