I think it’s worth taking a moment to appreciate all the non technical work that goes behind this announcement.

The KDE e.V. and broader ecosystem is mature enough to develop working relationships with a major vendor, and keep working with them!

Congrats to the whole @kde ecosystem for these massive news again!

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“Surveillance is happening but it’s at a much lower level than it used to be. We don’t have a complete picture of virus circulation of the variants that are out there... there’s a collective amnesia right now about COVID-19."

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#COVIDISNOTOVER #COVID19 #WEARAMASK #DEMANDAFREECOVIDVACCINE #cdnpoli #polcan #QCpoli #polQC #assnat

I'm trapped in development hell at the moment. I need to run these Chef (CINC) kitchen tests on FreeBSD which is normally done with Vagrant and a VM by VirtualBox, but the tooling to do this doesn't run on FreeBSD. You'd normally execute this on Linux or MacOS.

I have no Linux machines available.

My Mac is Apple Silicon so its VirtualBox can only do aarch64 VMs which is not what I need (and won't work).

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Interesting episode! Glen Gordon on 32 Years of JAWS and Leaving Vispero youtube.com/watch?v=DoCUYPbOuw…
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So, Valve, probably the biggest gaming company in the world, just announced 3 new pieces of hardware after the success of their last Linux-powered gaming handheld "Steam Deck".

A controller, a small little gaming desktop PC and a VR headset. All of them (aside from the controller of course) running SteamOS, a full Arch-based Linux OS with KDE Plasma.

Excited to see so many new people potentially see how cool Linux is when it ships early 2026!

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@jakob Apparently they'll be using github.com/FEX-Emu/FEX for that. The idea of using 2 translation layers makes me worry about performance, but then again, Proton does way better than I expected too, so I'm carefully optimistic it'll end up fine enough. We'll see.

We were surprised to hear today that Forbes.ru (a subsidiary of the global Forbes brand it seems) recently published an article quoting an expert recommending to use #deltachat on the backdrop of restrictions of Signal, Whatsapp, Telegram, Discord and Viber in Russian networks.

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DeltaChat *can* be used with mail servers that are government surveilled, but that is not at all the default path that users are exposed to.

Chatmail servers are run by volunteers across the world and even if one was run by a malicious admin they still couldn't learn anything useful about you except your IP address you used to send the message and a recipient address that could be on another server somewhere else on the planet they can't surveil

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Its very much a durability thing, they last MUCH longer, and ontop of that, it looks like they are on their own daughterboard too which I think MIGHT ™️ make them more user repairable if they chose to sell replacements!

Thumbsticks are like the #1 thing to go on the controllers, I am on my 4th or 5th set of index controllers, all because of broken joysticks, all of them! ​:nkoRee:

“Allowing himself to be captured by the Sontarans — if anything happens to myself as a result of it, I will never forgive himself.”

“I do wish you'd stop switching personal pronouns.”

— The Doctor and Peri, in “The Two Doctors”

#DoctorWho #quote #quotation

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I had to use Big Query a few years ago, IIRC there are multiple sections to the screen but it is essentially the same as any SQL tool - queries, results, error panes and similar. That's the web interface though, also IIRC we mainly used sbt which is a command line tool for building up that queries. There are some complexities there with versions and other stuff I frankly didn't understand but the bottom line is that you can use that or other tools so you are only dealing with a terminal, would this make it easier for a screen reader?
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Search with the @-URL is half-broken. Maybe try replacing it with /users/<user>/statuses/<post number>. There's something wrong in Pleroma where it deletes the slash before the @, but it should then try to fetch using the expanded URL.

I can fetch the post no problem using both links. Maybe time to check logs :/
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At this point if you have no kids and no real health issues you should just opt out of the health insurance system in the USA.

Join us. Don't be afraid. They still have to treat you in the ER. You can negotiate hospital bills down significantly when no insurance scam is involved.

We can break the system so there is no other option but a full reform.

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@RandomDamage I paid over $80,000 in premiums (still with a huge deductible!) between 2017-2024 for absolutely fucking nothing when that money could have been invested. I got the best deal I could possibly get being self employed by getting a group plan for my 2-member (me and wife) LLC which most people don't know you can do

Even just having that $80k in a bank account would be better than relying on insurance for almost all medical incidents, especially because they STILL demand more money from you regardless

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

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