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Speaking of eyes, I was commissioned by Privacy Salon to create an artwork for the 18th International @CPDPconferences ("Computers, Privacy and Data Protection") Conference in Brussels, Belgium, on the theme 'The World is Watching'.
in reply to jamesbridle

I first encountered this phrase through the Occupy Movement, when it denoted the then novel sousveillance technique of live-streaming acts of resistance and state brutality to the internet. It has since expanded to cover the broader digital panopticon we all live in today. This includes everything from acts of citizen journalism and witnessing, to 24/7 atrocity news broadcasts, and global surveillance technologies.
in reply to jamesbridle

My feelings about the value of such 'watching', once an idea of empowerment, have become correspondingly ambivalent.
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The final artwork consists of drawings of a hundred sensory apparatuses: the eyes of humans, felines, birds, canids, equids, cetaceans, ungulates, and so many more, as well as the oculi of insects, jellyfish, and crustaceans, the light-sensing cells of plants and bacteria, and the scanners of smartphones, drones, satellites, and information-processing systems.


Klei Entertainment announced Away Team, a new Oxygen Not Included adventure gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kleiโ€ฆ

#AwayTeam #Gaming #PCGaming #IndieGames

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Ohh man that looks amazing. And Klei have good form, I've sunk so so many hours into ONI and it never gets old.

in reply to It's FOSS

how you cant depend on when the printer will work and when it won't.
in reply to It's FOSS

also, how most distros if not all ignores power management settings and you have to touch keyboard so it won't dim and lock screen


The Puzzle Pizzazz Humble Bundle has some 8 quality games for cheaps gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-โ€ฆ

#Gaming #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck



โ€œHistorically, no one lived past age 35โ€ "Iโ€™ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not โ€œnaturalโ€ because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this โ€œfact,โ€ a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

There Were Still Old People Wh...




after 833 hours... i've beaten rimworld

unfortunately i can't take my animals with me ๐Ÿ˜ญ

in reply to Lynnesbian

(if anyone's wondering why there are two skyes - one of them was a duplicate from the corrupted obelisk. both pawns had a "duplication sickness" debuff that was only going to get worse as long as both of them were alive. so uh. i removed the duplicate's heart)
in reply to Lynnesbian

"so uh. i removed the duplicate's heart"

As should always be done. Otherwise they might take away your cube.

Its such a nice cube.

A pretty cube.

๐ŸŸจ



REMATCH gets rated Steam Deck and SteamOS playable ahead of release gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/remaโ€ฆ

#REMATCH #Gaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

i used to play rocket league casually until i switched to linux and found they ended linux support. maybe will give it a try


Metagenomics Research Scientist

Quadram Institute Bioscience

Applications are invited for a Research Scientist to join the Laboratory of Dr Hildebrand at the Quadram Institute Bioscience (QIB), Norwich, UK.

See the full job description on jobRxiv: jobrxiv.org/job/quadram-institโ€ฆ

#gut_microbiome #microbiology #p...
jobrxiv.org/job/quadram-institโ€ฆ



"Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (โ€œFoodsโ€, โ€œPlantsโ€). In the spirit of โ€œif you canโ€™t beat โ€™em, join โ€™emโ€, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the โ€œDiscoverโ€ series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants).

(...) You can try it yourself in our โ€œGuess Who Is Whoโ€ mini-game (...)

Why? How? And letโ€™s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? Itโ€™s certainly not the authors."

the-strain-on-scientific-publiโ€ฆ

#ResearchIntegrity



This little guy hit a window while I was outside gardening. They were stunned for quite a while - I sat quietly nearby - but eventually flew off to join the rest of the family. As they recovered they perched on a fallen twig.

Short of plastering stickers and sun catchers over every square inch of the windows I donโ€™t know how to stop birds flying into them.

#birds

in reply to Fionnรกin

@ephemeral something that washes off in rain wonโ€™t really be very effective in Wales. There are two windows in particular that get most bird strikes so Iโ€™ve focused on decorating them but it isnโ€™t working well. The young birds are still learning I guess.
in reply to Helen Clayton

yes nor in Ireland. I lived in a cottage when I tried it but it was too much to keep reapplying most days (plus rinsing the toxicity of the soap into the land doesn't seem a good idea).


I have a whole bunch of photos taken in random places, so why not make a general random photo thread! ๐Ÿงต

As always CC BY-SA 4.0
#photography


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

A bit late for them, I guess. They might have sold me Dad of War Ragnarok if they'd put it on GoG alongside the first one

Anyways, still a step in a good direction, for sure

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

way overdue, they shouldn't have created the problem in the first place. But I'm glad they're learning.





I'm back at the Kielderhead Wildwood, five years on from when I first started working with them as artist in residence through VARC (Northumberland UK).

