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Truly my greatest professional joy is that, not only did we get to build a tool to help people stop AI bots from scraping up their work without consent, I was able to have our in-house artist create a SLOP sign to mark the spot where the bots expire.

If you are a non-profit or open source project that does good internet stuff, we’ll protect you for free. If not, then you can pay us money and we will hook you up. Either way, good tools to put you in control over the bots. fastly.com/blog/take-back-cont…




From the first #EarthDay: Students in St. Louis marched wearing masks to protest smog and air pollution.

The inaugural 1970 protests drew millions, and led to the creation of the EPA and clean air standards.

With science under greater attack than ever, we need more of this activism today!



$wife was getting super annoyed at having to smell a neighbor's cigarette smoke every time the window is open

so we've now spun up a wireless laser-scatter particulate sensor tied to outside air (<€30 in parts, thanks to ESPhome ā¤ and 6/8mm PVC tubing) which seems to detect within a second of it starting ā¤ā¤ā¤



Smart people of Mastodon: Is this story as bad as it sounds?

The FDA is suspending quality testing for Grade A milk.

reuters.com/business/healthcar…



Hace 5 aƱos publicamos una reseƱa sobre la novela de Cory Doctorow @pluralistic que toca temas muy actuales...

ā€˜Little brother’: cuando el futuro se convierte en presente.

#vigilancia #Privacidad #ResistenciaDigital #Hacktivismo #Hacker

sursiendo.org/2020/06/little-b…



Extend battery life on Linux by capping maximum charge levels.

itsfoss.com/limit-battery-char…



Oblivion Remastered is discounted on Fanatical fanatical.com/en/game/the-elde… (partner link)


New UX models have friction.

The Mach E has a push button door: push the button first, pop the door. It works once "you've read the manual" Two problems:
1. As I approached the car at Avis it was dark, I couldn't see the button at all so couldn't get it, I had to ask someone to let me in.
2. When I picked up my son at the airport, he had no idea how to open the passenger door so I had to open it from the inside.

Ford may keep this, but it's going to be a painful road. #ux

#UX
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Compare 22.04 vs. 24.04: What's fresh? What's improved?

itsfoss.com/ubuntu-24-04-vs-22…



For Earth Day today, I had the honor of remembering Pope Francis on Democracy Now, recalling how first reading his Laudato Si' brought me to tears and how he saw social movements as a site of revelation: democracynow.org/2025/4/22/pop…
in reply to Nathan Schneider

@evan

any chance of getting #DemocracyNow on the fedi? at least an account but maybe a #mastodon server for staff or a #peertube or #owncast site for video...

the great promise of the #SocialWeb imo is that we can address the Chomsky concerns re attention. that the people not money can finally determine what info, ideas and art go viral. seems perfectly in line with the DN mission.

@mondoweiss is blazing the trail for establishing true indy media for the dissident left here.



The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/the-…

#OblivionRemastered #Oblivion #ElderScrolls

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux šŸ§šŸŽ®

Cool, but it feels very odd to me that they are using Unreal Engine instead of their own Creation Engine which modders already know how to use very well


Civilization VII 1.2 is out with multiplayer teams, the one more turn game mode, new resources and lots more gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/civi…

#CivilizationVII #Civilization #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming



Build your own AI that reads documents locally.

itsfoss.com/local-llm-rag-olla…

#ai

#AI
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Expand and rearrange your inventory, watch numbers tick up and break the game in LOOTPLOT gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/expa…

#LOOTPLOT #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck



Restoring Baird's Image vimeo.com/62777765

A really interesting lecture from 2002 about recreating the technology that Baird used to generate the first TV image, delivered by Donald F McLean.

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Inspired by Slavic folklore Deathless. Tales of Old Rus improves text sizing on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/insp…

#SteamDeck #Gaming #DeckBuilder #



Starcom: Unknown Space improves the UI and controller support ready for Steam Deck verification gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/star…

#StarcomUnknownSpace #Gaming #SteamDeck


in reply to It's FOSS

Are upgrades from 24.10 still disabled? Surprised there was no mention of that given that it's been a rocky release.




Broadband provider suddenly offers me 50% less than my contract as soon as I push back on it.

We are dealing with billionaire corporations and they can always do better. Never pay what they ask.



I often find I lose posts on here and it takes me ages to trawl my own archive.

Posty by @oli is a great tool for archiving and searching your old Mastodon feed. Thank you so much for building this.

posty.1sland.social/

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in reply to Annika Backstrom

@annika it's not on every instance. Mine doesn't use it, so actually I have no idea. I had forgotten there was a built in one!
in reply to FionnƔin

You know, I thought you could always full-text search your own toots, but I think I'm misremembering. I do take the feature for granted now


What Was the Domesday Book & How Was It Produced?

The Domesday Book ranks among the most important historical texts in English history. But what was it, and how did it come into being?

by Dan Bulman

thecollector.com/what-was-dome…

Domesday Book at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q…

#books #literature



Presenting my horror short indie film for tonight: I am in the basement folding laundry and the cat keeps getting riled up and then freezing and staring fixedly over my shoulder towards the empty room behind me, watching something.


A-RED Walking Robot is a 3D physics puzzle-platformer where you control a wind-up toy gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/a-re…

#Linux #Gaming #LinuxGaming #PCGaming



LIBRITOPIA: Librarian Simulator recently added a Linux version gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/libr…

#Gaming #LinuxGaming #Linux



A retro goodie rebuilt from 1994, Ironseed 25th Anniversary Edition recently added Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/a-re…

#Ironseed #Retro #Gaming #Linux



New Steam Beta for Desktop / Steam Deck fixes notes and screenshots vanishing gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/new-…

#Steam #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming #Gaming



šŸŽ™ļø Welcome journalist CĆ©cile Boutelet from Le Monde to #NextcloudSummit25!

Bringing deep insights into EU policy, digital change & economic cooperation, she’ll moderate our panel on digital sovereignty & open source tech!

šŸŽŸļø Join us in Munich: nextcloud.com/summit/






Wanna make a Fibonacci clock? This looks really cool!


Easily install raspi-config on Ubuntu and take control of your Raspberry Pi!

itsfoss.com/install-raspi-conf…

in reply to It's FOSS

this article is old, Ubuntu for raspberry Pi, the official release, already includes raspi-config


Set up Hyprland to make your Linux system pop! šŸ–„ļø ⚔

itsfoss.com/install-hyprland/

in reply to It's FOSS

nuts. I have all the stuff it says you shouldn't have before trying it. Still cool, though.


Given the White House wants U.S. women to have more babies, my talk ā€œRethinking Populationā€ from 2014 seems particularly relevant.

The key theme is that all around the world, women with an education, the ability to enter the workforce & access to healthcare & medicine choose to have fewer children.

youtu.be/JtyAQ2JK6E8?si=PmQz48…

Where do fertility rates remain high? In places where child mortality is high, health conditions are poor & women don’t have as much autonomy & opportunity. #uspol #Trump

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

millions of ambitious families with children wanting to come to the US willing to work cheap, pay taxes and raise their children. And yet...

<sigh>

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