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Canonical prevents flavors from shipping Flatpak by default
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-…
Microsoft's latest anti-consumer moves
gizmodo.com/windows-11-system-…
neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-n…
GNOME 44 Beta is out
omglinux.com/gnome-44-features…
Solus has website, forums, and bug tracker issues
linuxiac.com/whats-going-on-wi…
Privacy labels in the Play Store are false
foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog…
Linux Kernel 6.2 is out
omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/linux-…
Gaming News: Steam on ARM, Mesa 23 and LAN game downloads
boilingsteam.com/box64-can-now…
store.steampowered.com/news/ap…
9to5linux.com/mesa-23-graphics…
Mesa 23 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with various new features, better support for Linux games, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
What an amazing study: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"
"Results Parachute use did not significantly reduce death or major injury"
a) definitely read this, it's hilarious
b) it's poking pretty hard at the stance that medical trials require a stance of equipoise -- genuine uncertainty about which option is better
h/t to @riana
Objective To determine if using a parachute prevents death or major traumatic injury when jumping from an aircraft. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Private or commercial aircraft between September 2017 and August 2018.The BMJ
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📝 Process CSS or Sass With LightningCSS in @eleventy
Use these plugins or code snippets to make #CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.
11ty.rocks/posts/process-css-w…
Use these plugins or code snippets to make CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.11ty.rocks
Yeah, I got new coffee grinder. Yeah, I designed and 3D printed a larger bean hopper. #coffee #3dprinting
Extension for the Fellow Opus's coffee bean hopper - GitHub - eeejay/opus_hopper: Extension for the Fellow Opus's coffee bean hopperGitHub
New blog post: Client-side comments with #Mastodon on a static #Jekyll website at jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jeky…
Replies to this toot will show up as comments on my blog! It's magic! And this post explains how that works.
For many, many years this blog was a complicated, outdated and slow Wordpress instance. It became a constant bad thought: “You really need to update/fix/speed up that thing”. A while ago I did just that.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
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Nice approach for comments, but have you considered publishing your own toots on the site?
The Minimal Mistakes theme complicates matters here, as it seems to expect post titles. Been wondering if that’s something we can work around.
Something like @lindsaykwardell set up via @astro, but for Jekyll: lindsaykwardell.com/blog/integ…
I didn't want to run a personal Mastodon instance, but I wanted to incorporate it into my personal domain. Let's explore what we can do to integrate with the Fediverse!Lindsay Wardell
#AndroidAppRain at @fdroidorg with 32 updated and 2 new (*) apps – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated and 1 new (+):
* GuessThatPokemon: guess pokemon names and you capture them (game)
* TouchDroid: use your Android Device as Touchpad (not new, rather re-branded)
+ Ping Utils: utilities to test network connections
Enjoy your #fee & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
PM @JustinTrudeau comments on Bill C-18 and Google yesterday raise several concerns. (1) He said Google preventing Canadians from accessing news. This is false. Google doesn’t have power to block sites. Search results and content blocking not the same. 1/4
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RT @mgeist
Why Justin Trudeau is Wrong About Bill C-18 and Google’s Response to Mandated Payments for Links
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/02/why-justin-trudeau-is-wrong-about-bill-…
twitter.com/mgeist/status/1629…
V příštím století může podle vědců stoupnout hladina moří až o několik metrů. Hrozí totiž, že se rozpadnou takzvané šelfové ledovce u Antarktidy. Ty jsou mnohem silnější než běžný mořský led, a když roztají, uvolní se obrovské množství vody.Radiožurnál
I've said it before... Cataglyphis bombycina sounds like an ant made up by a 6-year old.
"they are the fastest ants in the whole world and and "
"they live in the desert and and and"
"they only go out when it's the hottest time of the day and and"
"they use the sun to tell where their home is like sailors and and "
"they are SILVER and shiny and and"
"they have majors with the BIGGEST mandibles of all!"
These #ants are IRL mary sues.
Transcripts of Mosen at Large are made possible by Pneuma Solutions, a global leader in accessible cloud technologies. On the web at You can read the full transcript below, download the transcript …Mosen At Large
Special shout-out to @shiftphones thanks for supporting our team! If you haven't heard of #ShiftPhone, you might want to take notes. They build #sustainable electronics and also deliver their own #FOSS #android blend called #ShiftOSL, which comes with #FDroid preinstalled.
f-droid.org/2023/02/09/donatio…
In 2022, the German company SHIFT donated three smartphones of their modelSHIFT6mq as a loan for life toF-Droid team members. This was done without asking fo...f-droid.org
Un apéro ChApril (nos services en ligne libres et loyaux) aura lieu ce samedi 25 février à Paris, au local de l'April.
