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Oh what a terrible decision.
Canonical will prevent Ubuntu flavors to come with Flatpak preinstalled, as they want to push snaps.

Kind of a Microsoft-like move here. Really bad.

phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-Fl…


Ubuntu Flavors/Spins Will No Longer Be Able To Install Flatpak By Default

While Ubuntu Linux hasn't provided Flatpak support out-of-the-box due to their preference of using their own Snap app packaging/distribution format, Ubuntu flavors/spins have to this point been able to pre-install Flatpak support if they desired
www.phoronix.com
in reply to Nick @ The Linux Experiment

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

I'm no fan of Flatpack either – but agreeing to that is simply wrong. It's promoting monopolism. Seems like it's no longer enough to not recommend Ubuntu, but rather to warn about it.

They do many things right, and many good things. But binding a free system to a proprietary server to me makes them unusable. I'm glad at least derivatives are not affected.

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There's a serious opportunity for #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub systems to implement properly secure DMs by integrating #Matrix from @Matrix.org .
#matrix #activitypub #Mastodon @The Matrix.org Foundation
in reply to vagabond

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vagabond

Let's look at an example, backups and security, currently on #mastodon and the whole #Fediverse the is an understanding that nothing is actually private (ok mastodon keeps telling white lies about this, i don't blame them) so we trust our admins not to spy, and we don't stress about the lossyness of it all.

Add the security of secret chat, and you add a whole another stress to running an instance. Why do we need to do this?

#fediverse #Mastodon

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This is totally insane. They are essentially burning plastic and calling it a “biofuel.” It’s just fuel in another form. 1 out of 4 people who breathe in this poison will get cancer.

theguardian.com/environment/20…


This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk

Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels
Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)

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My post on Google testing blocking links to news content in response to Bill C-18. @pablorodriguez wants Google & FB to pay for 35% of news expenditures of hundreds of media outlets including CBC, Bell, Postmedia based on links. What else did you expect?
michaelgeist.ca/2023/02/google…

Mandated Payment for Links To Cover 35% of News Expenditures?: Google Responds to Bill C-18 By Testing Blocking Links to News Content - Michael Geist

The battle between Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and Internet giants Google and Facebook continues to head toward a seeming inevitable collision in which the government repeatedly says it will not be intimidated even as the two Internet …
Michael Geist

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Mandated Payment for Links To Cover 35% of News Expenditures?: Google Responds to Bill C-18 By Testing Blocking Links to News Content
michaelgeist.ca/2023/02/google…

Mandated Payment for Links To Cover 35% of News Expenditures?: Google Responds to Bill C-18 By Testing Blocking Links to News Content - Michael Geist

The battle between Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and Internet giants Google and Facebook continues to head toward a seeming inevitable collision in which the government repeatedly says it will not be intimidated even as the two Internet …
Michael Geist

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Don't forget to change your DNA after this breach. rawstory.com/millions-of-dna-t…

Millions of DNA tests leaked after hackers breach company's 'forgotten' database

Millions of people have had their personal data compromised after hackers breached a database of a DNA testing company that officials at the firm had forgotten even existed, reported Gizmodo on Tuesday.
Matthew Chapman (Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism)

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Něco k #fotovoltaika. My aktuálně slídíme a plánujeme... #ihned 🔓
archiv.hn.cz/c7-67174780-rcdsa…

Zápisky začínajícího solárníka: Jak ovládnout elektrárnu a dostat z ní maximum

Jste otrokem své elektrárny, stojí vám to vůbec za to?! Takový komentář mi přišel v reakci na článek o tom, že se člověk s fotovoltaickou elektrárnou chová trochu jinak, než když energii odebírá jen z distribuční sítě.
Economia, a.s.
#ihned #fotovoltaika

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Compelling interview by Andy Park for Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National program with #RebeccaGiblin and @doctorow discussing their new book, #ChokePointCapitalism.

A must-listen for anyone interested in #monopsony, concentration of #power and #arts policy.

