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I try not to be too preachy about where I work these days, but in light of all the B.S. Zuck dropped yesterday wanted to pitch Retro as a possible alt for people looking for a non-Meta owned personal social network. retro.app Elevator pitch: we're like Instagram ~10 years ago. No ads, no algorithm, no influences, just friends. Worth consideration!


Ask yourself: Are your photo backups *actually* private?

Privacy pioneer and advocate @naomibrockwell explores the dangers of using default Apple and Google photo backups, recommending Nextcloud as a top go-to solution to keep your photos private.

#WhoOwnsYourPhotos? #privatephotos #photobackup

youtu.be/n_kTzu8NEyg

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

I asked myself, and the answer was yes 🙂

Nextcloud server, hosted at home with offsite copies to familly houses via VPN to RaspPi 🙂

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

is this video available on PeerTube as well? That would be another step towards a similar goal!


📂💬📞 Experience the future of federated, decentralized teamwork with Nextcloud!

Share files, chat, and call across different servers while keeping your data secure. Take advantage of decentralized teamwork like never before! 🚀

#Nextcloud #federation @decentralized

youtu.be/wYjR3sTto3I



anyone more familiar with TextMate grammars than I am know if it's possible to do something like this? github.com/kdl-org/vscode-kdl/…


The Elixir shirts are on pre-order until the last of February. Make sure you get yours in the first order. It supports my wife's continuous efforts to enable my open source work. But mostly it's fun. I've ordered stickers so expect an Elixir sticker with every Elixir shirt ✨
oswag.org/b/elixir-shirt-preor…
#elixir


Did you know red meat contributes up to 30% of agricultural emissions? It's one reason the ag sector is the 2nd-largest greenhouse gas emitter after energy. But not all meats have the same impact - on the planet or our personal health.

The new episode of Serving Up Science considers the best options for both our bodies & the environment! 🥩 (And don't worry, we're not out to take anyone's steak away). youtube.com/watch?v=pa6SWm99_r… #science #food #environment #climatechange

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I eat my vegetables that are recycled through delicious animals.
I belong to PETAE.
People Eating Tasty Animals Everyday!


New year, new role @Mastodon!

Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users.

Ideally:

1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #HTML
2. Proficient in modern #CSS
3. Experienced with #Javascript, #Typescript and complex React/Redux applications

This remote full-time position requires a 4-hour overlap with the CET timezone.

For more info/to apply:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/6a09…

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #frontend

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“Sí hay otras maneras de comunicar nuestros proyectos y que se puede hacer cien por cien con software libre” Komunikilo

Por si no leíste esta entrevista en #2024:

sursiendo.org/2024/11/komuniki…

#2024


Maze Mice from the dev of Luck Be a Landlord blends maze-running, time-freezing and bullet heaven together gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/maze…

#MazeMice #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck




2025’s here, and these 6 Linux distros are ones you’ll want to keep on your radar! 💻👀

news.itsfoss.com/linux-distros…

in reply to It's FOSS

i absolutely agree with this list. I can't wait to get stable and fully featured wayland first DE in the highly optimized Pop_OS the same way I want to see the gnome and kde made in the way developers intended in the immutable package that will make sure people can rely on their system stability. But adding Ubuntu and Fedora in there seems kinda off - they arent as exciting as all previous points
in reply to It's FOSS

I think with Arch Linux deserves to be on the list:

1) Being in collab with Valve.

2) RFC for non-x86 architecture aka Arch Linux Ports: rfc.archlinux.page/0032-arch-l…

3) Being used more and more as a base. Example KDE Linux, SteamOS and more.



OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux now due out in Q1 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/oran…

#HandheldGaming #ManjaroLinux #Linux #OrangePiNeo #LinuxGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

unfortunately they are late. AMD Z2 product are coming soon, and things are 2: or they have a super high price range like 700-800 or this console will be destroyed by everyone


Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/fund…

#Pilet #Hardware #OpenSource #RPi

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

soo the new open source is closed source with added "will totally go open source after release, trust me bro"
in reply to Mlékař Dan 🦣

@mlekar it's hardware, releasing everything before they've even had a chance to produce it themselves would be idiotic

they're a business

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

well I don't think that anyone should market something as open source if it is not at the moment. Seems dishonest. Also what is the cause of secrecy there? It's just a rpi 5 with off the shelf display, battery and keyboard in a molded case.
in reply to Mlékař Dan 🦣

@mlekar it's not dishonest in any way if that's what they will do, you're arguing at something when they haven't yet done anything at all wrong, just chill jeez
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I dont want to be a dick, I have burned myself multiple times on various kickstarter projects and this one in particular rises just enough red flags for me to be vary about the hype, however I would love to be wrong - especially about this one.


