good news: <select> elements can now be customised with CSS, more than 20 years after they were first added to HTML 1.0
bad news: you still can't create a combobox without custom javascript elements
what do you typically call the tool you use to select a colour from an image?
this thing: files.catbox.moe/stv3ir.avif
- 🌈 colour picker (11%, 16 votes)
- 🇺🇸 color picker (15%, 22 votes)
- 👁️ eyedropper (12%, 18 votes)
- 🇫🇷 pipette (55%, 78 votes)
- 🦃 turkey baster (4%, 6 votes)
- ⁉️ what are you talking about (0%, 0 votes)
- 💭 i call it something else (0%, 0 votes)
Proposed UN rapporteur to support democracy, fill gaps: event in Geneva
An event titled "Democracy and Human Rights" was held in the margins of the 58th session of the UN's Human Rights Council.DWB (Democracy Without Borders)
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A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse | TechCrunch
A new security fund aims to help apps in the fediverse — like Mastodon, Threads, and Pixelfed — to pay researchers for disclosing security bugs.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
@mcSlibinas Yes, we accept many forms of donations, GitHub is only one of them. Please see the list here:
Donate to Mastodon
Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!joinmastodon.org
I was grating cheese, and found myself with an audience. 😂
(left to right: Prudence, her daughter Gracie, and Bug)
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon
Humble Choice for April 2025 has a quality list of games gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/humb…
#Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck
Humble Choice for April 2025 has a quality list of games
After a couple of duds, Humble Bundle actually have a properly good deal here with Humble Choice for April 2025 having a really nice selection of games.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
DELTARUNE chapters 1-4 release on Steam in June gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/delt…
#DELTARUNE #PCGaming #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
DELTARUNE chapters 1-4 release on Steam in June
UNDERTALE fans are pretty excited about this one! DELTARUNE from tobyfox is finally coming to Steam with chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 on June 5th.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? @ntnsndr sees it every day.
publicinfrastructure.org/podca…
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media.Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
📢 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-orga…
Sixteen Organizations Endorse the UN Open Source Principles | Office of Information and Communications Technology
The United Nations Open Source community is proud to announce that 16 leading organizations have the UN Open Source Principles, following the initial endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), bringing the total to 17.unite.un.org
Mystery Egg Bundle | Steam Game Bundle | Fanatical
The Mystery Egg Bundle is back – and this year, it's bigger, better, and packed with more surprises than ever before!Fanatical
Western point and click adventure Rosewater is out now gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/west…
#Rosewater #IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck
Western point and click adventure Rosewater is out now
One classic point and click adventure game fans have been excited about has arrive. Rosewater, a Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City from Grundislav Games and Application Systems Heidelberg is out now with Native L…Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Bullet hell dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon 2 announced with a new 3D style gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/bull…
#EntertheGungeon2 #Gaming #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck
Bullet hell dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon 2 announced with a new 3D style
Dodge Roll and Devolver Digital announced Enter the Gungeon 2 today, teased during the Nintendo Switch 2 event and it's coming to Steam as well in 2026.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Hollow Knight: Silksong lives and it's releasing in 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/holl…
#HollowKnightSilksong #HollowKnight #Silksong
Hollow Knight: Silksong lives and it's releasing in 2025
This is not a drill. Hollow Knight: Silksong is alive, thankfully, and it's even going to be releasing this year. On Nintendo Switch 2 that is at least.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Steam Desktop and Steam Deck stable update released with various fixes, plus tweaks to the download UI gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stea…
#Steam #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming #Gaming #LinuxGaming
Steam Desktop and Steam Deck stable update released with various fixes, plus tweaks to the download UI
Valve released and then rereleased a fresh stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
La Coalición Latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia es un espacio conformado por movimientos sociales y sociedad civil organizada con presencia en América Latina que actúan en torno al acompañamiento a personas migrantes, refugiadas y en movimiento y en la búsqueda de la protección de sus datos personales.
Se realizó la INVESTIGACIÓN: PRIVACIDAD EN DESPLAZAMIENTO MIGRATORIO;
Se hizo un GLOSARIO #MIGRARSINVIGILANCIA
y más recursos
#MigrarSinVigilancia - Access Now
#MigrarSinVigilancia es un frente común para resguardar los derechos humanos de las personas migrantes desde la protección de sus datos personales.Access Now
Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linu…
#Steam #PCGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS
Linux shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping
Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
110. Is there hope for democracy in a social media-driven world? Nathan Schneider sees it every day. - Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at UMass Amherst
Nathan Schneider has spent roughly 15 years as a journalist and academic trying to understand democracy in the 21st century through Occupy Wall Street, cooperatives, the blockchain, and currently, federated social media.Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
How the Trump admin is trying to strong-arm Colorado electric co-ops out of sensible renewable energy planning:
coloradosun.com/2025/04/02/ele…
I'm proud our co-ops have a history of courage on this front.
