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Remember GNOME Office? We believe it should return.

itsfoss.com/gnome-office-revivโ€ฆ

#linux #gnome

in reply to It's FOSS

A gtk4 office suite with the gnome design Philosophy is an appealing idea.


Valve posted a statement on the New York lootbox lawsuit gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/valvโ€ฆ

#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming #Lootboxes

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Valve's right & the card comparison is apt & relatable.
NY's suit looks like a shakedown. At the same time any sports viewing gives you an eyefull of gambling stats/sites, polymarket is somehow legal, the NYSE itself will allow an algorithm to trade a bundled derivative with nominal human involvement but sure put a tamp on people spending a couple bucks to get a game skin.
Pay the right lobbyist & all of a sudden anything looks legitimate, maybe valve is playing that game wrong.


Unity announce expanded supported for Steam, Native Linux, Steam Deck and Steam Machine gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/unitโ€ฆ

#Unity #Linux #Steam #GameDev #SteamOS

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

No mention of Steam Frame? People have been waiting for Unity to support OpenXR on Linux for years.


With glassy skin in vivid colours and large alien-like eyes, Malayan Forest #Geckos look striking ๐ŸฆŽ๐Ÿ˜ป These #reptiles long for peace in the understory of #Malaysia's #forests. Help them survive and #BoycottPalmOil ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿงโ›”๏ธ#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ
palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ


โš ๏ธ Chatbots de IA como terapeutas: usuarios sin consentimiento se convierten en "sujetos experimentales"

Un estudio en Psychiatric Times (feb 2026) documentรณ respuestas peligrosas en ~30 plataformas. Mientras algunos reducen sรญntomas, pueden generar dependencia emocional, reforzar delirios y difuminar la lรญnea entre apoyo y daรฑo. ยฟQuiรฉn decide quรฉ error es "aceptable" cuando las consecuencias las pagan siempre las personas mรกs vulnerables?

๐Ÿ”— nytimes.com/es/2026/02/02/espaโ€ฆ



Open call The Hmmm

"With our year theme What Was I Looking At Again?, we want to explore the dizzying, attention-scattering effects of algorithmically driven online experiences."

thehmm.nl/open-call-what-was-iโ€ฆ



๐Ÿšจ Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through ๐Ÿšจ

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Find out more โฌ‡๏ธ

openrightsgroup.org/press-releโ€ฆ

#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol



TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.

Itโ€™s still there. People call it Het Ding (โ€œthe thingโ€).

utwente.nl/en/alumni/inspiringโ€ฆ



*poetry*

It's not that we don't know a better world is possible.

It's that so many are trapped in the flypaper of despair manufactured by the oligarchs and the fearful.

First, free your mind.
Next, join hands.
Then, work for change.
Every one of us who does this builds that better world.



The original Zombie Panic! arrives on Steam with various upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/the-โ€ฆ

#ZombiePanic #Gaming #HalfLife #PCGaming



Hack-and-slash RPG adventure Regions of Ruin: Runegate arrives April 14 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/hackโ€ฆ

#IndieGames #PCGaming #Linux #RegionsofRuin



๐Ÿ“ข Call for research participants! ๐Ÿ“ข

Are you a parent of school-going children, or a teacher, in Dublin city? Then you are needed to support cycling data for Dublin city schools.

This relates to a research project commissioned by Dublin City Council's Active Travel Team. Find out more at:

dublincycling.com/cycling/are-โ€ฆ

๐Ÿšฒ ๐Ÿ“Š

cc @rothar @dublincyclingcampaign

#Rothar #Cycling #BikeTooter #Dublin #MastoDaoine #School #Children



Europe cannot expose its most sensitive data to external powers. ๐Ÿšซ

Our digital systems hold some of our most valuable assets, yet Europe still relies heavily on foreign tech.

What does it take to break the pattern and build #digitalsovereignty?

Read more ๐Ÿ‘‡ nextcloud.com/blog/why-digitalโ€ฆ




Valve detail Steam Frame and Steam Machine Verified requirements at GDC 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/valvโ€ฆ

#SteamFrame #SteamMachine #VR #SteamOS #Linux #Steam





The Lowlands #TreeKangaroo ๐Ÿฆ˜๐ŸคŽ is a #vulnerable #marsupial of #PapuaNewGuinea's rainforests ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฌ threatened by #PalmOil, #mining #deforestation and #hunting. Help them to survive when you shop #BoycottPalmOil ๐ŸŒดโ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿง๐Ÿ™Šโ›”๏ธ #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ
palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ



PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 is getting improved handheld PC support gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/playโ€ฆ

#PS3 #Emulation #Gaming #SteamDeck




System76 fighting for open source being excluded from Colorado age checks gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/systโ€ฆ

#Linux #OpenSource #LinuxGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

One reason these laws won't work: since Linux is open source, you can download the source code and compile everything yourself. The source code should be protected by the 1st Amendment, so states can't reasonably restrict it, and if you compile everything yourself, there is no "vendor" who has to do anything.