You can get the book at: chokepointcapitalism.com

abc.net.au/radionational/progr…


Chokepoint Capitalism

This is meant to be an age of amazing potential for artists. Global streaming promised access to huge audiences and self-publishing the potential for personal control.
Andy Park (ABC Radio National)
#arts #rebeccagiblin #chokepointcapitalism #monopsony #power @doctorow

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In today's episode of poor uses of ARIA, when you link directly to an issue comment (not just the issue itself) in GitHub, you get this (simplified):
<a aria-label="Issue #904" href="github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…">#904 (comment)</a>
So a screen reader user gets "issue #904" while a sighted user sees "#904 (comment)". So the fact that it is a link to a comment is lost to the screen reader user. Seriously, people!
#accessibility

When performing a say all on webpages, the screen should scroll along with the speech · Issue #904 · nvaccess/nvda

Reported by mike.reiser on 2010-09-13 20:25 I was showing my sighted friend a news story, and while doing a sayall, he said that it didn't follow on the screen while the speech was going. It wo...
GitHub
#Accessibility

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LibreOffice has been selected for the ☀ Google Summer of Code! New features will be added to the suite – find out more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
GSoC logo

LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2023! - The Document Foundation Blog

Everyone loves having shiny new features in LibreOffice. But how do we get them? Many are developed by volunteers and people in the ecosystem.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
in reply to LibreOffice

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Elias

Thanks again for answering.

As for what "Google Summer of Code" actually is, for me it's quite clear that it is a very successful PR stunt on the part of Google.

The cost for Google is negligible, after all it's a trillion-dollar company.

The benefit for Google, on the other hand, is substantial: they get LibreOffice (and Debian, GNOME, KDE and others) saying essentially "Google is good", you are communicating that "Google is good" through your own channels.

1/3

in reply to Pavel

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Ferda 😼✔️

@pvagner Jsem také uživatelem Woken od jejich vzniku nad M$ DOS, který jsem používal též 🫡. Nyní je ale používám jen v práci jako poučený uživatel 😊, tam to bohužel nejde jinak 😕. Ale většinou jako terminál 😎 a pak využití místních Office🙄
O #powershell proto slyším poprvé 😳, nevím, jestli mi k něčemu bude 🤔. No prostě #lama 😁.
Koncem 90. let jsem chtěl použít #RedHat, ale nerozběhl jsem tehdy jejich X Window 😬
Na hracím notebooku mám nově #fedora😜
#fedora #redhat #powershell #lama @Peter Vágner

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Guten Morgen liebe Menschen auf #Mastodon, #Pixelfed und im restlichen #Fediverse.
Ziemlich genau ein Jahr ist es nun her, dass wir im #Pfälzerwald waren. Von riesigen Felsen, Bäumen und herrlichen Formen eines #Sonnenaufgang|s haben wir einiges mitgenommen und genossen.
Trinkt Tee und Kaffe und habt einen schönen Tag!

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#fotografie #natur #landschaft #Pfalz #Morgen #Wolken
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#photography #nature #sunstar #landscape #sunrise #throwbackthursday #cloudporn
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#art #fineart #mastoart #fediart

Guten Morgen liebe Menschen auf #Mastodon, #Pixelfed und im restlichen #Fediverse. Ziemlich genau ein Jahr ist es nun her, dass wir im #Pfälzerwald unser Unwesen getrieben haben. Von riesigen Felsn, Bäumen und herrlichen Formen eines #Sonnenaufgang|s haben wir einiges mitgenommen und genossen. Trinkt Tee und Kaffe und habt einen schönen Tag! Zu sehen ist ein Sonnenaufgang mit Wolken im Hintergrund und eine Felsbank mit Bäumen im Vordergrund.
#fediverse #Mastodon #throwbackthursday #art #pixelfed #photography #mastoart #nature #fediart #Natur #fotografie #landschaft #fineart #landscape #wolken #cloudporn #sunrise #Morgen #pfalzerwald #sonnenaufgang #Pfalz #sunstar

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👇 Request for help

Wo
Waar
Dónde
ที่ไหน
Cá
Hvar
أين
Onde
Каде
Kur
Де
Gdje
Ở đâu
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Di mana
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In other words: WHERE do you and others read or hear recommendations for (podcast) *apps for Android*?

