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#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many quality of life and accessibility improvements. Read more here:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/…

Mastodon 4.6

In Mastodon 4.6, we are introducing a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. We've also reworked profiles and the profile editing experience, added some institutional features, and fixed many accessibility issues.
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#Mastodon #fediverse
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#WSocial will open up their beta program today… and I have a SCOOP for you: it appears that they have quietly gone closed-source!

This is ironic, considering that the @EUCommission just unveiled their Tech Sovereignty Package, emphasizing the importance of #OpenSource. And yet they have migrated their main ATproto accounts to W Social - whose code can no longer be inspected!

My full article - with a great analysis by @aral:

🔗: blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…

#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty

European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-so…
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#opensource #foss #bigtech #digitalsovereignty #wsocial @Aral Balkan @European Commission
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Wuzzy

After a brief look at the archived repo, this was just a fork of the ATProto reference implementation originally from Bluesky. Can be clearly seen near the title: "forked from bluesky-social/atproto".
This is not the actual app or website.

I can’t remember that the actual website (or app) has been free software at any time ever.

So even if this repo would still be up, it would still be bullshit to claim that #WSocial is or ever was an "open source project".

#wsocial
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#SpaceX #IPO will make the world's richest man the first trillionaire in history!

How does that compare with an average #American? The median #wealth is $193 K. If you convert that to fresh 100 #dollar bills & stack it, it will be ~ 21 cm tall - about as tall as a toaster.

And what about a #Trillionaire? A stack of 100 $ bills worth 1 trillion $ will be ~ 1100 km tall! Laid on its side, that's the distance between #Chicago & #Philadelphia!

#Billionaire #Musk

Wait! There is more!
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#spacex #Dollar #wealth #IPO #musk #billionaire #American #chicago #philadelphia #trillionaire

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2022: #Musk forced to buy #Twitter @ $44 B
Value crashed due to #HateSpeech and his #rhetoric

2025: #xAI acquires #X (Twitter) @ $45 B
xAI's tech founders have all left
#Colossus #datacenter is underutilized
Operating #loss in 2025: $6.4 B

2026: SpaceX acquires xAI @ $1.25 T Pre-IPO statements indicate massive losses
Seeking $1.75 T from #IPO = 93.5 × revenue! (note: #profits are negative)

This isn't going to work!

src: fool.com/investing/2026/05/27/…

Unless...
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A line of falling dominoes. credit: Kurt:S @ flickr.com

SpaceX Just Revealed Its Finances. Is It a Warning Sign to Stay Away? | The Motley Fool

The company is losing money and bleeding cash.
Geoffrey Seiler (The Motley Fool)
#hatespeech #twitter #IPO #musk #x #XAI #datacenter #profits #loss #rhetoric #colossus
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Gokul Das

Unless his #space #datacenter works. #SpaceX's own #Starlink internet service is their only profitable service and the largest customer of their #launch services. It generates 61% of their #revenue. But starlink market won't grow forever.

So the only way to overcome the loss is if #Musk's #SpaceDatacenter is deployed on a massive scale. But don't hold your breath! I'm a space engineer. Here's my take on the idea:
fosstodon.org/@goku12/11576915…

Another #hyperloop style #scam!

Now what?
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A datacenter in orbit around Earth. credit: Starcloud

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#Space fans seem excited about the emerging plans to launch and operate #AIDataCenters in orbit. Sincerely, does anybody realise how difficult that actually is? Did they genuinely have a massive breakthrough in #spacecraft design? Or is this yet anot…
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#space #spacex #Starlink #Hyperloop #musk #scam #launch #revenue #datacenter #spacedatacenter
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Gokul Das

Now? The realistic scenario is that world's richest man will tank your #pensions, after condemning millions of poor and sick people to death by cutting aid. You can look forward to working for every plate of food, when you're old and your bones are aching. You don't even get the cash you invested.

Benefits for the #rich & risks for the #poor!

I hate this, but I don't know the solution. The entire system is rigged for a few #sociopaths to splurge, while the rest struggle to survive.

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Scrooge McDuck swimming in his treasure. credit: Disney
#rich #poor #sociopaths #pensions
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Gokul Das

NOTE: Musk needed a justification for the merger of X, xAI and SpaceX. So he created the concept of a Space AI datacenter - one that combines the function of all 3 divisions. Check my linked thread to see why this is largely a fantasy.

Also note that many of these will require the Starship, which is struggling with technical issues, despite a recent success. The ship is yet to enter orbit after 12 fights. That's unusual in space industry.

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An upcoming release of the #Chrome #browser (ver. 150 or 151) will either disable all #adblockers, or render them ineffective. Those who gifted Chrome and its derivatives an overwhelming market dominance have two options:

1. Switch to a non-Chrome based browser. That's limited to #Firefox and its derivatives for now. Hopefully more in the future.

2. Surrender your online #privacy, #security and #agency forever to #bigtech companies like #Google.

cybernews.com/security/chrome-…

#privacy #security #Google #bigtech #firefox #browser #chrome #agency #adblockers

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Pirate Praveen 普拉文

I use gnome web on my laptop.

Some websites have issues sometimes, like mouse cursor position is not where it is shown or it needs a restart after keeping it open for a long time, misses plugins like pass.

But I still use it as my primary browser. I hope these gets solved eventually.

This is backed by #Apple, but they don't have as much power on the web as #Google.

#epiphany #gnomeweb

#Google #Apple #epiphany #GNOMEWeb
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Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web. 😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it.

