Jeremy Soller

@system76 Principal Engineer, @pop_os_official Maintainer, and @redox BDFL - https://soller.dev

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2024-06-22 14:28:10

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@npub1gtt…alk0 Well, he is requesting boycotts of companies (System76) that employ people that are working on it but don't agree with his approach (me).
Does that count as making it better?

2024-06-22 14:23:02

Or maybe, just maybe, Aral is completely missing the point and directing hate at me and my company for being something we are not. Why do you think Pop!_OS has held off on the Wayland transition for so long?
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/660/237/122/270/638/original/c20ec2e1d9f5bc15.png

2024-06-21 22:30:26

I am proud to have brought the far right and far left together.
They are remarkable in their ability to reconstruct words however they wish to "win" arguments.
https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1797740982055698711
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112655387708543402

2024-06-20 22:41:09

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@npub13ky…dayl I only use cosmic-term. These apps are meant to fill in most people's needs, I don't expect them to be replaced often.

2024-06-20 13:36:34

I have now blocked @[email protected]. Take that crap somewhere else, bud. I worked on cosmic-text because Rust projects were way behind on internationalization. I'm no stranger to accessibility projects and I hope to make COSMIC one of the first accessible wayland desktops. I'm not your enemy, but you talk to me like one. Go fight your crusades somewhere else.

2024-06-20 06:12:09

I grew up in Montgomery, Alabama. School taught us about heroes: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr, the Tuskegee Airmen, George Washington Carver, and many others who lived in our state and changed history through their perseverance.
We were also taught about villains, the constant effort to maintain a society built on injustice where only one kind of people can be lifted up by the effort of all others.
Now, helped by school vouchers and "parental choice", the villains can erase this history.

2024-06-08 04:57:26

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@npub1qhg…8mhf I think primary selection already works.

2024-06-08 03:59:06

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@npub1ryh…kxma Yeah, I was told by an IRS agent that Redox OS being general purpose was not possible to get 501c3 status, it needed to be specifically supporting some disadvantaged group of people.

2024-06-07 23:20:01

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@npub12dh…q6qy I think it does provide total width, total height, cell width, and cell height.

2024-06-07 22:32:06

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@npub186w…7vm6 _tabbed_ terminal multiplexing.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/577/237/262/061/743/original/78b17f206929a085.png

2024-06-07 22:28:10

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- Terminal multiplexing
Yes
- Sixel graphics support
Not yet
- Font ligature support
Yes
- Wayland support
Yes
- True Color support
Yes
- Written in Rust, C, or C++ not Javascript
Yes
- Decently fast
Yes
- Unicode and emoji support
Yes
- Configuration in simple language like TOML or through graphical menu
Yes
- Intuitive default keybindings
I think so
- Render underline, italic, bold, strikethrough etc properly
Yes
- Scrollback search
Yes

2024-06-07 22:27:41

I think cosmic-term can do all of this except for sixel (and I'm open to implementing that too!)
https://floss.social/@triskelion/112576108605063095

2024-05-31 04:07:27

@npub1tc6…mhfm Hello, I am supporting via patreon with the email [email protected] and I think I did not automatically receive a supporter badge due to this account using a different email. Can I fix it?

2024-05-31 00:23:50

Convicted felon Donald J. Trump

2024-05-30 14:29:35

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@npub1tzv…fnvp It would at least happen less if there were less people with arbitrary unquestionable positions of power (particularly priests)

2024-05-30 14:09:53

"Geraldine Charbonneau Dubourt was one of nine sisters who said they were sexually or physically abused by priests at an Indian boarding school in Marty, S.D. She said that she was 16 when a Catholic priest repeatedly raped her in a church basement and that a doctor and several Catholic sisters later forced her to undergo an abortion."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/sexual-abuse-native-american-boarding-schools/

2024-05-29 21:55:19

The Right to Repair bill that just passed in Colorado is an amazing triumph for all consumers and one that System76 wholeheartedly supports as a local manufacturer of hardware.
I wish it didn't have any exceptions carved out for special interests, but still amazing progress!

2024-05-28 17:14:17

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@npub1nqz…838y These are the same kinds of people who would use an appeal to nature to argue against LGBT rights. They have no principles, only logical fallacies.

2024-05-28 02:43:40

This is similar to my feelings about both-sideism in the upcoming US election, see the alt text. We need ranked choice voting, but we do not have it. Donald Trump can win, and with that will come a large set of executive overstepping on day one.
I will not protest vote. I will not vote for a third party, no matter how much better they are. I will not abstain from voting. I will vote for Joe Biden.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/515/912/868/299/769/original/e32489be34b79a22.png

2024-05-28 00:56:46

In case you forgot that Trump is terrible for Palestinians, in addition to all the other stuff he wants to help do (see Project 2025)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/27/trump-israel-gaza-policy-donors/

2024-05-27 22:33:52

cosmic_bg_theme by my coworker Ashley sets up your COSMIC theme with a color palette derived from your background. I started using it with a rotating set of 4k backgrounds and it is pretty awesome!
https://github.com/wash2/cosmic_bg_theme

2024-05-26 18:34:31

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@npub109k…nfaf It would not be hard to do, making a copy of the app list applet used in the dock and adjusting how it looks.

