People: OH MY GOD you can't use wikipedia because ANYONE can just EDIT and write WHATEVER!
The same people 20 years later: Oh I LOVE chatgpt, I can ask it anything and it always has an answer!
Harper – an open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Grammarly
Is this some futuristic segregation of toilets? I did not see that coming :-) #startrek
The way a tool is used is the purpose of the tool. “Stablecoins” (which are neither stable nor coins) are used 88% of the time as an intermediary for other crypto transactions. It’s not a payment system. It’s a liquidity bridge for financial crimes. https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250611248/stablecoin-supply-is-growing-fast-heres-how-it-compares-to-cash
More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
#Incus 6.14 is now out!
Comes with some nice improvements to our backup and snapshot handling, VM live migrations and more!
This also fixes a couple of security issues affecting a small subset of users on Incus 6.12 and 6.13.
https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/incus-6-14-has-been-released/24092
Gajim 2.3 has been released 🥳
A fresh new look for Gajim arrived! 😎
With this release Gajim introduces Adwaita, a library providing styles, nicely designed user interface elements, animations and more. Many dialogs, including Preferences and Plugin management have been redesigned.
This release is available on Windows again - finally!
Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️
Support Gajim's development: https://liberapay.com/Gajim
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)
Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?
The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.
Trans rights are human rights.
Trans rights are human rights.
Still didn't get that?
Trans rights are human rights.
You're welcome!
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Seen on Bluesky:
Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"