Trump's back! 👀
How will his policies impact open source & digital sovereignty? Will Europe's digital governance lead the way?
⛑️ We explore the challenges & opportunities ahead.
🗨️ What do you think? Let us know!
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty
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Trump's second term: A critical turning point for open source and digital sovereignty? - Nextcloud
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has reignited debates about the balance of power in the tech industry. With legislations like the CLOUD Act and ongoing discussions around data sovereignty, open source faces significant challenges.Kim Pohlmann (Nextcloud)
Is This Seat Taken? is a thoroughly charming puzzle game about swapping seats gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/is-t…
#IndieGame #Linux #PCGaming #Steam #SteamDeck #PuzzleGame #Demo
Is This Seat Taken? is a thoroughly charming puzzle game about swapping seats
With a demo now available, Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderfully charming idea for a logic puzzle game about picking up people and putting them in the right seat.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Now you can get a real-life Deep Rock Galactic mug for all your beer gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/now-…
Now you can get a real-life Deep Rock Galactic mug for all your beer
Here's a bit of fluff for you today: fans of Deep Rock Galactic are in for a treat, as you can now grab an officially licensed beer mug and they sure do look fancy.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
My inner Karl is compelling me to get one of those, but I already 3D printed a few. Gonna pass this round, but I'm raising a mug for every dwarf out there!
Rock and Stone!
AI is everywhere in AI Confidential and it's your job to fix up all the robots - check out the demo gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ai-i…
#AIConfidential #IndieGames #AdventureGames #Linux #PCGaming
AI is everywhere in AI Confidential and it's your job to fix up all the robots - check out the demo
In a world where Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, you work for an AI megacorp and you're the one sent around to people's homes to fix up all their problems.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
EPFL goes live with its own Mastodon server!
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The EPFL community gets a Mastodon server
EPFL has set up a Mastodon server for the School community, allowing members to post and share content in a way that’s aligned with the values of open science. We opted for Mastodon because independence and effective communication tools are critical.actu.epfl.ch
Permanent ice caps have been quite rare in geological history. This new study suggests that's because you need to right combination of paleogeography (which affects weathering rates), exposed lithology (different rocks draw down more/less CO2 as they weather, and plate tectonic configuration (which affects volcanic degassing), all working in the same direction, to get into an icehouse.
Just cancelled my upcoming Airbnb reservation. Please do the same and spread the word.
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Airbnb’s co-founder Joe Gebbia is joining Elon Musk’s DOGE
Gebbia, a close friend of Musk, has praised DOGE’s work and defended it against criticisms on social mediaAriana Baio (The Independent)
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"No matter how many times Stalin told his scientists to plant wheat in the snow so that it could evolve to grow in the winter, the wheat (which had no political allegiances) died."
SUPER DEBT is a twin-stick bullet-hell dungeon crawler where time eats away your money gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/supe…
#SUPERDEBT #IndieGame #Linux #SteamDeck
SUPER DEBT is a twin-stick bullet-hell dungeon crawler where time eats away your money
Things get weird real fast in SUPER DEBT, a new bullet-hell dungeon crawler from developer zagawee, who also made Garbanzo Quest.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Final Outpost is hopping over from mobile to PC with a Definitive Edition - demo available now gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fina…
#FinalOutpost #Linux #PCGaming
Final Outpost is hopping over from mobile to PC with a Definitive Edition - demo available now
Exabyte Games announced they're bringing their popular survival strategy base-builder to PC with Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. There's a demo available now with Native Linux support.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Check out the demo for Replicube an open-ended programming puzzle game from Walaber gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/chec…
#Replicube #Godot #IndieGame #PuzzleGames #PCGaming #Linux
Check out the demo for Replicube an open-ended programming puzzle game from Walaber
From Walaber Entertainment who made Parking Garage Rally Circuit and JellyCar Worlds, their next game is Replicube. There's a demo now available to try and it looks really interesting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/luan…
#Luanti #Minetest #OpenSource #FreeGame
Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.11 out now with an in-game settings menu and better server browser
Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/a-wh…
#AGameAboutDiggingAHole #IndieGames #PCGaming
A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole
A Game About Digging A Hole has a very simple idea, everything about it is in the name, and yet it managed to pull a whole lot of people in.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The beautiful diorama builder Tiny Glade adds controller support gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-…
#TinyGlade #Linux #SteamDeck #IndieGames
The beautiful diorama builder Tiny Glade adds controller support
After previously making some improvements for Steam Deck, developer Pounce Light have now implemented more proper controller support for Tiny Glade.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
'Many of those who wind up in therapy are nihilists, or depressive realists, rather than existentialists. (Yes, the latter may still seek and need treatment and may even fluctuate between nihilism and existentialism.) And when they do, more often than not they place the burden of proof on the therapist, expecting the clinician to create an airtight case against their views while not acknowledging how their commitment to irrational thought precludes a successful rebuttal. At once, the patient indicates that he would and wouldn't change, setting the bar so high that it necessitates the inevitable "I told you so." It isn't that people want to be unhappy; it's that they don't believe they can tolerate their fears or have good things. Fundamentally, to them, the existential choice is between hopelessness and eventual disappointment. So, as they evade, they project their anger onto the world and say, "It isn't me who's awful; it's all of you."'