2024-05-26 18:30:15

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@npub109k…nfaf I'm AFK but can explain it. That widget holds small screenshots of the window contents when you minimize, so windows "go" there when they are minimized.

2024-05-26 17:39:15

I love seeing people go through COSMIC for the first time. It is always useful to see what worked well and what needs adjustment. If y'all have any questions about COSMIC, don't hesitate to ask, I wrote the editor, file manager, store, and terminal.
https://youtu.be/aorVb1SNR7Y?si=5D-hw0bDs3m1R8cC

2024-05-22 17:10:16

I wrote a PDF reader with libcosmic yesterday. While it is very basic and not likely to be ready for the first COSMIC release, it is pure rust, lightweight, GPU accelerated, and highly portable.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/485/371/555/838/661/original/da458ee60152a24f.png

2024-05-12 00:32:52

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@npub1ryh…kxma Absolutely agree

2024-05-11 16:22:08

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@npub1n5d…wt2g I vote Democrat because at least they wouldn't come after me, a filthy atheist, as one of their first policies...

2024-05-11 16:18:35

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@npub1nhk…30va I can be something and be wary of identifying as such lest I receive the wrath of the internet's right-think task force

2024-05-11 15:59:01

I freaking hate politics right now. There is no place for views that aren't hard-left or hard-right. There is no desire for dialog. Most people in reality are not perfect ideological stereotypes. But in spite of that, I see more and more of my online acquaintances falling into line with these sterotypes. Being part of the left leaning FOSS community, usually this means presenting as far left revolutionaries. It is resulting in the split of communities and ejection of good faith participants.

2024-05-11 14:07:32

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@npub1f87…d2q6 AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

2024-05-11 04:41:11

"Jeremy, why does your desktop need 128 GiB or RAM?"
So I can build the Redox toolchain (rustc, llvm, gcc, binutils) for three different architectures at the same time.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/420/135/985/241/193/original/724abb2d349954a5.png

2024-05-11 02:38:46

My how things change with time
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/419/662/208/630/644/original/72c5935449379efd.png

2024-05-09 14:47:38

A Blog to Satisfy Your Monthly COSMIC Fix(es)
https://blog.system76.com/post/your-monthly-cosmic-fix

2024-05-09 01:21:16

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@npub1qhg…8mhf Both

2024-05-08 21:49:02

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I had to make this a bit messy to fit everything in, I was using the BMC's graphics output.

2024-05-08 21:47:30

Generic ARM64 UEFI ISO for Pop!_OS 24.04 is coming along nicely.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/407/191/681/861/605/original/8c963f0809a38bd6.png

2024-05-05 19:55:34

There's this guy on Phoronix who swings around to many articles about things I work on and insists that System76 will fail if we don't close source everything and I think it is some of the dumbest stuff I have ever heard.

2024-05-03 17:43:56

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@npub12fr…sfe5 Get me an icon pack and I'll do it!

2024-05-03 17:39:12

Redox OS (@npub1ee4…flp3) running COSMIC
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/377/904/805/370/089/original/ec976f0463e1b79a.png

2024-05-03 16:47:56

COSmac
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/377/703/427/172/841/original/5d9795a824f6102d.png

2024-05-03 03:13:16

COSMIC95
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/374/500/099/267/416/original/28c5deebe12df26e.png

2024-05-02 04:55:01

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@npub1hlt…ck4e I'll look into this, it is a good time to do it as the theming is pretty stable.

2024-05-02 04:51:52

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@npub1hlt…ck4e Can the module be easily loaded for flatpak apps?

2024-05-02 04:22:58

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@npub1hlt…ck4e Is there an example platform plugin I could look at?

2024-04-30 23:58:42

This Month in Redox, a Rust Operating System - April 2024
https://redox-os.org/news/this-month-240430/

2024-04-23 16:20:07

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@npub1lrj…vpqe If there are techniques I can assure you they have been applied to one of the most used C libraries, glibc, and still missed this vulnerability.

2024-04-23 15:55:39

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@npub1lrj…vpqe Even fixing C just a little would break compatibility with most C code.

2024-04-23 15:47:32

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@npub1lrj…vpqe I could provide dozens if not hundreds of examples of unreadable C, in important projects. Rust even forces its macros to be syntactically sane.

