Thanks and farewell to Steven Deobald
Steven Deobald has been in the post of GNOME Foundation Executive Director for the past four months, during which time he has made major contributions to both the Foundation and the wider GNOME project. Sadly, Steven will be leaving the Foundation this week. The Foundation Board is extremely grateful to Steven and wish him the very best for his future endeavors.
The Executive Director role is extremely diverse and it is hard to list all of Steven’s contributions since he has been in post. However, particular highlights include:
- energetic engagement with the GNOME community, including weekly updates focused on the Foundation’s support of GNOME development, and attention to topics of importance to our contributors, such as Pride Month and Disability Pride
- the creation of a new donations platform, which included both a new website, detailed evaluation of payment processors, and a strategy for distributing donations to GNOME development
- a focus on partner outreach, including attending UN Open Source Week, adding postmarketOS to our Advisory board, and the creation of a new Advisory Board Matrix channel, alongside many conversations with partner organisations
- internal policy and documentation work, particularly around spending and finances
- the addition of new tooling to augment policies and documentation, such as an internal Foundation Handbook and vault.gnome.org
- assistance with the board, including recruiting a new treasurer and vice-treasurer
We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the conclusion that Steven is not the right fit for the Executive Director role at this time. We are therefore bidding Steven a fond farewell.
I know that some members of the GNOME community will be disappointed by this decision. I can assure everyone that it wasn’t one that we took lightly, and had to consider from different perspectives.
The good news is that Steven has left the Foundation with a strong platform on which to build, and we have an energetic and engaged board which is already working to fill in the gaps left by his departure. I’m confident that the Foundation can continue on the positive trajectory started by Steven, with a strong community-based executive taking the reins.
To this end, the board held its regular annual meeting this week, and appointed new directors to key positions. I’ve taken over the president’s role from Rob McQueen, who has now joined Arun Raghavan as one of two Vice-Presidents. The Executive Committee has been expanded with the inclusion of Arun and Maria Majadas (who is our new Chair). We have also bolstered the Finance Committee, and are looking to create new groups for fundraising and communications.
Steven has been very helpful in working on a smooth transition, and our staff are continuing to work as normal, so Foundation operations won’t be affected by these management changes. In the near future we’ll be pushing forward with the fundraising plans that Steven has set out, and are hopeful about being able to provide more financial support for the GNOME project as a result. If you want to help us with that, please get in touch.
Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to president@gnome.org.
On behalf of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors,
– Allan
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Current members: Allan Day (President, ex officio), Robert McQueen (Vice President, ex officio), Arun Raghavan (Vice President, ex officio), Maria Majadas (Chair, ex officio), Julian Sparber. Commi...GNOME Project Handbook
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Syncthing Windows Setup. Contribute to Bill-Stewart/SyncthingWindowsSetup development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This Week in Plasma: Saved clipboard items and tablet touch rings
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week saw huge improvements to the Plasma clipboard, KRunner, and drawing tablet support — not to mention a bunch of UI improvements in Discover, and plenty more, too! So without further ado…
Notable New Features
Plasma’s clipboard now lets you mark entries as favorites, and they’ll be permanently saved so you can always access them easily! This is very useful when you find yourself pasting the same common text snippets all the time. The feature request was 22 years old; this may be a new record for oldest request ever implemented in KDE! (Kendrick Ha, link)
Plasma now lets you configure touch rings on your drawing tablet! (Joshua Goins, link)
Discover now lets you install hardware drivers that are offered in your operating system’s package repos! (Evan Maddock, link)
KRunner and KRunner-powered searches can now find global shortcuts! (Fushan Wen, link)
Notable UI Improvements
Plasma 6.5.0
KRunner and KRunner-powered searches now use fuzzy matching for applications. (Harald Sitter, link)
Discover now lets you write a review for apps that don’t have any reviews yet. (Nate Graham, link)
On operating systems using RPM-OSTree (like Fedora Kinoite), there’s no longer an awkward red icon used in the sidebar and other places you’d expect black or white icons. (Justin Zobel, link)
KDE Gear 25.12.0
Opening a disk in KDE Partition Manager from its entry in Plasma’s Disks & Devices widget no longer mounts the disk, which is annoying since you’ll then have to unmount it in the app before you can do anything with it. (Joshua Goins, link 1 and link 2)
Notable Bug Fixes
Plasma 6.4.5
Fixed a critical issue that could cause the text of a sticky note on a panel to be permanently lost if that panel was cloned and then later deleted. This work also changes handling for deleted notes’ underlying data files: now they’re moved to the trash, rather than being deleted immediately. Should be a lot safer now! (Niccolò Venerandi, link 1 and link 2)
