WOW! He doesn't throw his punches!
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Hey folks - for health reasons (mine, not hers!) I may need to soon re-home my amazing cat, Smalltalk! If you live in the SF Bay Area and might be interested, please ping me! She's truly a wonderful sweet creature! (She'd do best as an only pet.)
(Update 6/27: Iโve found a couple wonderful humans and am exploring options w them. Thank you all for your help!)
Postbox & Zen Postbox Add-On Updates!
New releases fix a couple of problems. The add-ons should now work with both the stable and development releases.
Zen Postbox 1.2 [Download] - this is the one that adds a button to the message composer. This release fixes the missing images for the animated backgrounds.
Postbox 1.2 [Download] - this just adds the stylesheet, it doesn't add any UI.
Thanks to @Kevin for helping me troubleshoot it!
That probably won't work unless Friendica changes how it federates content to wafrn. Like most other platforms only the plain text is sent, the <span> gets stripped out. If I recall the <span> does go through to Mastodon and Tumblr but the postbox class gets stripped out.
But I had the opposite problem with Diaspora and Hubzilla where the raw BBcode or Markdown was getting sent.
You could talk to the Friendica devs about trying to get the formatted HTML sent, then you'd just need the postbox stylesheet on the wafrn server to display them properly.
Detox democracy through representation by random selection
DETOXING DEMOCRACY: What is the case for deliberative democracy, and why would we put ourselves through โsortitionโ? As our institutions fall in respect and effectiveness, we canโt afford not to consider such ideas, argues Nicholas Gruen.
Gruen: detox democracy through representation by random selection
What is the case for deliberative democracy, and why would we put ourselves through 'sortition'? As our institutions fall in respect and effectiveness, we can't afford not to consider such ideas, argues Nicholas Gruen.Nicholas Gruen (The Mandarin)
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Gruen: detox democracy through representation by random selection
What is the case for deliberative democracy, and why would we put ourselves through 'sortition'? As our institutions fall in respect and effectiveness, we can't afford not to consider such ideas, argues Nicholas Gruen.Nicholas Gruen (The Mandarin)
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Mass Shooting at Tulsa Juneteenth Festival Sparks Calls for Action
One dead, seven wounded as violence disrupts Black freedom celebration in Historic Greenwood.
TULSA, Okla. โ Black Tulsans are reeling after a mass shooting disrupted Saturday nightโs Juneteenth festival in Historic Greenwood, leaving a 22-year-old man dead and seven others wounded.
For hours, thousands of festival attendees grooved to the music and enjoyed each otherโs company as the community celebrated Tulsaโs annual Juneteenth festival. But just before 11 p.m., the celebratory mood on Black Wall Street turned to chaos as gunfire sent hundreds fleeing for their lives. The chaos included some falling to the ground and being trampled. Victims hit by bullets ranged in age from 17 to 80...
Mass Shooting at Tulsa Juneteenth Festival Sparks Calls for Action
Tulsa residents are recovering from the trauma of a mass shooting during Saturday night's Juneteenth festival in Historic GreenwoodDeon Osborne (The Black Wall Street Times)
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Help Clinics By Donating Now | Keep Our Clinics
Help independent abortion clinics by donating to Keep Our Clinics. We help struggling clinics that lack institutional support, visibility, and name recognition.Keep Our Clinics
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Internet gore
Por Mariana Fossatti
que nos recuerda que Internet ya no es un lugar idรญlico, pero sigue siendo un campo de batalla donde vale la pena pelear.
