Skip to main content




🎯 Transform your organization with Nextcloud Enterprise!

Enjoy unparalleled data privacy, seamless collaboration, and compliance with regulations like #GDPR and #HIPAA.

Take control of your data today!

#NextcloudEnterprise #DataSovereignty

nextcloud.com/enterprise/




@ntnsndr I'm reading Governable Spaces right now, and I'm wondering... where/if at all you see implicit feudalism crossing the line into explicit feudalism.

On one side, there's platforms like Reddit that are using protocological control to suppress dissent (arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…) and Discord that hides behind language of "servers" to mask a reality of control (something like 40,000 pre-emptive bans per year) who I don't think would call themselves feudal, but who take (explicit) action beyond the (implicit) design of their systems.

On the other, there's the examples you gave of people who call themselves "benevolent dictators" who actively wear the title even while acting more "justly" than the title may convey.

I have a lot of other thoughts on this that are backing up this question, but I'll just start with that to stick to the micro-blogging format for now lol.

in reply to SUNJIR0

For sure. Chapter 2 of the book argues that, with people like Elon Musk and Curtis Yarvin, implicit feudalism is becoming increasingly explicit as a corporate and political philosophy.

The "founder mode" idea also correlates with this.



Our team around the Beautiful Solutions book is hiring a Communications and Event Coordinator—could it be you? docs.google.com/document/d/1B0…


Sutty: “Estamos poniendo en práctica todas esas discusiones tecnopolíticas que venimos teniendo hace tiempo”

Entrevista con fauno, de @sutty gestor de contenidos y cooperativa tecnológica.
:computerfairies:
De la serie de conversaciones “Las personas detrás de las tecnologías que queremos”.

#SoftwareLibre #dWeb #Tecnopolítica
⬇️
sursiendo.org/2024/12/sutty-es…



Cambridge, Massachusetts, inks record 50 MW virtual PPA deal with MN8 Energy


It’s the largest VPPA signed by a U.S. city and the first time a city will use one to offset residential carbon emissions, according to deal broker Sustainability Roundtable.


Cambridge MA In The News

#Energy #CarbonEmissions #Cambridge #MA #VPPA



500,000 Taxa on iNaturalist! inaturalist.org/blog/103155-50…

"that’s 23% of all known species on Earth... #Birds stand out: nearly all species have been observed on #iNaturalist. 349 species (2%) are yet to be recorded... For #reptiles, #amphibians, & #mammals there are about 10x as many unobserved... Like birds, most unobserved species only remain in tropical regions. This is not the case for #fish, #plants, #invertebrates, & #fungi where there are still many left to observe in all parts of the globe"



Sony buy up KADOKAWA shares to become largest shareholder of the FromSoftware parent company gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/sony…

#Sony #KADOKAWA #Gaming #PCGaming #Anime

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

So no Bloodborne on PC ever? A masterpiece of a game forever imprisoned on substandard gaming hardware (barring emulators of course, *cough cough*).
AND, those games are probably now all gonna be chained to that idiotic PSN requirement, meaning that contrary to one of the statements cited in the article, which talks about being able to "deliver their IP to more users around the world". PSN lock-in does the exact opposite through geo-restrictions etc.


The most profitable patient is one with a chronic (highly functioning) illness, not a cured one.

When I lived in the US I was always amazed by the amount of ads for painkillers and other fixes. I came to the understanding that healthcare for many was not about curing people, but about making people able to work. I've never seen so many people with chronic illnesses poorly addressed as in the US.

cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-as…

#healthcare #business #LateStageCapitalism



oh shit it's #WeevilWednesday

BEHOLD: this majestic _Poteriophorus imperatrix_ observed in the Philippines by Claude Chavand: inaturalist.org/observations/3… :inaturalist: <img class=" title=":cc_by:"/> :cc_nc_us:

#iNaturalist #bugstodon #insects #beetles #weevils • #Coleoptera #Curculionidae #Dryophthorinae



