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Linux NTFS support might finally be getting better with NTFSPlus…

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#linux





#RunnersOfMastodon, now is the time to support the *many* runners who are close to reaching their goals for 2026 and can use some last-minute encouragment.

A few examples:
- @pfernandes, who is two HMs away from #52weeks52halfmarathons
- @steveroyle, who just needs 117k more
- @sebastianhahn, who aims at a crazy 10,000k and has a good shot at actually succeeding

There are many more of you out there. (Who did I miss?) #Running, you are all winning!

See you on the next starting lines.

in reply to Moha

@boynux

That is a terrific goal!

One of my own 2026 goals is a sub-4:07 marathon, so you're way ahead of me already. You can do it!

"The race is long, and in the end it’s only with yourself."

@Moha
in reply to Aske Kammer

Good luck 🤞

It's a bit of a stretch for me, my current Marathon PR is 3:30 so I need to shave a staggering 30 minutes off.



Another easy run done this morning, very happy with the performance today despite a bad sleep last night.

#running #blackbird



Wash your hands knowing you're not using #palmoil 🧐🫧 ALL PALM OIL is linked to #ecocide and #deforestation. "Sustainable" palm oil is a big fat greasy #greenwashing lie. Lean how to go #PalmOilFree and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🩸☠️💩💰🚜🔥🚫#Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/…


This is a story that needs sharing: Adorable albino wallabies who are a bit naughty.

Bennett’s wallabies get high on poppy seeds




GNOME has said no to AI-generated shell extensions.

itsfoss.com/news/no-ai-extensi…

#linux #gnome #ai







YouTube's AI-powered moderation system needs to be held accountable.

itsfoss.com/news/youtubes-ai-m…

#youtube #ai #enshittification



#Gold #mining kills #indigenous peoples 🩸 forcing women and children into sex #slavery! Help #Yanomami people forced violently from their #rainforest homes for the #greed of gold! 🪙⛔️ #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami 🫶🌳@BarbaraNavarro @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8uY?utm_source=ma…


buytwitter.org/
I made a joke a while back about buying enough shares of Meta to cover WhatsApp, and donating them to the Signal foundation.
But seeing this buyTwitter thing makes it seem more serious.
Would it be possible to raise enough money to do that?
in reply to Light

I don't think so. You can't really gain power over a subsidiary that way. And Zuckerberg had controlling voting rights over Meta.

in reply to It's FOSS

...and another one, and another one.

Please could we have a distro that, at least, simplifies the task of porting or reinstalling dozens of applications every time you distro-hop?

A couple of my troubles:

Even plain Ubuntu let me down with the appimage of the free version of the bibliographic system Mendeley (vital for some of us). Mint doesn't like Snap, and I won't even mention Flatpak.

Ubuntu offers full LaTeX, but it isn't full, missing some Tikz bits. You have to go to tug.org, which installs then tells you you have to set your own paths. Look up how to do that & find 100s of geek discussions on which obscure config files not to modify.



"De Baetyliis" by Franz Ludwig Bösigk (1854).

archive.org/details/boesigk-de…

#meteorite




"There are no kitties here! You don't see anything! I'm a figment of your imagination!"
in reply to Muse

Nope, nope, none, no kitty!
I'm hiding!




Are there any Linux desktops similar to Win3.1? Tried that for the first time today and am pleasantly shocked by how much I like it, would unironically love a desktop that functions similarly.

edit: just to preempt the 'old-timer' comments, I'm not even 25, so get _on_ my lawn 😂

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in reply to pixx

yeah, that's something new, it's a silly little thing but I like it a lot.
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega

Yeah ngl that's been confusing me this whole time because I kept trying to find the original notepad with the todo lists and going "wait where is it" 😂

playing with the older Macs for the first time and I finally figured out I was being silly



Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of these?
Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life
in reply to Matt Hall

I have seen these in real life all my life and I own one. They’re often sold among other wooden utensils at fairs and markets.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

This is interesting to me. I grew up and and live in the US. Honey is most often acquired at a supermarket in a plastic container shaped like a bear.

You _squeeze_ the container to dispense the honey.

No spoons, no wands. Just honey.

So... The wand seems _amazingly_ superfluous to me. I literally don't understand the appeal.

in reply to Matt Hall

I'm not surprised. In Germany it's more common to buy honey in jars.
in reply to Matt Hall

My grandparents used one, and yes they kept fresh honey from a local beekeeper. But yeah, commercial honey killed the charm with plastic bottles. Go check out your local farmers market, you can usually find fresh honey and utensils there.
in reply to FeloniousPunk

This might sound snotty or obtuse, I don't mean it to, I understand the appeal of fresh honey (it's my preference) but I still can't quite grok the utensils... What's the advantage of the wand over say... A spoon or just pouring from the jar and wiping the lip of the jar when finished?

I feel like I'm genuinely _missing_ something.

in reply to Matt Hall

Why have a cake fork when there's the dinner fork, or the table spoon when there's the tea spoon--part tradition, part adaptation. This particular utsensil is good at keeping the honey from dripping off while you're transferring it to your mug.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Sure, I understand the concepts of traditional tools/utensils etc. I don't especially adapt to them. It's more the utility that I was curious about.

Thanks for the reply!



Netflix who? Meet your personal streaming service. 😉

itsfoss.com/media-server-softw…


in reply to Eugen Rochko

why do ur gingerbread cookies look more pale, then mine? and it's not even the baking part, cause my dough is also (way) darker than this
in reply to Eugen Rochko

the guardian (the newspaper) recipe, i'm pretty sure

225g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to grease
340g soft brown sugar
1 egg
340g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1½ tsp grated nutmeg
1½ tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinnamon
3 tsp ground ginger
75g crystallised ginger or dried apricots, finely chopped

in reply to Drew Smirnoff

I use the recipe from Giallo Zafferano with about half as much butter and sugar, but probably the main reason is I used white sugar.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

What color filament is this? LOL! JK! I want some and also some perfectly colored PLA filament.


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Solidarity with the Australian Jewish community.
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in reply to Charles ☭ is a Green

Jew-hating can easily turn to violence. If you hear somebody you know being antisemitic, say something.

Jews in your country are your neighbours and fellow residents. Hating your neighbours puts them at risk and does nothing to help with problems caused by foreign countries.



Je viens de publier une nouvelle fiction interactive programmée en #FORTH :

farvardin.itch.io/voie-de-gara…

#ConFI2026 #SpeedIF #fictioninteractive

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Small watercolor painting by my wife. #SilentSunday
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George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

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I need a palate cleanser for computing. Everything seems the same to me and I don't feel like I can do any of it. Memory issues compound that.
in reply to ⟅ June ⟆

thinking about nothing counts as thinking about something else too :neofox_hug:


Instagram on Linux CLI? It’s geeky, cool, and slightly terrifying.

itsfoss.com/instagram-cli/



dzoe on #uxn IRC made this ridiculously cool little raycasting engine after only a week of learning how to program in uxntal.
#uxn
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Your pocket-sized lab for learning tech.

itsfoss.com/crowpi-3-review/



Today I met @kreativ_ohne_druck at the Christmas market at #FeinkostGenossenschaft in #Leipzig, 🇩🇪Germany. Colorful prints, beautiful #handcraft and some special Japanese technique made of knots.

The booth was easy to identify by looking for the #plushtodon 😊

#connewitz #Karli

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