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A Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest. “But this recent protest is different. These students will never inspire change. Fifty years from now, we will definitely not pretend that we agreed with them the whole time.” mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mess…
in reply to kottke.org

Did you ever see the At Berkeley movie? it was a really good series of images from a year on campus at Berkeley, the year that students occupied Wheeler Hall. We got a snippet of an admin meeting, in which the admins basically said exactly this.

'Yes, I know we occupied buildings the Free Speech Movement, which is comemorated on campus by a cafe literally called the Free Speech Movement Cafe, but kids these days are different. They don't know how to occupy a building right.'

in reply to kottke.org

realizing that this is a satirical article, no one actually is going to talk about this the way we’ve talked about past ones. More than half of the participants don’t even understand what they’re protesting.


What is a deepfake and how to avoid being scammed? 🕵️

In our recent guide, we explore how deepfakes work, find out how to spot one, and list some useful practices that help you stay safe.

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in reply to Joseph Teller

New Hampshire residents have been taking advantage of Massachusetts business and civic resources for too long. They should pay some taxes.
in reply to Joseph Teller

Definitely Tom. And Some Do, but there is also a number of them that come down here and work on contracts rather than employees and others who do so under the table in one form or another, just like all the vehicles that are registered in NH but pretty much spend all their time down here (such as construction companies that operate in MA but their office is in NH and they store there trucks down here at construction sites).


La Red TDT rechaza la criminalización realizada por el presidente AMLO en su mañanera para deslegitimar al CDH Frayba
y al Centro Prodh

Este discurso agrava la realidad de violencia que se vive en México.

⬇️
redtdt.org.mx/archivos/18871



LIVE SOON: It's been a long journey but I think it's almost over youtube.com/watch?v=R4LLZEsg73…


Intel ARC Battlemage Hasn't Been Cancelled... Yet #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/4hyMm0KoVbU
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Personally, I don't think it'll get cancelled since the Arc series has been a hit with pre-builts. Would suck though if they abandoned the line, since I have an Arc 770 lol


Nadine Smith
23 May 2024:

If you haven’t been following the “a bear or a man” thought experiment richocheting around social media, you are missing the fascinating opportunity to witness the penny drop for some men.

I watched a video of a wife asking her husband if he would rather their daughter be in the woods with a bear or a man. “Which man?””What kind of bear?” He pondered as his mind grazed and recoiled from the details of imagined dangers.

Then she asked: “How about a woman or a bear?” She scarcely had the words out of her mouth before he answered “Woman!” No questions about who she was, what circumstances. You could see the horror of realization in his eyes.

Equally revealing is the fury in some men when they discover that so many women pick the bear.




MASTODON TIP OF THE DAY: This seems to be as good a time as any to remind you that you can use "in:library" with search terms in your Mastodon search (at least, with the advanced web interface), to search for text in the Mastodon posts you have made in the past. Please see the attached image for an example:
in reply to Ryan Schultz

How about "in:my posts" or something more user friendly than the jargon word "Library"?
in reply to Colin Devroe

@cdevroe @edwiebe Yes, from:me does what the original post is about, in:library is a bit more than that.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron oh, interesting. Might be nice to add more detail about all search operators here: docs.joinmastodon.org/user/net…

(Unless there is a document already and I cannot find it.)

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @edwiebe
It has more common and general everyday meanings outside of the context of Mastodon?

Timeline, post history, seem more straight forward. No one refers to their wallet, their notebook, their in Box their out box, their posts their diary, etc… as ‘My Library’

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @edwiebe
As a Mastodon thing? No interest in Mastodon as an RSS reader / podcast player either.

I have a library of books, and DVD, and other media as well. And the public library is a couple of miles away.

I have no need or ambition for Mastodon becoming any of those.



👩‍🔬 Estamos trabajando en una app federada para investigadores y académikes y necesitamos tu ayuda.

Puedes involucrarte en el proceso de diseño participando en este hilo de discusión.

