You don’t own the cloud, but you’ll own the downtime! 💸☁️
As Microsoft infrastructure suffers from another outage affecting the users of Teams among others, it is high time we moved to collaboration platforms that give us actual control of our IT.
REI members reject all three board candidates in election - Co-operative News
A worker-led campaign at the US retail co-op encouraged members to vote ‘no’ against candidates that were hand-picked by existing boardAlice Toomer-McAlpine (Co-operative News)
European Parliament LIBE committee votes on the #Europol report next week.
MEPs 👏 must 👏 vote 👏 against!
🐎 It is a Trojan horse for surveillance disguised as „anti-smuggling“
💰 It would expand the budget for a problematic agency
The EU must take responsibility for forcing migrants into life-threatening situations, change its hostile border & migration policies, and reject the expansion of Europol’s digital surveillance powers.
Share the #ProtectNotSurveil paper now:
protectnotsurveil.eu/
The funniest songs of the first semi finals are....
Estonia with Espresso Macchiato
Sweden (or is that Finland?) with Bara Bada Bastu
The lads from Iceland are a real delight with RÓA. Doesn't this sound like something from Lazy Town?
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Ukraine seems to always deliver the goods at Eurovision! 2025 is another terrific song!
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Mexican Activists Are Building Digital Defenses Against Big Tech Colonialism
Communities are learning digital security and building autonomous servers to take control of their own data.Tamara Pearson (Truthout)
Pick up Hell Let Loose, Thymesia and more in the Team17 Humble Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/pick…
#Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Pick up Hell Let Loose, Thymesia and more in the Team17 Humble Bundle
The Team 17: Chains of Command Humble Bundle is live with another pretty great set of games you can get for cheaps. Here's your usual expected run over compatibility across Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
New #PsychedelicPornCrumpets album, Carpe Diem, Moonman, has come out.
youtube.com/watch?v=ah02MsJsoF…
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
how do you think it stacks up vs the rest of their discography (if you've listened to it yet)?
PPC are an immense live band, like really, really good, but for some reason I can't quite place I'm a bit more up and down on their studio stuff.
Deal alert! The Linux Foundation's training courses are on discount. 📣
Check out the Steam Playtest for SWAPMEAT, a co-op body-part swapping third-person shooter gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/chec…
#SWAPMEAT #IndieGame #Demo #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux
Check out the Steam Playtest for SWAPMEAT, a co-op body-part swapping third-person shooter
SWAPMEAT is an upcoming roguelite third-person shooter where you tear through alien worlds, harvesting body-parts to steal their powers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valv…
#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming
Valve refresh Steam's monthly top-releases charts, going all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2
The crazy coders at Valve had been making the monthly top lists manually this whole time, but no more. They've given their monthly top-releases charts a fresh makeover and you can scroll all the way back to the release of Half-Life 2.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 16th gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/here…
#PrimeGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Here's all the games to claim for Steam Deck / Linux from Prime Gaming as of May 16th
Here's the fresh and up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for May 16th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
2nd-Place Runner in High School Race Rips Maine GOP Lawmaker for Attacking Trans Winner
"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet
How long after a nation-state murders one of your columnists is it appropriate to make a multibillion-dollar deal with it? For Bezos: five years.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Incredible (but predictable) : #Microsoft has blocked the International Criminal Court's access (#ICC) to its services on the orders of the #Trump mafia.
Read that carefully : an international organisation that has no presence in the United States and no US legal rights has had its work tools blocked simply because it disagrees with the Trump administration. 🚩
Get the hell out of it right now.
If any Mastodon instances are having trouble with their costs growing out of control, ping me and see if I can help lower your bill.
Apparently a recently closed instance was paying $300/month for hosting which is insane to read considering how small of an instance it was. When we had 40k monthly users I was paying about $120/month so an instance with less than 400 total users (not MAU) should be super cheap to run even with a few TB of storage and bandwidth.
It hurts my heart to read instances closing down over costs and finding out they’re paying more than instances 10x their size. 😢
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Attached: 1 image Another Mastodon server gone. Airwaves.Social shut down & off the air for good. Reason: Costs! https://vmst.io/@User47/114508192446827453 Running a Mastodon server isn’t free & it’s often thankless. But it is essential.Newsie
Join us (@cmos4040, @decentral1se and myself) to discuss products of technology, and for a demonstration of Varia's web archiving software distribusi-verse this Friday 13:00 to 15:00 at ^ in Manorhamilton.
(graciously hosted by the fine folk at @benbo)
Technologists actively seeking god-like powers.
Friday essay: Trump’s reign fits Curtis Yarvin’s blueprint of a CEO-led American monarchy. What is technological fascism?
