#introduction Hello incredible people! Thanks for having me in town.
I'm Max, guitarist, performer and researcher based in Ukraine. PhD in Music Art.
Interests in: - improvisation, electronic and microtonal music, field recording; - DIY approaches to making, thinking, living; - the natural environment around me: living in the mountains, cycling through landscapes and careful listening to surroundings; - Tea drinking, playing chess, reading poetry and petting my cat at the end of the day.
This year I'll be at #FOSDEM26 too. I'll be at the #Mastodon stand selling you pins and stickers. Please drop by, say hi, and buy our stuff, I don't want to have to carry it back.
my picks are @keepassxc keepassdx and syncthing since they make up my password manager system and then you have a full open source password system that you fully own and control youtube.com/watch?v=jL7gfM27EU…
NewPipe, for accomplishing the unenviable task of bypassing YouTube's many blocks. Similar credit to yt-dlp with its additional mass archival uses and numerous configuration possibilities.
Kiwix for aiding in the important work of archiving knowledge in a post-truth AI hellscape that hasn't even left Wikipedia unscathed
KeepassDX for making your digital security and password management something that you can truly own.
Took the #Plushtodon for coffee and to the Press Room this week. 💜🇪🇺 (Almost) Every day at 12:00 accredited journalists can ask the European Commission questions. The whole thing gets streamed live on the website, you can watch it here: audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/me…
Wow so while I was explaining how I got into the fediverse to @hongminhee and @2chanhaeng the tv in this cafe started talking about @peertube on #France24
"Le but est de ne pas tout faire d’un coup. "Par exemple, dans un premier temps, on va montrer la suite LibreOffice qui peut remplacer les solutions de Microsoft. Puis le mois suivant on va parler de Mastodon au lieu de X ou de Proton plutôt que Gmail", précise ce vétéran de l’autonomie numérique." via france24.com/fr/%C3%A9co-tech/…
En tous cas! Auf jeden Fall! For shure! The french President is so pissed of everything that comes from the greatest country asshole (GröFatZ), that he and the hole country is ready and willing to get independant again.
The France knows something that you and I do not know. They are spying on us by Teams. Therefore they abandonned Teams. The rest of the EU should follow.
Nice to know. France delivers 75% of the military information to Ukraine and the US less than 25% now. The balance is shifting.
Someone with a quarter century research experience in industrial computing and electronics confirms that LibreOffice is still unusable in practice. This applies to technical & scientific report writing as well as office work.
Not only are new employees unfamiliar with it, but also design faults in the specifications are known & discussed on bug reporting platforms. I won't try to list them, but a review is urgently needed with assessment of possible outside 'interference'.
Must not forget the VBA ecosystem coupled to Excel, which allowed me to get work done during the 2 or 3 years it took for corporate IT to refuse my development submissions.
The Open Gaming Collective (OGC) was an interesting announcement recently from a few bigger names, but the CachyOS team opted out of it and now we know why.
I appreciate the no-frills coverage btw, thanks. No sensationalist headline, just the news and a recap of the necessary context. Keep up the great work!
Following the immense success of the Stop Destroying Videogames initiative, it's set to get an official reply and public hearing in the European Parliament.
We need to save our software and archive it for future generations!
(And so that those fuckers can't retro-actively patch an offline game to be online only after ten years of release. Fuck Ubisoft for soft locking my copy of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.)
it's not an "org" it's a corporation placed in Germany to munch on EU taxpayers money while advancing the long project of Pottering to enclosure whatever was left from Linux that Linus didn't already sold to corporate control
The GDC 2026 State of the Game Industry report is out with "over 2,300" professionals in the industry surveyed, and here's some of the highlights from it.
I suppose these reports are related to assets (textures, sounds, music, models). If we count also people using it for code, I suspect that the AI usage would unfortunately spike.
I was reading it, but thanks for taking the trouble of pointing it out. Weird data in there... for example I find difficult believing there's more people working to optimize for Steam Deck than for Switch or Switch 2.
Still hard at work on content for the Steam page 😅
Spent this week working on code mechanics and making cats for the demo. Almost done with the models, just 2.5 left to go
Can't show the full cast yet, but here are two fluffy freelancers based on concepts by a follower. They are working hard.. or at least pretending to, just like real cats 🐱💻
And the Special Recognition Award for contributions to Business and Impact goes to....
@[url=https://mastodon.social/users/Karlitschek]Frank Karlitschek[/url], Founder and CEO of @nextcloud!
From his contribution to KDE and other free software projects since the end of the 90s, Frank has showcased his dedication to make the internet more secure and federated by the development of open collaboration services!
And the Special Recognition Award for contributions to Business and Impact goes to....
@Karlitschek, Founder and CEO of @nextcloud!
From his contribution to KDE and other free software projects since the end of the 90s, Frank has showcased his dedication to make the internet more secure and federated by the development of open collaboration services!
An image from some of Scotland's most remote mountains. It's no small feat to get out here, but it's worth it every time.
Made last year when me and Benjamin Maze took a group of awesome clients hiking and wild camping here; we were treated to all manner of brilliant conditions from hail to blue skies. (Join us in September 2026 for the second iteration of our Northwest Highlands photography adventure!)
Despite global retail giant Colgate-Palmolive forming a coalition with other brands in 2020, virtue-signalling that they will stop all deforestation, they continue to do this – destroying rai…
If Linux outlives Torvalds, and I believe that it will, that will be proof that it's not actually based on one guy's preferences. That it's genuinely, sincerely a *community* project.
I want Linux to live a good long time, but I will literally sleep better knowing that there's a plan in place.
I am surprised something like this was not already in place. No one, not even Linus, should be a potential single point of failure. Things happen in life, a contingency / succession plan should have been in place years ago as a just in case.
Gyatso Bista remembers the sacks of kutki. As a child learning to become a healer in Nepal’s kingdom of Lo Manthang, Bista would watch as heaps of the bitter-tasting herb, prized for treating fever, coughs and liver problems, arrived on horseback fro…
making a dough with flour/water/olive oil/spanish onion/green onion/thai chilis/cumin/oregano, then im gonna put it all out flat on a baking sheet, top that shit with tomatoes and some cornmeal, and bake
Impressive!! - That sequence with the purple chairs being used to create a moving walkway made me wonder how many times they failed during rehearsal; I wonder if they had a safety protocol to warn the walker in case the next chair was late?
@Karl Auerbach The chair bit was my favourite as well! I can bet you anything that they should have had a protocol, but didn't, and because they are professionals--nothing went wrong.
As the nation veers into policies on war-making and immigration that disturb many, average Catholics are stepping up into activist roles to voice their concerns and assist their neighbors.
todon.eu/@dbattistella/1159793… dbattistella@todon.eu - The Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by #ICE.
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The Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by #ICE.
#FirstNations #TravelAdvisory #US
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