✅ Haircut finally ✅ Tire replaced finally ❌ Hotel room for the week
I couldn't find our clothes in our overfilled storage unit in time and had to give up and buy a new set of work clothes, which took a bit of my budget for our hotel room. 🙄
I also tipped the stylist generously since it took so long to get rid of six months worth of hair, which took a little bit more of the budget.
I have moved an entire academic project funded by Open Research Area to Delta Chat @delta The project is called ClaimSov and is focused on analyzing discourses of "digital sovereignty" in EU, US, Russia and China.
We have started with the question which messenger to use for our project related communications. We wanted to play the game of "digital sovereignty" and I suggested Delta Chat. The team decided to give it a try. Now we are two months into the project, and all the 13 team members from three universities are sharing several group chats, actively using webxdc apps for planning our calls and seminars, editing texts, voting for various decisions, tracking things on our agenda and even gaming.
This is my first experience of using Delta Chat with my academic colleagues. I could only dream about convincing people, but that turned out so simple and I am glad we have done this!
Stell dir vor, bei einer Erdbebenkatastrophe mit Tausenden von Todesopfern liegst du seit Tagen schwer verletzt unter Staub und Schutt begraben. Endlich hörst du Stimmen und das Graben von Händen, bis dir plötzlich die Sonne ins Gesicht scheint und jemand sagt: "Lass sie liegen, bloß nicht anfassen! Komm, wir gehen weiter."
Strenge Kontaktverbote erschweren seit der Taliban-Machtübernahme die medizinische Behandlung von Frauen. Nach dem jüngsten Erdbeben mussten Frauen offenbar sehr lange auf Hilfe warten
She spells out WTF YOUR GOVERNMENTS DID TO HER COUNTRY. Bitches. How Syria WELCOMED ALL THOSE REFUGEES WITHOUT EVER ASKING ANYONE FOR ONE FUCKING PENNY FROM ANYONE, BITCHES
I SWEAR 99% of so called anarchists in the west are stupid, cops, or feds...
Attorney General Platkin Joins Multistate Coalition in Opposing Trump Administration’s Proposed Rollback of Abortion Care for Veterans and Their Famil... njoag.gov/attorney-general-pla…
„Strenge Kontaktverbote erschweren seit der Taliban-Machtübernahme die medizinische Behandlung von Frauen. Nach dem jüngsten Erdbeben mussten Frauen offenbar sehr lange auf Hilfe warten“ (wir sollten dankbar sein für jede Frau, die dort entkommt, und sie aufnehmen!) derstandard.at/story/300000028…
A study of the Liverpool boycott of The Sun newspaper following the Hillsborough disaster has found that the boycott shaped people's perceptions of political parties and made people more left wing.
Fine del supporto a Firefox 32-bit su Linux #firefox Mozilla ha annunciato che interromperà il supporto per Firefox su sistemi Linux a 32-bit con la versione 145, prevista per il 2026. Fino ad allora, la versione stabile 144 sarà l’ultima a includere anche i build per sistemi a 32-bit.
#Republicans are not colleagues with whom to collaborate, they are enemies to be defeated. Anyone who doesn't realize that right now is a liability to us.
Non sarà che a forza di insistere Calenda riesce a infilarsi nel governo? Tajani ha un'idea meravigliosa. Per questo non gli rimane tempo per fare il ministro degli Esteri [.....]
Non sarà che a forza di insistere Calenda riesce a infilarsi nel governo? Tajani ha un’idea meravigliosa. Per questo non gli rimane tempo per fare il ministro degli Esteri […..]
La rivelazione del New York Times: il gruppo doveva installare un dispositivo per intercettare le comunicazioni di Kim durante i colloqui nucleari con Trump, m…
Infestation: Origins just crawled out of Early Access and onto full release today—and yes, this is the co-op horror game that puts a grotesque, Steamboat Willie–era Mickey Mouse in your crosshairs.
When it first appeared back in November 2024, it caught headlines because Disney’s grip on Steamboat Willie slipped into the public domain that very week.
Nightmare Forge Games wasted no time dropping their exterminator sim, where the infestations aren’t bed bugs or rats but twisted, public-domain mascots. Cue a disclaimer on the Steam page reminding you that this isn’t endorsed by Disney or anyone else—and also cue Disney’s lawyers grinding their teeth.
Gameplay is simple in premise but nasty in execution. You’re an exterminator called in to handle infestations, which means navigating episodic missions, flipping breakers, choking off spreading corruption, and ultimately surviving boss encounters.
It’s built around online four-player co-op with proximity and global voice chat, though you can run it solo if you’d rather not herd randoms. Private lobbies are supported.
Visually? Perfectly cromulent. Nothing AAA, but the lighting and grime do their job. Minimum specs are modest—GTX 1050, 8 GB RAM—but crank it up and DLSS support smooths things out on mid-range rigs. Engine is Unity.
