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Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? @ntnsndr sees it every day.

publicinfrastructure.org/podcaโ€ฆ



๐Ÿ“ข Nextcloud endorses UN's Open Source Principles!

Source Principles alongside Linux Foundation & GNOME Foundation, promoting open, secure, and inclusive tech for global empowerment. Learn more!

#Nextcloud #UNOpenSource #DigitalTransformation

unite.un.org/news/fifteen-orgaโ€ฆ



Fanatical are doing another Mystery Egg Bundle where you can win all sorts including a Steam Deck: fanatical.com/en/bundle/mysterโ€ฆ (partner link)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Was fรผr eine antiquierte ScheiรŸe! Was taugen Pรคdagogen heute eigentlich noch? In 40 Jahren hat sich offenbar nichts verbessert ..! #diskriminierung #mobbing


Western point and click adventure Rosewater is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/westโ€ฆ

#Rosewater #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck



Bullet hell dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon 2 announced with a new 3D style gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/bullโ€ฆ

#EntertheGungeon2 #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck



Hollow Knight: Silksong lives and it's releasing in 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/hollโ€ฆ

#HollowKnightSilksong #HollowKnight #Silksong



Steam Desktop and Steam Deck stable update released with various fixes, plus tweaks to the download UI gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steaโ€ฆ

#Steam #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming #LinuxGaming



La Coaliciรณn Latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia es un espacio conformado por movimientos sociales y sociedad civil organizada con presencia en Amรฉrica Latina que actรบan en torno al acompaรฑamiento a personas migrantes, refugiadas y en movimiento y en la bรบsqueda de la protecciรณn de sus datos personales.

Se realizรณ la INVESTIGACIร“N: PRIVACIDAD EN DESPLAZAMIENTO MIGRATORIO;
Se hizo un GLOSARIO #MIGRARSINVIGILANCIA
y mรกs recursos

migrarsinvigilancia.org



Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linuโ€ฆ

#Steam #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS



I'm grateful to be back on the Reimagining the Internet podcast with Ethan Zuckerman to talk about the prospects and challenges of open social media: publicinfrastructure.org/podcaโ€ฆ


How the Trump admin is trying to strong-arm Colorado electric co-ops out of sensible renewable energy planning:

coloradosun.com/2025/04/02/eleโ€ฆ

I'm proud our co-ops have a history of courage on this front.




Commissioner Hester Peirce now talking at the National Press Club on a kind of #exittocommunity trajectory for tokenized projectsโ€”from centralized disclosure to decentralized control.


Bash-it: The framework that makes your terminal cooler than ever! ๐ŸŒŸ

itsfoss.com/bash-it-terminal-tโ€ฆ

#linux



Not world domination yet but still an interesting trend.

computerworld.com/article/3840โ€ฆ

#LibreOffice #foss




The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 โ€” a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.

AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege



Research will move elsewhere but will never fully recover I fear. There is a cost to churn.

wired.com/story/doctor-breakthโ€ฆ

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Some major upgrades have arrived for Proton Drive and Docs.

news.itsfoss.com/proton-drive-โ€ฆ

in reply to It's FOSS

For this year they promised to publish an SDK to speed up Linux development. This last update states โ€œOver the next few months, weโ€™ll enhance the app further by adding more new features and releasing the Software Development Kit (SDK) that the new macOS app is based on, which we anticipate will serve as the basis for a highly requested Linux app.โ€ So fingers crossed
in reply to It's FOSS

I read the headline, and stopped reading. #Proton continues to suck on #Linux, still prefers privacy invasive operation systems.

I consider Proton's focus on privacy as pure marketing, as long as the focus is Windows, which wants to make a screenshot of the desktop, your mails, your docs every few seconds and upload it to OpenAI. Your encrypted mails become publicly readable, and maybe the template for mails written by Copilot.



Counter-Strike 1.6.

Weekly. Saturday from 7-9pm, US/Pacific (LA time).

All hosted on my home server.

Counter-Strike 1.6: cs16.someodd.zip

Mumble (voice chat): mumble.someodd.zip

Also join the text chat:

XMPP: xmpp:%23main%25irc.someodd.zipโ€ฆ

IRC: ircs://irc.someodd.zip/#main

Contact me if you have questions!

More info: codemadness.org/gopherproxy/?qโ€ฆ


in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Good to see that in 2025 one still cannot buy justice. Letโ€™s keep it that wayโ€ฆ

#uspol #trump #musk

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

While this is a good result for Wisconsin, the fact that judicial races are so partisanly politicized is not good for democracy. (Of course, the same could be said of the fact that judges are elected to begin with, IMO.)


cloudflare caused a fun bug for april fool's day! ๐Ÿช

due to an overly proactive filter rule intended to block a vulnerability in apache camel, cloudflare's WAF policy overzealously blocked innocent URLs containing the word "camel". this meant that certain packages could no longer be installed from NPM, some stackoverflow pages with "camel" in the title could not be loaded, etc.

cloudflare incident: cloudflarestatus.com/incidentsโ€ฆ
NPM issue: github.com/npm/cli/issues/8203

this isn't the first time cloudflare has caused an issue with NPM, either (although this one is really NPM's fault): github.com/npm/cli/issues/836#โ€ฆ

#camelgate



What are the only notes a pirate can sing?

