Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while. But when I said I was back?
I meant it.
Welcome back to Cyberpunk Librarian.
Episode 67 leads right into episode 68 as Dan takes on the theory and practice of underground librarianship, anarchivism, and shadow librarianship.
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Cyberpunk Librarian – Episode 68 – Come With it Now
Episode 67 leads right into episode 68 as Dan takes on the theory and practice of underground librarianship, anarchivism, and shadow librarianship. Links No right to information at public libraries…Cyberpunk Librarian
As ever, a great, motivational episode!
I am completely overwhelmed, burnt out even, by an ILS migration which is not happening as well as it was supposed to atm, but I really want to lead some new projects afterward which would be more public-focused, and you gave me a few ideas I could more or less adapt to my community.
@val Hey, I get the migration frustration for sure! The nature of my job? It's not unusual for me to help a library with an ILS migration at least twice a year. And the only thing I can ever tell anyone about ILS migrations is "There is the plan, and then there is what actually happens, and these are two very different things that will diverge almost immediately."
The ride will come to an end, just probably not as smoothly as anyone would like! And good luck with yours!
Oh yeah, although there are way more hiccups that I would have expected. Luckily, I have a pretty good grasp of the data we migrate, and I have a colleague who's very much at ease with DB management, and we have a service provider who's going to be sysadmin who's doing a lot (although, I am pretty sure we are doing more ourselves than is usual…).
But we also have deadline, because after Aug. 31, the former ILS is gone for good.
Also,… for the sake of honesty: I have been working as a public librarian myself for 11 years: adult section manager, ILS manager, cataloger, circulation desk, etc.
I do not have an actual library degree, either.
I have a master in history, & some administrative paper saying I have followed 2y out of 4 of evening librarian courses (burn out of studiying after 6yuni + these 2y), and I started working following a good internship before I got the paper.
@val Totally understand. It's not a useless degree, and it never has been. But after working with newly minted librarians year and year, from the Masters to the Doctorate... I've worked with so many people who didn't learn the things they needed to learn. And it's not their fault, that's on their schools. That's a problem with curriculum. I'm sure this isn't a problem with all of the library schools out there but...
I find that a lot of them are somewhat divorced from reality.
Here it is a non-universitary degree, but yeah, there a few interesting things, but not that much, and it depends A LOT on the school.
My partner is doing it, and she’s gonna switch school, because she tired, angry even, at how useless most of her courses are… The school she’s going to seems way better, both content-wise and organizationaly.
We feel that divorce from reality too, every time we have an intern actually, and esp. for public libraries.
JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/jetb…
#GodotEngine #Godot #GameDev #OpenSource
JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine
Godot Foundation announced that JetBrains have become a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine development, helping push this cross-platform open source game engine.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hunt: Showdown 1896 broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/hunt…
#HuntShowdown #HuntShowdown1896 #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck
Hunt: Showdown 1896 broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat
Here we go again? Hunt: Showdown 1896 is a popular extraction shooter from Crytek that's now broken on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to Easy Anti-Cheat.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nvid…
NVIDIA are working on a "general optimization" for VKD3D / DirectX12 games on Linux
For a while now Linux users with NVIDIA GPUs have been reporting performance issues with DirectX12 titles using VKD3D, but a fix may finally be coming.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/open…
#Linux #openSUSE #openSUSELeap #Steam #LinuxGaming
openSUSE Leap 16.0 will need Steam gamers to install some extras due to no 32-bit
openSUSE Leap 16.0 has entered the Release Candidate phase, and for anyone gaming on Steam with openSUSE Leap you'll need some tweaks.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine, Skyblivion is on the final stretch to release gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/obli…
#Skyblivion #Oblivion #RPG #Gaming
Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine, Skyblivion is on the final stretch to release
Skyblivion is a remake of Oblivion in the Skyrim engine, something that has been exciting RPG fans for a while it's finally coming soon.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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The Elder Scrolls: Skyblivion
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – Reimagined. Rebuilt. Reborn. Step back intGOG.com
Keep a close eye on your kingdom in The King is Watching gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/keep…
#TheKingisWatching #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
