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Zen Browser will surprise you! 😉

youtube.com/watch?v=Auqu1RnEVf…

#zenbrowser #firefox



Is Linux Mint the perfect distro for beginners? Comment! 🐧

#linux #linuxmint

in reply to It's FOSS

perfect distro also for advanced users works for both beginners and advanced users.
in reply to It's FOSS

I know I know but I think fedora is much better at overall drivers and less bugs in it correct me if I wrong but it's my experience


Brilliant story! This is what resistance is all about!

Eugene Lazowski and the Truth Behind the Fake Epidemic That Saved a Polish Town


It began with a rumour. Years after the war ended, stories started circulating about a Polish doctor who had supposedly saved thousands of Jews from the gas chambers by inventing a false epidemic. Newspapers repeated it. A documentary crew went looking for it. A myth formed around the idea that one man and one clever medical trick had preserved a large Jewish population from certain death.

The truth is more nuanced, grounded in the very specific nature of life in occupied Poland, in the habits of the German authorities, and in the slow and sometimes uncomfortable way historical memory evolves. Eugene Lazowski did save people. Many of them. But not in the precise way the legend later claimed.



Over a decade ago, John Swanson, Pitt trustee told a room full of us that everyone was looking at rooftop solar the wrong way. Instead of "oh, it's cloudy here, it's over 10-12 years to payback" .. instead, it's 8% return guaranteed As rates rise, it's even more important to get solar
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fyvfb…


In 2025, Tor faced some of the toughest censorship yet. Thanks to real-time monitoring & community feedback that helped us improve and deploy new tools, Tor kept people connected when it mattered most. Want to help? Run a Snowflake proxy or host a WebTunnel: blog.torproject.org/staying-ah…
in reply to The Tor Project

I have snowflake running in a browser, but would like to use idle bandwidth on a raspberrypi and an x86 Debian machine on my home network, however when firing up the docker container on both it says "NAT type: restricted". Don't really want to open up everything, so curious why the always-on option is less flexible than the browser dependent? Also would love to be able to see some stats from the docket variant just for warm and fuzzies


I decided to give my Canon AE-1 another go after using the Pentax KX for over a year.

📷️ Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0, yellow filter
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography

in reply to Eugen Rochko

First glance without blowing it up, It looks like a giant discone antenna 😁


Look, I have a new pin, and it's Mastodon!

Yes, it's getting out of hand. Yes, I'll continue adding more.

#plushtodon #mastodon #pins



The RAM price and availability situation is going to worsen as Micron pull their Crucial consumer business gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-…

#Crucial #RAM #Gaming #PCGaming #Micron



Want to join an online event about basic income?

Starting now (18:30 GMT 03/12/25), as part of an ongoing series of events led by experts in UBI and artists who have some experience of the Irish artist basic income scheme.

Call link: us06web.zoom.us/j/82284151773?…

Info: actionnetwork.org/events/basic…

#ubi #universalBasicIncome #artistBasicIncome #art

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📢 Now ungated: The case study “Migration of MagentaCLOUD to Nextcloud by T-Systems”

Read how Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s largest telecoms provider with global subsidiaries and millions of users, migrated its infrastructure to Nextcloud.

nextcloud.com/blog/case_studie…

in reply to Shizanit ​

@Shizanit @db_geek the original publishing date was in July 2024. Now, we made it openly accessible without download.
If you are interested in more details, we also have a podcast episode with T-Systems: nextcloud.com/blog/magentaclou…


It's been a while since @marieverdeil and I gave you any updates on our Battery Academy which over the last month expanded and took the shape of Energy Academy 🔋 ⚡ We just came back from a month of residency at Antre Peaux in Bourges, where we worked on a video in the style of C'est pas sorcier or Bill Nye the Science Guy - aka a science show for kids - about the myths behind the energy transition. As any great science show from the 90/00's we built lots of physical props, some of which you can see in the pictures from our end of residency presentation below 😀

We can't wait to share the video with all of you soooon!



Humble Choice for December 2025 has Nine Sols, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Streets of Rage 4 and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/humb…

#Gaming #PCGaming #NineSols #SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux



I'm all for Bitcoin cratering, but this is such a familiar ritual, where the NYT announces the demise of crypto while the dip is still above the last cycle's peak.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

>Based on resource extraction.
It is unfortunate that mining is so environmentally costly. There are arguments why it isn't so bad but you've probably heard them all before (fiat by contrast being based on costly and environmentally damaging military power, green or otherwise wasted energy being used for mining, etc).

>disconnected from social outcomes
What do you mean by this?

in reply to Light

Issuance of the dollar is influenced by the inflation and unemployment rates. Digital money can be even more creatively tied to social outcomes. But because of the ideologies of the people who built most crypto, it is the opposite.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

And on mining, yeah, I've read gobs on it. If there were not a cleaner way to get meaningful social benefits, I'm open to it. But I don't think the social benefits are clear enough (except in theory) to justify the consumption in the context of a climate crisis. And there are ways of achieving similar goals without that consumption.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

How would your ideal cryptocurrency work and why (it would still be censorship-resistant, right?)?
Is there an existing one that you like?
in reply to Light

Censorship resistance is one value among others, but I don't see it as paramount. Not censoring the tax-evading transactions of billionaires is not more important, in my view, than having an economy that improves everyone's ability to meet basic needs.

I hope for money systems that serve a balance of the common good and individual rights.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

I tend to think PoS-style systems can be designed with goals like that in mind, or with other kinds of proof designs based on other kinds of contributions.

In lieu of the perfect, I'll take diversity of systems.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

>Not censoring the tax-evading transactions of billionaires is not more important,
What about not censoring donations to targeted political orgs and movements such as WikiLeaks, Palestine Action, and the Canadian truckers?
in reply to Light

@light I can appreciate that as an edge case, but money systems have other responsibilities that affect far more people. I support censorship-resistant tools, but I think it is a mistake to view that as the primary thing to design for.

Not that Bitcoin itself is especially great for privacy anyway, which troubles its ability to be truly censorship resistant.



À 19h30, on parlera du rôle politique de la tech et de sa responsabilité dans la fascisation actuelle. Sur Peertube, Twitch et Youtub, avec @mathildesaliou et @p4bl0.

laquadrature.net/donner/#live

Et ce soir on a la visite de plusieurs #plushtodon. Ça tombe bien, on parlera aussi interopérabilité. 👀




Linux usage on Steam hits a record high for the second month in a row theverge.com/news/837364/linux…
in reply to The Verge

Which you can see in more detail over time here -> gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke…
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The response to s&box from Facepunch going open source has been "overwhelmingly positive" gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/the-…

#s&box #Facepunch #OpenSource #Gaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

And if they ever make Rust playable on Linux with EAC the way nearly any other developer can, I'll try to take Facepunch off my naughty list.



Survivor-like bullet heavens are going first-person POSTAL with POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/surv…

#POSTAL #POSTALBulletParadise #Gaming #PCGaming



No Players Online returns after an 'unfounded DMCA claim' halted sales for nearly three weeks gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/no-p…

#NoPlayersOnline #IndieGames #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

The trailer for the game give me vibes for the "game" (really what is now called a visual novel) Portal that I played in the late 80s / early 90s. Returning from a solo space mission, you find the city is abandoned, and you need to explore to discover what happened to everyone. It was eventually released as a novel, which is good because my disk was corrupted and I could not read the ending in the game.


Recién salido de la caja, para el #plushtodon ~ shop.joinmastodon.org/


HELLDIVERS 2 file-size on Steam gets massively reduced gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/hell…

#HELLDIVERS2 #Gaming #PCGaming



There's now an AI warning notice browser plugin for itch.io as well as Steam gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/ther…

#AI #itch #GenerativeAI

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It's nice, but what we really need is a system-wide plugin like shinigami-eyes.github.io/ that lets us all report low-effort AI bullshit everywhere and track it
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Sometimes you just want something chaotic and fun to follow. FDV.LOL (@fdvlol) delivers.


Another Infrastructure (AI): 2026 #art & #criticalTechnology project by new ensemble Drop Table.

Six artists will work with the community in Clondalkin, south Dublin, to create work about the environmental, social and political impact of data infrastructure. Clondalkin is home to two large data centres and their associated infrastructure.

The project artists are me, Dasha Ilina @dasha Paul O'Neill @aswemaysink , Living Rhythms, Alisha Doody, Amy Bunce & Cían Flynn.

incontext.ie/projects/in-conte…

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Valve have been funding FEX to get x86 games on Arm Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/valv…

#FEX #Arm #Linux #SteamOS #LinuxGaming #SteamFrame




Fixed the Steam Tracker for the Linux user share over time page not working with some date selections: gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke…

#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck




#News: Five new species of soft-furred #hedgehogs AKA lesser Gymnures discovered deep within the Leuser Ecosystem in #Indonesia and also southern #Vietnam. Help them to survive when you shop #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #biodiversity @palmoildetect wp.me/pcFhgU-7dg?utm_source=ma…


The 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 fills a gap, but is it worth it?

itsfoss.com/news/raspberry-pi-…

#raspberrypi #diy #tinkerers

in reply to It's FOSS

Raspberry Pi isn't worth it in any situation, vote with your wallets.


The Autumn mug is finally available! 🍵 Sorry it took so long, there were delays outside my control.

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#Merchtodon





Fedora Linux 44 will get improved NTSYNC enabling for Proton / Wine gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fedo…

#Fedora #Linux #NTSYNC #Wine #Proton

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

"What is NTSYNC? Arriving with Linux kernel 6.14 the aim of it was mainly to help accuracy and performance for NT synchronization"

I've read the article and clicked through to other articles, ending up at the kernel mailing list for the addition, but other than knowing it's a performance enhancement that may or may not affect games running via Proton, I didn't come across anything telling me what NT Synchronisation is.

Is that NT as in Windows NT or something entirely different?




Our NVIDIA driver article was updated to note the change to the Supported Products list for Linux on the 590 Beta driver gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvid…
Maxwell, Pascal and Volta no longer supported.

#NVIDIA #Linux



A Swiss group has raised concerns over Big Tech cloud infra use.

itsfoss.com/news/privatim-decl…

#privacy #bigtech #switzerland

in reply to It's FOSS

Surprise finding by Conference of Swiss Data Protection Officers:
" identified five critical problems with international cloud providers:

Most SaaS solutions lack true end-to-end encryption.
Global companies offer insufficient transparency for compliance verification.
Cloud services create significant loss of control over data.
Legal uncertainty exists for data under confidentiality obligations.
The US CLOUD Act allows data access regardless of storage location"




Two plushtodons enjoying their oat caramel lattes. (Yes, they do use their trunks to sip.)

#plushtodon

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