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-se…

#AI #AISearch #Google

Image of old Google with the title "How it started" and an image of the new Google with AI titled, "How it's going" and a text with an arrow pointing at Google's new AI search saying, "This is killing the open web"

Google's "new era for AI Search" is killing the open web | Tuta

Google calls its intelligent AI-powered Search box the "biggest upgrade in over 25 years," but we must consider what is happening to the open web (yes, the one that trained the AI). Let's look at why it's bad, and what we can do about it.
Tuta
#AI #Google #AIsearch
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Lately I have been moving my workflows away from Microsoft Office and onto LibreOffice. For a while, I couldn't figure out how to manage images in a Writer document like I did in Word, but finally figured it out.

I did a quick write up of what I experienced and how I was able to setup Writer to work like Word -- and keep my workflow the same. It was an easy change.

ultramookie.com/2026/06/libreo…

cc: @libreoffice@fosstodon.org

#software #libreoffice #microsoft #office #office365 #howto

LibreOffice Writer, Microsoft Word and Images

I use two apps in Microsoft Office: Word and Excel. I have been moving away from relying on Office and using LibreOffice instead. The switch from Excel to Calc was easy.
Steve Mookie Kong (ultramookie)
@LibreOffice
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Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎

I will definitely give this a read, but as someone who used Microsoft Word for 35 years, the switch to Libre Writer has been an uphill battle. On the surface, it seems remarkably similar, but when you dig down deep into the "power user" features for formatting, etc., it's an exercise in frustration to get it to work the way I expect it to.
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Many AUR packages have been compromised - forum.tromjaro.com/t/many-aur-…

We explain how to check if you were infected.

#aur #aurexploit #linux #xfce #tromjaro #manjaro #foss #opensource #atomicarch

Many AUR packages have been compromised

You can read the entire thing here - Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit But basically it seems that hundreds of AUR packages that were not maintained in a while got “updated” with a malicious code.
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#Linux #opensource #foss #manjaro #AUR #xfce #TROMjaro #aurexploit #atomicarch

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If you bought the hardware, you should have the final say on the software. Google's plan to block unverified apps is a direct attack on user sovereignty. keepandroidopen.org @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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#keepandroidopen @Keep Android Open

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Thank you Raza for becoming our new TROM supporter - tromsite.com/donate/

We should release new content for TROM very soon!

#trom #tromsite

#trom #tromsite

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Android's strength was its decentralized nature. Google's plan to mandate central registration for every single app developer destroys that. We must resist this centralization of power. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen keepandroidopen.org

Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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#keepandroidopen @Keep Android Open

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A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math.

youtube.com/watch?v=pXVmkurTOg…

This felt like an important video to share.

Thumbnail of the video from YouTube. You can see a rocket explosion in the background, with a picture of Hank Green in front. The text on the left reads "You don't understand how many people there are".

A Rocket Exploded. We Need to do Math.

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Hank Green (YouTube)

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I hitchhiked from the info center at Þingvellir National Park to Geyser and the waterfall Gullfoss. Gullfoss runs down two faults through an incredible canyon, and geyser is the one that gave the name "geyser" to all geysers ☺️ (though its neighbor Strokkur is the one erupting more often these days). Both are very touristy but incredible sights; definitely worth seeing. I didn't wait long to catch a lift and I met some interesting people on my way, including a British geologist who gave me some fascinating insight. I'll explain it all later in my peertube videos 😉

#iceland #hiking #camping #nature #travel #gullfoss #geyser

#nature #travel #Iceland #hiking #Camping #gullfoss #geyser

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“No matter how much they try to beef up a law to make it accurate or effective, we can't get away from the fact that the internet will always route around censorship, and that teens are very tech savvy — whether you like it or not,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told Utah Public Radio. upr.org/politics/2026-06-04/ut…

Utah VPN law faces federal lawsuit from Pornhub's parent company

A law passed earlier this year would have required adult websites to continue enforcing age restrictions for Utah users — even if those users tried to disguise their location with a VPN.
Naomi Cragun (Utah Public Radio)

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#AppFatigue IPA: /æp/ /fəˈtiːɡ/ (n) The tendency to NOT install new apps on your mobile phone because you finally understand that most apps should just be a website so you can seamlessly use a service on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device. Also a sign of distrust as apps are black boxes with access to a lot of data sources that invade your privacy in ways you can hardly quantify.
#appfatigue
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Working hard to release our new TROM Project: TROM Articles. New content. More easily accessible than the books. A huge article is already done and some 80% designed. Hopefully we will release soon! ;)

#trom #tromsite

#trom #tromsite

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This illusion was new to me. Does whichever dot you look at turn more purple?

Pretty neat how clearly this lets you see the reduced sensitivity to blue light in the very centre of your vision.

schulz-hildebrandt.com/9-purpl…

arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

Blue dots on a greyish blue background

The 9 Purple Dots Illusion

Are this Dots Blue or Purple? Here you can find background information about the recently published "9 Purple Dot Illusion"
Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt
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Age verification: protecting kids from GrapheneOS since 2026.

The fucking state of everything, I swear!

Cassandrich

2026-06-05 19:19:36

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"Age verification" company Yoti caught admitting to blocking GrapheneOS users and "reporting them to authorities".

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Whenever I'm forced to use commercial, proprietary software, I look into open-source alternatives because I know it's only a matter of time before the company in question tries to fuck me with a random change to its terms of service.

By the way, Plex users, welcome to Jellyfin.

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