Keep a close eye on your kingdom in The King is Watching
The King is Watching from Hypnohead and tinyBuild is a unique micro-management roguelite kingdom builder that will suck you right in.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Seeing the world through the eyes of #shrimp 🍤#bees 🐝🪲 #apes 🦧🦍 #dogs 🐶🐕 is a deep-dive into wonder. It generates a humble understanding of diverse ways of seeing the world #communication #behaviour #vision #animals #Boycott4Wildlife
Snack giant PepsiCo allegedly sourced “sustainable” palm oil from razed Indigenous land in Peru
PepsiCo’s supply chain is linked to environmental and human rights violations in Peru, involving Amazon deforestation and Indigenous land invasion. For three years, palm oil from deforested S…Palm Oil Detectives
Physics-based brawler Stick It to the Stickman from Free Lives arrives August 18 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/phys…
#StickIttotheStickman #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Physics-based brawler Stick It to the Stickman from Free Lives arrives August 18
Free Lives, developers of Broforce and Terra Nil, have confirmed their next game Stick It to the Stickman is set to arrive on August 18th.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
A Portal dating sim? Yep. Aperture Dating Simulator is set to release on August 28 gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/a-po…
#ApertureDatingSimulator #Portal #DatingSim #Gaming
A Portal dating sim? Yep. Aperture Dating Simulator is set to release on August 28
Sometimes I think I've seen it all, and then along comes a Portal dating sim with Aperture Dating Simulator.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Check out the demo for Cult of PiN, a pinball roguelike gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/chec…
#CultofPiN #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming
Check out the demo for Cult of PiN, a pinball roguelike
Cult of PiN has a seriously cool style that merges Pinball with roguelikes, and now you can try it out early.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
21 Linux words every Linux user should know about!
21 Jargon Every Linux User Should Know
Even if you don't know Linux well enough, you should know these common terms to blend in ;)Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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This is sooo New Zealand.
This is also sooo Tonkinese!
A cat named Leonardo da Pinchy doesn’t want your affection. He wants to steal your underwear
Yup! That's a nutty Tonk!
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Tor is hiring! Open roles:
👥 Director of People and HR
🔧 Senior Director for Internal Structures and Support
📊 Nonprofit Accounting Specialist (Part-time)
Whether you're passionate about culture, strategy, or numbers, there’s a role for you here. torproject.org/about/jobs/
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.www.torproject.org
To everyone whining abt taxes: In Scandinavia (and the EU), nobody needs to work two or three jobs or > 40 hours a week. People earn a decent living from that 1 job. People can afford rent and food, daycare is cheap and you don't need to pay for healthcare.
That McDonald's worker is not working poor, she doesn't need food stamps or a second job.
Managing your expenses is crucial in such turbulent times.
My Expenses: A Capable Open Source Finance Tracking App for Android
A solid finance tracking and management app for Android users.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Don’t forget #DefCon offers all of its core services as Tor .onion sites, including our Mastodon instance.
Looking to uplevel your privacy? Install the @torproject Tor Browser Bundle and take advantage.
The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.www.torproject.org
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Amazon never met a promise it made that it would not break to its customers or employees.
Amazon Is Now Partnered To Be Part of The Surveillance State With Police & The Feds
#Amazon #SurveillanceState #GovernmentSpyCameras
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Oh, ouch! And fully deserved! hehehe!
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Valve pushes back after Mastercard denies quashing adult content on game platforms
Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.Chris Kerr (Game Developer)
Thank you @TheGuardian for showing US news outlets how actual journalism is done.
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Texas House reconvenes without quorum as Democrats flee state
Lawmakers travel to Illinois, New York and elsewhere to stop vote on Republicans’ redistricting planGeorge Chidi (The Guardian)
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Aalborg Zoo asks for unwanted pets to feed its predators
Aalborg Zoo says the unique scheme is aimed at mimicking what its predators would eat in the wild.Michael Sheils McNamee (BBC News)
Turns out, they humanely euthanize them, and only then do their carcasses become feed.
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Randahl Fink (@randahl@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Today, CNN is trying to make a scandal our of normal zoo practices in Denmark. Just like snake owners in the US will feed dead mice to their snakes, several Danish zoos have a program where people can hand in, say a goat, a rabbit…Mastodon
There is this YouTube channel called Mei Time with really wonderful travel vlogs from Japan. I wish I could visit.