To help the internet archive capture it and for anyone to see historic data, the forum has all the posts restored into a single category. Still read-only gamingonlinux.com/forum/


Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl gets a massive patch with an AI overhaul and lots of A-Life fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/stal…

#Stalker2



I love how almost all of the brightest minds I know are working tirelessly to figure out how to make the world a better place, while the most poshlost folks you can imagine are asking ...

cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-as…



System76 release a refreshed Pangolin laptop with AMD Ryzen 8945HS - plus hardware on sale gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/syst…

#Linux #AMD #System76



New Linux kernel patch submitted to improve Lenovo Legion series support including Lenovo Legion Go gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/new-…

#LenovoLegionGo #Lenovo #Gaming #Linux





Fanatical mystery bundle is back again: fanatical.com/en/bundle/winter… (partner link)



Steam Replay for 2024 is live to show off all those hours you played gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/stea…

#Steam #PCGaming



I just posted a super-simple how-to guide for online community governance—basically just inviting communities to start with some important, often-neglected basics. If you know anyone who might appreciate this, please share! colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2024/1…
in reply to Nathan Schneider

Nathan, how would you describe online community building to a group of people who consider themselves a community, but not primarily an online one, but using platforms and social media "as is" in a "ubiquituous/ambient computing" situation? For whom ICT are just a tool to communicate internally and externally, which leave technicial decisions to "the techies"?

Thinking about how to untangle the knot at the @IDN.

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to jon ⚝

@yala @IDN I think this guide should be useful for many offline communities as well. But they may not need it; hopefully they already have organizational infrastructure and they just apply it to their online tools.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

It's interesting. Because we are a globally distributed group, the organisational infrastructure is a chat and Google Docs, therefore inherently online. But we have 50 % join rate from registration to the org to joining the chat, which is not a lot.
I was rather asking about how to raise awareness about this inherent online-ness, when everybody is already fed up and tired out from getting lost in platforms and logins.
An emphasis on synchronous collab is making things even harder.
in reply to jon ⚝

@yala Phew, I'm not sure what the best approach is—other than meeting the community where it's at. These questions of on-boarding depend so much on context.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

Thank you. I think that's already a point I hadn't considered, because our experiences and expectations diverge so much. It's hard to meet in the middle.


The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available in the United States! This is a limited run of 500. Check out the #Plushtodon hashtag for more pictures!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products…

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron @preinheimer Right? There's an entire ocean between those two countries.

I mean, it's only a 26km gap, but it's still ocean.



The #food system is one of the most meaningful places to address #ClimateChange.

Have you been curious about switching from gas to #induction? This game-changing cooktop is faster, cleaner, more precise, and a win for the environment.

My new ep of Serving Up Science is all about why it makes sense to switch when it’s time to replace your range. youtu.be/JyTvHQnHq14?si=4twIzt… #energy

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

We recently moved to a house that has an induction hob, and WOW! what a difference it makes.
I'm convinced, my wife is slowly coming round to the idea, and it's cheaper as well!


💡 Privacy-focused AI with the Nextcloud Assistant!

🔓 With private, local-only AI options in Nextcloud you can generate content ideas, translate documents, schedule meetings and more - all while keeping your data private.

#EthicalAI #DataPrivacy

nextcloud.com/assistant/

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

at the startup game, you'll always loose. Microsoft pocket will always be deeper than yours.

Say no to IA alltogether is just plain easier.



Cuidar y acompañar desde lo digital: estrategias para la movilidad segura de mujeres jóvenes en el Valle de México.

