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The richest man in the world has gotten IRS to fire the people investigating the richest men in the world for tax fraud and instead gotten them to look for fraud among people poor enough to rely on (non-DOD/IC contract) govt benefits. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

DOGE presses to check federal ...




I try to be more of a person (rather than just a brand) here on Mastodon, but sometimes it's hard.

Like, the world is falling apart in eight different ways, but also, I need to say "Here is a video about language in the Oscars." It makes me feel crazy.

But anyway, here is a video about AI & language in the Oscars. The event is tonight, and someone on my team went to the work of making the video, and the guest gave his time, so I should share it. Also, it's really good.

youtu.be/FuvcIhaSKuU

in reply to Mignon Fogarty

The fact that you are more of a person than a brand on Fedi is why I follow you and started listening to your podcast again. I understand that can be hard but please donโ€™t stop; we need more people like you that are willing to be themselves and not just hide behind a brand.


Steam hits a another all-time user record with over 40 million online gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #PCGaming #Gaming



Heroic Games Launcher v2.16 released with improved Steam Deck / Linux game compatibility gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/heroโ€ฆ

#HeroicGamesLauncher #GOG #Epic #Amazon #Linux #SteamDeck



Steam sees a big rise in Simplified Chinese for February 2025 bringing Linux down below 2% gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #Linux #Windows #macOS #PCGaming #Gaming



As the minimum in Antarctic sea-ice extent has now dipped below 2 million kmยฒ for the third year in a row, it is looking increasingly like this is the new normal. In the 10 years up to 2015 the minimum extent averaged more than 3 million kmยฒ.
Graph shows extents from National Snow and Ice Data Center over past two Antarctic summers compared to longer term average.
in reply to Rob Larter

A second reason is that the normal seasonal fluctuations in sea-ice extent are of great ecological importance. The plankton bloom that occurs each Spring as the sea-ice edge retreats is the foundation of the Southern Ocean food chain.
A decline in Antarctic sea-ice extent will result in this Spring bloom occurring earlier and further south, with uncertain ecological consequences.
in reply to Rob Larter

A third reason is that sea ice in front of ice shelves (parts of the ice sheet that flow out over the sea) protects them from ocean swell, and in some areas continuous sheets of โ€œlandfastโ€ sea ice buttress ice shelves directly.
doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-021โ€ฆ
doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-2869-201โ€ฆ


For those of us bracing ourselves for Lent, the latest@jesuitical.bsky.social episode is a great way to start: americamagazine.org/jesuiticalโ€ฆ




March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/marcโ€ฆ

#Linux #LinuxGaming



Reupping last week's newsletter: do we need a union for hopeful technologists? buttondown.com/justenoughinterโ€ฆ This is from a UK perspective, where policy and influence is dominated - if not overwhelmed - by US tech thinking
in reply to Rachel Coldicutt

this is a great idea and I love your draft at wording for what the group stands for. Count me in!

Advocacy for self-employed people or hobbyists can sometimes be easier to establish because people yearn for the support more than those in more stable employment. Artists might have a template. In Ireland we have a 'representative group for artists', Visual Artists Ireland, who have political voice and do an amazing job: visualartists.ie

We also have a union called Praxis.


in reply to It's FOSS

I got a friend hocked on linux with WSL.
Took some time but he is now rocking his own server at home. Some terminal basics go a long way.


Get the ultimate Kodi experience with these builds:

itsfoss.com/best-kodi-builds/



At a cafรฉ in Montmartre, Paris. When I saw the vase in front of that red window I wanted to give it a shot even though it was fairly dark inside. Rested the camera on my teacup and hoped for the best.

๐Ÿ“ท Pentax 6x7
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Kodak Portra 400
๐Ÿ”ญ Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
๐Ÿ‘ค Wife
โš— Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Paris #Montmartre



in reply to ww



New shitty reality:
Every time #NCBI is #down you wonder whether it's permanent or not.

Just now the whole nih.gov is not resolving from two different locations I have access to.
Also:
downdetector.com/status/nih/

And just in time when I decided to do some #bioinformatics work 1AM on Sat^W Sunday.

#nih

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Extremely chilling to read that @w7voa put on leave after a Trump advisor called a tweet of his โ€” which was quoting someone โ€” as "treasonous."

nytimes.com/2025/02/28/businesโ€ฆ



My lab has been focused on dispute protocols lately, and so I'm really looking forward to (remotely) participating in this conference on digital justice: blog.kleros.io/mechanism-desigโ€ฆ
in reply to Nathan Schneider

You realize, of course, you just opened the gate to a field **filled** with rabbit holesโ€ฆ This sounds fascinating!


โ€œBut it never occurred to me that Muskโ€™s people would try to seize control of the computer systems that, in effect, cut all the checks the federal government sends out. In fact, very few people realized it was happening.โ€ I wonder how many actually do.

Musk In Your Computers: Paul K...