Une partie de l'équipe sera présente.
Ouvert à tout le monde. Venez nous rencontrer !
april.org/apero-chapril-servic…
Anti-China rhetoric is off the charts in western media.
The mass hysteria reflects the biases inherent in the world’s most powerful media outlets.
thediplomat.com/2023/02/anti-c…
The mass hysteria reflects the biases inherent in the world’s most powerful media outlets.The Diplomat
Pizza Friday at Tutanota. 😍
Enjoy your weekend. Stay secure! 😎
Rey the Cat, 2015-2023
The most adorable shithead, a poor imitation of an actual cat, and the best floof south of the river.
She came to us so underweight the vet initially thought she was less than four months old, when in reality she was at least 6. I was deputised immediately as the disposable slave in charge of food and keeping warm her spot on the bed.
Elokapina - Extinction Rebellion Finland regrets and finds it shameful that the Sámi Parliament Act revision was effectively killed yesterday by Constitutional Law Committee.
This makes Sanna Marin's government a third Finnish govt which fails to revise the current law. The law has been condemned e.g. by the majority on the Sámi Parliament, the UN Human Rights Council and UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
More here:
euronews.com/2023/02/24/sad-an…
Finland's right-wing parties decided there wasn't enough time for a parliament committee to discuss the new Sámi rights laws.David Mac Dougall (Euronews.com)
In my previous blog post on the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”), I touched on a topic which I feel warrants additional discussion. Specifically: Fundamentally, the core of the proposed …Life at Eclipse
The special moment happened at the singer’s tour stop in Frankfurt, Germany.Glenn Rowley (Billboard)
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i wouldn't say this is my most exciting picture in the world, no cute birds or anything, but i really like it as a desktop wallpaper. i mean its what my current wallpaper is lol. i put it up on ko-fi as a pay-what-you-want download. it's yours to have for whatever price you want! i'm currently unemployed so would love to make a little money from my photographs but only if you have the means, you downloading it at all would mean a lot to me
#monarch #bugs #insects #butterflies #photography #flowers
a hi resolution download of my image of a monarch butterfly on a yellow flower against a blue sky. this is currently my desktop backgroundKo-fi
Je fajn vidět občas záblesky selskýho rozumu v přebyrokratizovaných institucích. Je to takový osvěžující.
Rusáci navíc konferenci poté opustili
Jakubisko patřil k nejznámějším slovenským tvůrcům a přezdívalo se mu „Fellini východu“. Za své kariéry natočil několik desítek hraných i dokumentárních filmů.ČTK (iROZHLAS.cz)
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.
cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self…
(It's from last Sept)
I have always said that Gmail was destroying email.
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this necfenollosa.com
You have my sympathies. I continue to run my own SMTP server for vanity domains for 19 years now and counting, but my volume of traffic is low and I use a business-class ISP to do it.
Even before I went all-in on my own mail, I ran mail for a mid-sized business and one rule became overwhelmingly clear: when my users can't send mail to anyone, anywhere, it's my fault.
When anyone, anywhere can't send mail to my users, it's still my fault.
If you need to take it easy after a busy day, but don’t want to fall asleep, then Smooth and Easy is the show for you. It features an hour of the best Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listenin…Kelly Sapergia's Home Page
Except in Safari, whose maxlength implementation seems to treat all emoji as length 1. This means that the maxlength attribute is not fully interoperable between browsers.
I filed a WebKit bug: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…
I dnes, po všech těch dnech od začátku invaze, kdy jsme sledovali webky z Kyjeva, Charkova a dalších Ukrajinských měst mě stále mrazí, že jsme se dožili toho, co jsem ve svým životě už nečekal. Stále je mi z toho stejně zle, stále čekám, že se z toho snu vzbudím. Stále doufám, že tenhle dědeček s babičkou svým vínovým vozem za svými vnoučaty dojeli. Nedojeli...
Poslední rok je podle mě rokem, kdy se začaly ukazovat charaktery jak lidí, tak národů. Opět jsme "šili roušky" tím, že jsme ve velkém sbírali jídlo, ošacení, posílali peníze, ubytovávali. My jsme dokonce bez větších problémů zvládli největší migrační vlnu, jakou Česko pamatuje a to bez ztráty kytičky! Jestli byl někdy důvod bejt na národ hrdej, je to přesně z tohoto důvodu.
