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in reply to It's FOSS

here are some more I'd like to add:
- GNU Emacs
- GNOME Boxes
- KDE Connect
- Syncthing

These are some applications I've delved deep into in 2024



It's clear the WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that:

Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era

buff.ly/4grFfIA



A driver was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after driving a truck into the Killeen Mall in Texas tonight, injuring at least five people. kxan.com/news/texas/injuries-r…



The Franklin Conspiracy by Jeffrey Blair Latta, 2001

The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#Arctic
#Canada
#exploration
#Franklin

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The press eats up Trump performatively breaking “the rules,” wrasslin' style. Democrats need more of that kind of show if they expect to compete. Or they can sit and watch Republicans hang truck nuts on America’s trailer hitch.
digbysblog.net/2024/12/21/kayf…


Russia keeps key interest rate at 21%, defying expert expectations byteseu.com/582451/ #Russia


Escape From Sobibor by Richard Rashke, 1982

On October 14, l943, six hundred Jews imprisoned in #Sobibor, a secret Nazi death camp in eastern Poland, revolted. They killed a dozen SS officers and guards, trampled the barbed wire fences, and raced across an open field filled with anti-tank mines. Against all odds, more than three hundred made it safely into the woods. Fifty of those men and women managed to survive the rest of the war.

archive.org/details/Escape_Fro…

imdb.com/title/tt0092978/?ref_…

#books





When John Belushi Booked the Punk Band Fear on SNL, And They Got Banned from the Show: A Short Documentary

openculture.com/2021/11/when-j…



remember when mainstream news outlets published a bunch of incredibly irresponsible articles about how rich people were getting off crypto, and then people bought in and got wrecked over the two years of "crypto winter" that followed?

anyway here's a WSJ headline i just saw: "Young Men Are Making Risky Bets on Crypto and Politics—and Raking It In Right Now"

wsj.com/finance/investing/youn…

#crypto #cryptocurrency

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in reply to Molly White

Young men get to learn lessons they can carry into their financial future. I am confident dad didn't suggest that investment.
in reply to Molly White

Imagine for a second what the world could be like if those "Young Men" were hunkered over a cheap home dialysis method, or a widely distributable CO2 collector, or PFOS cleanup.... instead of literally breaking the shreds of what's left of Capitalism, you know, that concept that's supposed to voluntarily motivate people to build useful things.


79 #Manuscripts from the #Vatican, perhaps the last batch of the year
wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week51…
Includes a TON of Pontifical Choir Diari, a papal ordo Missae, a devotional work in Turkish, an Ethiopic gospel, and some Sire junk
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons



Chris Murphy criticizes Elon Musk’s ‘neo-Nazi’ AfD endorsement byteseu.com/582436/ #Europe


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in reply to Ryan Barrett

continues bringing so much good stuff with Bridgy Fed - thank you very much!

Emphasis and [context] mine:

> [...] I have done *a bit* besides cost cutting [and creating a governance org] since last time:

That's an understatement if I ever saw one, the list of improvements that follows is huge and changes substantive :D




It’s super late and time to try and get some sleep :sleep: :stux: :nkoSleep:

Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcathearts: :blobcathugyou: :ablobcatheartsqueeze:



"One of those prosecuted is activist Joanna Smith, who last year applied washable school finger paint on the exterior glass case enclosing Edgar Degas’s renowned wax sculpture, Little Dancer, at the National Gallery of Art to draw attention to the urgency of the climate crisis. She was charged and later sentenced to two months in federal prison for her civil disobedience."

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment

democracynow.org/2024/9/12/cli…