📢 Please let us know about blogs, podcasts & news sites *in your language* which might cover the AntennaPod 3.0 release (when it's there).

Tag us here or drop a line on our forum:
forum.antennapod.org/t/help-us…

Thank you! 🙏


📢 Help us spread the news: map blogs/podcasts in your country & localise the press release for AntennaPod 3.0!

Version 3 of AntennaPod is currently in beta. Hundreds of people are helping us test this new release on their devices. That means that we’re slowly but surely getting to release day.* When AntennaPod 3.
AntennaPod Forum
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Le Podthécaire 🔻

Well, I'm making a podcast, in French, on how to integrate podcasts in public libraries (from curation to production).

I plan to release, in the next few days, a special episode on podcast apps. I'll talk about three Andoid apps, AntennaPod being of course one of them.

So, I'd be glad to make an update special episode when 3.0 release is out.

Count me in !

Here is the podcast :
vodio.fr/smartlink.php?id=535


791 point 467 - Vodio - Hébergez gratuitement votre podcast - Tous les outils nécessaires pour vos podcasts (hébergement, RSS, statistiques,...), gratuit et illimité

791.467, c'est, d'après la classification décimale de Dewey, l'indice qui s'applique aux livres parlant du format podcast... Il figurera sur la petite étiquette de cote qu'on collera au bas du dos du livre.
Vodio
in reply to AntennaPod

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Le Podthécaire 🔻

So, here the episode, in French, in which I talk about podcatchers :

vodio.fr/vodiotheque/i/10303/b…

You can find the transcript here :

precreaseandcollapse.com/791po…


791 point 467 - Bonus : les applications d'écoute de podcasts - Hébergez gratuitement votre podcast sur Vodio.fr

Bonjour, je suis Stéphane, en partie bibliothécaire, en partie auditeur de podcast, complètement podthécaire. Dans 791 point 467, je partage avec vous mes expériences, réussies ou non, de médiation des podcasts en bibliothèque.
Vodio

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Years ago elementary was approached by Canonical to become an official Ubuntu flavor. “All” we had to do was offer Snap out of the box. We debated it—being able to offload some additional infrastructure concerns was attractive—but we realized it helped Canonical more than it helped us, and we had chosen Flatpak for all of its benefits as covered here:

blog.elementary.io/elementary-…

#elementaryOS #Ubuntu #Flatpak #Snap


elementary AppCenter + Flatpak

Preparing for the future
blog.elementary.io
#Flatpak #elementaryos #ubuntu #snap

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We're still looking for locations for #GNOMEAsia2023! Learn more about what's involved and how you can submit a proposal here: foundation.gnome.org/2023/01/1…

*All bids are due March 1 - apply soon!

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #CallForLocations

GNOMEAsia 2023 call for locations

Call for GNOME.Asia 2023 Bid Proposals – The GNOME Foundation

foundation.gnome.org
#gnome #gnomeasia #gnomeasia2023 #callforlocations

Federico Mena Quintero reshared this.