Fixed a very common KWin crash when changing display settings that was accidentally introduced recently. (David Edmundson, link)
Made a few strings in job progress notifications translatable. (Victor Ryzhykh, link)
Fixed an issue that could allow buttons with long text to overflow from System Monitor’s process killer dialog when the window was very very small. (Nate Graham, Link)
Fixed an issue in the time zone chooser map that would cause it to not zoom to the right location when changing the time zone using one of the comboboxes. (Kai Uwe Broulik, link)
The warnings shown by System Settings’ Fonts page in response to various conditions will now be shown when you adjust all the fonts at once, not only when you adjust one at a time. (Nate Graham, link)
Plasma 6.5.0
Fixed a case where Plasma could crash while you were configuring the weather widget. (Bogdan Onofriichuk, link)
Fixed an issue that could cause System Settings to crash while quitting when certain pages were open. (David Redondo, link)
Plasma is now better at remembering if you wanted Bluetooth on or off on login. (Nicolas Fella, link)
Panels in Auto-Hide, Dodge Windows, and Windows Go Below modes will now respect the opacity setting. (Niccolò Venerandi, link)
Frameworks 6.18
Fixed an issue that caused Plasma to crash when dragging files from Dolphin to the desktop or vice versa when the system was set up with certain types of mounts. (David Edmundson, link)
Other bug information of note:
- 4 very high priority Plasma bugs (down from 5 last week). Current list of bugs
- 26 15-minute Plasma bugs (down from 27 last week). Current list of bugs
Notable in Performance & Technical
Plasma 6.5.0
Implemented support for “overlay planes” on single-output setups, which have the potential to significantly reduce GPU and power usage for compatible apps displaying full-screen content. Note that NVIDIA GPUs are currently opted out because of unresolved driver issues. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Implemented support for drag-and-drop to and from popups created by Firefox extensions, and presumably other popups implemented with the same xdg_popup system, too. (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
Fixed an issue that would cause V-Sync to be inappropriately disabled in certain games using the SDL library. (Xaver Hugl, link)
Undetermined release date
The annotating feature in Spectacle has been extracted into a re-usable library so that it can also be used in other apps in the future! Such integration is still in progress (as is working out a release schedule for the git repo that the library lives in now), but you’ll hear about it once it’s ready! (Noah Davis and Carl Schwan, link)
How You Can Help
KDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.
You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved somehow. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist, too.
You can also help us by making a donation! A monetary contribution of any size will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors, and in general just keep KDE bringing Free Software to the world.
To get a new Plasma feature or a bugfix mentioned here, feel free to push a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.
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This is a patch that we created for Solus to enable users to use Discover to install hardware drivers when using the PackageKit backend. By having this in...GitLab
- Plasma now lets you configure touch rings on your drawing tablet! (Joshua Goins, link) -> screenshot
I am not a graphics designer, but i have a graphics tablet with such a touch ring. Wanted to use it for some photo editing and this really bugged me in the past. Finally its solved and hopefully the ring can be used to change brush size or zoom in and out in example.
Forgotten Toronto: Inside the great ‘clown riots’ of 1855 — and the coverup that changed the city’s policing forever
Forgotten Toronto: Inside the great ‘clown riots’ of 1855 — and the coverup that changed the city’s policing forever
How a normal circus visit turned into a vicious battle between clowns, firefighters and the powers that ran Toronto.The Toronto Star
The ever expanding great scientist Exodus list
- Li Hanfeng
- Hu Yijuan
- Yi Shouliang
- Xie Yimin
- Shang Rui
- Wang Zhonglin
- Guo-Jun Qi
- Ma Donghan and Ma Dongxin
- Xie Xiaoliang
- Sun Huanbo
- Charles Lieber
- Chen Jing
- Li Yongxi
- She Yiyuan
- Pan Linfeng
- Andrew Yao
- Terence Tao
- Joshua Zahl
- Zhong Xiao
- Chen Min and shen jie
- huaxin lin
- wang xujia
- ma xiaonan
- kenji fukaya
- Sun song
- Sun xin
- Vladimir Markovic
- Guo zaiping
- Dang yang and mu ming poo
- Sun Nan
- Duan luming
- Chen Zhoufeng
- Nieng Yan
- Sun shao cong
- Quan Guocong
- Yuriy Semenov
- Zhang chengqi
- Lu wei
- Yau Shing-Tung
- Zhang Yaqin
- Ronald eils and Irina Lehmann
- Giorgio Parisi
- Liu chang
- Chen Hudong
- Julian cheng
- Wang jing
- Niu Fenglin
- Wang Xujia
- Zhang Yonghao
- Chen deliang
- Gérard Mourou
- Feng Gensheng
- Zhou Ming
- Zhang Yitang
- Shan Liang
- Cao Ting
- Mohd Rizal Arshad
- Luo Weiwei
- Dong Sijia
Rising academic star who left US for China’s ‘unprecedented’ opportunities dies aged 33
News of marine scientist Dong Sijia’s death emerged in a journal and there has been no official word from her university.Dannie Peng (South China Morning Post)
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Aug 29, 2025A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
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Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class | Common Dreams
Jon Queally
Aug 29, 2025
