Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: "Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it's absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that's one of my major recommendations."
Could the UK please stop being morons about tech for one day.
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Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told
The children's commissioner for England tells the BBC virtual private networks are a "loophole that needs closing.Ottilie Mitchell (BBC News)
Webcam-based head & eye tracking app for gaming, LookPilot gets improved Linux compatibility gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/webc…
#LookPilot #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #LinuxGaming
Webcam-based head & eye tracking app for gaming, LookPilot gets improved Linux compatibility
LookPilot continues being one of the most promising (and cheapest) ways to get 6DoF head & eye tracking for gaming on Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Happy #WorldPhotographyDay !
This is one of my favourite images from last autumn in Scotland's Ancient Caledonian Forest. In the dark of morning, I hiked up this pathless steep sided hill to gain a view over the magnificent glen beyond and was treated to an exceptional sunrise. Amazing to see all these regenerating pine saplings growing on the higher slopes.
#photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #scotland #uk
Puzzle colony builder AUTARKIS looks great with a demo up and releases September 1 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/puzz…
#AUTARKIS #IndieGames #Demo #Linux #PCGaming
Puzzle colony builder AUTARKIS looks great with a demo up and releases September 1
AUTARKIS is an upcoming puzzle colony builder from developer rockingprojects. It's all about building mini colonies, and protecting them from catastrophes.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Can’t find Windows in GRUB? Fix it with these steps.
Missing Windows from Grub After Dual Boot? Here's What You Can Do
Can't see Windows in Grub after successfully dual booting? That's because os-prober is disabled. Here's how to fix it.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
Clean up the world in Kingdoms of the Dump a SNES styled JRPG is coming in November gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/clea…
#KingdomsoftheDump #IndieGames #Godot #Gaming #Linux
Clean up the world in Kingdoms of the Dump a SNES styled JRPG is coming in November
After a successful Kickstarter back in 2019, Roach Games have confirmed that Kingdoms of the Dump is set for release in November.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GeForce NOW gets Blackwell GPUs, install to play games, a Steam Deck upgrade and Discord integration gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/gefo…
#NVIDIA #GeForceNOW #CloudGaming #Gaming #PCGaming
GeForce NOW gets Blackwell GPUs, install to play games, a Steam Deck upgrade and Discord integration
NVIDIA GeForce NOW is set for some huge upgrades with GeForce RTX 5080-powered servers, a new way to play games and the Steam Deck gets a boost too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 recently added save state slots and netplay cloud servers gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nint…
#Nintendo64 #Emulation #OpenSource
Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 recently added save state slots and netplay cloud servers
If Nintendo 64 is your thing, keep an eye on the gopher64 emulator which is steadily adding in more features and has Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Tomorrow at 7pm in Roundwood, Wicklow I will give a talk for Heritage Week 'From Furze to Flame: Drawing Stories From Our Uplands'. This will be about fire management practices in the past in Ireland, and how I made art from research about this.
Tickets and information: heritageweek.ie/event-listings…
#heritageWeek #HeritageWeek2025 #Wicklow #Ireland
From Furze to Flame: Drawing Stories from our Uplands | National Heritage Week 16th – 24th August 2025
Discover how ancient burning practices, wild plants, and disappearing traditions still shape our cultural landscape. Join us with artist-in-residence Shane Fina...www.heritageweek.ie
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Mid-century Modernist teacups by Figgjo Norway.
These are so quirky and playful. They used to be somewhat abundant. So, people thought nothing of passing them onto secondhand stores. Like many things from that era, this is changing. I may be forced to collect something else! But really, I don't need lots of things. These in particular make me happy.
They remind me of the country teaparties my mother used to hold. The young ladies attending might have been living on farms, but they knew how to dress up with hats, gloves, and beautiful dresses! I was usually situated on the floor between my mother and the coffee table.
@Ivy Blackledge Whitfield @Joyce Donahue @Katherine Bond @Janet Logan 🏳️⚧️ @Jodi @Susan ✶✶✶✶ Virtual tea party! Feel free to join. Even if you aren't named, you are still loved!
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Black-Throated monitor Varanus albigularis microstictus
The Black-Throated Monitor is a mighty and large lizard reaching over 2 metres long. They are threatened by agriculture deforestation and #hunting for their leather and meat in Tanzania, Africa. He…Palm Oil Detectives
You can use Nautilus file manager to access root.
itsfoss.com/access-root-nautil…
Accessing Root Directory in Nautilus File Manager
Quick little tip that shows how you can access the files and folders under root from Nautilus file manager.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
Australia's telephone network Telstra just put this up!
