Our top story: If the voucher bill were to pass, select private companies could soon be reeling in tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year. We took a closer look at who stands to gain the most. texasobserver.org/school-vouch…

#education #politics #USpol #vouchers #news #schools #TXlege #Texas #GregAbbott

How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas

The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.

^{Open Rights Group}

@Friendica Support Die folgende #Frage hatte ich schon einmal gestellt, sie aber irrtümlich wieder gelöscht:

Ich habe mir einen zusätzlichen #Circle eingerichtet, den ich nur als #Feedreader nutzen will. #Feeds, die dort landen, werden jedoch nicht in diesem Circle angezeigt, sondern unter "Alle Kontakte bzw. Kontakte". Was muss ich tun, um die Feeds nur in diesem neuen Circle anzuzueigen und den Rest unter "Alle Kontakte"?

I’m an amateur lisper, mostly #Guile and #EmacsLisp, but if someone wants to team up for this #GameJam, I’d be interested!

I also do some basic art, game design, sound, and music. I wouldn’t want to be the sole programmer for this jam but could definitely contribute there and would love to learn more #Lisp.

toot.cat/@dthompson/1141667993…

"The United States has requested that Denmark and other European countries send it eggs, according to the Nordic country's egg association."

That would be 'the' Denmark that Trump is threatening to seize Greenland from. You couldn't make it up. It is beyond parody.

dw.com/en/us-updates-trump-cal…

US updates: Trump calls media 'corrupt' and 'illegal'

In a rare speech at the Department of Justice, President Trump complained that US media was biased against him, saying it "has to be illegal." The US also asked Denmark if it had any eggs to spare. Follow DW for more.

^{Deutsche Welle}

SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #HandheldGaming #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming #Steam

SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Two years ago I thought I had made the world's worst keyboard. Turns out it could get much, much worse!

youtu.be/wC-24QeoQu4

I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat

i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:

Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.

here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.

#australia

The Nextcloud Community Conference is back this fall! 🎉

Join fellow Nextclouders and open-source lovers to talk, code, and shape the future of collaboration! ⚡

#NextcloudConf25

️🔔 Sign up for updates - don't miss the registration opening! 👉

nextcloud.com/conference-2025/

#ComunalidadDigital

No te pierdas estas alternativas libres a plataformas privativas.

critical-switch.org/posts/soft…

Steam Deck hits 18,000 games playable and verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam #SteamOS #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming

Steam Deck hits 18,000 games playable and verified

Another seriously impressive milestone has been hit. The Steam Deck now has 18,000 games that Valve have rated to be either Playable or Verified.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
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The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.
propublica.org/article/salvado…

#News #Texas #Education #School

Texas Lawmakers and Charter School Leaders Push Back on Valere Public Schools’ Superintendent’s $870K Pay

^ProPublica

Today I discovered you can just download albums from YouTube music. There is a script:

github.com/jordandalley/yt-dlp…

yt-dlp-scripts/yt-music-album-download.sh at main · jordandalley/yt-dlp-scripts

Some random scripts for downloading things using yt-dlp fork of youtube-dl - jordandalley/yt-dlp-scripts

^GitHub

NVIDIA RTX Remix released, plus Half-Life 2 RTX demo arrives March 18 - looking way too bright gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/nvid…

#HalfLife2RTX #NVIDIA #NVIDIARemix #RTX #Gaming

NVIDIA RTX Remix released, plus Half-Life 2 RTX demo arrives March 18 - looking way too bright

NVIDIA have released NVIDIA RTX Remix, their modding platform that allows developers to enhance games with full ray tracing. Additionally, Half-Life 2 RTX is getting a demo on March 18th.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/ever…

#PrimeGaming #Amazon #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, March 14th edition for Steam Deck / Linux

Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for March 14th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/as-e…

#Fortnite #Arm #Linux #Windows #EpicGames #EasyAntiCheat

As Epic Games continue ignoring Linux / Steam Deck for Fortnite they're putting it on Windows Arm

Ignoring one smaller market while gleefully supporting another, Epic Games have announced they're getting Fortnite along with Epic Online Services Anti-Cheat on Windows Arm.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 announced and in development gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/warh…

#WH40K #Warhammer #SpaceMarine3 #Gaming #PCGaming

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 announced and in development

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 was clearly a big success, so much so that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 has now been officially announced as in development.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

The cold, hard facts are that #postdocs are the main drivers of scientific publications everywhere. If you want to make a society great, you have to protect the main drivers of innovation. It is absolutely short-sighted to cut funding in hopes of cutting costs. There are other areas of tax-payer monies to prioritize for cost-cutting. Research has a massive multiplier effect that is felt for many generations.

statnews.com/2025/03/13/postdo…

Trump administration policies have created a postdoc crisis | STAT

The threats among early career researchers should be concerning to all who care about the future of American science and research leadership.