O donando al proyecto Open Science o al colectivo Niboe 💛 :boost_requested:



Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-e…



Some gaming communities are nice, most are truly terrible #memes


Nextcloud Hub 8 leverages the power of AI to offer some really cool features!

@nextcloud

news.itsfoss.com/nextcloud-hub…

in reply to It's FOSS

they should be fixing the crappy speed of the web interface instead of hyping all this AI BS.
in reply to jjlinux | X unverified 😅

@linuxjj Every Nextcloud Hub release includes performance improvements, and this release includes a ton of them 🚀

youtube.com/watch?v=fl2BQu2dWZ…

youtube.com/watch?v=fl2BQu2dWZ…



What an extraordinary software Obsidian is. I am in awe of the dedication of the community involved. Kudos to all – I will start to do what little I can too.

obsidian.md/about

@obsidian

[Edited out the sentence 'This could only exist as FOSS.' above because it's not FOSS, haha oops!]

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@wmd oops, thanks. Edited the post.

Well in that case, I hope it stays good for a while longer before it gets eaten up. It's nice to have nice things, even for a short while.

@obsidian

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Fionnáin

@mycorrhiza not only is your sentence accurate, it is also a much nicer all-round sentiment.

@obsidian




Cómo la contracultura y los ordenadores portátiles se adueñaron de nuestra vida

theconversation.com/como-la-co…



Semi-open world paper plane adventure 'Paper Sky' coming to Linux and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/semi…

#Linux #SteamDeck



Buried here: "Vox Media’s technology news publication The Verge says it also has plans to federate its own site to have more ownership over its content and audience." #Media digiday.com/marketing/as-tikto…

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

almost screaming with excitement to see how the home insurance companies are going to handle this when the first Pyrobot burns down someone's house after they awkwardly try to defend against a "home invasion" that turns out to be an unusually large raccoon.


I watched Date A Live 10 years ago, some how it now has 5 seasons. I think it might be time to catch up youtu.be/146v6ZGHOaM
in reply to Brodie Robertson

honesty sounds like a good idea, because I'm sort of tired of watching new staff and having to wait for a new season (if it comes, which it usually does nowadays)
in reply to Brodie Robertson

im gonna have to rewatch what i watched before cuz i forgot almost everything that happened


Two men swapped at birth – one Indigenous, one white – finally get apology. “To have the core understanding of who you are — and who your parents were and who your siblings were — taken away from you, is a shattering experience.” theguardian.com/world/2024/mar…


You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Thermonator, the first "flamethrower-wielding robot dog," is completely legal in 48 US states.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…



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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
@wolfram_roesler @sinus @smartwater @lernbuddy Everything on the internet is a security risk 😉 It all depends on your threat profile. Of course, anyone can hire a dozen Nextcloud developers to provide a secure solution, but they won't be cheap. Nextcloud partners benefit from our help with early security patches, extra testing, professional support, bug fixes, etc. You will have to decide if the price outweighs the risk for yourself.
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

@wolfram_roesler @sinus @smartwater @lernbuddy Anyone can make Nextcloud secure given a particular threat profile, with proper administration and infrastructure considerations.

Of course, it is a bit harder at a business scale than for home users (which we try to make SUPER easy with our all-in-one Docker container). But just like a home user benefits from our help and expertise when they use the Docker AIO, a partner can benefit from our help. That gives you, as a customer, some assurance.



here you can buy goods for your illegal underground wedding
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in reply to halcy​

This was in a section labeled “futurology” and I was actually trying to find the ray kurzweil book or anything by yudkowsky for this joke but I don’t know what “ray kurzweil” is in korean letters and I don’t even know if yudkowsky ever writes anything long-form print that people actually read



I've written a chunky post about my ideas and challenges I see for the design of the Liblast Framework.

The Liblast Project aims to build a framework for making FPS games and produce an FPS game called Liblast.

For all that to work, we need a lot of educated, forward-looking design decisions.

I am taking inspiration from the Quake/Source engine family, but also from Liblast legacy game and other work I've done.

Please chime in 😀

codeberg.org/Liblast/Liblast/i…

- unfa

#Liblast #Indie #IndieDev



Respectfully if you’re this type of person replying to me, when simply doing my job spreading news. You get blocked. Don’t be an ass.