Steve Buscemi is hilarious! The whole thing is hilarious!
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🚀 Tails 7.0~rc1 is out for testing
Official release planned for Oct 16 🗓️
Built on Debian 13 & GNOME 48 🧩
Brings updated apps (GIMP 3.0.4, Audacity 3.7.3, Electrum 4.5.8 & more) 🔧
Improved hardware support 🌐
New RAM requirement: 3 GB 💾
Slower boot (fix coming) ⏳
Privacy-focused OS, now open for community feedback 🛡️
blog.torproject.org/tails-7_0-…
#Linux #FOSS #Privacy #Security #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #Tails #TailsOS #Tor #TorProject #Debian #Gnome #TechNews #OS #OperatingSystem
Tails 7.0~rc1 available for testing | Tor Project
We are very excited to present you with a release candidate of the upcoming Tails 7.0. We plan to release Tails 7.0 officially on October 16. You can help us by testing this release candidate already.blog.torproject.org
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.www.torproject.org
Happy #WorldOrangutanDay, download your #FREE #infographic in the link 🧐👇 You've been sold a lie! #Orangutans face extinction from "sustainable" #palmoil, which DOES NOT STOP #DEFORESTATION 🔥🌴🚫 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife!
palmoildetectives.com/2024/08/…
August 19th is #WorldOrangutanDay
Although #WorldOrangutanDay falls on the 19th of August, every day deserves to be World Orangutan Day! So here is an infographic that you can download, print and share however you please. All three…Palm Oil Detectives
Pre-Fortress 2 is coming to Steam to bridge the gap between Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/pre-…
#TF2 #Gaming #FPS #PCGaming #TeamFortress2
Pre-Fortress 2 is coming to Steam to bridge the gap between Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2
Another big Team Fortress 2 (TF2) mod is coming to Steam with Pre-Fortress 2 aiming to bridge the gap between the original and TF2.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
August 19th is #WorldOrangutanDay
Although #WorldOrangutanDay falls on the 19th of August, every day deserves to be World Orangutan Day! So here is an infographic that you can download, print and share however you please. All three…Palm Oil Detectives
LibreOffice has a new AI superpower. 🤖
news.itsfoss.com/libreoffice-a…
LibreOffice Gets AI Image Generation Through New Stable Diffusion Extension
I didn't expect LibreOffice to get this.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/mons…
#Aethermancer #Gaming #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
Monster taming roguelite Aethermancer from the Monster Sanctuary devs arrives September 23
Monster Sanctuary from moi rai games is a great monster taming metroidvania, and now they're set to release Aethermancer into Early Access for more.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/valv…
#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming
Valve announce language-specific user review scores for Steam games
Valve have carefully tweaked the user review system for Steam games, to now include language-specific user review scores.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Watch as Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud founder, and Kaj Arnö of MariaDB Foundation discuss:
- The synergy between #Nextcloud and #MariaDB
- How values translate into technology
- Why #OpenSource is essential to #DigitalSovereignty
And more!
Watch it now 👉 youtu.be/-dn6VET-7EY
📢 La Coalición Feminista Descolonial por la Justicia Digital y Ambiental presenta "Tecnologías - Tramas - Territorios. Desenredando los impactos socioambientales de la tecnología en Latinoamérica."
Será el próximo sábado 23 de agosto en el Centro de Cultura Digital de la CDMX, de 11 a 15 horas, pero también se transmitirá vía streaming.
Registro y más información:
centroculturadigital.mx/activi…
ArmSom's latest offering.
ArmSoM Unveils CM1, a $15 Rockchip Compute Module for Industrial IoT
Compact, affordable module delivers industrial-grade performance for embedded IoT.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Your Arch Linux setup can be made better with this. ✨
This One Command Turned My Arch Install Into a Beautiful Hyprland Setup
This script turned my boring Arch install into something special.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Last Epoch Season 3 will work better on Steam Deck and there's lots new coming gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/last…
#LastEpoch #RPG #ARPG #SteamDeck #Gaming
Last Epoch Season 3 will work better on Steam Deck and there's lots new coming
If you're in need of an ARPG to play on Steam Deck / SteamOS or other handhelds, Last Epoch Season 3 could be the one for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Binturong Arctictis binturong
You may smell a Binturong in the forest before you see them. They give off the aroma of buttered popcorn or cheesy crisps due to the a compound in their urine they use to attract mates. The binturo…Palm Oil Detectives
Bearcat (or Uniden Bearcat) is also a popular brand name of radio scanner (which these days is made in Viet Nam, at least mine is - I wonder if that is why Uniden picked the name?)
