Skip to main content




Heroic Games Launcher v2.14 has GOG and Amazon fixes, category customization improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/heroโ€ฆ

#Linux #SteamDeck




Enterprise Day's full program is now live! ๐Ÿš€

Our big event brings Nextcloud industry leaders and specialists together; we can't wait to share all the enlightening talks we've planned for April 24th!

Browse the full program and register today ๐Ÿ‘‡

nextcloud.com/enterprise-day/




My Plasma 6 Feature Wishlist #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/ozoBGJxIK-g


That's one way to do it!
@Andrew Pam Your mother would love this!

youtu.be/TkOH1m8ucr8?si=ej2YIEโ€ฆ



So did he go to the prom with the young woman or the young donkey?
GO WITH THE DONKEY!!!


As long as the weather cooperates, Iโ€™ll be pulling my kids out of school next Monday to drive east into the path of totality during the solar eclipse.

Do you have #eclipse plans?

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I've seen a total eclipse twice in my life so we can not justify driving 900 miles to see another one.
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

It is a super hot topic here in Ohio. Totality passes over my house!

There are LOTS of naysayers in the crowd, though. During a meeting yesterday, someone mentioned that the weather was going to be bad, so they are moving it south a few miles. I thought that was the greatest thing i've yet heard.

I am taking the day off, and tyring to get a pass to get to the top of the library of our local university.



Got some epic #sea #shells - horse conch and lightening whelk I believe. Kinda cool how they spiral in different directions


There is no democracy without a commons.

This week I am grateful to be discussing #GovernableSpaces on the Frontiers of Commoning podcast with one of my heroes, David Bollier: bollier.org/blog/nathan-schneiโ€ฆ

David's books are a phenomenal intro to the power and craft of commoning.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Also get him to join the fediverse on a nice instance and send my greetings, please.
We're close to finished publishing the patterns in French at languedespatterns.commoning.wiโ€ฆ and there's work in the horizon for debating commoning in times of platform cooperativism and capitalism platform.commoning.wiki

Both may be part of an educational project in the next year with Remix the Commons.

@boris also suggested to look at what is to be protocol commoning.

This entry was edited (1 year ago)


A Neat Linux Kernel Feature You Will Never Use #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/-P0k1C5kvUk


Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_โ€ฆ

1/

This entry was edited (1 year ago)


BAM! Let's put this bill over the line!

Itโ€™s time to give Australian courts the power to break up big firms that behave badly


"The so-called Competition and Consumer Amendment (Divestiture Powers) Bill would enable courts to break up firms that misuse their substantial market power under section 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act."



#FreeOlaBini
Ola Bini se enfrenta a los esfuerzos de la fiscalรญa ecuatoriana para anular su absoluciรณn en el caso de ciberdelincuencia

Via @eff
buff.ly/3TYLXNj



Author and โ€œTB-haterโ€ John Green takes a deep dive into the deadliest infectious disease ever. โ€œTuberculosis is often thought of as an old-timey disease, but in reality, it continues to kill over 1.5M people per year, despite its known cure.โ€ kottke.org/24/04/crash-course-โ€ฆ


Nextcloud Hub 8: coming your way on April 24th!

Join us for the live premiere to catch all the updates!

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Save the date: April 24th

๐ŸŽฌ Live presentation details soon - Stay tuned for an event you don't want to miss!

#Nextcloud #NextcloudHub8 ๐Ÿš€

nextcloud.com/hub8/

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

Have you done any testing to ensure the apps you proclaimed so proudly in the past haven't been made abandonware by your inability to stabilize and standardize app interfaces? Your existing users are still sad that you broke PicoCMS, News, Social apps, and more, by your negligence in previous versions. Are you doing better this time?

Will we ever be able to use those abandonware apps again, or are they useless forever now?



I hate to say it, but I think there is a case for regarding Trump Media as an #ExittoCommuity. Tell me why I'm wrong. nytimes.com/2024/03/28/podcastโ€ฆ


DonesTech: La infraestructura feminista como creaciรณn de lo que nos sostiene

por Spideralex

#hackfeminismo #CuidadosDigitales

donestech.net/es/noticia/donesโ€ฆ



Why is the default for digital communities a system where community members have no power, representation, or agency?

This โ€œimplicit feudalismโ€ isnโ€™t great for moderators either โ€” theyโ€™re just vassals of the platform CEOs.

Read an excerpt of media theorist @ntnsndr's new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life.

newpublic.substack.com/p/the-iโ€ฆ

This entry was edited (1 year ago)


People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities โ€” Until They Live in One. The car-free schemes end up being so popular and work so well that โ€œonce cities make the decision to reduce or remove cars, they rarely go backโ€. wired.com/story/car-free-citieโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

A car free city would be inaccessible to me due to disability. And the person who acts as a carer to me can't cope with public transport due to his own disability so even if the bus was actually wheelchair adapted it would still be inaccessible.


Ultra-processed #foods are linked to #dementia #cancer #depression stroke and #heart disease. #Palmoil is a saturated fat implicated in many of these same #health risks. Learn more and #Boycottpalmoil in the supermarket, choose wholefoods @palmoildetectives
wp.me/pcFhgU-7hk
This entry was edited (1 year ago)



Hey everyone!