Hi friends. I work at Mozilla, but obviously not on privacy/legal matters.
Anyway, I have been unhappy about the terms of use debacle, as many others here. So, folks have taken their time to listen and clarify. The terms of use are being rewritten differently to put these concerns to rest. See here for more blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fโ€ฆ



Impact millions with your open source contributions! ๐Ÿš€

Nextcloud's open source nature empowers devs to innovate with the best
#OpenSource #TechCommunity in the world. ๐ŸŽ‰

Help us build the best alternative to #BigTech!

nextcloud.com/developer/



"Did Life Evolve or Did It Arrive? | John Brandenburg"

youtube.com/watch?v=IqFQmmzy4qโ€ฆ

#panspermia



Michael has dropped a new video! Check it out here -> tuxdigital.com/videos/is-arch-โ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿงโ–ถ๏ธ

This one is about โ€œIs Arch Linux stable?โ€, explaining Linux with Rolling Release vs Stable Release

#linux #opensource #tech



Hay un sรกbado de comรบn denominadores

:computerfairies:

Comienza marzo y como cada primer fin de semana de mes te traemos nuestro #SรกbadodeComunes, donde seguimos haciรฉndonos preguntas y reflexionando sobre derechos digitales colectivos, #tecnopolรญtica, #softwarelibre, #hackfeminismos, comunalidad digital y mรกs...

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sursiendo.org/2025/03/hay-un-sโ€ฆ



in reply to It's FOSS

Just when I got Arch set up to my liking, Iโ€™m trying to switch over to Artix. My idea is to use Turnstile and Seatd instead of elogind, and then to play around with Hyprland as DE.

Eventually I want to take this experiment further and run that setup on Gentoo ๐Ÿ˜‚



Eeek my book is in print! So beyond thrilled with how beautiful it looks. Asked for gold letters as it's a book by #Autistic people and Au is periodic symbol for gold.
#Books
#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic


How has your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS experience been so far?

itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-lts-rโ€ฆ

in reply to It's FOSS

terribly laggy but user friendly i guess 2/10 maybe would reccommend


I needed to see that!

youtu.be/QY1sO1Pn59o?si=qPETaOโ€ฆ



Treat yourself more like you treat your cat!


Super excited about my first ride with the Colorado Drivers Co-op rideshare! Super affordable and quick pickup. coloradodrivers.coop/
in reply to Kevin + Drupal + Beard

@kreynen Not sure. The airport is regulated separately, and the Duopoly has a stranglehold. That was actually what limited the growth of Green Taxi Co-op.


A view of Paris. I was happy to get something green in the frame.

๐Ÿ“ท Pentax 6x7
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Kodak Portra 400
๐Ÿ”ญ Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
โš— Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Paris #Montmartre

in reply to Eugen Rochko

from the view, I would guess somewhere in Montmartre, framed towards South-west? (I can see the Madeleine church and the Accor tower in the background)
in reply to Eugen Rochko

wonderful to see. I still have my Super Tak 105 attached to my Pentax MX.


La nube no estรก en el cielo

Cada clic, cada bรบsqueda en internet, cada archivo guardado en la nube requiere energรญa, agua y espacio fรญsico.

elsaltodiario.com/saltamontes/โ€ฆ



You asked, we built it! See what Nextcloud Hub 10 is about! โœจ

Not only we challenged the #BigTech once again, but delivered countless performance improvements you asked for!

Watch Nextcloud Hub 10 in action:
youtu.be/OkGd_pNuYww

in reply to Nextcloud ๐Ÿ“ฑโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ’ป

@janvlug thank you! It's understandable that you publish to were the audience is, however we need to be encouraging bridges as well (in parrallel if necessary) or we'll be trapped in the same way evil corp(s) had us trapped before nextcloud came along.

It's a great sign of leadership by your organization and also signals to users that these alternatives, like yours, are viable.


in reply to It's FOSS

itsfoss.com/not-switching-to-wโ€ฆ makes a good case for ditching windows but he still ignores the many areas where Linux is far superior to Windows. Doing anything that requires more than one program is difficult or impossible in Windows without extensive training. Tinkering in Linux is a breeze. If you are serious about getting work done on a compute, you need Linux!
in reply to It's FOSS

I am such a normie that I did not switch to linux as if yet. Pray for me.


Feel like this should be required reading for half of the Mozilla posts I'm seeing.

youtube.com/watch?v=dDpKx-wvD_โ€ฆ

Thanks for doing the leg work @veggero

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in reply to Marc

not really surprising to see Linux folks going ape over it, the same people who go ape over a CoC that amounts to "don't be a dickhead"
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

@gamingonlinux
Believe it is also a symptom of wanting to find โ€œgoodโ€ vs โ€œbadโ€ guys or generally binaries. It becomes so easily to validate those thoughts and people become so quickly dramatic.

We are moving too fast for our own good.


in reply to nebunez

I donโ€™t even know what Ladybird is but now I donโ€™t want to know.

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