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Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valv…

#Proton #Linux #SteamOS #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck


Valve put up a release candidate for Proton 10.0-4 with lots more Linux / SteamOS gaming fixes

Valve put up a Release Candidate for testing Proton 10.0-4, what will become the main version of the Windows compatibility layer for Linux / SteamOS.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #linuxgaming #steamos #proton #SteamDeck

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Secret Panel HERE 👽 tapas.io/episode/3756213

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Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?🎄

We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.

If you’d like to support our server and projects like these, donations are always welcome:

✊🎁 Support Here :paypal: :kofi:

Thank you all for turning this year into what it has been! :ablobcatsnowjoy:

#Plushtodon #ChristmasGiveaway #GiveAway #Mastodon #FediLove

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Interested in **supporting this instance?** :blobcatreachrev:​:MastodonDE:​:blobfoxfloofreach: Feel free to **donate** using one of the below links: • :liberapay: [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/MastodonDE) • :kofi: [Ko-Fi](https://ko-fi.
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#mastodon #giveaway #plushtodon #christmasgiveaway #fedilove

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So let me get this straight. The current state of fediverse integration on Threads is that you can write posts that federate, people can read and reply to them, you can like their replies, but you can't reply back, repost, or even share the post from Threads. And that's how they're gonna leave it.
The fediverse is on maintenance mode Threads still supports federation with other apps like Mastodon, but Hayes was clear that it's not a top priority for the current roadmap. "It's something that we're supporting, it's something that we're maintaining, but it's not the thing that we're talking about that's gonna help the app break out," he said. "As someone who has built a zillion consumer products, it's just really hard to keep these divergent platforms and products consistent on the same protocol over time," he explained. "There's always going to be the trade-offs that these companies are thinking about of how much energy do I want to pour into compatibility with this ecosystem versus iterating on this thing I'm building and seeing what's valuable.

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Noticed the festive makeover of the Nextcloud Community forum? 🎄

It might have a holiday glow-up, but our forum doesn't take breaks... 💡 If you have a Nextcloud deployment challenge you want solved before 2026, this is the best place to get answers.

help.nextcloud.com/


Nextcloud community

A place to discuss Nextcloud, get help, and meet other friendly people :)
Nextcloud community

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Human rights are upheld by people, communities, and technologies that adapt to a changing world. Here's what that looks like for Tor as we head into the next year. blog.torproject.org/advancing-…

Advancing digital rights in 2026 will take all of us | Tor Project

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#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 15: Nextcloud

SyncThing is great for synchronising files, but I also have a self-hosted Nextcloud server. If I only wanted to synchronise files, I'd probably just use SyncThing, but I use Nextcloud for things like CalDav for calendars and CardDav for contacts as well as files.

More recently, I've also started using Nextcloud apps. In particular, I use News for RSS feeds, Notes for simple notes, and RePod for podcasts. The apps accessed through the Nextcloud dashboard on the web have minimal functionality, but it's enough for me. In the case of News and Notes, I also use the official Android clients, which also offer mininal functionality, but again, I don't need any more. For podcasts, I mostly listen using AntennaPod on Android, which I'll talk about tomorrow.

It's worth noting that there are companies that will host Nextcloud for you if you don't want to self-host. At least some of them have a free tier if you don't need a lot of space.

nextcloud.com/

@nextcloud


Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform

The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globe
Nextcloud
#freesoftwareadvent @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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wow! Thanks for sharing your story Russell 🙌 And if you want to have specific features in the future that you still lack, please do share them with our engineers on GitHub.

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🚨 #Microsoft 365 price shock: From July 2026, prices rise by up to 16.7%.

Now is the best time to break free from vendor lock-in.

What are your favorite #MS365 alternatives? 🔓🇪🇺

➡️ tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-pr…

#DigitalSovereignty #deMicrosoft #OneClickAway

#deMicrosoft your life: Image with lots of logos to replace Microsoft apps and tools.

