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If anyone's looking for a fun illustration project or an opportunity to get into the GNOME artwork style: Crosswords needs some illustrations for the "How to Play" instructions :)

gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/crossword…

Example from Sudoku:

#gnome #icons #illustrations

Screenshot of Sudoku, with the "How to Play" dialog in the foreground. The dialog consists of a slideshow with tips, the current page has an illustration of some rows, a scissor and ruler. and a green/blue background. Below the illustration there's the text "Rows and Columns: Each row and column must contain unique numbers without duplicates".

Add artwork for the hints dialog (#361) · Issues · Jonathan Blandford / Crosswords · GitLab

Currently, the hints dialog has no artwork, just the main icon repeated on each page. It would be good to get better artwork for this. Sudoku has some...
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#gnome #illustrations #icons
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On the topic of bad takes against Flatpak, my personal favorite is "Flatpak is bad because it works badly with my NVIDIA GPU's drivers"

Consider the following: NVIDIA GPU's (proprietary) drivers work badly on Linux

Under no circumstances should volunteers in the FOSS community ever be placed in a position that forces them to bend over large corporations, even if it hurts the user experience. Besides, the ones who are actually hurting users is the corporations by making it hard for everyone.

This is also true with Fedora's hostility towards proprietary drivers. This kind of hostility should be encouraged. As a community, we should collectively shame entities that push proprietary garbage as a dependency on Linux, so long it doesn't harm security.
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2025-12-31 17:26:11

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"I will never use Flatpaks because I have to type `flatpak run com.example.Application`. It's insane Flatpak developers don't change it!"

Except you can add `/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin` to your $PATH. This way, you can type `com.example.Application` in your terminal, dmenu, everywhere. Also if you aren't using completions and insist on doing everything in the terminal, you have bigger problems.

Shout out to the Evil Skeleton (@TheEvilSkeleton) , who blogged about this 3 years ago. tesk.page/2022/09/28/what-not-…

GNOME Calculator launched using the fish shell.

What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users

Whenever I browse through the web, I find many “tips and tricks” from various blog writers, YouTubers and others who recommend users to take steps that either they aren’t supposed to, or have better alternatives.
TheEvilSkeleton

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Hakan Bayındır

@bugaevc
I'll kindly disagree with you here. Considering both AMD and Intel can write drivers which doesn't infringe on any patents and doesn't expose any of their secret sauce (AMD Catalyst and AMDGPU are completely different codebases), NVIDIA is the only one who acts like this and creates a special firmware to cripple their cards so open drivers can't enable the whole GPU.

NVIDIA revised hardware to be able to lock them down further while AMD changed hardware to unlock it.

@Sergey Bugaev

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Been reviewing Spanish with duolingo. Of course they now have an AI conversationalist that you call on the phone. I'm ahead in my knowledge for lots of things, but I'm getting to a point in lessons where I need to follow there ordering. In today's call with Lilly, the stoner girl that knows how to speak Spanish, I threw some complex words and ideas at her to see if she would keep me at the level of my lessons. Turns out she sounds like a stoner, but when she asked me how I was and then I said I was tired. Somehow we got onto the topic of what I like to do before bed and I told her I liked reading. Then we went all Spanish crazy and talked about scifi and fantasy books we liked. Impressive for those that need to practice Spanish conversation.

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Remember Eye Yay, the public domain player I posted a couple weeks ago? It's been updated with VoiceOver support! Like me, you can enjoy countless hours of OTR from archive.org!
| apps.apple.com/app/id675510251…

Eye Yay - Public domain player App - App Store

Download Eye Yay - Public domain player by Bucket Brigade Software Limited on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games…
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> “It’s hard to imagine increases beyond 300,000 to 400,000 barrels a day in the next year, just given the degraded state of the infrastructure, especially the upgraders,” Daan Struyven, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman Sachs, said at the Goldman Sachs Energy, CleanTech and Utilities Conference.

DING DING DING

You want the truth about this ask the investors who finance this shit and actually understand the risk. They aren't lying

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> U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Tuesday that an increased flow of Venezuelan heavy oil to the U.S. Gulf would be "great news" for job security, future gasoline prices in the U.S. and for Venezuela.

You don't make gasoline from heavy sour crude, why can't we have journalists that do their goddamn jobs and call these people out on their lies

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With a budget, colleagues and I would:

⚡️Reduce volunteer cash advances for events

⚡️Improve the #OpenZFS test suite and documentation

⚡️Organize East coast USA and European OpenZFS summits

⚡️Continue to improve #bhyve

⚡️Continue to improve community Audio/Video wisdom and equipment

⚡️Consider cloud service backup/export challenges (I got Google Drive mirroring to work!)

The money is out there but is firewalled.

