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Dear #linuxaudio community. I am in contact with Physical Audio, makers of Tetrad, Preparation, and Modus โ€“ a bunch of unique #phisycal #modelling #software #synthesizer #plugin (s) and they are considering bringing them to #linux if there is demand.
So, if you'd like to see those #instrument (s) coming to Linux, please let them know at support21@physicalaudio.co.uk. ๐Ÿ™
physicalaudio.co.uk/

in reply to Julie Sqveakaroo

@JulieSqveakaroo "you know how you have to use two fingers to scroll on a touchpad as a compromise because there's no space for a scroll wheel? what if we made a desktop mouse where you had to do that"
in reply to Lynnesbian

@JulieSqveakaroo honestly if it wasnโ€™t a ergonomic nightmare I wouldnโ€™t 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 didnโ€™t hurt to hold (which tells you all you need to know about how awful it was to work there)



WOW! He doesn't throw his punches!

youtu.be/Ker0LPaaKCY?si=58_voEโ€ฆ



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: Iโ€™ve found a couple wonderful humans and am exploring options w them. Thank you all for your help!)

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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!

#Bookface #Friendica #Addons
@Friendica Admins

in reply to Random Penguin

Would be cool to get this to work with displaying these in wafrn since it supports colors and some html
in reply to wakest

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.



This is the most measles cases in 40 years. It's more than all the years combined since Canada eliminated the virus in 1998 - a status we will likely lose in 2025. And it's all thanks to anti-vaxx rhetoric (and policy) and Covid blowing up immune systems.


This is very aggressively (perhaps too aggressively) stated, but he's absolutely right. People are all worried their ideas are gonna be "stolen", and my friends, I can assure you that won't be the problem.
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Detox democracy through representation by random selection


DETOXING DEMOCRACY: What is the case for deliberative democracy, and why would we put ourselves through โ€˜sortitionโ€™? As our institutions fall in respect and effectiveness, we canโ€™t afford not to consider such ideas, argues Nicholas Gruen.

in reply to Muse

Available without subscription here: archive.md/ava6B or web.archive.org/web/2024110207โ€ฆ


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 nightโ€™s 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 otherโ€™s company as the community celebrated Tulsaโ€™s 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...





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/interโ€ฆ



Co-op will take Israeli products off shelves due to 'violations of international law & human rights abuses' - Canary
thecanary.co/trending/2025/06/โ€ฆ

#TheCoop #GazaGenocide #EthicalShopping




> "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/antโ€ฆ

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

in reply to Nathan Schneider

I am surprised they found enough idle capacity sitting around to properly scan millions of books so quickly. How? I hope the scans (if usable) get archived properly.

#libraries #digipres



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/wโ€ฆ



Merz: Truce makes โ€˜the 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)?

aje.io/7jaly7?update=3797722



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



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).

vmst.io/deck/getting-started

@Gargron

#mastodon




๐Ÿ’ก โ€œNextcloud 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! ๐ŸŽ’

xda-developers.com/these-7-selโ€ฆ



Geert Lovink desde Amรฉrica Latina

A propรณsito de la publicaciรณn โ€œLa extinciรณn de internet: polรญtica, redes y plataformasโ€.

una reflexiรณn crรญtica sobre la Internet que tenemos

sursiendo.org/2024/05/geert-loโ€ฆ




Uncoupling growth and division in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii colonies: consistent cell cycle regulation under confinement academic.oup.com/ismecommun/adโ€ฆ


Linking Cell Size, Vmax and Km in Phototrophs and Chemotrophs: Insights From Bayesian Inference enviromicro-journals.onlinelibโ€ฆ


Kubuntu goes Wayland only!

news.itsfoss.com/kubuntu-25-10โ€ฆ

#linux #kubuntu



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

lab.cccb.org/es/una-lloradita-โ€ฆ



omg quantum witch is out! Buy it!!

store.steampowered.com/app/310โ€ฆ




"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

#Israel #Iran #Trump #News #IsraelIran #Ceasefire



"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-opinioโ€ฆ

in reply to Nicholas Grossman

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/fedoโ€ฆ

#Fedora #Linux #Steam #OpenSource



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-carbonโ€ฆ


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

"Perfect" in what sense? "Perfect" would mean the game is so well balanced that the people wouldn't not complain at all, and the community would be just like Deep Rock Galactic's, which is not the case, any competitive game attracts toxicity


Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates meet for the first time in decades! ๐Ÿคฏ

Are they cooking something up?

#linux #microsoft #linustorvalds #billgates

in reply to It's FOSS

So, this must be the end of days then... Heaven and Hell colliding and everyone is smiling. The worst thing is that it's a really nice picture, and why shouldn't these two talk shop over a coffee? And yet I find it incredibly unsettling.



The Story of Woody Guthrieโ€™s Fight with Trump and a Ukulele Play-Along


The Song That Was Never Recorded

#WoodyGuthrie #Music #TrumpTheRacist #1954 #ForgottenMusic



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/1lโ€ฆ

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.

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in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Don't use Reddit, there is Lemmy/Piefed.

I am being glib of course, 50K MAU is nothing, but have to start somewhere.

This entry was edited (6 months ago)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

average situation on reddit, honestly. for the few ways that reddit does come in handy, it's mostly just a bunch of internet bureaucracy that only ever ends up in self imposed "red tape"



Time-stopping Pac-Man like survivor game Maze Mice gets a big upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/timeโ€ฆ

#IndieGames #MazeMice #Linux #SteamDeck

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