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My guide on #maintainer burnout and departure planning:

"All maintainers eventually leave (or stop leading) projects.... It's worth taking a moment to imagine: what would a GOOD departure look like for your involvement with your project? Or... what endings or departures would be...clearer, more respectful, less wasteful?"

docs.oscollective.org/guides/h…

It was pleasant to learn that the volunteers who publish Wikipedia Signpost find it useful as they consider sustainability:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…

Handling Burnout and Career Planning - Open Source Collective

docs.oscollective.org
#maintainer

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New phone who dis? It's real!
The #Librem5 is almost like the #PinePhone's big sibling (slightly more specced up) - a Linux pocket computerbox bringing desktop covergence to a phone - and @purism has contributed most of the code that allows Gnome/Phosh/Linux on a phone to resize desktop apps. Happy to finally get mine and support this project! Purism got slammed by supply chain issues during the pandemic and is now catching up on shipping ❤️ See puri.sm/ #foss #opensource #linux
Unboxing the Librem 5 - pulling off the nice minimalist black box top that reads "Purism" and "Librem 5"
The Librem 5 is pleasantly chonky like the size of my Pixel2XL in its case, and comes with *a replaceable battery* and *a headphone jack*

Beautiful, Secure, Privacy-Respecting Devices - Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy, freedom, and security
Purism SPC
#linux #foss #pinephone #opensource #librem5 @Purism
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 5 updated and 2 new apps:

* Record You: modern voice recorder app using Material You design
* Träwelldroid: free check-in service for recording journeys in public transport

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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YouTube's music content on your Linux desktop? - MONOPHONY 🎵

No videos - just the main thing from this new simple app: music!

* Save To Library for albums

* Playlists to add songs on

* Radio Mode lets the app choose

* NO sign-in to YouTube account

* Play, previous, next, shuffle and loop

=> flathub.org/apps/details/io.gi…

#Monophony #music #YouTube #content #entertainment #desktop #Linux #Flatpak #radio #apps

Flathub—An app store and build service for Linux

Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy GIMP, GNU Octave, Spotify, Steam and many more!
flathub.org
#linux #apps #youtube #music #Flatpak #radio #desktop #entertainment #content #monophony

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Microsoft injecting ads onto competitors webpages (not search results, their actual own webpages) is severely crossing a line. Do not use Microsoft Edge, they need to be shunned for doing crap like this slashdot.org/story/23/02/22/11…

Microsoft is Now Injecting Full-Size Edge Ads on Chrome Website - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Being the default out-of-the-box browser on Windows 10 and 11 makes Microsoft Edge a go-to utility for downloading Chrome or another browser.
slashdot.org

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As #Linux users, or even as #Windows users, we often hear a lot of preconceived notions, like "Linux is faster", or "Windows has better battery life".

Well, I decided to quantify all of it in a complete benchmark between Windows 11 and #ubuntu

CPU and GPU benchmarks, disk speeds, thermals, internet speeds, gaming benchmarks, battery life, I looked at everything on the same device, and the conclusions were... surprising:

youtu.be/a5YQ8xvQPSc

THumbnail of a youtube video, split in 2 by a white cutout. On the left, the folowing text: CPU+GPU, Gaming, disk speed, internet, battery". on the right, a windows logo, a linux logo, and a "versus" symbol between the two

LINUX vs WINDOWS: complete performance test!

Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: https://safing.ioGrab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: https://www.tuxedoc...
YouTube
#linux #Windows #ubuntu

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I spent yesterday evening trying to see how to make apps that use #libadwaita (the latest UI for #GNOME), and walked away with a streak of anger over a surprising lack of documentation and examples.

#GTK and #GNOME app development have always been a quest that involves throwing a ring in a fiery mountain, while hoping for the best, but in the 25 years since GTK+'s introduction, it has only gotten worse, it just looks prettier now. sigh. #linux

#linux #gnome #gtk #libadwaita

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Turns out "the cloud" can be replaced with an infra that takes *checks notes* two racks and saves millions, who knew?
world.hey.com/dhh/we-stand-to-…

Narrator: a lot of people knew.

Edit: The person behind this blog seems to be less than excellent. Here's some context (thank you @slothrop for pointing it out):
seirdy.one/notes/2022/11/25/po…

The technical point still stands of course.

#SysAdmin


Politics and 37signals

Last year, 37signals employees shared the “pyramid of hate” in a work chat in response to seeing a list of “funny Asian names” of customers. Upper management
Seirdy's Home
@Rocketman
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