Strašili nás vším, čím se dalo. Dojde plyn, přijde státní převrat, přijdou nemoci (protože Ukrajinci nejsou tolik proočkovaní), sankce nás zničí, dojde ropa, půjdeme do zákopů, budou padat atomovky. Nic z toho se nestalo a my s rovnou páteří pomáháme napadenému sousedovi.
A co je nejlepší? Neděláme to jen jako stát, ale i jako lidi - jednotlivci. Poslali jsme zdravotnický materiál, tank jménem Tomáš, PVO Viktor, sanitky, teď se chystá MLRS Přemysl atd. Všechno z peněz občanů a firem na plně dobrovolné bázi. To je přeci kurva velký! Přesto všechno však neoslavujem. Část společnosti proto, že se jí podpora Ukrajiny prostě nelíbí, druhá část je zase zklamaná tím, že nepomáháme dost.
Přihodím názor, který je můj, je osobní, lidský a plně ignoruje geopolitiku. Chci abychom jim poslali vše o co si řeknou. Klidně i lidi (na plně dobrovolné bázi). Už nikdy nechci vidět dítě v sutinách jen proto, že si Vladolf z Kremlu řekl, že je to zrovna dobrej nápad.
Nechci se dívat na to, jak sousedé umírají. Zastavte to prosím. #ZastavteVálku
#politika #ukrajina
I have hard times to figure out how to start my consideration about why do we look at our eastern neighbors while they are being slaughtered, but i can't find proper words.
Even today, after all these days since invasion started, when we were watching Kyiv, Kharkiv and other cities webcams i still have goosebumps, that we are actually experiencing something i would have never expected in my life. I'm still totally sick from it. I still hope for waking up from this nightmare. I still hope that this elderly couple will arrive to their grandchildren with their red car. They wont...
Last year shown up a lot about our characters - personal or national. We were "sewing facemasks" again (at beginning of covid pandemy in #Czechia we were sewing facemasks to help people protect themselves - it was quite bonding moment when women at home with kids were sewing masks for hospitals) - collecting food, clothing, money or living places for refugees. We also made it through biggest refugee wave ever in Czech republic without any bigger issue! If there ever was a reason to be proud Czechian, it's this one.
People were spreading fear with anything though. They said we will run out of gas, goverment overthrow, diseases (Ukrainians have different vaccinations), sanctions destroying us, crude oil will run out, we will meet in trenches and nuclear bombs will fall on our head. None of this happened and we still help our neighbor while having our head straight.
But what i do see as best is, that we do not help only as nation - we also do help a lot as individuals. We have sent medical stuff, Thomas the tank, Victor AA vehicles, ambulances and we are about to send MLRS Přemysl. Everything from companies and citizens money - voluntarily. That's fucking big! We still do not celebrate any of this though. Part of us because they do not like us supporting Ukraine. Other part is let down, because it's not enough.
I will put my opinion on the table. It's my, it's personal, it's humane and it's totally ignoring geopilitical situation. I want us to supply everything they want. People involved (only volunteers). I don't want to see dead child in rubble only because of some Vladolf from Kremlin though, that it's a good idea.
I don't want to see my neighbors die anymore. Stop it please. #StopWar
#politics #ukraine
Last week was already very impressive - and this week tops it all again! Folks, we have a new record for the number of news in a single week! 🎉
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#84 Polished Circle
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/…
Andrii is 9 years old.
When Russia occupied his village in the Kyiv region, he saw things no child should ever see.
Yet, he keeps dreaming of peace, victory, friends and relatives.
His drawing is displayed in the exhibition Mriyu (I dream), which we opened today in Brussels to pay tribute to Ukrainian courage and resistance, one year after Russia's full-scale invasion.
70 drawings made by Ukrainian children are on display to remind us about war's most vulnerable victims.
The Call for Participation for #GUADEC2023 is now open!
More information about this year's #GUADEC, including topic ideas and where to submit your proposal, can be found at: foundation.gnome.org/2023/02/2…
All proposals must be submitted by March 27.