#CuidadosDigitales #DerechosDigitalesColectivos
articaonline.com/2025/05/interโฆ
Internet gore
Internet ha sido, desde sus comienzos, una tecnologรญa propicia para despertar tanto ilusiones y utopรญas como miedos y mitos.รrtica - Centro Cultural Online
Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/โฆ
#TheCoop #GazaGenocide #EthicalShopping
Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
Israeli products should have been removed from all supermarkets a long time ago. The Co-op is leading the way. Others must now follow.Ed Sykes (The Canary)
Judge halts another Trump administration effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard
#Cambridge #MA #Harvard #Trump #FirstAmendment #ForeignStudents #JudgeAllisonBurroughs #EndTrumpTyranny #HarvardTrumpWar
Judge halts another Trump administration effort to block foreign students from attending Harvard
The order preserves the ability of foreign students to travel to the U.S. for study at Harvard while the case is decided.WCVB
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> "As Anthropic trained successive LLMs, it became convinced that using books was the most cost-effective means to achieve a world-class LLM," Alsup wrote in Monday's ruling. theregister.com/2025/06/24/antโฆ
I guess we authors have a new audience, even tho humans don't like to read... But wait:
> In training its model, Anthropic bought millions of books, many second-hand, then cut them up and digitized the content. It also downloaded over 7 million pirated books
LLMs can hoover up data from books, judge rules
: Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesIain Thomson (The Register)
Speaking out against what the Israeli government is doing now in Gaza is more imperative than ever | Sarah Gold
What's happening in Gaza now is nothing less than genocide
centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/wโฆ
Merz: Truce makes โthe Middle East and the world saferโ: German leader
This is the same guy that said: "Israel is doing the dirty job for us"
I have a question: is your dirty job done by your contractor (or perhaps proxy)?
LIVE: Trump warns Israel not to attack Iran as fragile ceasefire holds
Trump says it was a โgreat honourโ to โdestroyโ Iranโs nuclear facilities and then stop the war launched by Israel.Rory Sullivan (Al Jazeera)
Boston (and here in Cambridge) is at The Highest Temperature It's Ever Been Today
The highest temperature recorded was 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 Celsius) on July 4, 1911.
2:15 PM and we have matched that Record. And It Could Potentially Break that Record.
#Boston #Cambridge #HighestRecordedTemperature #HistoryBreaking #Climate #Weather
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delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!!
You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal
Is there a way to remove "Trending now" from the settings so that the column I get in this is not something to be scrolled? It looks terrible on deck mode @vmstan with half scrollable, half stuck there (the trending hashtags).
vmstยทio
Mastodon for respectful technologists, geeks and nerds of every type and stripe.Mastodon hosted on vmst.io
Ubuntu 24.04 surprised me with this small but nifty feature!
itsfoss.com/ubuntu-bluetooth-bโฆ
I Discovered This Tiny Feature in Ubuntu 24.04 and I Love it
A tad bit of improvement to my organized computing life.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
๐ก โNextcloud was the guiding lighthouse for most of these projects.โ
Read a story by Ayush Pande about how Nextcloud and other privately hosted services helped him survive college! ๐
xda-developers.com/these-7-selโฆ
These 7 self-hosted services helped me survive college
My college life became a lot easier after I started self-hosting these neat appsAyush Pande (XDA)
Geert Lovink desde Amรฉrica Latina
A propรณsito de la publicaciรณn โLa extinciรณn de internet: polรญtica, redes y plataformasโ.
una reflexiรณn crรญtica sobre la Internet que tenemos
sursiendo.org/2024/05/geert-loโฆ
Geert Lovink desde Amรฉrica Latina | Sursiendo
A propรณsito de la publicaciรณn โLa extinciรณn de internet: polรญtica, redes y plataformasโ. Texto publicado en la ediciรณn Nยฐ 11 de la revista digital Internetโฆsursiendo (Sursiendo)
Merging the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and TF2 - Fortress Connected is coming to Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mergโฆ
#FortressConnected #TF2 #HL2 #L4D2 #FPS #Gaming
Merging the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and TF2 - Fortress Connected is coming to Steam
The total mash-up mod Fortress Connected has been announced for a Steam release where the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 collide.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Kubuntu goes Wayland only!
news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10โฆ
Now Kubuntu is Set to Drop Xorg in Favor of Wayland
List of distros dropping Xorg sessions keeps on growing. The upcoming Kubuntu 25.10 release won't feature a Xorg session either.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Una lloradita y a seguir
No podemos culpar a las redes sociales de nuestros malestares sin entender las dinรกmicas sociales que hay detrรกs de su uso.
por @proyectouna
omg quantum witch is out! Buy it!!
store.steampowered.com/app/310โฆ
Save 10% on Quantum Witch on Steam
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be? You will decide in this narrative driven adventure.store.steampowered.com
Stress-testing toolkit OCCT arrives on Steam with Linux and Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/streโฆ
#OCCT #Steam #Linux #PCGaming #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Stress-testing toolkit OCCT arrives on Steam with Linux and Steam Deck support
If you wish to stress-test your Linux PC or your Steam Deck, it's now easier than ever thanks to OCCT.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
"President Trump said he was unhappy with continued attacks by both Iran and Israel and warned Israel against dropping bombs as their cease-fire got off to a shaky start."