Microsoft 365 price shock: Better quit vendor lock-in now! | Tuta

Starting July 2026, Microsoft plans a huge price hike for Microsoft 365 of up to 16.7%. Time to look for replacements.
Tuta
#Microsoft #digitalsovereignty #MS365 #demicrosoft #oneclickaway
in reply to MBEverding

Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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hi! Nextcloud Hub is free and open source. You can use Nextcloud Mail, Calendar and Talk (chat and meetings), together with other apps for free. But of course, Nextcloud Enterprise offering is available when you need extra confidence for a critical setup.
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

MBEverding
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MBEverding
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yes enterprise I meant since where I work I tried to suggest moving away from our American software dependence. But it was shot down by IT. It would help if you list prices for all products including research and education institutes and get some subsidies from the digitalization ministry to make things cheaper for "security and software independence"

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The largest #bat 🦇🌎 in the world has a 1.7m wingspan, the Malayan Flying Fox is #endangered by hunting and #palmoil 🌴🔥#deforestation. #Boycottpalmoil 🌴💩🧐 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect wp.me/pcFhgU-9Zm?utm_source=ma…

Malayan Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus

The Malayan Flying Fox, known also as the Large Flying Fox, Giant Fruit Bat, or Kalong, is an ethereal creature of the tropical Asian night. With wingspans reaching 1.7 metres, they are the largest…
Palm Oil Detectives
#palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #endangered #bat

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Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy

"In Sept, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared at the U.N. that his country will cut its carbon emissions by as much as 10% in a decade, not by using less energy, but by doubling down on wind and solar.

To many, the continued growth of renewables now seems unstoppable—a prospect that has led Science to name the renewable energy surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year."

Not AI 😎
science.org/content/article/br…
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COVER of Science magazine 18 Dec 2025 Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. See page 1208. Photo: George Steinmetz
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#News: Just 3% of #climate aid supports frontline #workers #indigenous communities. A new ActionAid report exposes shocking #corruption. Global South must be at the centre of climate justice! 🧐🚫 #HumanRights #WorkersRights #ClimateChange @palmoildetect.bsky.social theguardian.com/environment/20…
#News: Just 3% of #climate aid supports frontline #workers #indigenous communities. A new ActionAid report exposes shocking #corruption. Global South must be at the centre of climate justice! 🧐🚫 #HumanRights #WorkersRights #ClimateChange @palmoildetect https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/03/international-climate-aid-just-transition?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities, says NGO report

New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affected
Dharna Noor (The Guardian)
#News #HumanRights #climatechange #Climate #indigenous #corruption #workersrights #workers

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BTW, I use Arch. 🐧 🗿
There are three people standing having a discussion. On the left is a naked caveman called "Me btw I use Arch." On the right far away is a person in a suit called "Fedora." Towards their right in the foreground are two people also wearing suits called "Gentoo" and "Linux from scratch" respectively.
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It's FOSS
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It's FOSS
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nothing, just hanging around... 👀 👀
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Australian #science #scicomms expert @JulianCribb tackles the most pressing needs for our survival on #Earth as we reach the pointy end of the #Anthropocene era #ClimateActionNow #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect
palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/…
#science #earth #anthropocene #Boycott4Wildlife #climateactionnow #BoycottGold4Yanomami #SciComms

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How to get into coding (and cooking?) from scratch? 🧑‍🍳

Learn from Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app, Christian Wolf.

Listen to the latest episode of the Nextcloud Podcast:

nextcloud.com/blog/christian-w…

Featured image for the podcast “Curiosity, cooking and code: In conversation with Christian Wolf“ with title and photo of the guest

Christian Wolf's open source story and the Cookbook app - Nextcloud

In conversation with Christian Wolf, a long-term Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app.
Nextcloud
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

Ortwin Pinke
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Ortwin Pinke
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Ach schade, zwei offensichtlich deutschsprachige Akteure auf Englisch. Ich weiß ja, Reichweite und so, aber sorry, so manches kann man einfach besser in der eigenen Muttersprache erklären.

#nextcloud #cookbook #NextcloudCookbook

#Nextcloud #cookbook #NextcloudCookbook

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Discover how to take full control of your photo library with a self-hosted PhotoPrism setup at home.

itsfoss.com/self-hosting-photo…

#selfhosting #privacy


What Google Photos? Self-Hosting Photo Storage with PhotoPrism Using Docker in My Homelab

PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They remain what they actually are, your memories, under your control.
Bhuwan Mishra (It's FOSS)
#privacy #selfhosting

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Our article on the Firefox a AI 'kill switch' was updated, with a note from the new Mozilla CEO gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fire…

#Firefox #AI #GenAI


Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI

The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#AI #Firefox #genai
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

squirrel 🐿️
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squirrel 🐿️
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> Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control.

Than why can't I access about:config in Firefox for Android? That was one of the reasons why I switched to Ironfox.

