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The King #Cobra 🐍 is the serpentine king 👑🌳 of the jungle in #Thailand #India #Cambodia 🇮🇳 🇹🇭🇰🇭 they're #vulnerable due to #palmoil #deforestation and human persecution 😿 Protect them when you #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🔥⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…
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What would you rather have governing your Mastodon server?

  • Human admin with tech skills (94%, 55 votes)
  • Deterministic admin bot managing voting systems (5%, 3 votes)
  • LLM admin agent trained on a written constitution (0%, 0 votes)
58 voters. Poll end: in 19 hours

in reply to Nathan Schneider

my top of brain answer would be a combo - automation with human escalation path...
in reply to Laura James

@Laura I imagine that too. A supervisable LLM manages decision processes, etc., and there is a deterministic way to shut it off or pause it.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

Depends on the LLM. If it can be trusted, then the last option. Otherwise, the middle option.


A quick reminder that itsfoss.com is the only URL for our publication. Sometimes, green is the impostor (IYKYK).

#opensource #linux #impostor




Are you getting tired of random price increases for your online collaboration suite? 🤔

With a new round of price hikes for commercial Office suites, many organizations and public institutions are reassessing their digital workplace strategy.

Read the full blog post: 👉 nextcloud.com/blog/5-ways-next…

Register for the webinar: 👉 go.nextcloud.com/r/ZuHo



What are y'all's favorite British authors? I need to find some to research for my next English project. I don't really have a preference on work, I'm open to everything! Right now the only one I plan on doing some research on is Virginia Woolf (my fav)
in reply to noah christopher

Richard Adams, George Eliot, Mary Shelley, John Milton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tolkien, Samuel Butler, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Douglas Adams, Samuel Johnson, Aldous Huxley

If you read through Woolfe's Books & Portraits, you'll get a taste of a lot of really interesting english writers(although some are american). I discovered a bunch through that little book.

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I really have no idea what's going on in STICKER/BALL but I love the chaos gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/i-re…

#STICKER/BALL #IndieGames #Gaming #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Art style looks a lot like Mosa Lina, but it does not seem to be the same studio?


Thanks to everyone who came to visit our stand at #fosdem . We showed off a couple of new devices this year like the PineVoice home assistant speaker and the new PineTime Pro prototype. A lot of the discussion topics we had at FOSDEM will make it into a new community blog post. Including what this year will look like considering DRAM prices.

We had a lot of fun meeting you all, safe travels everyone!

#pine64



Dune: Awakening Chapter 3 is live bringing massive changes gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/dune…

#DuneAwakening #MMO #Gaming #Dune



HELLDIVERS 2 has a big new event to take down the Automatons and you get tanks gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hell…

#HELLDIVERS2 #Gaming #PCGaming



We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen!

Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the @SURF instance social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.





This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Witness the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA…

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The dazzling Magnificent Bird-of-Paradise 🌈💫 earn their name from male birds' mating dances for females 🥁🎷🕊️ Help them to survive #palmoil and #mining #deforestation in #WestPapua and #NewGuinea and #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/…


"The best things in life are free
And you can give them to the birds and bees..." --- Barret Strong

Singing with Barret Strong's sone in mind while yanking and carrying Common Henbit from a fallow field in the neighborhood..

#BackyardChickens #JiDokKo #JiDori #SilkyChickens #Silkies #烏骨鶏 #宮崎じどっこ #宮崎地鶏 #仏の座 #ホトケノザ #CommonHenBit




Civilization VII major update "Test of Time" will stop the forced civ swapping gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/civi…

#CivilizationVII #Civilization #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming



Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform X in France are being raided, the Paris prosecutor's office says.

The prosecutor's office said both Musk and former X chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino had also been summoned to appear at hearings in April as part of its probe.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3ex9…



Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fact…

#Factory95 #IndieGames #Demo



This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

openpetition.de/petition/onlin…

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.

If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!

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Photo credit: Redazione Cultura. distributed under CC By SA license



Get some quality action in the Sci-Fi Shooters 2.0 Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/get-…

#FPS #Gaming #PCGaming #GameBundle



Firefox will get AI controls to turn it all off gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/fire…

#Firefox #AI #GenAI

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

who said it's really off once it's pressed. Also on the next update maybe it turns itself back on. It's why I don't use Firefox anymore and probably never will again I don't like anything with all this AI nonsense.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

AI should be turned OFF by default and the user has to turn it on if they want to use it. This should be an opt-in setting, not an opt-out setting.