I'm working on a video to see what the Linux community (or at least people who follow me) actually use.

So, I created a little form, hosted on my Nextcloud (hopefully it's up to the task...)

It's only up for 2 days, so don't hesitate to share it around, it will help me "touch grass" and see if my preconceived notions are confirmed, or invalidated!

nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/indeโ€ฆ

Of course, it's all anonymous, no personal data, it's just for the purposes of creating the video.

reshared this



"You are not buying from a supplier, you are a raccoon digging through dumpsters for free code." is a fire quote softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-โ€ฆ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Honestly I love being a raccoon digging through dumpsters. I have years of experience lf finding all the good pizza and sometimes I find beans that are still unopened in a can. Usually I need to smash it with a rock (read through source code) to get at them though. ๐Ÿฆ


Chanted weather report! So funny!
@Katherine Bond @Joyce Donahue

youtu.be/dcOxbLmN7rA?si=DambWtโ€ฆ

in reply to Muse

Hey, I would then listen to the weather report every evening!


ZOMG! WANT!
A MOG Synthesiser!
in reply to Muse

laughingsquid.com/synthezer-caโ€ฆ


All this talk about #xzorcist over the weekend, I want to also point out that it's important to remember that the "software supply chain" largely does *not* exist in regards to open source, because most people have no real relationship other than parasitic consumption with the project.

@Di4na's great blog post on this topic explains it quite well: softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-โ€ฆ



Wow! This short about Spiderman and PTSD is terrific. Sony created this as a fundraiser for the Kevin Love Fund, which works to reduce the stigma around mental health issues.
@earendil@diaspora.glasswings.com may have already put up this link, but if not--here it is!

youtu.be/FcGPpwFdE1Y?si=ZR2YqQโ€ฆ



The REAL Truth About Wayland #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/4lnbPKMklxc
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I knew it. Are you even a Linux user? Maybe you use MacOS behind the scenes or even worse GASPโ€ฆ WINDOWS.


This is so silly. But I loved this show as a kid! Space 1999:
youtu.be/8JdMUTgmEds?si=bCFiuyโ€ฆ
in reply to Muse

It filled the hole in the post-Star Trek era. I still think the Eagle is a great concept for a utility transport vehicle.



My Mom built an analog ad blocker for her favorite tablet game and while I cannot stop laughing, I'm also hella proud of her. Go Mom! Stick it to the man!

#FuckTheSystem

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Sciasm

Mind if I share this with my Hacker Culture class this week? We're talking about personal security practices.


Recently I've been receiving many "friend" requests on Facebook from new accounts by US men. The accounts usually involve a few photos of men praying and men with guns. I suspect this has to do with the up-coming US election.
in reply to Muse

@Yes - this is typical of the Trump/Republican Mob. Guns. God and Trump. (Vomit!)


I'm really appreciating this idea on FOSS from my colleague @bwagโ€”not just "free as in speech" or "free as in beer" but "free as in way." Increasingly, that is, FOSS acts like a freeway.

bowaggoner.com/blahg/2024/03-1โ€ฆ

It is infrastructure for businessโ€”free for all, but a means of profit for some. And that affects how we should build economies around it.

@bwag
This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Nathan Schneider

I agree with you.

But why emphasize "economies" in this way? Do we talk about books like this?

Practical benefits have to flow from the ethical ones or else we're in danger of playing a game where economy is on top of freedom. See China: in the 1990s there was thought that democracy would follow capitalism. But no. You can have capitalism with no Freedom.

This book cloudempires.org/ is pretty good about this issue (though doesn't discuss FOSS directly)

in reply to JK

@jamienk You don't have freeways without having an appropriate way to pay for them. Similarly, I think it matters how we pay for FOSS freewaysโ€”especially if we want to ensure that they don't become captured by those who currently pay for them.
@JK


i read @ntnsndr's new book /Governable Spaces/. it's core observation that most of online, associational life is authoritarian in governance is very smart, but i wish that he had spent more time arguing why we should prefer more democracy.

more here:

bunkum.us/2024/03/30/fun-and-dโ€ฆ

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Nathan Schneider

thanks! i appreciate the opportunity to better understand your thinking.


While supervising today's egg-mayhem, I was grateful to notice my recent work featured in two of my favorite tech newsletters. These are really helpful intros to #GovernableSpaces and the ideas therein. Read & subscribe!

@wearenew_public: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-iโ€ฆ

Charley Johnson: untangled.substack.com/p/make-โ€ฆ

This entry was edited (1 year ago)



Penguin is our new assembler that reconstructs manyfold more accurate strain-level viral genomes and 16S rRNAs from metagenomes through a novel greedy AA/DNA-hybrid bayesian overlap extension strategy. Work by Annika Jochheim et al.
๐Ÿ“„ biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20โ€ฆ
๐Ÿ’พ github.com/soedinglab/plass

Lo, thar be cookies on this site to keep track of your login. By clicking 'okay', you are CONSENTING to this.

โ‡ง