For the library folks out there: Word from Marshall Breeding is that SirsiDynix has been acquired by a group of businesses that also own BiblioCommons and EnvisionWare.

librarytechnology.org/document…



Deadlock from Valve drops fixed two-week update cycle to move onto larger updates gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve #MOBA

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Wait another year and they "get" the Heavy Update 😬

Edit: added quotation marks around get. We haven't gotten the Heavy Update yet. #tf2 #teamfortress2

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in reply to It's FOSS

When I have to edit something in terminal sessions, mostly I use MidnightCommander with integrated editor functionality. Don't like VIM. 😉
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in reply to It's FOSS

I've used Vim off and on for years. Not that difficult to use. Only need to know a few commands to use it. Power users would need to know a lot more.



Monster Hunter Wilds will have two more open Beta test dates in February gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/mons…

#MonsterHunterWilds #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #PCGaming



SMITE 2 gets a free to play launch date for January gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/smit…

#SMITE2 #MOBA #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
ZOMG--I'm crying! 🤣

youtu.be/mTttqwCmCr4?si=wQIsc-…



Challenging Chess-like roguelike Passant will have full Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/chal…

#SteamDeck #IndieGame #Chess #Roguelike



Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/hors…

#IndieGame #CasualGaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



Use the “free” command to gain valuable insights into system memory usage.

itsfoss.com/free-command/



Success! The #maclinuxbuild lives. I’m working out some kinks with the GPU but so far just the normal #linux things to work out. I decided to go with @ubuntu after testing a few different distros it had the best out of the box support. Loving this system report with 24 threads😍 #foss #floss #opensource #ubuntu #gnome @itsfoss #gpu #cpu #photo #photography


We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…

▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…

▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…

(continued)

in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…

▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…



Fascinating and disturbing. This interactive site really makes its point!

biocubes.net/

in reply to Muse

Great graphic design/work!
For an excellent synthesis!!
in reply to Muse

Wow - excellent - thanks for sharing.


Huh. 🤔

I wonder if the President-elect knows that the Gulf's “dead zone” (an area of low or no oxygen that kills marine life) is currently close to 7,000 square miles (over 4 million acres of habitat) potentially unavailable to fish and bottom species.

"Dead zone" doesn't really have a beautiful ring no matter which nation it's named for.

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

the kind of talk about expansion, ultra-nationalism, and blame of others has an unAmerican ring to it IMHO.



Nextcloud, this is kind of assholey. No, I don't "value low cost over root access to the machine." I value my time and my data. I don't have the knowledge to manage security threats to my own machine (therefore pretty much all of my family's data), opened to the Big Wide Internet, and I enjoy the fact that the environment (e.g., SQL+nginx etc.) is set up and managed by my host, so I don't have to become a sysadmin to have a low-budget, self-hosted dropbox.

*Edit*: Nextcloud has been great and also a huge hassle. Upgrading is always (ALWAYS) a multi-hour or multi-day process for me, and there are constant headaches with little things that don't work (e.g., authentication with my mobile sync app, for some reason). I'm already considering paying #proton for some stuff, so I think in about February, if I can't get my major NC hassles fixed, I'll just ditch it once and for all and use Proton Drive, which seems secure and easy to use, even though it's not #FOSS. I really don't have time to go get a second degree in systems administration right now.

#nothelpful #nextcloud #selfhosted

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in reply to Proto Himbo Syrupean

Sorry about the confusion! This is a post by an anonymous forum user, not one of Nextcloud's official help pages. We're sorry if that wasn't clear. And the community's suggestions for your Nextcloud server here are great, thanks everyone!
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

@nextcloud That's actually really nice to know. I thought that was Nextcloud's official position on helping anyone with shared-hosting installs. I appreciate this.

BTW I had to dig to find your comment because apparently... (see image)



Thin Section of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774 Meteorite.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2jF8qYx

#meteorite



Our article on SteamOS for more devices was updated, to note a small tweak Valve did to the announcement text: gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

#SteamOS #Linux #LinuxGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

They probably saw the LTT video or something. I hope they would redirect people to bazzite if they wanted to install steamos on a desktop and sponsor them

in reply to Eugen Rochko

wow even with the 1600 push you can barely see the dark side of the cat, that is one super black furry friend. Nice work on capturing a lot of tonal range!


Threads prototypes custom display names and cover images for profiles tcrn.ch/3Po2FCV


Buh-bye #Threads. Mark Zuckerberg is a disgrace. I'll delete my account later today. Urge others to do as well. Spread the word. nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/bu…


Valve confirms a public beta of SteamOS is coming as 'SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck' gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/valv…

#SteamOS #Linux #Steam #Valve #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

"...hopefully one that's not locked to the Deck, so all SteamOS installs can make proper use of it (GeForce now app)."

Well it would be awesome if they just threw it on flathub and maintained it there



Now up—my conversation with Mary Camacho on the Terms of Service podcast, a really fun exchange on decentralization, governance, and power online. Enjoy! termsofservice.xyz/episodes/dy…


📅 Excited for the Univention Summit 2025 in Bremen!

Join us Jan 23-24 to explore digital sovereignty and data ownership. Don’t miss our keynote on Jan 23 at 9:45 am!

#UniventionSummit2025 🇩🇪

nextcloud.com/blog/event/nextc…


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