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Underside and upper of a branch with, what I think might be, a Netted crust fungus (Byssomerulius corium).
County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com walking tours

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From #meat 🥩☠️ to #palmoil 🌴☠️ - #agriculture is the world's biggest driver of #deforestation and animal #extinction 🐆🦏🔥☠️ As these activities intensify, whole ecosystems could go #extinct. Fight back! #BoycottPalmOil and be #Vegan #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…

How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses

As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this t…
Palm Oil Detectives
#vegan #agriculture #Meat #extinction #palmoil #deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #extinct

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Red Hat's latest move.

itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-acqui…

#redhat #ai


Red Hat Buys an AI Safety Company, Promises to Open Source Its Tech

The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
#AI #RedHat

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Marseille, August 2025
📷 Olympus 35UC
🎞 Kodak Gold 200
#olympus #olympus35uc #olympus35sp #kodak #kodakgold #filmphotography #photography #analogfotografie #35mm #35mmfilm #france #provence #marseille #fensterfreitag #windowfriday
Color photograph of an attic window in the Palais Carli in Marseille. Through the window, you can see the roofs of the surrounding houses. The window itself is old and dirty. The window frame is almost completely black due to the strong contrast, and below the window, the white surface of the radiator stands out with its striking shape.
#Photography #France #35mm #filmphotography #Fensterfreitag #olympus #windowfriday #kodak #35mmfilm #kodakgold #olympus35sp #analogfotografie #Marseille #Provence #olympus35uc

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Cat and Plum Blossoms by Hishida Shunso

cat

@Ivy Blackledge Whitfield @Susan ✶✶✶✶

@Susan ✶✶✶✶

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Linux has got its first Rust CVE!

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#linux #rust


The First Rust CVE in Linux Kernel Only Makes Your System Crash

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
#linux #Rust
in reply to It's FOSS

ZeStig
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ZeStig
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it's called unsafe Rust for a reason. Unsafe code is virtually a necessity when working with such low level code. This does NOT take away the fact that Rust is genuinely memory-safe.

Here come the Rust haters booking on the language 🙄

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The crowning jewel of #Uganda 🇺🇬 is their national #bird, the Grey-Crowned Crane, a majestic #songbird 🎶🐦👑 of the #peatlands 🌊 Sadly, this title hasn’t protected them from #PalmOil and hunting. #BoycottPalmOil 🌴⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-b7K?utm_source=ma…

Grey Crowned Crane Balearica regulorum

Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes are a regal and graceful bird of Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, and Namibia. Help them to survive and join the boycott4wildlife
Palm Oil Detectives
#bird #Uganda #peatlands #palmoil #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #songbird

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Vibe coding has come a long way since my first experiment, a Monopoly rule-changing calculator medlab.host/monopoly/

Monopoly Ledger

medlab.host

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"Would you like some cheese?"

#mastoArt #sketchbook

Close-up of a dark bird balancing a plate with a big wedge of cheese. It is hard to say if the bird is pleased about this.
#mastoart #sketchbook

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San Francisco sued 10 major food manufacturers, including Kraft and Mondelez, alleging they knowingly sickened Californians with addictive ultra-processed foods.

ground.news/article/san-franci…

San Francisco sues Kraft, Mondelez over ultra-processed foods

The city of San Francisco sued Kraft, Mondelez, Coca-Cola and other makers of ultra-processed foods on Tuesday, accusing them of knowingly sickening California residents with addictive and harmful products.
Ground News

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"Ribbit!"

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bright cat
Electropuss!
in reply to Muse

Richard
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Richard
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Heh. Around here the feline shenanigans begin after the humans go to bed in the evening.

"Humans in bed. Zoomie mode engaged."

"Godspeed mooncat, we'll keep the cat bed warm for you."

"Roger that kitty control. Looking forward to it."

Ptchooo!

in reply to Muse

Katherine Bond
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Katherine Bond
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They do like that nose in your face in the early morning. “Let’s eat!”

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It's word-of-the-year season! This week, I got together with Jess Zafarris and Danny Hieber to talk about all the 2025 picks.

Some favorites:

— Six seven (Danny made a spirited defense.)
— Rage bait (Will knowing the term help people recognize it and calm down?)
— Parasocial (This now has both a social media meaning and an AI meaning.)

Check out the show to hear about all the rest!