@WSJ has a live blog with the latest (gift link): flip.it/E9xiTc
"Perhaps the ceasefire Trump announced will, indeed, go into effect and hold. But even in this optimistic scenario, the Iranian nuclear question remains. Thanks to Donald Trump, it has become even harder to address."
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinioโฆ
Trumpโs attack isn't the end of Iranโs nuclear threat
The U.S. likely damaged but did not totally destroy Iranโs nuclear program.Nicholas Grossman (MSNBC)
The only "achievement" of this war was Iran's realization that going with international law is not how this game is played.
Now Iran's current government not only won the stronger support of the people inside but also got a path forward with its nuclear and military ambitions whatever that might be.
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedoโฆ
#Fedora #Linux #Steam #OpenSource
Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers
We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
This headline is crazy, but it points out the study from @aoschlies and colleagues that biotic marine COโ removal (mCDR) techniques like ocean iron fertilization or macro algae cultivation could have severe negative consequences for marine ecosystems. The same is not true for abiotic techniques like ocean alkalinity enhancement.
futurism.com/ocean-suck-carbonโฆ
Using the Ocean to Suck Up CO2 Could Come With the Small, Unintended Side Effect of Wiping Out Marine Life
New research warns that several methods of using the ocean for carbon removal could drastically deplete it of oxygen.Frank Landymore (Futurism)
REMATCH is the perfect competitive game for Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/remaโฆ
REMATCH is the perfect competitive game for Steam Deck
I've been after a competitive game for a while for the Steam Deck and it certainly looks like REMATCH fits the bill.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates meet for the first time in decades! ๐คฏ
Are they cooking something up?
Midnight Riff is a free new rhythm roguelike to vibe with gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/midnโฆ
#MidnightRiff #IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #RhythmGame
Midnight Riff is a free new rhythm roguelike to vibe with
Another free game release for you. Midnight Riff is a rhythm roguelike where you have to jam with the music to deal damage and win battles.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Story of Woody Guthrieโs Fight with Trump and a Ukulele Play-Along
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The /r/linux reddit sub is silly.
OMGUbuntu and us (GamingOnLinux) are banned.
So we end up with stuff like this where it's from XDA, sourced via Neowin that originally sourced OMGUbuntu.
reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1lโฆ
Some people are so insanely against news sites, despite news sites being the way most people will know about a lot of things.
Most people don't read mailing lists, launchpad and github.
Don't use Reddit, there is Lemmy/Piefed.
I am being glib of course, 50K MAU is nothing, but have to start somewhere.
The criminally overlooked turn-based roguelike shoot-em-up Glass Cannon just got a lot bigger gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-โฆ
#IndieGames #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming #GlassCannon
The criminally overlooked turn-based roguelike shoot-em-up Glass Cannon just got a lot bigger
It should be criminal for a game as good as Glass Cannon to see so few players and Steam reviews, because it's simply awesome.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Time-stopping Pac-Man like survivor game Maze Mice gets a big upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/timeโฆ
#IndieGames #MazeMice #Linux #SteamDeck
Time-stopping Pac-Man like survivor game Maze Mice gets a big upgrade
Maze Mice is getting ready to leave Early Access - that was fast. A major update for this survivor game that blends time-stopping Pac-Man features is out now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Billiards roguelike Drop Pockets arrives in August gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/billโฆ
#DropPockets #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #PCGaming
Billiards roguelike Drop Pockets arrives in August
Combining the classic game of Billiards with various news rules and roguelike features, Drop Pockets is set to arrive on August 8th.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to Lynnesbian • • •@JulieSqveakaroo honestly if it wasnโt a ergonomic nightmare I wouldnโt mind the touch scroll decision as much. It took some adaptation but it was ultimately *fine*
But I had to file an ADA accommodation at a previous employer to get a mouse that didnโt hurt to hold (which tells you all you need to know about how awful it was to work there)