Buy #palmoilfree and #boycott all @Nestle ๐Ÿซ๐Ÿช๐Ÿฌ products. Their so-called โ€œsustainableโ€ #palmoil is destroying rainforests, causing #humanrights abuses and #extinction ๐Ÿ…๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿฆœ Fight back and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ


RE: mastodon.social/@fj/1162085011โ€ฆ

So many legal and policy experts blindly trust PhotoDNA as a useful tool to act on illegal content. Itโ€™s good to see technical experts deep dive into this!


โ€œOur work demonstrates that ๐‘ƒโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐ท๐‘๐ด is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)โ€

eprint.iacr.org/2026/486




โ€œOur work demonstrates that ๐‘ƒโ„Ž๐‘œ๐‘ก๐‘œ๐ท๐‘๐ด is unreliable for the detection of illicit content: it is easy to incriminate someone by sending them false content with a hash value close to illicit content (a false positive) and to avoid detection of illicit content with minimal modifications to an image (a false negative)โ€

eprint.iacr.org/2026/486


in reply to It's FOSS

does that mean there are people out there who pronounce it "lai-nux"? It'll always be "lee-nux" to me.


#News: Ultra-processed #foods #UPF are killing us for profit! ๐Ÿง๐Ÿ” #Lancet report warns global corporates drive chronic diseases for pure #greed and profit. We need tobacco-style tough laws to reclaim our #health! ๐ŸŒดโ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿšซ #BoycottPalmOil @palmoildetect.bsky.social sciencedaily.com/releases/2025โ€ฆ


Saw the news that Jello Biafra had a stroke. Glad he's recovering well, at least. Everyone knows Dead Kennedys but if you haven't listened to Prairie Home Invasion, the album he did with Mojo Nixon, then you should change that! I didn't know about it for way too long.

youtube.com/watch?v=5acQqDx9ZFโ€ฆ



seriously, just don't even bring it up, this is how friendships are broken
in reply to mjdxp

I have no idea if this is due to the wayland implementation but PopOs's Cosmic is terrible and I swapped it out for gnome



Tux has a new friend!

(#Plushie acquired a couple weeks ago from the @Mastodon store; finally got around to taking a pic)

#plushtodon

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Tux was a surprise gift from my then-husband, many years ago. A huge box that looked to be from a computer company arrived at my office, I was puzzled as I didn't recall ordering anything. Then I opened it and saw this guy. ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’œ
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Youโ€™ve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfricaโ€™s rarest #primate ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿต๐Ÿ™‰ Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2025/07/โ€ฆ


This is Mycena rosoflava. A species of agaric mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. It is a wood-inhabiting mushroom native to New Zealand.

It is also quite beautiful in my opinion, which is the real reason why I'm posting it ...

๐Ÿ“ท Photographed by Aucklander Jay Lichter at Hunua Falls in May 2024

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Abortion bans reshaped reproductive health, and now the rental market


"The paper is part of a growing body of research showing how abortion bans are reshaping communities. Other studies have linked abortion bans to higher rates of poverty and higher property crime rates, and found that they may be driving young people to leave their home states. Surveys have shown that aspiring doctors โ€” especially those training to OBGYNs โ€” are less likely to choose residencies in states with abortion bans...

"But the paperโ€™s findings suggest access to reproductive health care is influencing a meaningful share of people in the United States regarding where they want to live โ€” especially renters, who have more mobility than homeowners. Rental prices declined more as time progressed, which suggests the trend may continue as long as statesโ€™ approaches to abortion continue to diverge."

in reply to Muse

This is a case where democracy has not served us well, and the courts will not correct it.
in reply to Muse

A representative republic has not served us well. We have always been a weak democracy.


Take a breather todayโ€ฆ

#spring #rest

in reply to Katherine Bond

Good idea @Katherine Bond! You read about something tropical & I'll read about ski resorts!! ๐Ÿ˜


๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Les recomendamos este taller vรญa @cels Argentina (que aรบn no tienen cuenta en #RedesLibres), no obstate ofrecen un curso sobre Derechos, vigilancia y ciberseguridad para los activismos ๐Ÿ”ด cels.org.ar/aula/curso/lo-digiโ€ฆ


Catlang programming language idea: Rejoice

It's like Joy, but instead of a stack, it's a multiset, and transformations are local rewriting rules.

The program state is a bag of unordered things, transformations are represented as fractions where the denominator indicates things to remove from the bag, and the numerator, things to add. Evaluation consists of applying fractions from left to right, each to exhaustion, until the bag stabilizes.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rejoice.hโ€ฆ

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in reply to arosien

@arosien that was excellent, started watching the others on the channel. I wish more people explored the mix of multisets and computation more ๐Ÿ˜€


Sexy plot point

Loved the depictions of the network family and the way the main character internalizes the data streams they use to make decisions. An optimistic vision of the future that highlights that issues we're working on now will still be relevant a hundred years from now. I totally fell for Rhamnetin too! Pleased to read the depictions of first contact from the physically intimate point of view.

(comment on A Half-Built Garden)


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