WATCH: youtu.be/x9ELjNw1Qak?si=FI8LLU…

READ: grammar-girl.simplecast.com/ep…

LISTEN: pod.link/173429229

#GrammarGirl

Promotional graphic with a green patterned background and large text reading “2025 Word of the Year.” At the top are labels reading “Interview,” “Listen on Spotify,” “Listen on Apple Podcasts,” and a red QDT logo. Along the bottom are three head-and-shoulders photos: Grammar Girl on the left, smiling; Jess Zafarris in the center with a neutral expression; and Danny Hieber on the right, smiling. Name labels identify “Grammar Girl” and “Jess Zafarris & Danny Hieber.”

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
youtu.be
#grammargirl
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Are you a project management leader passionate about privacy and human rights? 🌍🌐 The Tor Project needs a Team Lead for Project & Grant Management. You'll work across engineering and fundraising to ensure impactful work gets delivered on time. Visit our job listings for full information: torproject.org/about/jobs/team…

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Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
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Time for electoral reform!
in reply to Muse

Aladár Mézga
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Aladár Mézga
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Now that's something you should export!
in reply to Muse

Muse
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Muse
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I put "sausages" in quotes, because last time I mentioned this Australia tradition, a woman got angry at me for supporting the eating of meat! I was reporting on the tradition here, and usually it includes vegetarian/vegan sausages as well.

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#Plushtodon family complete
All three plushtodon plushies on a tan couch.
#plushtodon

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Just in time for Christmas! #plushtodon
A photo of a bookcase with assorted books and items, focused on a yellow Mastodon Plushie. The books are mostly sci-fi, and include some of my favorites, such as The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers, and Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan.
#plushtodon

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exciting new jetbrains feature: "this word is spelt correctly. would you like to change it to a different spelling?"

regards,
lynne (suggestions: lyn, lynn, lin)

a popup in a jetbrains IDE. the comment "the mode of categorisation to use for custom phoneme tables" has the word "categorisation" underlined in dotted blue. the IDE presents this suggestion: "would you like to use the Oxford spelling categorization? the spelling 'categorisation' is also correct."

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2025 is wrapping up soon, and it’s time to look at some numbers! 🧮 Want the full picture?

Find out more figures, facts, community highlights, milestones, and events in our 2025 Wrap-Up. 💫

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-2…

Image with text: 35K+ GitHub commits, Made this year by the Nextcloud team and community.
Image with text: 107 languages, Thanks to the translator community, Nextcloud is available in 107 languages, 41 exceeding 50% completion.
Image with text: $110K bug bounty program, Our team worked with 100 security experts, with 100% response efficiency.
Image with text: +10K forum signups, +6.4K new topics and +31K new posts on the Nextcloud Community forum.

A brave year for digital sovereignty: Nextcloud 2025 Wrap-Up - Nextcloud

Read Nextcloud 2025 Wrap-Up: highlights from our releases, community life, big initiatives in digital sovereignty, events, content and more!
Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻
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letting you know this is a known concern among community. And thanks for the tips, definitely noted! But we can't say anything at the moment, unfortunately.

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Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/stea…

#Steam #OnSale #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck


Steam Winter Sale is live with Steam Awards 2025 open for voting

This is the sale event you've been waiting on isn't it? The Steam Winter Sale 2025 has arrived with a great many thousands of games discounted.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Steam #SteamDeck #pcgaming #onsale

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Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fire…

#Firefox #AI #GenAI


Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI

The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#AI #Firefox #genai

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#News: #Study reveals tropical #birds 🦜🪶are dying at alarming rates in the #Amazon 🇧🇷🇪🇨🇨🇴 due to human-induced #ClimateChange, heat stress 🥵 and habitat shifts. Demand corporate accountability #ClimateActionNow, be #vegan and 🌴🪔⛔️ #BoycottPalmOil wp.me/pcFhgU-a5w?utm_source=ma…

Climate Change Driving Mass Bird Deaths in the Amazon

A recent #study has revealed that even in the most isolated parts of the #Amazon, bird #populations are collapsing due to #climatechange. Research published in Science Advances found that a 1°C inc…
Palm Oil Detectives
#News #vegan #birds #Amazon #climatechange #study #Boycottpalmoil #climateactionnow

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NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01 gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux #LinuxGaming #Drivers


NVIDIA release Linux driver version 590.48.01

As part of the New Feature Branch, NVIDIA driver version 590.48.01 released today for Linux with a few more fixes.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #Nvidia #linuxgaming #drivers

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Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/mesa…

#Linux #Drivers #OpenSource #LinuxGaming #Mesa


Mesa 25.3.2 brings more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers

The Mesa team have released Mesa 25.3.2 as the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable branch of open source Linux graphics drivers.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #linuxgaming #mesa #drivers

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