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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

the fact that people from all corners of the earth are talking to me about sovereign desktop initiatives leaves me both hopeful and paranoid. please let this not be the “hey, i wrote a mastodon client too” moment for the free desktop.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

for the first time, there is a broad realization that there is no such thing as “intellectual property.” there never was. the users and the contributors are the intelligence. and nobody owns them. i’m grateful for this moment in history.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"if you’ve already been curious about giving GNOME OS a try, this is the moment!" uffff. tempting.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@pojntfx ha. p keeps saying “my desk is like i’m in the matrix!” (3 monitors) but… this wins. link to thunderbolt dock? that looks haaaaandy

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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The people holding up the internet

Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

100% this is a poster in my goddamn office ❤️ i presently work for a cto who keeps asking people "and what happens when you are eaten by cats?" and i absolutely love her for it every time. what a gear-change from 13 months ago.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@crmsnbleyd plz send to canada bc p and i need a speaker cables

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: fantastic.earth/@arun/1173554419835… the #gnome community would really benefit from dialling down absolutely every other conversation topic for a year and focusing on this. just this. take a second to remember what the hell you’re even doing. and why.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/1173499… the earnest use of “load-bearing” in this piece is nathan fielder territory

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

i am missing #indiafoss because my dumb boring life kept me out of india for another year. hope you have fun folks! looks like a great lineup.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@crmsnbleyd it’s when the twink crawls up the tree, poops a little cocoon, and 9 months later comes out a microbear the process was documented heavily in the movie “cocoon”

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: floss.social/@gnome/117281344719669… did you know it’s possible to have an attractive, simple computer that’s not full of ads and garbage and planned obsolescence? more true now than ever, despite what you may have heard in the news.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jcoglan/1172421008… lmao this is the first worthy take on this dhh nonsense i’ve seen yet. a+ i would use a linux distro made by yehuda katz

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

p: "did your new friends like your little push request or whatever?" in this house, my code receives exactly as much respect as it deserves.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

available in all your favourite classic candy flavours: rusty hemoglobin, toothpaste, urinal puck, overripe fortnight banana, blue, purple, and of course, “sugar”

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

if that’s an international harvester mug in the latest elle cordova, i have the same one. ❤️

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

i absolutely love the idea that the slop pr problem could lead to an offline-first, slow-food approach to quality open source. i might be alone here, though

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

i started an off-grid cabin coop with some friends back in 2010. the application process was on paper, and mailed in. it prevented low-effort entries completely. i look forward to open source projects taking this approach. “your first patch can be printed out and mailed to this p.o. box for review”

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

if everyone is responsible, then no one is if everybody is sick, then nobody is if everything is a crisis, then nothing is

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

lmao ... it's so easy. llm english is the second-most "how do you do, fellow kids" thing in existence right after canadian politicians

WhatsApp conversation screenshot from a Mac:

s> "This post has three jobs." how much ai was used to write this post?

b> 99% AI on the prose, I gave the structure and the rough outline, and ask it to fill it based on a discussion thread. Title was mine as well. Thanks for the reaction though, if the first comment is that if it's AI generated, well that means the thing I wanted to convey didn't go across.

s> yeah, sorry. if i detect an ai generated piece of text, i don't read it.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

don’t forget to virtue signal before you lane switch

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

watching someone in a supervisory/pm role drop 100s of small-ish bugfix commits into a repo he’s never committed to as long as i’ve followed the project. maintainer is nowhere to be seen. the pm is technical. i actually have no predictions for how this ultimately plays out. but… huh.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

listening to a video @ 2x and it rolled over to a kexp glass beams recording. i like them better at 2x but i’m also impressed by how little their music is disrupted by it

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@crmsnbleyd milk chai is the only liquid required for the human body but coffee will suffice

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@pojntfx woooooo! this is so necessary — i hope they can pull it off.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@pojntfx i love that whole album! p hates it. it is a little intense, i guess

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

@crmsnbleyd as a very fast typer who also has rsi, i strongly encourage you to optimize for comfort.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

spent all day ripping apart the rotten ramp behind our new house. found an even more rotten deck joist hidden behind it. whether a real-world construction project or a software project, it's always yaks all the way down. 🐂 maybe i'll get to build stairs next week.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

welcome. we are having a 4-for-1 sale on well-intentioned bad ideas. if you can't find one you like, we have plenty more in the back.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

मेरा शरीर टूट रहा है। अभी नहीं, अभी नहीं। यह टूटगा। लेकिन अभी नहीं। तो मुझे काम करने दो।

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

liquid glass design sensibilities remind me of visual basic 3 in single document interface mode but it makes even less sense, somehow

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

@pojntfx 100%. we built a multi-variate experimentation platform once while i was at nilenso. seeing how a (relatively innocent e-commerce) website sees users was enlightening. we are rarely aggregate. most of the time, one is seen by corporations and governments as their race, language […]

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razze @razze.osna.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Looking for a new workplace. Hit me with #opensource work, I prefer #typescript these days, but mostly looking for interesting/fulfilling things to do. Ideally remote or in northern germany. #fedihire

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/11675257858… > But what if there is an emergency > > Then we get to read about it in August. Or you get a support contract and we get to read about it earlier. sorry for spoiling the punchline

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

just once, try fighting corruption instead of fighting with each other

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

i'm offgrid for 4 days! congratulations #gnome again on (a) the most meaningful election in a long time! there's a great list of candidates and it's hard to choose. (b) your first fellows — this is everything for the gnome foundation and, i hope, the start of a new era for the #linux desktop […]

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Someone who knows him should cc @Migueldeicaza ... I hear that guy has like 13,291 friends and maybe some of them want to be Friends of GNOME.

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Steven Deobald @deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

@thelinuxEXP @BrideOfLinux @BrodieOnLinux @MichaelTunnell THIS is your GNOME news! The Foundation has done a staggering amount of work to accomplish this. THIS is what a year of boring spreadsheets and policy changes can accomplish. THIS is what some of us have been waiting for, for 20 years […]

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