El uso de estas herramientas contribuye a la construcción de imaginarios urbanos en los que la esperanza le gana al miedo.

estepais.com/tendencias_y_opin…



Proton Experimental gets fixes for Final Fantasy XIV, Nioh: Complete Edition and more for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/prot…

#SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Proton



Tactical Breach Wizards has a Beta with improvements for Gamepad and Steam Deck verification gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/tact…

#TacticalBreachWizards #Gaming #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

oh, that’s good to hear. I’ve been enjoying it in spite of the awful controls on the ‘deck. Any improvement will be welcome


In management sim COPA CITY you run events for Football teams and the developer plans Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/in-m…

#COPACITY #PCGaming #SteamDeck



Check out the demo for Comet Force a quirky space arena shooter action roguelite gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/chec…

#IndieGame #Godot #Demo #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



The inductees to the National Film Registry have been announced! Some notable additions include:

* Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
* The Miracle Worker (1962)
* Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
* Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke (1978)
* Start Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
* Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
* Dirty Dancing (1987)
* No Country for Old Men (2007)
* The Social Network (2010)

Full list at:

blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/holy…



Popeye, public domain, and a horror movie trailer with gore.

Sensitive content



"What do we know about cosmic rays with energies above 5 EeV?"
...really not that much, but it's also the title of a nice and compact short review o #astroph today by J. Biteau, which I recommend!

#astrodon #astronomy #science


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

holy shit I just read the post about you shutting down the whole forum. I totally understand your point , so banning the country was not an option?


When enabling collapsed toots, my expectation would be that the toots in question show up in a box with the height I set there, not 5px...

cc @Gargron

in reply to koehntopp ~ :

infosec.exchange is using a fork of Mastodon called glitch-soc, the function you’re describing is specific to that fork. cc @jerry
in reply to Eugen Rochko

@jerry on the poliversity.it instance @macfranc solved the problem by modifying the stylesheet of his instance. However, I solved it by using the RaccoonForFriendica app that manages different display layouts to shorten messages to the number of lines you prefer. Furthermore, if you use glitch-soc it also helps you write in markdown with a handy formatting tool bar.


🎙️ Meet Andy Scherzinger, Director of Engineering at Nextcloud!

Andy shares his journey from community member to leader & inspires with his open source philosophy: "It gives me joy... if I can see others succeed." 👏

#opensource #tech #community

nextcloud.com/blog/empowering-…



Just a reminder that we are open from today, Wednesday 18th December, until Christmas Eve - that's seven days to pop in before we close for the end of the year.

Pop in and say hello, or you'll make our cat sad.



Can I bang my head a few times?

Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals


"Perhaps getting Neanderthal DNA was part of the success because it gave us better adaptive capabilities outside of Africa," said Prof Stringer. "We had evolved in Africa, whereas the Neanderthals had evolved outside of Africa."

"By interbreeding with the Neanderthals we got a quick fix to our immune systems."

We could also say that by interbreeding with Homo sapiens we were all better able to survive the environmental challenges of the time. Try saying that by the Europeans interbreeding with people of Asian or African descent we helped them survive. Surely they are ALL our grandparents and great grandparents! This reeks of racism.

in reply to Muse

@Karl Auerbach Most of us from a European background have a Neanderthal great grandparent! I have a feeling that Homo neanderthalensis in the past were just as "modern" as Homo sapiens. Are we even separate species when we were able not only to interbreed and create off-spring, but those off-spring could also interbreed and create off-spring?


Public Domain Day is almost upon us! Some highlights:

More Mickey Mouse, including his first speaking appearance.

The Skeleton Dance is finally legal to use for whatever you want!

The Black Watch, which is John Ford's first talkie.

Dynamite, which is Cecil B. DeMille's first talkie.

Popeye the Sailor (with caveats)

Tintin

Buck Rogers (fully free and clear despite previous assertions)

Rhapsody in Blue recorded by Gershwin himself

More goodies and info at:

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdo…

This entry was edited (1 year ago)
in reply to Cyberpunk Librarian

I suppose it's obvious, but 1929 is only relevant for usage within the United States, due to its 95 year rule. Other countries will differ.

Cyberpunk Librarian reshared this.



Another resource to share: free and high-quality art for life sciences bioart.niaid.nih.gov/

Good quality drawings and schematics are very important to convey your science to others, although sometimes we scientists don't have time to make these, or cannot pay for tools like biorender. I really appreciate this initiative from NIH

Lo, thar be cookies on this site to keep track of your login. By clicking 'okay', you are CONSENTING to this.