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- YouTube
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
Arch Installer just leveled up. 🔥
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New Arch Installer Update Adds U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support
Arch Linux installer update brings some interesting new features.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
The Drifter is easily my new favourite point and click adventure gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/the-…
The Drifter is easily my new favourite point and click adventure
The Drifter from Powerhoof has released, and it is something truly special for the point and click adventure genre that's one not to be missed.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Golden-headed Lion Tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas
The Golden-Maned Lion Tamarin faces a battle for survival, with threats from habitat loss, particularly due to palm oil deforestation, the illegal pet trade, predation, disease, and climate change.…Palm Oil Detectives
Reason: the admin is a nazi who says we need to close all Holocaust museums because Jews did not “learn their lesson” from it.
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Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
@duncan_lithgow the reasoning is quite simple: the whole point of commemorating is to create awareness so people won’t do those things again. Does it make sense to keep the memory of a tragedy aliv...manganiello.social
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@8124 @benroyce I see, you’re really the kind of person who only reads the fragment of text that he feels comfortable with, ignores the rest, and proceeds with silencing dissent by making threats o...manganiello.social
Oh Eugen, ¿it was possible, that the owner of mastodon.social, will do the right thing for once?
Asking for the temporary close down of Jews museums, to separate themselves, from the #Israel #Zionist is a great idea. Many Jews are against israel.
Zionist killed 60000+ people and are #starving a couple of millions. Commiting #war #crimes and commiring a #genocide in #gaza and an #ethnic #cleansing, according to the #ICJ in #hague.
Stop programming for a few hours and read what the world says in mastodon. And don't pretend to be more clever or witty than the rest of the world and the ICJ judges.
Germany and germans are loosing this argument, big time, all over the world.
Israel are #criminals and #murderers since 1948. That is an historical fact as big as the Jewish Holocaust.
Erik van Straten (@ErikvanStraten@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image My grandfather was a jew. Mina Leuw's mothers maiden name was van Straten (see https://www.joodsmonument.nl/nl/page/183160/johanna-leuw-van-straten). Like my grandfather's and mine. Mina may be a relative of me.Infosec Exchange
With respect, no he isn’t. He’s expressing an opinion that using an historical tragedy to mask abhorrent behavior now is unacceptable. He is entitled to his opinion, as are we all.
He is not suggesting that the offending museums should be closed or that their portfolios should be distributed elsewhere or erased.
The ‘different bar’ is a fair comment, but argue this point, not some other invented offence.
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Me: hey this looks interesting
*scrolls down*
Oh. Pass.
Have you ever thought about what it takes for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox to display more or less the same web?
The latest interview at the Protocol Oral History Project is with @robin, reflecting on a career between tech companies and common standards: protocol.ecologies.info/interv…
Robin Berjon: Web standards
The standards that govern the World Wide Web develop at the intersection of profit-seeking companies, nonprofit organizations, and small groups of people with …Protocol Oral History Project
wget booted from Ubuntu Server!
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wget Removed from Ubuntu Server 25.10 Default Install (And No, It's Not Because of Rust)
Ubuntu Server 25.10 drops wget by default; wcurl takes over.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Ubuntu has been confusing me lately. They keep making sweeping changes that rework their entire distro away from the common standards. Yet they seem to be doing so based on extremely shallow reasoning? Why streamline? What bug are your trying to resolve? I know it ain't a size problem cause server isos are tiny. Are they bored?
TLDR; Why they streamlining and please tell me they have a default alias for wget to wcurl?
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart.
Harvard Did Secretly Bend The Knee To Trump Demands In One Way
#OurModernTimes #Harvard #HarvardCrimson #Trump
A Divinity School Program Became a Political Liability. In One Semester, Harvard Took It Apart. | News | The Harvard Crimson
When the Religion and Public Life program was swept up in raging debates over the Israel-Palestine conflict on campus, Harvard replaced its leader, pushed out its staff, and promised an overhaul.www.thecrimson.com
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"Advierten colectivas sobre el impacto ambiental de las corporaciones tecnológicas; llaman a fortalecer alternativas".