Ten of the Most Exciting Ways to Commemorate America’s 250th This Year


This article is from Smithsonian Magazine. Actually some of the suggestions for celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of The Declaration of Independence could also make great protest events.

~ Community potlucks with people of all ethnic backgrounds.

~ My favorite: historical re-enactments. How about re-enacting everyone signing the Declaration! THAT would be awesome!

parade

#democracy #Indivisible #50501movement #HumanRights

in reply to Muse

I'm quite sure many of the words of the Declaration of Independence would make great protest signs.


Do you know what the worst taste is? It's the revolting taste of rainforests being destroyed for #palmoil in #chocolate and #candy made by #Nestle #Mondelez #Ferrero. Make sure you #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸🚜🔥🙈☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…


(Etwas später fliehen die Stare wieder aus ihren Bäumen, Krähen beobachten den rauschenden Schwarm, nebenan wird eine Kiste mit Spielzeug ausgekippt und dem inneren Auge bietet sich ein Berg von Bausteinen und Kunststofftieren, der klappernd in die Breite rutscht. Ein Newsletter unterbreitet Textpassagen von Stimmen, deren Gedanken man zu lange nicht mehr gelesen hat, über die eigene Kanälen währenddessen fällt es schwer, jene wiederzufinden, deren Namen man kennt, in den Radionachrichten sinniert eine Expertenstimme, dass AI alles disrupted, und die eigenen Überlegungen dazu spielen keine große Rolle, aber vielleicht haben Menschen, die englische Verben im Deutschen konjugieren, an gewissen Stellen einfach die Kontrolle verloren...)

#outerworld #concrete city #grounded #stories of time and its strange fabric

in reply to Kristian 🌒

ja, solche Gedanken kommen mir auch manchmal, wenn ich Radiomenschen zuhöre.
Da frage ich mich oft, ob denen die Worte nur so aus dem Kopf fallen und ob sie über das was sie sagen, auch mal Nachdenken und ob das für sie selber auch eine Auswirkung hat.
In den meisten Fällen denke ich: nein 🥴
Morjen ☕


Known locally as #Kalong the Malayan #FlyingFox of #Malaysia #Indonesia has a bad reputation but plays an outsized role in keeping #rainforests alive. #Endangered by #palmoil. Use your wallet as a weapon 🌴⛔️#Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy youtu.be/_GG_fBE_8Io

Malayan Flying Fox Pteropus v...



Ophrys neglecta, die Übersehene Ragwurz, ist mit der Wespen-Ragwurz verwandt und wird je nach Autor auch als deren Unterart angesehen (Ophrys tenthredinifera ssp. neglecta). Sie blüht etwas später und hat etwas kleinere Blüten als diese.

Ophrys neglecta - Sardegna, Italia, April 2025

#natur #nature #naturephotography #macro #makro #macrophotography #makrofotografie #orchid #wildflower



#News: #UK has weakening protections for #humanrights defenders! 🧐🔥 Despite links to #palmoil and #mining abuses in #WestPapua and #Mexico, the gov is stripping back protections. We demand justice 🌴☠️🚫 #HumanRights #IndigenousRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social theecologist.org/2025/dec/15/u…



My trip to Japan is almost here - commence Camera selection paralysis.

I want to bring them all, but I don't want to carry them all, but, I don't want to miss a moment, but I also want to experience everything and also capture everything all at the same time...

*sigh*.

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @carusb @michaelrussell a good caution, though I've only had one instance of international travel where they been resistant to hand checking my film thankfully. It seems to be a much more US specific issue of being denied from everyone I've talked to about it.


Mozilla is adding a toggle to disable all generative "AI" features in Firefox. It shows that organized pushback is actually making a difference.

One battle won. Now let's make it crystal clear. We want tools, not forced LLMs. Keep the pressure on until "AI" is no longer an option.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/fire…

#Firefox #Mozilla #NoAI #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #TerminalTilt



thinking about starting a permacomputing meetup in sf. any ideas for venues

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