2024-04-23 15:27:14

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@npub1lrj…vpqe I know you're trying to be funny but I have to ask, how much C code have you seen?

2024-04-23 15:17:58

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@npub1lrj…vpqe Making C memory safe gives you Rust, idiosyncracies and all

2024-04-23 15:06:53

glibc iconv buffer overflow vulnerability that can be used for remote code execution on servers running PHP. Present for 24 years, currently unpatched.
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/18/4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2961
- https://rockylinux.org/news/glibc-vulnerability-april-2024/

2024-04-19 23:15:25

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@npub12gw…4xyg There is a dropdown to select a source for an application

2024-04-19 20:45:25

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@npub1all…xt49 Performance was a major consideration, if you have a chance, try the new one out.

2024-04-19 17:33:43

Source selection. I chose Brave because it has a noticeably different icon (don't use Brave, use Firefox)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/298/611/155/976/671/original/cecc82ae0ebac039.png
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/298/611/165/537/020/original/1cb1b06a523ada0d.png

2024-04-19 14:32:56

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@npub14aq…yl4h I am working on combining multiple sources.

2024-04-18 20:30:39

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COSMIC App Store is still a work in progress but it is already usable and rapid progress is being made on remaining issues. Here are screenshots of larger views, with the widest one showing the maximum content width of 1600 pixels. (2/2)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/293/639/832/271/533/original/0ef9a5f7c4bd8592.png
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/293/640/133/883/839/original/8579530fae41cab7.png

2024-04-10 16:45:36

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@npub12dh…q6qy Yes, the evidence has shown that LLMs are really great at figuring out how many single quotes, double quotes, and pentagrams to surround arguments so Windows correctly preserves them in all cases

2024-04-10 16:37:44

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@npub12dh…q6qy I doubt even a formally verified programming language could safely launch a batch file on Windows

2024-04-10 15:45:20

Currently exploitable local privilege execution on kernels used on fully updated Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/x7OZZKejbd
Kernels newer than 6.5 not affected (such as 6.8 used on Pop!_OS 22.04)

2024-04-09 21:06:47

Is it possible to simultaneously have complete support for the enforcement of a code of conduct resulting in the removal of a transphobe from a community
While at the same time reminiscing on how I was threatened with CoC bans for a disagreement on technical issues
And how some of the folks who are commenting on this rightful ban were all too happy with pushing for a wrongful one
I still remember.

2024-04-08 21:15:03

Eclipse: casts Blindness
Eyes: roll 1 (critical failure)
Eyes: Blinded

2024-04-04 18:03:21

I have now managed to get my Osborne 1 bitmap graphics demo working in an emulator. The Osborne 1 only has character graphics, with the character map shown on the right of the image. By racing the beam with very careful timing, characters can be swapped to select specific lines from characters to mimic a bitmap graphics mode. I'm looking forward to testing on real hardware soon! For source and a description of how it works, see https://github.com/jackpot51/occ1
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/213/779/690/684/662/original/a23fbb5d212a9fa9.png

2024-04-03 01:00:58

lmfao
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/204/109/212/591/470/original/cf73c9ac5c685c96.png

2024-04-01 14:58:53

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@npub19s0…22vv
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2024-04-01 00:37:18

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@npub1hqn…afyj No proof of who Jia was.

2024-04-01 00:12:16

I'm honestly pretty tired of the more money/more eyes/more time/more something would have prevented the xz backdoor. It is unbelievably optimistic to think the community could just be a little better and that would defuse the efforts of a damn nation state.

2024-03-31 17:43:10

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@npub1lrj…vpqe My favorite part!

2024-03-31 17:40:32

Which Easter are Christians celebrating? The Bible has multiple versions and they are not consistent. https://ffrf.org/component/k2/item/18418-leave-no-stone-unturned

2024-03-31 17:12:22

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@npub1qhg…8mhf I hid em: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1774417978483777746

2024-03-31 17:06:33

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Twitter hate
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/190/919/811/258/997/original/89586a3597ff5ac9.png

2024-03-31 16:24:55

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Twitter is very predictable
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/190/755/931/288/297/original/5fc1bf33ee49606d.png

2024-03-31 14:45:45

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility!
On this day our tradition is to go egg hunting
🥚 👀 😉

2024-03-30 19:43:12

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@npub12rh…g59x Return to nature

2024-03-30 15:32:56

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@npub1h3g…nf7g Not yet!

2024-03-30 15:28:48

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@npub12rh…g59x Vulnerabilities don't have to have a runtime cost. This was luck, more than the system working as intended.

2024-03-30 14:40:07

The worst thing about the xz backdoor is that the same process could easily be replicated on a wide set of other projects. The whole software ecosystem is based on trust that is often undeserved.
https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor

2024-03-26 19:05:07

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@npub1gl5…7hk0 I've got an install of Fedora Silverblue 40 for tracking COSMIC ;-)

2024-03-22 17:31:06

I cannot stress enough how pleasing I find the default COSMIC light theme.