"In this vision, the best form of governance marries reaction and information, Machiavelli and machine learning, aristocracy and artificial intelligence, authoritarianism and technosolutionism.
"To revive the glorious traditions of the past, its champions believe, we must leverage the bleeding-edge innovations of tomorrow."
Friday essay: Trump’s reign fits Curtis Yarvin’s blueprint of a CEO-led American monarchy. What is technological fascism?
The Washington Post called Curtis Yarvin’s blog ‘required reading for the extremely online right’. He advocates for the end of democracy – and a governing monarch.The Conversation
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Uncovering the legacy of Plan9 from Bell Labs.
Rediscovering Plan 9 from Bell Labs
An OS that was developed by the likes of Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Bjarne Stroustrup and yet it did not achieve the success.Bill Dyer (It's FOSS)
This. So sad.
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She indicated that things could get real tense.
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Elon Musk Backs Cardinal Robert Prevost for Next Pope with Unprecedented Financial Commitment - News
Elon Musk backs Cardinal Prevost for Pope with staggering $10,000,000,000,000,000 donation In a move that has shocked both the religious and business worlds,linh (News)
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Link: theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
: Failure could've triggered a small explosionBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
This article made me angry for days when I was copyediting it. But I couldn’t talk about it because it hadn’t been published yet. Now I can. And it’s open-access so you can all read it.
Global health institutions allowed COVID-19 vaccinations to be locked up by patents. Moderna showed they could transfer their manufacturing methodologies to factories in places like South Africa. But those factories were forced to send doses to Europe and North America, while most Africans did not get COVID vaccinations.
There is a different model of medication manufacturing and distribution that is used with AUDS retrovirals for equitable distribution. It could have been used for COVID vaccines. But it wasn’t.And the same thing is now happening with Mpox.
#vaccination #COVID-19 #healthequity
cambridge.org/core/journals/jo…
Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and Beyond | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core
Law and Global Governance of Infectious Disease: Access to Medicines on COVID-19, AIDS, and BeyondCambridge Core
I am honored to share that I’ve been nominated for an Emmy as host of PBS’s Serving Up Science - a series funded by the National Science Foundation.
This recognition is a testament to what federal science funding & public media can achieve when we invest in #science, education & evidence-based storytelling.
And it’s a reminder that curiosity matters & there is value in making science understandable & available to all.
If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll support science agencies & PBS.
GitHub - aaronland/go-world-clock: There are many world clocks. This one is mine.
There are many world clocks. This one is mine. Contribute to aaronland/go-world-clock development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hi all! Good news — Google has decided to restore the permissions to our #Android app so we can bring back the full file syncing functionality. Expect a test tonight and final later this or early next week. Thanks a lot for your support, it is what made all the difference!
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android
Nextcloud’s public story of Play Store problems seems to have helped.Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)
La CMSI+20: A la busca de soluciones innovadoras.
En las primeras 2 fases (2003 y 2005) la Campaña por los Derechos de Comunicación en la Sociedad de la Información (CRIS) fue fundamental para llevar las perspectivas de los países de ingresos bajos y medios a la mesa de negociaciones, aunque con diversos grados de éxito.
Más información:
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Stellar Blade launches for PC on June 11, specifications and features revealed gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/stel…
#StellarBlade #Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck
Stellar Blade launches for PC on June 11, specifications and features revealed
SHIFT UP Corporation /PlayStation Publishing LLC today announced officially that Stellar Blade will be launching for PC on June 11.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/mine…
#Minecraft #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #LinuxGaming
Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them
In a future Minecraft release that's now in testing, you won't need to hunt or fish for a saddle, as it's finally going to be an item you can just craft.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Maintenance updates for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.0.11) and 10 (31.0.5) are available 🚀
Upgrade to a new version for better and even more secure Nextcloud experience. The updating process is designed to be and smooth - keep your server up to date!
nextcloud.com/blog/may-mainten…
May maintenance updates are here: Nextcloud Hub 9 and 10 - Nextcloud
Maintenance updates are ready for Nextcloud Hub 9 and 10. Find out more about the updates in this post. Always keep your server up to date!Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
New Guide: How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/…
How to install, update and see what graphics driver you have on Linux and SteamOS
Here's an overview and guide to what options you have for graphics drivers on Linux, since it can at times be a little on the confusing side. This should get you going.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Thank you so much for that article.
Perfect timing: Someone *just* asked me that question!
Nubs! Arena is a chaotic multiplayer brawler by ex-Awesomenauts devs, free for the first 24 hours gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/nubs…
#NubsArena #FreeGame #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Nubs! Arena is a chaotic multiplayer brawler by ex-Awesomenauts devs, free for the first 24 hours
Act fast if you want a brand new free game, as Nubs! Arena from ex-Awesomenauts developers has released and it's free for the first 24 hours.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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