A new poll reveals that Americans continue to support organized labor at historic levels, even as the Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress take a battering ram to union rights and the nation's working class.Gallup's annual survey, released Thursday, shows more than two-thirds of people in the US (68%) approve of labor unions and the economic security and prosperity they provide working families. The popular support matches record-high numbers of recent years after a long decline from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Support for Labor Unions Near Historic High as Trump Trashes Working Class
"Working people want unions and the numbers prove it," says one labor leader. "While billionaires and their yes-men in Congress try to slash wages, gut health care, and silence working people, we are fighting back—organizing, mobilizing, and demandin…jon-queally (Common Dreams)
Maker of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile facing corruption probe
Exclusive: Maker of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile facing corruption probe
Ukraine's anti-corruption agency has been investigating the country's star deep-strike drone company — Fire Point — over concerns it misled the government on pricing and deliveries, five sources with knowledge of the investigation told the Kyiv Indep…Kollen Post (The Kyiv Independent)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
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Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
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Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza' | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins
Aug 29, 2025
Palestine defenders are preparing for the latest—and largest—Freedom Flotilla Coalition mission to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break Israel's US-backed genocidal siege on the embattled Palestinian territory.Dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from as many as 44 nations are set to take part in the Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means "perseverance" in Arabic—as it attempts to run Israel's naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza.
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to 'Break Israel's Illegal Siege on Gaza'
"Our boats carry more than aid. They carry a message—the siege must end. The greater danger lies not in confronting Israel at sea, but in allowing genocide to continue with impunity."brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Its not suicide if you die from defacto slave labor to create cheap products. Since this strategy of state-subsidised factories, normally operating a massive net loss, being employed to undermine economies around the world in exchange for dependence on China, a workers suicide could be ruled a MIA since its economic warfare. Not suicide.
~ The Chinese government, probably
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‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
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:::‘What you feel is valid’: Social media is a lifeline for many abused and neglected young people
Young people who are being abused or neglected are more likely to turn to informal online support systems than to authorities.The Conversation
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.
Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization’s About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, policies, and protocols to advance the Fediverse. The Projects Page includes End-to-End Encryption, a Fediverse Starter Page, GDPR Compliance, and Long-Form Text.However, the SWF has been working on several interesting projects outside of these stated scopes, and it’s something Evan Prodromou has been bullish about: leveraging the ActivityPub Client-to-Server API. Historically, this piece of the ActivityPub protocol is rarely ever implemented, due to complexity as well as the fact that Mastodon’s own client API has seen widespread adoption.
A quick ActivityPub C2S primer
To really understand the C2S API, we have to go back in time to when the protocol was being developed. The basic concept was that any ActivityPub implementation would effectively act as a generic server, with clients providing unique experiences. Compared to Mastodon’s dedicated API, C2S isn’t explicitly limited to microblogging or statuses. Instead, clients dispatch activities to and from an Actor’s inbox and outbox.
Instead of every new social experience in the Fediverse acting as a bespoke server, the C2S API instead lets a wide range of clients interact with an instance. Instances no longer become specific delegates of what activities can or cannot be used. C2S opens the floodgates for any kind of application to hook in to a Fediverse account. Instead of an instance doing all the hard work, clients would handle much of the advanced logic themselves.
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There is a meaningful parallel to ActivityPub C2S, and oddly enough, it can be found within the AT Protocol’s ecosystem. Boris Mann presents a fantastic talk that shows radically different sets of apps that all do very different things, some of which have their own social graphs, leverage unique kinds of data, or offer interactions not available in other places.
Social Login
Setting aside unique applications for a moment, one of the key killer-features that ActivityPub C2S could offer the Fediverse is a coherent and streamlined login system for any Fediverse account.
I don’t know what this thing would look like or what we would collectively call it, but here’s some ideas.
This idea is actually not new. Pump.io, the prototype that largely became a foundation for ActivityPub’s design, offered the ability for people to remotely sign in to any other Pump server, using the account that was local to them. This was initially designed to let people interact with remote objects that their own instances had not yet collected.
Pump crawled so that ActivityPub could run.
