No hard feeling with GNOME but once KDE can sort out there release schedule I do hope we start seeing the return of KDE as the primary desktop on Linux, becoming the face that GNOME has been for many years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki3NOnF_MzQ

Linux Standards Are Kind Of A Mess #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/02nFos3iHlo

how is arch easier to install than windows

that isnt even sarcasm, how are we at this point

Nintendo will take your Switch 2 offline forever if you use a Mig flash cartridge https://www.theverge.com/news/688483/nintendo-switch-2-ban-error-code-mig-flash-cartridge-online

🎉 I'm happy for Peertube! The campaign has ended and they have reached their final goal: https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

#krita #peertube

Someone made the "pre-LLM text is low-background radiation steel" meme real https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

Back in 2006, AOL tried something incredibly bold and even more incredibly *stupid*: they dumped a data-set of 20,000,000 "anonymized" search queries from 650,000 users (yes, AOL had a search engine - there used to be *lots* of search engines!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design#bringing-home-the-beacon

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"It feels like I'm attending a funeral. But the funeral isn't just for Geocities... It was more than just another lousy webpage from the 1990s. It was who I was 12 years ago. The places I linked...the places that linked to me"

No, the 16 billion credentials leak is not a new #DataBreach

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/

#cybersecurity #privacy

Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening | TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-user-has-30-years-of-irreplaceable-photos-and-work-locked-away-in-onedrive-and-microsofts-silence-is-deafening

YouTubers Surprised That Google Uses Their Videos to Train AI Models https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/youtubers-surprised-that-google-uses-their-videos-to-train-its-ai-models-veo-3/ #artificialintelligence #aivideogenerator #Technology #youtuber #youtube #gemini #google #News #veo3 #Law

I am so happy that even though it's the current design trend we have people in KDE that aren't just accepting the degradation of readable interfaces in the pursuit of "modern UI design", I've never understood the "KDE looks old" idea, it's not old it's timeless.

Nate Graham lays out the state of Plasma's X11 session, the short term plans, and how things will go in the future.

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

#Plasma6 #X11

Many companies and individuals are trying to mislead people about the future of GrapheneOS to promote their insecure products and services. GrapheneOS is not going anywhere. We've made it clear we're shipping Android 16 soon and that the supported devices will remain supported.

Il caloroso benvenuto dei veneziani a Bezos! ❤️

Per chi è ancora su Amazon, Twitch, Prime & Co., contribuendo ad arricchire gli oligarchi del web e a finanziare (indirettamente) le politiche di Trump, non fate i servi di un tecno-feudatario.

Le alternative esistono, sono molte e funzionano.

👉 Una vita senza Amazon: perché è ora di dire basta https://noblogo.org/filippodb/una-vita-senza-amazon-perche-e-ora-di-dire-basta

@internet

#jeffbezos #Bezos #Amazon #Twitch #Prime #Alternative

This is a mindset that is way too common, no one is ennoscriptd to your money but I think you should donate to projects you like and being open source doesn't mean you have to be poor

WE HAVE ALMOST SAVED GAMING.

Or have we? Can we still save it?

All it would have taken was a million signatures from EU citizens.

Don't we have a million gamers in the EU who are eligible to vote?

Here's probably the last update from #StopKillingGames :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo

https://StopKillingGames.com

Have you signed yet?

-unfa

#Gaming #Game #Games #Gamers #LinuxGaming #GamePreservation #GameEmulators #Lutris #Proton #Wine #Steam #Freedom #EU #Law #GameDev #GameDevelopment #Help #Activism