Paul 🐧 @Paul_Aguayo@qoto.org

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NASA's stuck astronauts are finally on their way back to Earth after 9 months in space https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nasa-stuck-astronauts-earth-months-1.html #science

#libreoffice is a real alternative to the office suite from MS.
And now, there's a new release.
https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-2-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new

How to connect #Google Gemini #AI to the #ONLYOFFICE editors

Integrate Google’s advanced artificial intelligence model into #ONLYOFFICE and use it in different ways:

Get precise answers to queries;

Summarize and translate content;

Perform advanced text analysis;

Generate text and keywords;

Explore word meanings and more.

More information: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2025/03/how-to-connect-google-gemini-ai?utm_source=social&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=fosstodon

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.

“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.aeUC.tdm1nbDIVEL2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

GIMP: makes incredible progress towards being an amazing image editing tool

People: « the name has a kinky or bad connotation in one language, and there are no screenshots, WTH.»

Priorities. They’re important.

Microsoft isn't fixing 8-year-old shortcut exploit abused for spying - 'Only' a local access bug but important part of N Korea, Russia, and China attack picture... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/microsoft_trend_flaw/

Vivaldi 7.2 Released with Speed Improvements + More #news #app_updates #vivaldi #web_browsers
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/vivaldi-7-2-release-whats-new

Scientists make progress in precise synthesis of crystalline sp²-carbon conjugated 2D polymers https://phys.org/news/2025-03-scientists-precise-synthesis-crystalline-sp.html #science

New PebbleOS watches with more battery and familiar looks are up for preorder
Shipping in July and December, with far more battery life and newer chips.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/new-pebbleos-watches-with-more-battery-and-familiar-looks-are-up-for-preorder/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!

https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/03/16/gimp-3-0-released/

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!

Welcome to GIMP 3.0!

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) version 3.0 is finally out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/gnu-image-manipulation-program-gimp-version-3-0-is-finally-out-now/

#OpenSource #Linux

Lando no, not again! 🫣

No trophy is safe when @LandoNorris@twitter.com is around

#F1 #AusGP @McLarenF1@sportsbots.xyz

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 47: Before I Was Born https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-47-before-i-was-born/

#Linux #LinuxGaming #Retro

Someone appears to have set a number of Tesla charging stations on fire in Littleton, Mass last night (3/2/25). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pus_mbDP4Zo #tesla

And yet here we are, plunging cartoonishly downward already.

This a momentous and dangerous time for Europe.

And we are ready to step up.

Today, we announce the ReArm Europe Plan, a bold initiative to mobilise up to €800 billion for European security.

It will help EU countries quickly and significantly boost expenditures in defence capabilities.

We are in an era of rearmament. And Europe is ready to massively boost its defence spending.

Press release: https://europa.eu/!MFPVMC

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

Happy I Love Free Software Day everyone

99% of you got yesterday's #trivia question, "Which major web server software is released as free software" correct! It was the Apache HTTP Server.

We will be posting one more #ilovefs trivia question a bit later, so keep your eye out for the final question!