If you believe in these same goals, please reach out to potential supporters.

In 2025 I introduced colleagues to over half a million USD in employment opportunities. Now I am forced to think about myself.

❤️

#openzfs #bhyve

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This is the document, Trump does not want you to see.

In 1916, under President Woodrow Wilson, the United States signed the purchase of the Virgin Islands from Denmark, in a convention in which the United States recognised Denmark's right to the whole of Greenland.

Danish MP's of The Defence Committee will convene in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at 18:00 to discuss the defence of Greenland.

Full text: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUT…

In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respect- Greenland recognized. ing the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland. ROBERT LANSING.
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NV Access

@bdorer Firstly, yes, please provide issue numbers, it makes checking things 100% easier. There has been conversation here recently about terminal issues, I'm guessing this is related to that (though again - links to issues please!) - and thirdly, to the other tricky part - as you hinted to - the majority of issues don't affect every user all the time - meaning some may never have an issue, even in the same program. We do try to prioritise those which affect the most users.
@bdorer

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several people reporting lately that #deltachat has become their main app: They are now spending more time in the chats, also with web apps, than in any other app. It may be a turn to more private communications when social media has become more toxic, obnoxious and dangerous in many places?

#deltachat and #chatmail.is indeed about being readily available when other forms of communications become unavailable or dangerous like in Iran or Russia but also in western and other countries.

#deltachat #chatmail

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Expert systems are inevitable

Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future

Java Applets will replace all other software

Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency

Better claim your stake in the Metaverse

By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars

Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops

You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

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I have been trying to figure out what to post here about ICE activity today in the Minneapolis / St. Paul metro. It is just •batshit• out there.

Some admin mucky-muck is in town today (Noem, I think?), and ICE is putting on a full We Are A Big Fascist Deal theater show. The result of this is chaos: ICE caravans all over, vulnerable people terrified, less-vulnerable residents dropping their work to keep watch on the streets.

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First I was hearing ads on podcasts for Factor Meals. Now I'm seeing ads on Facebook for Factor Meals. I'd bet that, if I posted this on Facebook, then the algorithm would factor my post in and start sending me more ads for Factor Meals. It's a nice thing about Mastodon, that I'm not going to see ads based on what web sites I visit or where I go physically or what I post about. But then I suppose I'm giving Factor Meals free publicity now, although I've never tried one of them.

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I used to wonder why someone would snap and drown their kids in the bathtub but after trying to do work and constantly getting interrupted and needing to run errands that end up eating several hours of your day and completely ruining the ability to concentrate on something I think I totally get it -- and I don't even have kids

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@pluralistic, over 110 hotels in Quebec are being named in a class action lawsuit submitted a few weeks ago. The suit claims they share crucial information through a common algorithmic pricing software, IDeaS, to drive up prices. Demand has held steady for the last ten years, but average room prices have increased 45% (twice the rate of inflation). Looks like RealPage for hotels.

Un «cartel d’hôtels» accusé de coordonner ses prix grâce à un algorithme :
ledevoir.com/economie/945972/a…


Un «cartel d’hôtels» accusé de coordonner ses prix grâce à un algorithme

Plus de 110 hôtels au Québec seraient impliqué dans le «complot», selon une demande d’action collective.
Mathilde Beaulieu-Lépine (Le Devoir)
@Cory Doctorow

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RE: androiddev.social/@MishaalRahm…

It’s worth repeating. Android is not a viable base for an independent or even just collaborative operating system. Android is Google and only Google’s project.

If you want to see an actually transparent, international, and collaborative system on phones, support @postmarketOS

#android #opensource

Mishaal Rahman

2026-01-06 19:20:41

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🚨Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Google has announced that it will publish Android source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4 of each year.

More details👇

🔗androidauthority.com/aosp-sour…


Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in Q4.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

#android #opensource @postmarketOS

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Names for avid readers 📚 by language -

English: Bookworm

Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)

French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)

German: Read-rat (Leseratte)

Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)

Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)

Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)

Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)

Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)

Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)

Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)

#books #reading

#books #reading

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🚨Breaking: Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Google has announced that it will publish Android source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4 of each year.

More details👇

🔗androidauthority.com/aosp-sour…

Google will now only release Android source code twice a year

Instead of four times a year, Google will now only release Android source code to AOSP twice a year, once in Q2 and again in Q4.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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Wow, #Gentoo moving from GitHub to Codeberg is cool. Haven't run Gentoo for years now but still have a soft spot for it (I learned so much running it as main driver).

I also use Codeberg für my code (and joined the association) but we can't just "move everything to Codeberg". That's neither sustainable nor a good model. We should have more associations like Codeberg to offer those kinds of services. Create a whole web of forges for collaboration while we can watch GitHub go to hell.

#gentoo

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