The pre-release OpenShot 3.3 open-source video editor debuts the "Cosmic Dusk" theme, ripple editing upgrades, Wayland-ready tools, and more. linuxiac.com/openshot-3-3-open…
During tonight's #monsterdon movie, if you send me a receipt for a donation to a charity in the following thread, you will be entered into a raffle to win an original watercolor painting of the Old Fairchild Place, an ominous location from Snowbeast (1977).
I plan on getting a frame for this and mailing it out to the winner shortly after The Holidays.
Don't miss your chance to win some original Snowbeast fanart!
Publisher: Monkey Business GamesIntroduction to Magia Arcana – A Treatise on the Deep Forces of MagicBy the Wizard Arkrygast I, Arkrygast, write these words in the light of the moon's glow and in the shadow of the forests, where the blood of the earth…
OPINION: "Heavy" websites which pile on the megabytes with pages bloated far beyond their useful contents are hit hard when shared on Mastodon. A moment for reflection? No. news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link…
@deutrino > welcome to The Mastodon Network™ Development Process, itsfoss!
There are so many poor engineering decisions leading to this problem. But it could be worse; each client could generate its own unique link preview, instead of each server creating one for the people using it.
Maybe this points to a solution for @Gargron and co? What if the account posting the link generated the link preview, and sent it as part of the post metadata?
This would probably require a spec documenting how to package and send the link preview metadata, in a way that could be reliably interpreted by AP servers. Whether running Mastodon and otherwise. One way to do this would be an FEP.
@strypey this is discussed every time that comes up, but the problem isnt how to do it, its how to prevent abuse. Forging link previews opens up new phishing etc options.
@4censord > the problem isnt how to do it, its how to prevent abuse
How to prevent abuse is part of the how of doing it, for sure. But are any of the potential harms worse than massive unavoidable wastage of bandwidth and server power, which disproportionately impacts independently-hosted sites? I suspect not. It's is a significant limiter to horizontal scaling of the fediverse.
@strypey @deutrino @Gargron Hi Strypey, Deutrino, any thoughts on what some are saying, that Itsfoss could make their pages smaller? perhaps a bit of load balancing? ^KM
Well my attempt to install windows 98se on Qemu, and then Shivers II: Harvest of Souls, was a success! It took many hours of fiddling, trying to figure out how to get files from the host to the VM, trying to get graphics and audio working in the VM, but it all came out like 10x better than I expected it to work! And I got a couple of hours in with the game! It's not perfect, but it's playable! #retrogaming #linux #arch #archlinux #sierra
on the 30 year anniversary of A-infos launched in 1994, they continue to stand as an international anarchist newswire; forming a community amongst anti-authoritarians, anarcho-communists, syndicalists & other revolutionary groups to collectively share news.
“A-infos created an international network that managed to eschew the individualism and market-driven constraints of its digital media counterparts. The project remains committed to anarchism as a ‘social theory’, rejecting both liberal reformism and also symbolic activism which substitutes mass struggle for performative gestures. As the biography of the A-infos page puts it, their work is rooted in the tradition of the Haymarket martyrs and the critique of authoritarianism.”
By organizing ahead of Trump’s inauguration, we can seize the initiative and set our own timeline rather than being caught flat-footed and forced to react. We need to welcome new participants into these struggles and foster a revolutionary perspective that can orient us through the challenges ahead.
My latest review is for a four novella collection by the late Lucius Shepard from Subterranean Press, and courtesy of Net Galley. I had read one 34 years ago, remembered liking it, but two others are even better.
An interview with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution, speaks about the conditions on the ground in Syria, particularly the north east thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org…
Did we mention that we transcribed our interview with a member of TA on the situation in #Syria and in #Rojava in particular? No, well we did. There's a zine and a transcript for reading, printing, translating and sharing at thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org…
Like clockwork, every few months, someone out in the world publishes an article in the national press about how libraries should be replaced by X company.
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