High Cs!

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@Joyce Donahue

in reply to Muse

i.e., squeaky sound waves.

Also, we singers are frequently warned to drop our ARRRRs. ๐Ÿคช



Coalition may rethink rules that push car-makers to create cheaper EVs and hybrids for Australians


Opposition says Laborโ€™s national vehicle emission standard is โ€˜poorly designedโ€™, despite data showing uptick in green vehicle sales.

...More than 120 electric vehicles are now available in Australia as the new laws upend the nationโ€™s status as a โ€œdumping groundโ€ for big, polluting cars. Prior to January Australia was the only OECD country without a vehicle emission standard.

The obsession with big cars is not only fuelling the climate crisis, it is making roads deadlier and adding to traffic congestion. And there are other costs โ€“ Australians spend on average almost $100 a week on fuel.. .



My heart is heavy as 10,000 government health workers, from the CDC to the FDA to the NIH, learned today that they have been laid off. You served your country selflessly and well, enduring much derision and receiving little praiseโ€”only to be met with insult and betrayal. I stand in solidarity with you during this difficult time.


These updates are no joke ๐Ÿƒ
๐Ÿฆ€ Arti 1.4.2 is released: RPC is now officially stable, and ready for testing.
blog.torproject.org/arti_1_4_2โ€ฆ
๐ŸŸฃ Tor Browser 14.0.9: blog.torproject.org/new-releasโ€ฆ



Softcult is my new hype. Self-described "Riotgaze", I can't recommend this band
enough. Their music is sonically and lyrically powerful, and self-engineered and
-produced ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’œ

Watch them an Audiotree Live here: youtube.com/watch?v=VoUN8JKs4Oโ€ฆ

Listen to them on Bandcamp here: softcult.bandcamp.com/



Convocatoria: 5ta Escuela de Comunicaciรณn Estratรฉgica para la Defensa del Territorio
#Mรฉxico

convocada por Witness y La Sandรญa Digital

lasandiadigital.org.mx/convocaโ€ฆ



๐Ÿ“ Nextcloud Office is now more powerful than ever!

Join Michael Meeks of @CollaboraOffice showcasing Nextcloud Office's new features:

๐Ÿท๏ธ Colleague tagging
โ†”๏ธ Document comparison
๐ŸŒŠ Nextcloud Flow integration
โœจ AI writing assistance
๐Ÿ’ก and more!

youtu.be/k85twYjVc7I



#DerechosDigitalesColectivos

Hoy retomamos el informe

"En la mira: seguridad y principales amenazas digitales en Amรฉrica Latina"

publicado a inicios de aรฑo y en el cual participamos:

sursiendo.org/2025/01/en-la-miโ€ฆ



This app can keep you well organized!

news.itsfoss.com/tasks-org/

#opensource #android

in reply to It's FOSS

I use TASKS for making shopping lists. It would be handier if it was easier to share.



Paradox announce Victoria 3: Expansion Pass 2 with Charters of Commerce expansion arriving in June gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/paraโ€ฆ

#Paradox #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming #Victoria3



Luck be a Landlord dev's bullet heaven roguelite Maze Mice arrives May 2 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/luckโ€ฆ

#MazeMice #IndieGame #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck



Wonderful discovery for #protists #independentresearch #microscopy #microbiology folks. Check out a new zine called "Amoeba Discovery":

stefanluketa.com/amoeba-discovโ€ฆ

I never thought very much about protists/amoebas, and reading this volume was a fascinating introduction to what seems to be an understudied field.

Now I'm wondering how I might isolate and sequence some interesting samples!

@foaylward

in reply to naturepoker

this looks fascinating - thanks for sharing!
We have some amoeba in the lab but mainly from culture collections. We have not isolated any ourselves.


Blendo Games announce full Steam Deck support for stealthy shooter Skin Deep gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/blenโ€ฆ

#SkinDeep #SteamDeck #Linux #Gaming


in reply to It's FOSS

It really comes down to your goals, technical skills, free time, and how quickly you can and will learn new things. Arch is a great way to force yourself to learn new things if you love pain. Once you embrace the pain you can choose to live there or use an Arch based distro that does some of the grunt work for you. Do you like trying to figure out how to generate a UEFI boot entry or trying to find a package source to run a niche software on Debian?
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@rpl6475 Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint.

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