Useful to listen to what is happening with ships and boats (both fishing boats and large vessels) if you live near the sea on marine VHF/UHF band, as well as aircrafts and some other services (although not the Emergency Services in many countries, as they have moved towards digital and encrypted transmissions)
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Bioneers combines factory-building with organism simulation in a microworld gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/bion…
#Bioneers #IndieGames #PCGaming #Gaming
Bioneers combines factory-building with organism simulation in a microworld
Bioneers will have you build up an organism on the micro-scale that mixes together elements of factory-building with organism simulation.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
As promised there is now a guide along with templates (and even banners!) for developers to make their own project updates to upload to the Pine64 community blog.
The guide will continue to get updated when possible.
pine64.org/documentation/Intro…
Writing a blog post
This guide is for community members wanting to announce project updates on the Pine64 community blog. Setup You should first prepare a fork of the pine64 website repository on GitHub, then clone it.PINE64
Take command of a Cold War-era nuclear corvette in space with Deck & Conn gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/take…
Take command of a Cold War-era nuclear corvette in space with Deck & Conn
MicroProse revealed Deck & Conn, a single-player turn-based tactics game that places players in command of a Cold War-era nuclear corvette — in space.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Jupiter Hell Classic is a 'demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake' now on Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/jupi…
#JupiterHellClassic #Roguelike #Roguelikes #Gaming
Jupiter Hell Classic is a 'demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake' now on Steam
A demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake. It's okay to be confused, but Jupiter Hell Classic is a cool roguelike now in Early Access on Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Become a chaotic vacuum in the physics-based action-adventure ACUVAC gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/beco…
#ACUVAC #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames
Become a chaotic vacuum in the physics-based action-adventure ACUVAC
I couldn't help but giggle a fair bit at the actual full name - ACUVAC: A Suck and Blow Adventure.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes gets Steam Deck Verified and Cloud Saves gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/lego…
#LEGO #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #SteamOS
LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes gets Steam Deck Verified and Cloud Saves
TT Games pushed out a small update for LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes and managed to get it Steam Deck Verified in the process.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
THE FINALS should be fixed again with the latest Proton Experimental updates gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/the-…
#THEFINALS #FPS #Gaming #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamOS
THE FINALS should be fixed again with the latest Proton Experimental updates
Thankfully the Proton coders for Valve have managed to work quickly to get THE FINALS working on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck after it broke again.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
SlaveDriver Engine for the Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave gets open sourced gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/slav…
#PowerSlave #FPS #OpenSource #RetroGaming
SlaveDriver Engine for the Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave gets open sourced
Another win for game preservation and open source, with the release of the SlaveDriver Engine for Sega Saturn classic shooter PowerSlave.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
That's amazing! This was certainly not on my bingo card.
The Homebrew community for the Saturn is a small but quite dedicated group of people. I can only imagine what good things may come from this.
Grab some table top games in the latest board game Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/grab…
Grab some table top games in the latest board game Humble Bundle
If you love table top / board games, you should check out the latest board game Humble Bundle.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Preventing Pandemics: Cheaper Than Controlling Them
“It turns out prevention of #pandemics really is the best medicine. We estimate we could greatly reduce the likelihood of another pandemic occuring by investing as little as 1/20th of the losses in…Palm Oil Detectives
Lai-nus or Lee-nus? 🤔 Hear it straight from the man himself! 🎤
(Original clip: Behind the Scenes with Linux—Linux Foundation)
Lee-noos is the original native version.
Lai-noos is the basterdized americanized version.
I respect the original version, just like respectful Americans respect terms like Baja desert (Baha), or bourgeoisie.
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •The Penguin of Evil
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •It's a sad state of affairs but essentially if you have the skills needed to run the UK you go work for JP Morgan or similar and if you are the dumb one in the upper class family you get put into politics.
Meanwhile the house of lords is our version of Florida
Paul Taylor
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Dame Rachel de Souza has done some important work around children that I’ll always support, but I can’t help think she’s completely missing the mark with her OSA work.
I dont know if it’s because it’s tech, but shes misjudged and come across as misguided in many areas, and this in particular highlights that.
Richard Devine
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •You can't control people's use of any kind of software, for the simple reason that — and I can't believe this has to be said — people can *write software*.
If every single commercial provider of VPN software agreed to require age verification, home-brewed VPN proxies would spring up within weeks.
Tomás
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I understand it is not Corbyn, but c'mon!
Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Anonymity is part of privacy, it's a right.
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •The Net is Vast and Infinite
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Aho
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •M0KHR
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Beyuum
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of…
a cliché that evolved into a rhetorical tactic
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