The idea of a unified method for Social Web logins is extremely compelling. Right now, a lot of Fediverse apps offer platform-specific sign-on, leveraging a bunch of different APIs.
GreatApe, an upcoming media platform, offers four different ways to log in through the Fediverse.
The upside of this approach means that more apps and services can just let people sign in with their remote accounts, without creating a local account there. The downside is that it adds to the maintenance pile, because of how many different platforms exist within the Fediverse today.
What is the SWF is working on?
There are a few experimental areas where the Social Web Foundation is focusing on building up, so let’s talk about them. The main thing to understand is that these are building blocks, meant for iterative development and discussion with the wider community. As time has gone on, these projects have become more ambitious, and exist to showcase what’s possible with the C2S API.Places.Pub – GeoSocial Data
Places.pub is an attempt to marry OpenStreetMap data with ActivityPub by using specific GeoSocial parts of ActivityStreams. More specifically, it uses these vocabulary words for activities:Travel,Arrive, andLeave.One important need for geosocial software is that all objects in ActivityPub, including Place objects, need to have a permanent URL as theiridproperty, which shares the description of that object in Activity Streams 2.0 format. However, there isn’t a good dataset of geographical objects — countries, states or provinces or regions, cities, buildings, businesses, parks, streets — available in AS2 on the Web right now. That is slowing down experimentation in the Geosocial Task Force.Evan Prodromou, Blog Entry
Interestingly, Places.Pub operates as a hosted service by the SWF, and allows developers to connect to it using the C2S API. It simply acts as a repository of places, represented as ActivityPub objects.CheckIn – An Example Client for Using GeoSocial Data
Checkin is the example client developed specifically for interacting with Places.Pub. It’s a relatively simple app, but the intention is to demonstrate a proof-of-concept to the community.
Something like this could be used to build a Foursquare-style GeoSocial app, powered entirely by open APIs and protocols. As a bonus, the client-first approach here would mean that developers wouldn’t necessarily have to take on the burden of building a full-stack Foursquare clone with a server backend and federation.
ReactivityPub
Although this is still in the tentative stages, ReactivityPub is an upcoming effort to integrate the ActivityPub C2S API directly into the React framework. It may or may not be related to the ap-components project, which intends to offer a toolkit for rendering and representing ActivityPub data using Web Components.OnePage – A one-page ActivityPub Server
OnePage.pub is more of a personal project by Evan Prodromou, but could eventually be moved under the SWF project umbrella. Effectively, this acts as a headless server that’s primarily intended for the ActivityPub C2S API. It can be used to log into the CheckIn example client.Why is this important?
At face value, all of these developments might not appear to mean much. However, these are significant because it shows the SWF taking a progressive approach on several fronts. It showcases the benefits of a long-neglected API, while attempting to address several wide-spread design issues that affect the network. If the organization can continue to build libraries, tooling, and other resources, they might be able to drum up further interest in making C2S possible.
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Denmark issues first apology over forced contraception of Greenlandic women
Denmark issues first apology over forced contraception of Greenlandic women
Prime minister admits ‘systemic discrimination’ after thousands of girls and women fitted with IUDs without consentMiranda Bryant (The Guardian)
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Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
The fast food chain is reassessing its use of the tech after a number of errors were shared widely online.Shiona McCallum (BBC News)
It's fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They're really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they'll never learn.
Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.
Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.
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Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn
Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public spaceHelena Horton (The Guardian)
So short, and thanks for all the flinch | From Gnome Foundation's recently departed Executive Director
So short, and thanks for all the flinch
As the board announced earlier today, I will be stepping down from the Executive Director role this week. It's been an interesting four months. If you haven't been following my work with the...Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)
I bricked my drive. Help.
I wanted to install Aeon. In a youtube video, the dev said it's increadibly easy. It even asks if you want to backup existing users and it leaves their home folder as is. This info was backed up by the docs.
Once I clicked on "install now" it reminded me that there is no going back once it starts installing the system. I clicked on OK because usually the installation process starts at the end of the configuration phase.
It then loaded, and I feared that it really erases everything now and not after configurartion. I stopped the process by shutting down the computer.
The computer does not detect any filesystem. It should be ext4 if I remember correctly. fsck yields no result. It suggests using two different blocks but with no success. I can't mount anything. Hence I also can't fix grub.
Did I just erase my disk within one second? If so, I can just continue. If not, I'd like to backup some stuff. (Most is backed up, but not the most recent stuff)
Fsck is not a tool to find lost partitions or partition tables. Start from a Live USB stick (or one of the data rescue linux systems) and see what your harddisk/ssd looks like. Maybe the data is still there. If it's gone, try if a tool like testdisk finds your old partitions / old data.
There are some recovery tools available: wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_…
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