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🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

Are you great communicator? We have an opening for a writer for our websites and social media. The deadline is in 2 days!

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-foundation-seeks-paid-content-writer/38817

Image with many colorful speech bubbles, on a blue background. There are emojis there as well.

Today Igalia turns 25.

In September 2001, ten engineers from the University of A Coruña started a company with no outside investors, no managers, and no intention of ever appointing any.

There are now close to 200 of us, spread across the world. The arrangement has not changed: no managers, no shareholders, and everything we build left where anyone can use it.

Here is to the next twenty-five.
https://igalia.com/2026/09/21/Twenty-Five-Years-Upstream.html

Igalia's 25th anniversary banner. Three figures from the Igalia logo form the Roman numerals XXV, beside the words YEARS OPEN and a multicoloured circle marked 25th on a timeline arc.

YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO FIND INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. i sound insane right now because the internet is a store but it used to be a library

When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up. Says Skeletor knowing some of you are gonna make a sex joke out of this and just know I've already made peace with that. So go ahead.

These typewriters have so many radical ideas. 🤔

Postcards from the Anthropocene

Notes:

1. Go analog. Figure out how to do things without power, batteries, smartphones, apps, the Internet.

2. Get off the consumer bandwagon. Stop feeding the machine. Stop following fashion. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses.

3. Fix it, make do, do without.

4. Mitigate, mitigate, mitigate any climate impacts you can, in your personal life, sphere of influence, neighborhood, town, city. Be prepared for heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, floods.

5. Situational awareness always. The planet isn't as friendly as you thought. In fact, Mother Nature is kinda upset at what we've done with the place.

6. It's only going to get harder. That's okay. Just take it one day at a time. Do what you can, with what you have.

7. Local, local, local.

8. Make disaster preparedness a way of life. The world is increasingly a disater, and will continue to be long after you and I step off this mortal coil. Deal with it, because denial is just going to get you killed. Preparedness is cheaper than therapy and a whole lot better than being smacked upside in the head by a 2x4 from a hurricane.

9. Stop offloading your brain to the computers. The only evolutionary advantage humans have is our brains. Use the darn thing.

10. Good luck, we are all going to need it!

In a racist society;
It is NOT ENOUGH to be non-racist!

We must be ANTI-RACIST

~Angela Davis

In a racist society; 
It is NOT ENOUGH to be non-racist! 

We must be ANTI-RACIST

~Angela Davis

Given its extremely high energy and water consumption, the increased minimum system requirements driving premature hardware obsolescence, among other very problematic social and political issues, genAI/LLMs are not compatible with the values and goals of KDE Eco.

KDE is a diverse community and the opinions and projects of some KDE contributors are not representative of the entire community or KDE Eco projects.

@mikegalsworthy They're not calling it BRENTER!?

The more information emerges about the health hazards after 9/11 in New York City, the worse it gets. Democracy Now hosts a roundtable talking to people who has attempted to speak up about this over the last 25 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzrR0AlU-1Y

'Phonetic' is not.
'Abbreviation' is 12 letters.
'Thesaurus' doesn't have a synonym.
'Monosyllabic' has five syllables.
'Hyphenated’ isn't, but ‘non-hyphenated’ is.

Say what you will about English, but it has a sense of humour.

En 12 jours, l’administration Trump a fait fermer un hébergeur de services alternatifs italien, sans aucune décision de justice.

Des milliers d’adresses email, de listes de diffusion et de blogs, hébergés hors des silos de données étatsuniens, ont été instantanément déconnectés d’Internet.

Découvrez la triste histoire de Autistici/Inventati, une victime de plus des agissements irrationnels de l’administration étatsunienne :
https://lacontrevoie.fr/blog/2026/fermeture-de-autistici-inventati/

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If you have converns over Ed Sheeran then you can swap to Vim Sheeran.

@historyofpunkrock Never heard of them, will give them a listen!

The classic XKCD dependency stack cartoon, but relabeled. The image shows a huge pile of boxes representing "all modern digital infrastructure" precariously balanced atop each other. A label at the right (ha!) says "A project led by a guy who then turns out to be a fascist" and arrows point to a small box sitting on top of many others. Another label at the right says "Where corporate money goes", with three arrows pointing at the small project led by a guy who then turns out to be a fascist

GNOME 51 released! Look forward to faster screen recordings, an Auto Rotate option for screens with accelerometers, offline maps, and much more.

Check out our release video! 👉️ https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5vARny78Rv2215JwEwNh8t
Full release notes 👉️ https://release.gnome.org/51/

We spent the last 6 months polishing the experience, to make it more accessible and more user-friendly. Unlike the current tech industry, we go slow and fix things! (1/3)

A poacher hunting rhinos was ambushed by a herd of elephants and trampled to death.

Two men with high-powered rifles and an axe broke into Kruger National Park in South Africa, looking for a £10,000 payday.

But the white rhino herd had been following a water source with a group of nearby African elephants sheltering from the harsh sun under trees.

As the pair closed in on the rhinos, the elephants broke cover and charged them.

oh NO! ... anyway....

https://metro.co.uk/2026/09/15/poacher-sneaking-rhinos-ambushed-trampled-death-elephants-29611175/

Finally, this Braille display has arrived from the United States!

The goal is to get it working with and, eventually, provide a proper subsystem for Braille display devices on FreeBSD.

Another small step toward making FreeBSD more accessible. Learn more about the FreeBSD Foundation's Vision project: https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/vision-accessibility-subsystem-for-freebsd/

The HumanWare BrailleNote Apex photographed from above, with a monitor showing FreeBSD in the background. The HumanWare BrailleNote Apex photographed from the front, showing the Next and Previous buttons, with a monitor showing FreeBSD in the background.

@rhonda Beautiful song and also rendition by Natalie, but did you know that it's a cover version?

pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out

@gumnos I just tried it, it even supports the undocumented ```rm -rd project/```

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