#CfP #callforpapers #opensource
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#AndroidAppRain today on @fdroidorg with 43 updated & 2 new (*) apps, and on apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 7 updated and also 2 new apps:
* Image Resizer: a simple image resizer
* omWeather: watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested
+ Battery Tile: Quick Settings tile to show current battery state
+ Farhan: helps you with smartphone addiction
Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with/from #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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in reply to The Linux Experiment • • •flatpak run org.gnu.ls' just as an example? Or how aboutflatpak run org.apache/httpd'? And would such beasts even work correctly? This is where snap gets it at least a little right, even though it's really clunky at the back end. Having said all this, I think the appImage concept makes the most sense of all this. I can just download what I want and make it executable, and I can even symlink it into /usr/local/bin if I want. The appImage is self-contained, and it doesn't need to be installed at all. This works for server/terminal applications as well as desktop applications. The only thing somewhat lacking is a central repository, although such a thing does exist; it's just not all that comprehensive right now. Still, the fact that I can make an appImage available on my own project website is just so damn cool! I will say though that Ubuntu would in fact appear to be shooting themselves in the foot by disallowing options users want. It's supposed to be all about choice, and if I want flatpak, I think including it and enabling it by default is the better option, as it allows me, the end user, to choose the experience I want. After all, I can always turn it off or even uninstall the package if I don't want it.Ulfi
in reply to Kyle 🎙 🎶 • • •snap is OK for professionals or servers. But I prefer on server Podman, doe to the fact it is poor open source and can use Docker container as well.
But for standard users, either podman, docker and snap are overengineered. There you need a more lightwight system. The best are the default packages of the distro and on second the more common standard of many distros Flatpack.
Conclusion: In our LUG we have much more trouble with *buntu due to perforamce issues on old PCs (e.g. firefox via snap is not able to run web meetings with WebRTC but a non snap firefox or other browser with webRTC does it on the same hardware).
Conclusion: I wouldn't propose *buntu based systems for beginners. Better is to use a Debian flavor or e.g. Tuxedo-OS-2, which is based take over many good things from KDE Neon but w/o snap support and included flatpack with great Discover Software manager which handle it perfect transparent.
Kyle 🎙 🎶
in reply to Ulfi • • •@Ulf I actually wouldn't recommend Debian for desktops at all, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it for beginners. Debian suffers terribly from stale packages, which people running servers seem to like, so it's more an LTS type of OS for server admins. Debian, even unstable, also tends to mix versions of components of desktop environments. I ran a Debian stable system for a time, and needed an upgrade to the latest GNOME for #a11y purposes. Looking at the packages, I saw two different versions of the components of the GNOME desktop, even in the stable branch. Upgrading to unstable gave me three versions of the components. Even experimental didn't help.
I'm actually more likely to recommend Fedora to new users, as it keeps everything grouped together by its major versions, has an easy to use installer, has flatpak enabled and working by default (flathub support coming to 38), has snap and podman available, has a predictable release lifecycle, and only withholds updates if they would break something. These days I use the MATE desktop, a11y and I just like the interface, and the only version mix I see is point releases of a couple of things where some packages see point releases upstream and others do not. Major versions are always in sync. Following GNOME developments, I see the same thing here. I have been running Fedora since 35, have upgraded quite smoothly all the way to 37, and haven't had any major problems. Maybe it lacks the polish of Elementary or Mint with their downstream modifications that make things look better and maybe more beginner-friendly, but Fedora is definitely good for both new users and oldheads like me, and it seems to work more closely with upstream developers, even though it is in actuality more of a corporate distro like Ubuntu. I especially like how it withholds nothing from us, giving us its own package management system, Flatpak, Snap and Podman. The only thing I find missing are the appImage tools that build appImages and the appImage launcher that automatically registers appImages on the system, but I'm hoping these things can be added at a later date.
Regarding appImage not having a central repository, there is AppImageHub, but the best part is its decentralized nature, where I can have a project website, offer my appImage for download right on the website, and I can even supply a checksum that can be verified so that anyone who wants to ensure they have my release and not some kind of compromised malware can verify it. As Flathub is essentially becoming its own corporate walled garden of a sort, complete with financial subscriptions, the beauty of appImage is in its decentralization, especially since no appImage ever has to be installed. They just work(tm).
I have no experience with Podman, so I can't make an argument for or against it, except that I did try playing with Docker containers and found them quite clunky for running server applications. For example, why should I run 5 Docker containers to get 5 websites working? That uses more RAM and more disk space than just setting up virtual hosts for the 5 sites. Then again, reverse proxies work with or without containers, but the Docker images are just so much larger and are harder to get running. AppImages are in fact larger than the system packages, but it seems running so many Docker containers is even larger. Still, if Podman makes this easier and less clunky, then I would certainly be willing to give it a shot. But I can more easily reverse proxy to an appImage than I can get a Docker container working at this point. Perhaps it's just me, as I like to take the easy route wherever possible.