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Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼
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An advocate for Free Software, Open Source communities, the GNOME project, Open Hardware/Firmware - and sustainable open source - I might talk about politics too. I'm […]

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Please Fund My Continued Accessibility Work on GNOME!
Hey, I have been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I cannot find a permanent job that allows me to function, I am not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals to work on free and open-source projects got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find, especially when many of them prioritize new contributors. Essentially, I have no stable, monthly income that allows me to sustain myself. Nowadays, I mostly volunteer to improve accessibility throughout GNOME apps, either by enhancing the user experience for people with disabilities, or enabling them to use them. I helped make most of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader, with additional ongoing effort involving merge requests !564 and !598 to make the month view accessible, all of which is an effort no company has ever contributed to, or would ever contribute to financially. These merge requests require literal thousands of hours for research, development, and testing, enough to sustain me for several years if I were employed. I would _really_ appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to increase my monthly income. These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to work on accessibility throughout GNOME, essentially ‘crowdfunding’ development without doing it on the behalf of the GNOME Foundation or another organization. Donate on Liberapay Support on Ko-fi Sponsor on GitHub
tesk.page
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Great talk by @scottjenson .. worth listening to.
https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=8kD1smZe3mWQ068j
December 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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#gnome developers and the alike, how many of you are in San Francisco? looking to see if we can have an in-person get together!
December 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
mastodon.social
December 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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When USAID cuts came, people died because life saving food, water, and medicine, dried up. That left groups who didnt rely on USAID to fill the void. One org, Alaska Health Project South Sudan, showed me how they are fighting like hell to do exactly that.

I hope you will read:
NEW: This is a story that took months to pull together and broke my heart a million times writing it.
But this isnt a sad story.
This is about courage, compassion and survival. And the herculean efforts of a group of people who refuse to lay down and die.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Cut Their Lifeline. Months Later, They're Still Fighting Like Hell To Survive.
A small organization powered by the people who need it most has found a way to save lives abandoned by the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Hi all! To anyone within reach who has citizenship in either #netherlands or #belgium, Red Hat is hiring a consulting architect to work in the #benelux team […]
Original post on foojay.social
foojay.social
December 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Hans Grüber has fallen from Nakatomi Plaza! Merry Christmas y'all's!
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Surprised that there is no app that deep fakes Santa delivering presents and putting it under the tree.
December 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
This is to test to see how well postiz works across two social media channels. 😀
December 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115662283433619271

wow.. I still say thank you to the LLM chat bot. It's just bizarre that someone would even bring up a slave/master paradigm with an LLM. That's really disturbing.
hachyderm.io
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We're looking for some fine folks who would be willing to host Linux App Summit in April 2026 specifically we are looking for countries in Europe. If you're interested in hosting, please DM me. :)

#linux #AppEcosystem #gnome #kde
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison.

But...
/1
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Just read old GNOMie @dcbw joined the Documentation Foundation working on UI/UX of LibreOffice! Woot!!

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/

Exciting! Any chance we might see some libadwaita happenings maybe??? […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I'm testing out @mixpost as a possible solution to manage social media. This is the free version but I really like it so far. This is the first post using it. I'm looking to see how well my engagement is. The pro-version will let me add an entire thread which is super awesome.

If you could give […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650821719990388

I've finally become a friend of GNOME, too. It's time for us users to take financing of open source software we use into our own hands.
floss.social
December 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/115650488438321885

#gnome is one of many open source projects I am regularly donating to. I use it every day on laptops at home, on laptop at work and hopefully one day on my daily driven phone. Do you also like it? Donate few dollars too. Be #FriendsOfGnome. :gnome:
floss.social
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We are at 761#FriendsofGNOME ! Exciting ! Can we get to 780 today ?!
December 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I've been playing around with LLMs and all this MCP stuff. I created an agentic workflow that connects @planifyapp, evolution and so on. It's pretty rad. It improved my productivity.

But, I find LLMs to be very fragile. If you change the LLM or update the LLM the flows break. I don't know how […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Finally got momentum on the redesigned I planned for Maps for GNOME 50, redesigning the sidebar a bit (taking a bit inspiration from Nucleus) with the aim of ultimatly it use an AdwMultiLayoutView using a bottom sheet in narrow/mobile mode. And showing place […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
@itsfoss has really been upping their game and I've been enjoying their content. I just subscribed for their yearly subscription. Highly encourage you all to look into it. I don't really need the plus features but I do like supporting good journalism.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/115567743234199107

Good grief, more media consolidation shenanigans?

#media #uspol
mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Now that mastodon supports quote toots, I hope @Tuba will get an update!!
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I hope y'alls know that the next big thing is foundry, right? 😉
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM