"Those obsessed with productivity and injustice often disparage doing nothing, though by doing nothing we usually mean a lot of subtle actions and observations and cultivation of relationships that are doing many kinds of something. It's a doing something whose value and results are not so easily quantified or commodified, and you could even argue that any or every evasion of quantifiability and commodifiability is a victory against assembly lines, authorities, and over-simplifications."
— Rebecca Solnit: Orwell’s Roses, pp. 191-191
Orwell’s Roses - BookWyrm
“In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and the natural world illuminates his other commi…bookwyrm.social
A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (302) 😎🐧▶️
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@MichaelTunnell talks about KDE Devs launch a company, CrossOver 25, Garuda Linux, & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!
#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech
302: KDE Devs launch a company, CrossOver 25, Garuda Linux, & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital
This week in Linux, we have so much to talk about. First of all, KDE developers have launched their own company called TechPaladin Software. Also, the CodeWe...TuxDigital
This app will tell you how secure your passwords and passkeys are.
IYPS: An Open Source Password Strength Checker App You Didn't Know You Needed
If you have been curious to know how secure your passwords are, try this app.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
A couple more shots from Paris.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7, yellow filter
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Montmartre #Paris
Really nice!!
I love how the rain mirrors on the street and between the cobble stones. 👌🏻
Great scenery!
Anti-Immigrant Extremists Want to Use this 226-Year-Old Law to Implement a Mass Deportation Program
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was used to justify World War II-era internment of noncitizens, and now Donald Trump is threatening to invoke the law to target immigrant communities
This is A Threat To So Many Lives
#ARGH! #Trump #ImmigrationMadness #Interment #AbuseOfLaw #AlienEnemiesAct #ACLU
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“I, a writer, asked the plagiarism machine to copy guides for me.”
This is how we ruin the internet. People will stop writing guides.
I moved the #Friendica Wiki to another server. I need some people to test it and see if all works. I will then solve the problems pointed out.
The initial setup was not done by me. It was still on a server with php 7.4 because it did not work with 8.x due to some plugins. I removed those plugins, apparently not maintained since 2014.
I also saw that it loads some js from some CDN, I don't like that either, so tips welcome on that. Maybe there is a plugin that stores such stuff locally?
Also can you suggest a free service to analyze your webpage, show problem, broken links and such?
I saw that the Avatar (only a systemwide standard avatar for all users) is not displayed in my Firefox, but looks fine on Chromium. May be a DNS issue, so local issue only, seems tailscale some how messes up my DNS resolution. But please have a look for any embedded stuff that does not load!
Send me screenshots if you like and/or links to the problem page.
Here is the wiki.friendi.ca
"Andrew, Andrew! Quick get the camera! This has to be seen!"
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Goods Unite Us
This site helps you to determine who to buy and not to buy from in order to support human rights and the environment in the US (and abroad, really). It's about voting with your dollars as a means to resist the oligarchy.
Home - Goods Unite Us
At Goods Unite Us, we run political background checks on thousands of brands and companies so you can put your money where your vote is.Goods Unite Us
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Google are breaking my mittens - Sonofa. Twelve years ago I knitted a pair of “self-replicating mittens” (web-goddess.org/archive/14046) with a QR code that pointed you to the pattern for the mittens, and I entered them in the Sydney Royal Easter Show. I was pretty proud of my cleverness. In the blog post (web-goddess.org/archive/11192) where I talked about making the mittens, I said:
I wanted my code to be as simple as possible, so I needed to use a URL shortener to mask my intended address. I settled on using Google‘s, reasoning that it was likely to be around the longest. (Though who knows these days, right?)
You can guess what’s happened, right? Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available (developers.googleblog.com/en/g…) as of August this year.
Bastards are breaking my mittens. Perhaps I’ll have to add some embroidery. web-goddess.org/archive/56383
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.Sumit Chandel (developers.googleblog.com)
Discover the best tools for self-hosting a IRC web client.
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Self Hosting Web IRC Clients: What are Your Options?
Looking to host your own IRC? Here are the options you can explore.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
This week's comic: Playing the wealth card
#cartoon #comic #billionaires #uspol #oligarchy #authoritarianism #economy
Our top story: If the voucher bill were to pass, select private companies could soon be reeling in tens and even hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars per year. We took a closer look at who stands to gain the most. texasobserver.org/school-vouch…
#education #politics #USpol #vouchers #news #schools #TXlege #Texas #GregAbbott
How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas
The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐
action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
@Friendica Support Die folgende #Frage hatte ich schon einmal gestellt, sie aber irrtümlich wieder gelöscht:
Ich habe mir einen zusätzlichen #Circle eingerichtet, den ich nur als #Feedreader nutzen will. #Feeds, die dort landen, werden jedoch nicht in diesem Circle angezeigt, sondern unter "Alle Kontakte bzw. Kontakte". Was muss ich tun, um die Feeds nur in diesem neuen Circle anzuzueigen und den Rest unter "Alle Kontakte"?
