Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

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And finally, here's the future of GNOME: version 40. 👣

It's the biggest change to GNOME UX since 3.0, although it's been softened to not be nearly as disruptive. The current design looks like won't be the final one (tons of feedback this time around), but you can use it today!

You can download it atm from here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/jobs/1090192/artifacts/raw/image/installer.iso

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40/
https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/

Last night, I spent a bit of time looking back into the history of GNOME 3 ​

Yes, for the most part it is all quite samey - GNOME 3.10 already should be familiar enough to all current GNOME users. But there's a series of phases, or "eras" as I called them, with a clear UX/visual identity.

#cat #modeltrain

Let's make 2021 floofy

Playing with GNOME Shell 40 touchpad gestures 🔥

The shell developers are doing a awesome job. It's incredible!

Don't worry, the actual animations aren't that slow, I just move my fingers very slowly on my trackpad. The animations match the actual movement of my fingers.

Let's be very clear here: in no small part the blame for what happened today lies with surveillance capitalism.

It is *profitable* to put right-wing/fascist/conspiratorial content in front of more eyeballs, since it generates more "engagement". So Facebook, YouTube and others became perfect channels for this kind of crap.

Big Tech made money on this, for them today's insurrection is an "externality".

Good things are coming in 2021, I promise. ;)

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/

I've been sending a lot of my books that I've been removing from my collection to the Internet Archive for digitizing. You can too:

http://blog.archive.org/2021/01/05/downsizing-in-2021-donate-your-discarded-books-and-media-to-the-internet-archive/

This article on monochromatic dithering techniques is amazing. https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

@elagabalus

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"100 billion tons!
This is the amount of #materials entering the global #economy per year (2019 figure).
This includes #mineral #resources, #fossilfuels, #metals and #biomass. All the elements used to fuel our economic system. In terms of #world population this corresponds to about 12t per capita. Only 8.4 billion tons is #recycled and re-injected into the economy. Very far from a #circular economy...
These figures and many others are presented in the #circularity Gap report of 2020."
#recycling
https://www.circularity-gap.world/