A Better Alternative to Defensive Pessimism
How existentialism differs from nihilism, and why it may be the better option.
Defensive pessimism is a strategy that is used to deal with fear and is often part of a nihilistic worldview. Existentialism offers a better and more realistic alternative.Leon Garber LMHC (Psychology Today)
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Monarch Of The Misty Glen
A stag pictured near the shore of a loch in the Scottish Highlands, on a very misty afternoon.
#reddeer #stag #blackandwhite #photography #wildlife #scotland #highlands
The sweetest kitty.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
This is a good story that would have benefited from a clearer lede:
President Trump on Saturday asserted the absolute power of a dictator, unconstrained by laws or the Constitution.
As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
"The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]" @rbreich
#Handouts #Musk #Government #Bailout #USAID #Poverty #Democracy #Capitalism
meinrss@anonsys.net) personalisiere, sie werden immer wieder ohne mein Zutun vom System geändert.In diesem Bespielfall ist der personaliserte Name Neues Deutschland, wird aber immer wieder in nd geändert. In anderen Feeds läuft es ähnlich ab.
Gibt es dafür eine Erklärung?
Ich verwende vier Reader (3 Computer, ein Telefon) gleichzeitig, und alle bedienen sich bei meinem FreshRSS. Es ist wie ein Mailserver, der ganz unterschiedliche Clients mit denselben Mails versorgt, und alle Clients sehen, was schon gelesen wurde, in einen Ordner verschoben etc.
Solange Du nur einen einzigen RSS-Reader verwendest, bringt das natürlich nichts.
Cc.: @Michael Vogel
I ended up disableling completely the "auto discovered contact directory" thing in the admin panel. This thing seems to go in endless loop or something like unregulated jobs spawning.
📼 Command line video magic for ARTISTS
A cookbook by @madskjeldgaard for audio and video processing on the command line – with examples!
Includes how to generate a spectrum video from an audio file. How to combine an audio file and an image into a video. Among other things.
And it includes full #bash scripts and examples for for-loops, so you could do this on tons of audio files, if you so fancied 🤠
#ffmpeg #linux #unix #commandline #terminal #cli
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ffmpeg for artists: A cookbook for audio and video processing on the command line – with examples!
A guide to using ffmpeg for artists. ffmpeg is a free tool that allows you to create, convert and manipulate video, really quickly and without opening a heavy GUI-based program.hyaline.systems
So KEWT!
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My aunt texted: "Perhaps now is the time for super shameless promotion of Governable Spaces. The audience won't need any handholding to get it."
I don't know if it is true, but see for yourself: ntnsndr.in/govbook
holy crap, I just got round to properly reading this in the last days and it is incredible! I feel like anyone at all interested in politics (anti-feudalism) and technology (internet) should definitely read.
Super glad to finally have a feel for what BBSs and Usenet is/was. And so many useful terms, concepts and stories.
Thank you!
The NAACP recognises that the rollback of DEI initiatives is a direct attack on Black economic progress, civil rights, and the principles of equity and fairness. These actions are part of a broader effort to reverse gains in civil rights and social justice.
Black Consumer Advisory
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We need to maintain a list of who is maintaining DEI and who isn't.
How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
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Which companies have wound back their DEI commitments? Here’s a look
Which companies have wound back their DEI commitments?
Here’s a list of companies who have scrapped, altered, or doubled down and reaffirmed their DEI commitments.Jessie Tu (Women's Agenda)
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I suppose most people have seen this: theverge.com/news/612898/amazo…
Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Trading book ownership for corporate library management was always a mistake.
From: @timbray
cosocial.ca/@timbray/114009140…
I suppose most people have seen this: theverge.com/news/612898/amazo…Follow-up question: Anyone out there with hands-on experience for de-DRM-ing downloaded books on MacOS? There seem to be a few tools out there, all a little on the sketchy side. I could do this on Linux if the tools are better there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
Amazon is removing a Kindle feature that allows purchased books to be downloaded to a computer for backup or transfer via USB.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
@fm2279 - being married to someone who goes to sleep early and is sensitive to light and page-turning
- taking notes that can easily be transferred to a digital archive
- reading and writing (including large, complex things) on sam object
Sometimes when Sylvester is beating up Simon I like to imagine Simon chuckling and saying in Ralph Wiggum’s voice “I’m in mortal danger!”
it just seems to be part of the joy of life to Simon. #Cats #OrangeCats #CatsOfMastodom #Caturday #usie
On the one hand I fully agree with bringing large companies under control.
On the other I wonder if we should be considering targeting only companies that have dropped DEI and rewarding those who are standing up to the federal government and maintaining it. These are allies.
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Remove gender pronouns, says Deloitte US. How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
Major corporations including Google, Amazon, McDonald’s, Boeing and IBM have significantly scaled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with Deloitte instructing staff working on contracts for the US government to remove pron…FP Explainers (Firstpost)
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