I’m an amateur lisper, mostly #Guile and #EmacsLisp, but if someone wants to team up for this #GameJam, I’d be interested!
I also do some basic art, game design, sound, and music. I wouldn’t want to be the sole programmer for this jam but could definitely contribute there and would love to learn more #Lisp.
toot.cat/@dthompson/1141667993…
dave (@dthompson@toot.cat)
The Spring Lisp Game Jam is happening once again! Join us for 10 days of consing up little games starting on May 9th! https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2025 #lisp #gamejam #lispgamejamToot.Cat
"The United States has requested that Denmark and other European countries send it eggs, according to the Nordic country's egg association."
That would be 'the' Denmark that Trump is threatening to seize Greenland from. You couldn't make it up. It is beyond parody.
dw.com/en/us-updates-trump-cal…
US updates: Trump calls media 'corrupt' and 'illegal'
In a rare speech at the Department of Justice, President Trump complained that US media was biased against him, saying it "has to be illegal." The US also asked Denmark if it had any eggs to spare. Follow DW for more.Deutsche Welle
#coup #corruption democracynow.org/2025/3/14/nan…
If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge’s Warning About Elon Musk’s Abuse of Power
A pair of federal judges have ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Interior and Treasury.Democracy Now!
New Zealand band doing a video knit-animation!
youtu.be/I7UvbwCjXUk?si=ZYYF7N…
@Christoph S You WILL like this!
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SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…
#SteamDeck #SteamOS #HandheldGaming #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming #Steam
SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'
Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Two years ago I thought I had made the world's worst keyboard. Turns out it could get much, much worse!
shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/i-don…
I don't have a community
I get confused when I hear statements on the news like "community leaders have called for calm" or "community leaders will be encouraged to host informative programs" or "assurances were provided by local community leaders" or "community leaders have…Terence Eden’s Blog
I wanted to see if I can recreate Ché Aimee Dorval's album cover for The Widow. I used my two Arri tungsten lights, one 300W with a blue gel, and one 650W with a red gel and a softbox.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
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Trying out Alpine Linux in VirtualBox is possible.
itsfoss.com/alpine-linux-virtu…
Install Alpine Linux in Virtual Box [Screenshot Tutorial]
Explore the lightweight Alpine Linux inside a Virtual Machine by following these steps.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
Transform your Kindle collection into accessible PDFs with Calibre.
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Use Calibre to Remove DRM from Kindle Books and Convert to PDF
Own your content by removing DRM from Kindle books with the help of open source tool Calibre.Sagar Sharma (It's FOSS)
Linux gaming has come a long way. 🎮 🐧
news.itsfoss.com/linux-mainstr…
Is Linux Ready For Mainstream Gaming In 2025?
Linux is quietly gaining ground on Windows in the gaming space. But how well does it actually perform? Here's what I experienced.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
i've been noticing more websites not including GST in listed prices, which, to my understanding, is illegal unless you're advertising exclusively to other businesses:
Businesses must display the total price of a product or service as a single figure. This price must be the minimum total cost – the lowest amount a customer could pay, including any taxes, duties and unavoidable or pre-selected extra fees.
here are two websites i've seen doing this in the past week alone - red hat and patreon. patreon in particular is in no way aimed at business-to-business transactions.
Price displays
There are laws about how businesses display prices. They cover how prices are displayed, and what must be included in the displayed prices.Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
@tempo lmao the massive $3.09 and then the tiny "tax excluded" in light grey font under the bright yellow banner
that sucks so much
A new CrossOver release has arrived!
news.itsfoss.com/crossover-25-…
CrossOver 25 Unlocks More Windows Games for Linux and macOS Gamers
CrossOver 25 lets Linux and Mac gamers play an even wider selection of Windows games.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
The Nextcloud Community Conference is back this fall! 🎉
Join fellow Nextclouders and open-source lovers to talk, code, and shape the future of collaboration! ⚡
️🔔 Sign up for updates - don't miss the registration opening! 👉
nextcloud.com/conference-2025/
No te pierdas estas alternativas libres a plataformas privativas.
critical-switch.org/posts/soft…
Lista de aplicaciones de software libre | Critical Switch
Alternativas libres a plataformas privativas. Nota: las aplicaciones móviles para Android se pueden instalar a través de <?xml version="1.critical-switch.org
Steam Deck hits 18,000 games playable and verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…
#SteamDeck #Steam #SteamOS #Linux #Gaming #PCGaming
Steam Deck hits 18,000 games playable and verified
Another seriously impressive milestone has been hit. The Steam Deck now has 18,000 games that Valve have rated to be either Playable or Verified.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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