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

@liblast@mastodon.gamedev.place it's sad how one streamer/YouTuber with apparently bad intentions can gaslight people with blatant misinformation to tamper with a campaign that's for the good of people. People should think more with their head rather than being filtered by people they look up to on a website, kinda like TV.

3/3

Keep politics out of your project. I'll try to do the same from now on. I act the way my mother taught me: be nice to other people (and demand that they be nice too). Be respectful; stop and think, don't just mouth off like a knob end.

The whole point of open source is that we're supposed to work together. It doesn't matter who you are.

I don't care if you're from the planet Mars. Anyone can send patches to Libreboot. Perhaps I might visit you, if you give me a ride in your space ship.

Just saw this scrolling through Facebook. I don't know anything about the matter, but my point remains valid: using other people's platforms does not and never will guarantee the safety of your data.

@_elena@mastodon.social 's video is extremely relevant: https://tube.bsd.cafe/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

#OwnYourData

#PNG Returns with Major Spec Update After Two-Decade Hiatus https://medium.com/p/png-returns-with-major-spec-update-after-two-decade-hiatus-e98ef855cfa4

The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories https://www.theverge.com/news/692248/fairphone-6-smartphone-repairable-modular-accessories-murena

The end is near for Windows 10. If you can't upgrade and a new PC isn't in your budget, this collective has a suggestion for you.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/end-of-10-offers-hope-and-support-to-windows-10-users-who-cant-upgrade-their-pcs/ #Win10 #Windows #Tech #Technology #Computers #OS #Linux

If you are an EU resident, please sign the Stop Killing Games petition! They need all the help they can get, and if this passes it'll go a long way toward ensuring the game library you've paid for is playable in perpetuity.

Stop Killing Games

There is also a UK petition

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/countries/united_kingdom

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/didknvmwd76pmxugptr6cpka4tc/post/3lscukktfoc2m

Stop Killing Games

I put together a tiny userstyle which moves Steam's content note box up near the purchase options so you know upfront if it uses genAI https://gist.github.com/ticky/a86d1749da142ea7b6dd5582748b461e

@rin

oh I didn't know syncthing for Android had been discontinued. I just used it and thought F-Droid kept it updated.

In the i686 discussion in #Fedora we currently hear quite a lot of voices in support for the Steam client, but not that much of other use cases.

If you have anything specific using i686 packages on Fedora, which is _not_ Steam, this is a good time to mention it, so that your use cases are not lost.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-drop-i686-support-system-wide/156324

And please do not panic, it is a discussion, nothing is decided yet :)

meta

#Google ha annunciato un’importante modifica al funzionamento del suo assistente virtuale, Google Gemini, che sarà in grado di accedere e interagire con app come Telefono, Messaggi e WhatsApp e tutto ciò anche se l’utente ha disattivato le relative impostazioni di riservatezza.

Dopo il 7 luglio, messaggi, cronologia delle chiamate e chat #WhatsApp potrebbero essere inviati ai server di Google ... per fare cosa?

Malpensanti! ... o no?🤔

https://www.ilsoftware.it/google-gemini-potra-leggere-il-nostro-whatsapp-che-succede-il-7-luglio/

Dear @creativecommons@mastodon.social ,

I read your article about your initiative for new licenses for dataset holders in the AI industry.

Let’s be clear: I do not want to re-license my hundreds of CC-By comic pages to please AI giants.

I wish you would support CC artists suffering from massive plagiarism. You should enforce your own existing licenses against AI mass crawling. It seems you’ve joined the battle only after the casualties and still managed to side with the wrong people.

https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/

Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years https://www.theverge.com/news/692648/microsoft-bsod-black-screen-of-death-color-change-official

Made a quick L2J video on Stop Killing Games — I doubt the initiative will get enough votes, but more visibility for consumer rights regarding game software is good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhw-1a2b9kY