Compartimos esta nota sobre nuestra investigación "Acciones por la justicia ambiental desde infraestructuras tecnológicas autónomas y comunitarias". 🌱
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Advierten colectivas sobre el impacto ambiental de las corporaciones tecnológicas; llaman a fortalecer alternativas - Avispa Midia
Colectivas denuncian los impactos ambientales y sociales de las corporaciones tecnológicas y llaman a construir alternativas desde tecnologías autónomas y comunitariasIsabel Ortega (Avispa Midia)
New to Ubuntu? This is the manual you've been looking for. 📙
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Looking for an Ubuntu Manual? Try This Book
Whether you’re new to Ubuntu or have been using it for years, The Ultimate Ubuntu Handbook offers a wealth of practical tips, time-saving tricks, and insider insights that will help you get even more out of your Ubuntu experience.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
Heroic Games Launcher v2.18.1 brings more bug fixes for GOG and Epic Games on Linux / SteamOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/hero…
#HeroicGamesLauncher #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Linux #GOG #EpicGames
Heroic Games Launcher v2.18.1 brings more bug fixes for GOG and Epic Games on Linux / SteamOS
Heroic is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck. v2.18.1 brings bug fixes to make it even smoother.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Jeff
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Ubuntu used to send out installation discs that let you install along side Windows. That made it really easy to try out Linux without a full commitment.
The more I used it, the more I enjoyed the experience of updating from the terminal, exploring FOSS, and learning a new OS. I miss it when I have to use Windows on my work machines.
AKK
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Still continued working with both systems, but am now keeping almost (tax software excluded) to linux, where I'm not bothered with Karl Klammer 2.0 (aka "AI") if I don't want to use it.
Thomas Traynor
in reply to It's FOSS • • •curiosity back in 1995. Old SFF machine and was extremely slow running windows. Migrated to Linux and was pleasantly surprised at how fast everything ran. Web browsing, office suite running, and playing music without it skipping.
Kids high-end win95 machine had a hard time doing that.
U.N. Owen
in reply to It's FOSS • • •At uni, tried CentOS.
From there tried various linux distros.
Kenner
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •When I got a new laptop preinstalled with it that was so slow and clunky it gave me the final push to use linux as main os.
Btw that old lenovo served me well for many years and is still around with a lightweight distro as a backup machine.
Unix Monkey 🇨🇦
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Little over a year ago, I tried Linux for my operating systems class to help my understanding. When I tried to make my laptop dual boot with Ubuntu though, I fucked it up and accidentally replaced Windows with Ubuntu instead.
Despite losing all my data and learned not to make such drastic changes without backups, I never regretted it. Not only did Linux help me understand how operating systems work for my class, but I also now prefer Linux over Windows.
TomSeppert
in reply to It's FOSS • • •Came home, installed Linux and haven't looked back ever since.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •windows generally being very very slow on my laptop. i started switching 6 months after switching to windows 11. this is a great example of virtual planned obsolescence, using software that simulates the computer running poorly. linux doesn't do any of that.
over time of using linux, i saw another reason: SDKs and anything related appeared more on linux than on windows, sometimes some README.mds straight up expecting you to have linux or WSL.
Sebastián Gómez Z.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •About 2005, back in consulting days, with a company Windows laptop. Put Linux on it as a hobby for evenings in hotels. Then Windows died, some random virus. Critical time in a project!
Discovered that ancient Linux partition could do everything I needed to finish the project. Sold!
Motorikschleife
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I have to admit the learning curve at that time was steep, and a lot of stuff didn't work, but it was very much worthwhile to get out of the clutches of m$.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Windows 2000 freezes after some hours... So i tried Debian I think...
#linux #debian
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I'm grateful for my first contact with the #GNU #Linux world in 1998, in the college #computer lab... despite the #WindowMaker #WindowManager hehehe
The previous year we used the #lab of another #college in the same #university running #Microsoft #WindowsNT 3.51
In 1999 I tried using Linux on my personal computer, and since 2001 I definitively used the #Brazilian #distro #Conectiva (now defunct)
zevon
in reply to It's FOSS • • •I don't remember what put me onto #Linux initially, but I liked the idea of a free and open operating system when I read about it.
I started with Slackware on an old Pentium desktop PC in 2001, then installed Mandrake off a Linux Magazine cover CD, and finally, when I got broadband in 2003, I settled on #Gentoo Linux. The tinkering aspect appealed a lot to me back then.
Alexey
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I am glade to be now in the Linux- and FOSS-World. It means freedom.
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Unknown parent • • •Grow Fediverse
in reply to It's FOSS • • •@It's FOSS That pushy alert from Microsoft going "omg Win 10 support is ending you HAVE to upgrade to our miserable ai-infested Win 11, but watch out your PC might not be good enuff for Win 11, so you better get ready by...."
... installing Linux, thanks for the tip Microsoft.
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