Trump administration releases $3.2B in federal funds for Colorado's electric co-ops. There may be a catch.
Inflation Reduction Act money has been transferred, but comes with an option to remove climate and DEI components from clean-energy plansMark Jaffe (The Colorado Sun)
Hollywood remembers 'wonderful' actor Val Kilmer
BBC
Pneumonia... 10 years after having had and recovered from Throat Cancer; Age 65
Val Kilmer: Top Gun, Batman and The Doors actor dies aged 65
He starred in some of the biggest movies of the 1980s and 90s, also including The Doors and Heat.Sofia Ferreira Santos (BBC News)
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Bash-it: The framework that makes your terminal cooler than ever! 🌟
itsfoss.com/bash-it-terminal-t…
Bash-it : Bash Framework to Make Your Terminal Look Cool
Like Oh My Zsh but for Bash. Beautify your Linux terminal while keeping your favorite bash shell with Bash-it framework. Learn all about using it.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
Not world domination yet but still an interesting trend.
computerworld.com/article/3840…
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week.agam_shah (Computerworld)
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — 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.
Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service | TechCrunch
Despite Google's intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popularIvan Mehta (TechCrunch)
Indeed, we had a chat with the founder last year:
news.itsfoss.com/vishnu-ente-f…
"I believe privacy is worth paying for": Vishnu Mohandas, Creator of 'Ente', an Open-Source Rival to Google Photos
Meet the founder of Ente, building a privacy alternative to Google Photos.Ankush Das (It's FOSS News)
Some major upgrades have arrived for Proton Drive and Docs.
news.itsfoss.com/proton-drive-…
Proton Brings Updates to Its Drive App and Docs, but Keeps Linux Users Waiting
Proton has updated its Drive app and Docs, but Linux users are still waiting for a native Drive app.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
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.zip…
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Contact me if you have questions!
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cloudflare caused a fun bug for april fool's day! 🐪
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/incidents…
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#…
Cloudflare WAF False Positives
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare WAF False Positives.www.cloudflarestatus.com
i.e., squeaky sound waves.
Also, we singers are frequently warned to drop our ARRRRs. 🤪
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Coalition may rethink rules that push car-makers to create cheaper EVs and hybrids for Australians
Opposition says Labor’s national vehicle emission standard is ‘poorly designed’, despite data showing uptick in green vehicle sales.
...More than 120 electric vehicles are now available in Australia as the new laws upend the nation’s status as a “dumping ground” 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 – Australians spend on average almost $100 a week on fuel.. .
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🦀 Arti 1.4.2 is released: RPC is now officially stable, and ready for testing.
blog.torproject.org/arti_1_4_2…
🟣 Tor Browser 14.0.9: blog.torproject.org/new-releas…
Arti 1.4.2 is released: RPC is stable, Conflux development continues | Tor Project
Arti 1.4.2 is released and ready for download.blog.torproject.org
MBTA To Roll Out $32 Nonstop ‘Yellow Line’ Between Boston And Manhattan
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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 💜💜
Watch them an Audiotree Live here: youtube.com/watch?v=VoUN8JKs4O…
Listen to them on Bandcamp here: softcult.bandcamp.com/
Convocatoria: 5ta Escuela de Comunicación Estratégica para la Defensa del Territorio
#México
convocada por Witness y La Sandía Digital
📝 Nextcloud Office is now more powerful than ever!
Join Michael Meeks of @CollaboraOffice showcasing Nextcloud Office's new features:
🏷️ Colleague tagging
↔️ Document comparison
🌊 Nextcloud Flow integration
✨ AI writing assistance
💡 and more!
Hoy retomamos el informe
"En la mira: seguridad y principales amenazas digitales en América Latina"
publicado a inicios de año y en el cual participamos:
sursiendo.org/2025/01/en-la-mi…
En la mira: seguridad y principales amenazas digitales en América Latina | Sursiendo
El presente informe es el resultado del trabajo conjunto realizado en el marco del Observatorio Latinoamericano de Amenazas Digitales (OLAD)…sursiendo (Sursiendo)
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in reply to Lynnesbian • • •i honestly expected colo(u)r picker to win!
merging the two spellings, colour picker is at 27%, which does make it the second most commonly chosen response, but it's still way behind pipette's 56%
despite photoshop calling it the eyedropper, that option is in a distant third place, losing only to turkey baster. this isn't my screenshot (i don't have photoshop), so i can't say whether they change "color sampler" to "colour sampler" if you use other english dialects
gimp calls it the colOr picker with my system set to australian english - but they do spell it as "colour" in the british english localisation 🥴
inkscape calls it the "dropper tool", and prompts me to select colOUrs from the document
hilariously, KDE's kolOUrpaint calls it the "colOr picker"
gimp/po/en_GB.po at 5201d194faa0e4db7bb8bfff27505e12b1f0b2b6 · GNOME/gimp
GitHubInga stands with 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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