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DON'T PANIC · @centricular @gstreamer @gnome @mesonbuild

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Joined September 03, 2023

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निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 2w ago

In case anyone is wondering why it's so tiring to participate in the #GNOME community, this article is the perfect read. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/bar-masking-greenfield-boston-globe/688772/?gift=SKtFP-7gCBnFn1bNJdqPMlM27wDBQDEcL86dcrcc25U

The Atlantic

How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar

The scourge of COVID led to drive-by whinings disguised as activism.

निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 15mo ago

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play”

Had to write this in response to recent events at #GNOME. I hope the right people read this and take it to heart.

https://blog.nirbheek.in/2025/06/a-strange-game.html

blog.nirbheek.in

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

That's a reference to the 1983 film “WarGames”. A film that has had incredible influence on not just the social milieu, but also cyber secur...

निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 7mo ago

I'm really quite concerned about the “othering” that some members of the GNOME community engage in. “Punching up” is not acceptable behaviour. There shouldn't be any punching happening at all. What are we doing.

निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

The recording of my talk “The Quest for Low-Latency Desktop Audio” at the @gstreamer@floss.social conference 2025 in London has been published. Take a look!

https://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/the-quest-for-low-latency-desktop-audio/

GStreamer conferences

The Quest for Low-Latency Desktop Audio

The presenter has had the privilege of working on an app that requires low latency audio capture and render on macOS, Windows, and Linux. This has allowed him to make a direct comparison between the audio servers on these operating systems. In this talk, he will talk about some of the challenges...

निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 14mo ago

@chergert@my.devsuite.app explain?

निर्भीक चौहान @nirbheek@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@slomo @zeenix @pid_eins general statistics are meaningless when we're talking about system level software. I think it's more useful to look at the kind of CVEs that projects like GNU coreutils get, since that is more relevant to decisions made for similar projects.