^{Thomas P. Kimbis (STAT)}

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/form…

#TechpaladinSoftware #KDE #OpenSource #KDEPlasma #Linux #Valve #Steam

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client

Here's one I missed from earlier this week. KDE developer Nate Graham announced the formation of an open source consultancy company called Techpaladin Software, with their first client being Valve to continue improving the Steam Deck desktop mode whi…

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

PowerWash Simulator 2 announced for release in 2025 with split-screen co-op gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/powe…

#PowerWashSimulator2 #PowerWashSimulator #Gaming #PCGaming

PowerWash Simulator 2 announced for release in 2025 with split-screen co-op

Ah hell, here we go again, I'm going to be hooked on it. FuturLab have revealed PowerWash Simulator 2 is coming and it will be this year too.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

SILENT HILL f has now been fully revealed with a new trailer gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/sile…

#SILENTHILL #SILENTHILLf #PCGaming #Gaming

SILENT HILL f has now been fully revealed with a new trailer

Originally revealed back in 2022, KONAMI have now properly lifted the lid on SILENT HILL f and graced us with a new trailer.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

330 million hours played on Steam Deck in 2024 up 64% from 2023 - Steam Year In Review 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/330-…

#Steam #SteamDeck #Valve #SteamOS #Gaming #PCGaming

330 million hours played on Steam Deck in 2024 up 64% from 2023 - Steam Year In Review 2024

Valve have released their Steam Year In Review 2024 and it's full of interesting data, as well as going over all the changes Valve made to Steam during 2024. Nice to see the Steam Deck and Linux doing so well overall for Valve.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.24 Beta gets a performance fix for No Rest for the Wicked gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

#NoRestfortheWicked #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.24 Beta gets a performance fix for No Rest for the Wicked

No Rest for the Wicked from Moon Studios just got a dedicated performance fix in the latest SteamOS Beta update for Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

I'm sure it will shock everyone that the Trump admin DOJ's lawyers weren't competent to argue its new position in federal court. The judge had to call a recess so that the attorneys could go read the policy they were defending. Shocker #2: Hegseth "egregiously misquoted" the studies they were relying on to argue their position. The studies actually say that trans troops are more ready and more deployable than a comparison population not excluded from service.

newrepublic.com/post/192657/ju…

Judge Forced to Pause Trial Because DOJ Lawyers Are so Unprepared

Justice Department lawyers had not read any of the three reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited in his ban on transgender military service members.

^{The New Republic}

A lot of Microsoft fans have asked why our logo is four squares and why we don't have a cute mascot like Linux has.

We do have a mascot dumbass. It's a cat riding a fucking T-Rex. If that's not cool as shit I don't know what the fuck is.

We’re honored to welcome Dr. Cristina Caffarra as a keynote speaker at #NextcloudSummit25! 🎤

A top competition economist & leading voice on policy, she champions fair digital markets & #DigitalSovereignty. Don’t miss her insights on June 5! 🌍

#SecureCollaboration #OpenSource

nextcloud.com/summit/

DXVK 2.6 brings expanded Nvidia Reflex support and lots of game fixes for Linux / Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/dxvk…

#Linux #SteamDeck #DXVK #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

DXVK 2.6 brings expanded Nvidia Reflex support and lots of game fixes for Linux / Steam Deck

DXVK is a tool used by Proton that translates Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan. It's one of the projects that enables Windows games to run so well on Linux platforms like Steam Deck. Version 2.6 was just released.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Steam Spring Sale 2025 is live now - here's some great budget games for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

#SteamSpringSale #SteamSale #Gaming #PCGaming

Steam Spring Sale 2025 is live now - here's some great budget games for Steam Deck / Linux

Valve have launched the first of their planned four major seasonal sales for 2025, with the Steam Spring Sale launched featuring plenty of big discounts and demos.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}