2024-03-18 17:50:59

COSMUnity - from @npub1xuw…xhq5
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/117/721/240/346/566/original/8a326e7db692f585.png

2024-03-17 13:58:00

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@npub1dcw…43jp "far beyond anything else out there..." - is not true. We will continue to build out theming options but it is still constrained by a desire for consistency. For example, having a minimum contrast for text or ensuring the colors of certain components all match. In Qt and manually created GTK CSS themes, all manner of changes are possible, even ones that are not consistent.

2024-03-12 21:27:08

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@npub1e60…55ug Well... I have run the COSMIC editor on a processor even older than 25 years ;-)
I definitely believe old computers shouldn't be slowed down by new code.
https://fosstodon.org/@soller/109725118407888121

2024-03-12 18:41:52

COSMIC Store is coming along quickly, though there is still a lot left to do. It loads nearly instantly, because it uses bitcode to cache appstream data in an optimized format. It uses very little memory compared to the Pop Shop.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/083/942/564/018/585/original/9ba976135cd48b6d.png

2024-03-08 20:43:30

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@npub1dcw…43jp @npub15lr…p2vs Not yet.

2024-03-06 22:51:07

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@npub1xml…2qh4 What am I gonna use a numpad for

2024-03-06 16:33:34

Open firmware doesn't fall from a tree
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/049/466/897/448/168/original/e1a37faff38c8fa5.jpg

2024-03-05 05:28:55

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The GPIO communities are 0, 1, 3, 4, and 5. The port IDs are very easy to remember
0: 0xD1
1: 0xD2
3: 0xD3
4: 0xD4
5: 0xD5
I'll leave the problem as an exercise to the reader.

2024-03-05 05:25:40

I'm convinced Intel is trolling with the GPIO registers on MTL-U.
The port IDs have changed. Are there any reasons for the port IDs to change, maybe a different thing uses the old ones? Nope!
The offsets that port data start at are different for every GPIO community. Is there any conflict requiring these to change? Nope!
Most groups have 24 items. One has 23. Another has 22. Is there any logic to this? Nope!

2024-03-01 17:32:46

This Month in Redox - February 2024
https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-240229/

2024-02-24 15:32:55

Hey Republicans you can either say life begins at conception and therefore IVF (which usually involves the "conception" of multiple eggs and discarding of most) is immoral or you realize life does not begin at conception and stop pushing this country towards Handmaid's Tale. I'm getting fracking tired of the have your cake and eat it logical fallacies you continue to push past your unskeptical base.
https://newrepublic.com/post/179263/republicans-panic-mode-alabama-ivf-embryo-court-ruling

2024-02-08 22:52:34

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@npub1s64…cs6t I wouldn't say it has little overhead, I would say the overhead can be managed to where the user experience is similar. It still takes more cycles and memory to do proper text shaping, and that is what alacritty has not wanted to take on.

2024-02-08 19:49:21

COSMIC Terminal is very close to alacritty in vtebench performance after updating the the latest cosmic-text with a shape run cache. See the results in the attached image.
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/897/355/442/228/636/original/5cf38cf3410511b6.png

2024-02-08 19:20:46

cosmic-text 0.11.1 is released, with a new shape-run-cache feature that can drastically improve performance when similar text is shaped repeatedly: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text/releases/tag/0.11.1

2024-02-07 22:23:40

cosmic-text 0.11.0 is released: https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-text/releases/tag/0.11.0

2024-02-03 01:27:54

The Pop ARM64 build server has been upgraded to use a 128 core Ampere Altra and it now beats the dual Epyc 7551 x86 build server on most builds.

2024-02-02 15:37:47

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@npub14ws…drhu Yes, it looks simple enough. Not sure how it will look for other platforms, though, and that is usually the problem when adding features to winit or iced

2024-02-01 04:50:41

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@npub1ndk…rp2c That dependency has already been removed.

2024-02-01 02:11:50

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@npub1gtt…alk0 A minority of what makes macOS what it is came from FreeBSD, and it didn't stop FreeBSD from being free software.

2024-02-01 01:58:05

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@npub1gtt…alk0 Close what? There are many components of redox of various licenses and at worst they could only keep private their own changes, and if they do that, I doubt the changes are much of value.

2024-02-01 01:22:45

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@npub1gtt…alk0 You have to be more specific.

2024-01-31 23:42:14

I've adjusted the COSMIC editor and terminal to take custom window background colors from the COSMIC theme, when they are using the COSMIC syntax theme. Here's my DOOM theme 🤘.
Keep in mind all software shown is a work in progress
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/111/852/963/576/573/107/original/e636738d98e23a18.png