Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

@thelinuxEXP Does this surprise anyone, given permanently removing snaps ended up being kinda convoluted?

This feels overbearing and anti-community, but distros that chose to be an #ubuntu flavor agree to a process that could be modified at any moment by #Canonical.

Derivative distros like Mint, Neon, and Elementary don't have to follow suite.

On the flip side, interesting to see Canonical double down on their own technology instead of just droping it.

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.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-No-Flatpak-By-Default

#opensource is good as it starts with just one or only a few persons. Foundations are run by many people. Groups of humans are always dangerous. So bigger so worse

Here's a video I found on the #birdsite of a woman speaking to the #Kansas City school board on privatizing schools. She's a PhD and a teacher in the public school system. But instead of registering her opposition, she turned the tables and voices support from a leftist perspective. It's quite funny.

#Christofascism #Schools #education #privatization

https://bolitoglossa.com/w/3XAx3CTZLS6B11RnRMMCNo

This is important. We often think about Fox as the epicenter of right-wing propaganda. But what we don't talk about enough is how local news outlets launder MAGA propaganda as 'news.' Shame on this West Palm Beach NBC affiliate. https://youtu.be/kZS1kmFmkKk

The irony is that most of the problems presented here (both sides) are alleviated by #decentralization . In fact, the biggest problem is simply that large communities are too hard to manage, and thus companies turn to algorithms to do it (along with using them to prioritize revenue-generating content above all else, regardless of what that content consists of).

#mastodon #peertube #pixelfed

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-struggles-to-convince-scotus-it-isnt-bolstering-terrorists/

#KDE Plasma 5.27.1 Is Out to Improve Support for Wine Games in Plasma #Wayland, Add Support for #NetworkManager 1.42 https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-5-27-1-improves-support-for-wine-games-in-plasma-wayland-fixes-bugs

@kdecommunity #Linux #OpenSource

Threat actors are actively exploiting the popularity of OpenAI's ChatGPT AI tool to distribute Windows malware, infect Android devices with spyware, or direct unsuspecting victims to phishing pages.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-use-fake-chatgpt-apps-to-push-windows-android-malware/

Letter: the US Copyright Office says AI-generated images in a graphic novel, created using Midjourney, should not have been granted copyright protection (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-created-images-lose-us-copyrights-test-new-technology-2023-02-22/
http://www.techmeme.com/230222/p31#a230222p31

Here's one big win Microsoft has already gotten from all the AI chatbot hoopla: product updates to Bing and Edge now make top headlines in the tech world, as opposed to being almost completely ignored

@unix_discussions @charadon

You’d think #ubuntu would have learned from mir vs wayland

#LinuxMint was smart to create #LMDE

I recently got annoyed by #Ubuntu's snap package mess.

I fixed it with one simple trick: Installing #Debian.

https://slothrop.org/posts/2023/02/installing-debian-11-from-scratch/

I dunno, moral of the story is..

uh.. Don't let managers fuck you over and stand your ground! When I lost that terrible job a weight was liften and new doors opened

And most of all, try not to work for a company that fucks people over for a living you control that

@SuneAuken it may not actually be “troll talk”. I spent years helping Dems get elected, meeting with legislators, knocking on doors, phone & text banking.
The Dem party leadership is deeply dysfunctional & in many ways bears some responsibility for the situation we are in. To defeat the loonies & rising authoritarianism change is needed.
Many rural areas were Dem just a decade or two and can be again, but the Dems refuse to champion the policies & candidates to make that happen

I have a feeling that @bfdi just made the opening shot across the bow against Meta.

More EU states are likely to follow.

Don't be surprised if more nation states start to de-couple themselves from proprietary social networks.

Fuck Russia apologists in the Republican Party who stand bravely for genocide. Every last one of them.

Some Good News for Democrats https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/some-good-news-for-democrats/#.Y_ZtN2uK-Ys.twitte

How to enable colorized output for ls command in macOS or OS X or FreeBSD Terminal
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/apple-mac-osx-terminal-color-ls-output-option/

Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests we have a “national divorce.” A separation of the states.

This is a major threat coming from a sitting member of congress. This is disgraceful and evil! And definitely unacceptable.

#MarjorieTaylorGreene #mtg #gop #thehill

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3866860-gop-governor-says-greenes-call-for-a-national-divorce-is-evil/