Re: Steam refund news

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

LMAO what is he even asking for? Like they tweaked and fixed a hole in their refund policy and you reported that exactly as is. What more could he possibly want?
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Poor guy, what is he going to do if no one tells him what to think? Also, what information are you proxying that's meant to rip people off?


Regain control over your time: Nextcloud Hub 8 is here! 🚀

✨ AI: Chat summaries, Mail reply suggestions, Context tools
📱 Files, Deck, Calendar widgets
🌐 Federated chat
🗒️ Tables: mini apps
🔗 Collectives public share, previews, QR
👥 Nextcloud Teams
🔄 Form sync with spreadsheets

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-h…

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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
@kayo77 Yes, Nextcloud Mail app supports mailvelope.com browser extension for encrypted emails.
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@kayo77 @thunderbird Nothing is planned at the moment. Please submit a feature request so others can upvote it and share additional information:
github.com/nextcloud/mail/issu…


We're LIVE! Get ready to be amazed as we unveil Nextcloud Hub 8! 🚀

Tune in NOW for the big reveal! 📽️

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Valve makes paid 'Advanced Access' a clear feature on Steam now gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/valv…

#Steam #Valve

in reply to fh0

demanding more money to stream series and movies 3 days earlier than others could also be a great business opportunity for Netflix & Co 🙈🤦
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

interesting. the advanced access page mentions that the 14-day refund window will only apply after the game's release date. and yet they count playtime in advanced access as playtime for the refund policy. maybe there's a mistake?


“These emails tell a dramatic story about how Google’s finance and advertising teams, led by Raghavan with the blessing of CEO Sundar Pichai, actively worked to make Google worse to make the company more money.” wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…


⚡ Just 1 hour to go! Hold onto your hats because big news is about to drop from Nextcloud!

Set a reminder now so you won't miss out on the excitement! ✨

Stay tuned for the big reveal ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Atari revives Infogrames and acquires Totally Reliable Delivery Service gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/atar…

#Atari #PCGaming #Gaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

"Infogrames built a reputation" - my first thought was that now they can abuse and destroy that reputation, simply judging by today's trends.


Flathub for Linux apps has been given quite the makeover gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/flat…

#Linux #FOSS #Flathub


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

as much as i would love to ditch windows if i could, that "just" is holding a LOT of weight
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I mean, if a person really needs a Windows only program that doesn’t work well with Wine, then maybe I’d say use a Windows 11 VM.

But yeah, Windows 11 (the original release no less) is what turned me from a dual-boot Windows 10 and Linux user to a full-time Linux user.

Enough is enough with these ads, this is getting really ridiculous. We just need more Linux pre-installed laptops; fortunately, @slimbook FINALLY has a US ANSI keyboard option for the Fedora Slimbook.



Minecraft v1.20.5 the Armored Paws drop update is live now gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/mine…

#Minecraft #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Kudos to Microsoft. Ten years after the acquisition, Java edition is still a thing and is pretty much equal to Bedrock in terms of gameplay features. There was always the worry they would drop it.


Ghostwire: Tokyo removed Denuvo Anti-Tamper, good for players on Linux and Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/ghos…

#Denuvo #SteamDeck #Linux

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@GothSeiDank I thought it was a single player game, why did it have Denuvo?


Horizon Forbidden West gets Intel XeSS v1.3 and text scaling gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/hori…

#SteamDeck #Linux #HorizonForbiddenWest



Steam refunds get adjusted to account for pre-release playtime gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/stea…

#Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

IMO it should be the other way around - consumers should be able to refund early access games anytime during this stage, and Steam should allow another 2h of playtime after full release. It's early access - consumers are testers, what if game turn to be a dud or stuck in ea forever? IMO this change shifts responsibility to consumer over unfinished product. It's not fair.
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@abbe98 i'm not "spreading" anything, i'm posting news, it's my job

in reply to Muse

Agreed. But I'm not dancing in public. Ever. 😀

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