Five years ago, all that was on site was a lot of low-lying brush and thousands of trees in deer-guards.

varc.org.uk/shane-finan-full-cโ€ฆ

#art #ArtistResidency

in reply to Fionnรกin

Me and two others planted a stand of 200 birch and rowan trees out on the moor in 2021.

It rained sideways, hailed, and snowed, and we carried heavy equipment over very rough terrain. We named it Varda Wood, after Agnรฉs Varda. The trees were whips, inside tubes, no more than half a metre tall.

Now some of them are taller than I am.

in reply to Fionnรกin

I chose to come back in summer this time, because I wanted some of the trees to be in leaf. I underestimated how much the bracken would hide them in photos. In any case, I think it's visible in the photos how much they have grown. My apologies to anyone with colour issues.




feminist-arty-eco summerschool in Kopice (70 km from Germany, 1 km from the Baltic Sea ๐Ÿ˜€ free to share this with anyone interested in sound art, open source programming, eco art, activism and more!

#summerschool #newschool
nowaszkola.org/summer-school-2โ€ฆ in solidarity



Netanyahu the opportunist

Netanyahu is living out the Zionists' (incl his daddy's) dream of expelling the Palestinians, wiping out all enemies, & fulfilling the "Greater Israel" project (see map ).

Zionists have been doing ethnic cleansing, slow genocide & stealing Palestinian land since imperial Britain gave them the go-ahead in the 1920s.

Pappรฉ on Nakba
youtube.com/watch?v=vx0QUTui6Gโ€ฆ

#Zionism #Nakba #Netanyahu #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement @palestine .



euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06โ€ฆ


According to David Norris, who was a Dublin senator and is a Joyce scholar, the first official celebration of Bloomsday was held on its 25th anniversary on 16 June 1929. That night, Joyce was the guest of honour at a dinner party held at Les Vaux de Cernay, a village near Versailles. After dinner, Joyce and his protege, Samuel Beckett, โ€œget pretty tight,โ€ Norris said. 1/2
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UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.

Don't drive your users to this: mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/11โ€ฆ

#UI #UX #UIUX #UXDesign #BadUX #BadUXDesign #FrontEnd #webdev #WebDevelopment

in reply to Kagan MacTane (he/him)

Following on from that, NIST guidelines recommend:

โŒ DON'T enforce complexity (upper, lower, numbers, special chars)
โœ… Instead, DO require 8 chars minimum, and up to 64 at least
โœ… Also, allow _any_ characters (space, apostrophe, etc.)
โŒ DON'T force users to change passwords regularly; then they just add incrementing numbers at the end and it doesn't help security
โœ… But DO block passwords/patterns (qwerty, asdfasdf, etc.)

cybersecuritynews.com/nist-rulโ€ฆ

#security #webdev #WebDevelopment

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๐Ÿ” Discover how to move toward digital sovereignty without giving up your Microsoft tools.

Join Sendent CEO Richard Marx & Florian Zinnagl from the Austrian Ministry in our special webinar on June 17 to learn how they did it.

๐Ÿ“… Save your seat: go.nextcloud.com/r/O6Cfv



Riot Declared At Portland ICE Facility - This Was NOT A "No Kings Day" Event


The Police In Portland Are Using Chemical Weapons Against Civilians

#Portland #OR #ICE #BannedWeapons #ChemicalWeapons #HCGas #ChlorineGas #ICERiot #MediaLies #FOXLies



Come on #Fediverse, if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on #PeerTube and are only looking for โ‚ฌ75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world ๐Ÿ˜€

Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse!

Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

support.joinpeertube.org/en/?mโ€ฆ

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in reply to Kye Fox

sustain of the notes is low on purpose, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean since I'm a n00b

But it turns out it was the interpolation, which I turned off, and now it sounds much more crisp...



My wife took this #caturday picture so I thought Iโ€™d share




Wow! Brilliant!

youtu.be/OBAX4Wi1iNM?si=7BzmWbโ€ฆ

in reply to Muse

@Muse


A reminder, this Tuesday 3pm BST I will talk about my #art project 'aiteann' using fire, charcoal, video and photograph.

Free, online, book here: maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-onโ€ฆ

#art
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My Fediforum 2025 keynote is out: "Fun, the Fediverse, and Spritely"
youtu.be/jSOk8XQuqms
spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcโ€ฆ

This was definitely one of the most energetically received talks I've ever given

I talk about the technical and political challenges we're facing, why the current fediverse is not enough, but why there's hope, and why joy is essential to our success


in reply to Jen Sorensen

"Oh, no - you don't understand. In these meetings, they're not talking about how to make things better, or more effective or turning out great products.

They're talking about their next Ferrari.

Oh, yes, they have Ferraris, but the conversation is always about the *next* one."

~source redacted, but actual quote from an HR exec clearing up my existential dread for me. ๐Ÿคท



Linkora is a really handy FOSS app for Android.

news.itsfoss.com/linkora/



Share with us ๐Ÿง

#linux #terminal

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