Windows-only by default, but Steam Deck users report it “runs good” despite janky controller menus, which implies it’s Linux-friendly via Proton.
Reception so far: “Mostly Positive” on Steam, hovering around 78%. Caveat emptor—most reviews are from the Early Access period. That said, Nightmare Forge seems to have added new polish and content for 1.0, including a reworked first episode now dubbed Willie’s Rage.
The price is a ridiculous C$6.29 at launch with a discount until September 19. And for a co-op horror romp starring the world’s most famous rodent in flames, it feels like a bargain.
Disney may not approve—but it doesn’t matter. Mickey’s ours now.
By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives.
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 has undergone many changes, such as the setup wizard, the favorites to the clipboard manager, and quick settings toggle. Now, we have another page that is being on the way to the stable KDE Plasma 6.5 release ahead of the Akademy event, called “App Permissions.” As you can see, the “Flatpak Permissions” page, which only showed permissions for all Flatpak applications installed in your system, has now been expanded to cover a more broad range of applications other than the Flatpak ones. To do this, the page has been renamed to “App Permissions.”
It not only allows you to configure permissions for each app separately, but it also allows you to configure settings related to the XDG portal system, such as taking screenshots of an application. Alongside this, there is a brand new permission that allows apps that use the XDG portal to set lock and home screen wallpapers.
You can learn more about this week’s changes here.
This week, the KDE team has officially pushed the initial system setup wizard to the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 environment. This ensures that the Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) principle is applied when setting up the KDE desktop for the first time.
This was inspired by the idea that the introductory window would show up when you first start up KDE Plasma. However, the Welcome Center doesn’t do a job related to user accounts: it’s about setting up a user account for you! So, to solve this problem, the setup wizard will start when you start KDE for the first time, especially on OEM installations.
From now on, when you start your computer that has KDE installed for the first time, you’ll be greeted with this screen: The same official blog article that will be linked below shows you another part of the setup wizard, which, along with the username creation, is the keyboard layout and the language selection. To learn more about the setup wizard, as well as many improvements that landed to this version of KDE Plasma, click on the below button.
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.
Coordinamento: Giacomo Basile Conduzione Valerio Francesco Silenzi Ticker: Clara Lacorte e Flavia Falduto Digiwall: Greta Giglio Collegamento: Leonardo Macciocca In redazione: Filippo Saggioro Marco Bertolini Antonio Fera Alessi Garzina Pietro… L'articolo Tg del 5 Settembre 2025 su Lumsanews.
The "unlisted" or "quiet public" post visibility setting on Mastodon is often misunderstood.
An unlisted post DOES NOT show up in search results, trends, hashtag follows or the Local/Federated timelines.
An unlisted post DOES show up in the Home timelines of your followers, including when you make a thread with replies.
If you want to avoid your own long threads cluttering up followers' Home timelines, use a Fediverse server or platform that supports very high character limits.
Yes, and it would still be great to see a #Mastodon web and mobile app feature to collapse series of consecutive self-replies exceeding two to the first and last (in order) with a bar in between showing “View n more replies in thread,” clicking/tapping which opens the first post in the series.
Not everyone someone follows is going to change instances, so it would be better to have an option to follow someone who posts long threads without cluttering one’s feed.
p.s. If you reply in either Public or Unlisted, it will only show up in your followers' timelines if they follow you AND the person you're replying to.
They will also see your threads where you reply to yourself.
@mottenfest I see replies from people I follow to people I do not constantly when they are unlisted, I also see unlisted posts with hashtags I follow from people I don't.
@mottenfest Ok so on the hashtag thing I thought your thing above said you would only see public posts with those tags from people you do not follow, if that's incorrect I may have misread the part. I have several replies in my home right now to people I do not follow and I cannot find any tags I follow in either the thread or on the users profile. I also see followers only replies from people I follow to people I do not and I cannot view chunks of replies in those threads.
@dhamlinmusic I used to have that happen on twitter, and it annoyed the heck out of me. 💀 There was an option to switch it off though, I wonder if it's the same here?
I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" 🤔 So here's xscreensaver safely rendered as a background for Plasma screen locker, working on both Wayland and X11 sessions. Turned out so much simpler than I expected 😁 Just some 70 lines of pure QML and a tiny glue to launch the process.
I don't really understand what this is, but here's where I got stuck last time I tried to solve this: jwz.org/b/ykrj So if you have a portable solution, I'd love to hear it.
Welp, I got crickets in answer to my question, "How do I find the wl_surface backing an Xwayland X11 Window?" and that does not bode well for XScreenSaver ever being able to lock your screen on Wayland.
@jwz This is Plasma specific - it's effectively making kscreenlocker outsource its background rendering to another process, which doesn't even have to be aware that it's being used as a screensaver (or a wallpaper, it's the same there). That said, there's no reason other DEs couldn't handle it the same way. A ext-session-lock-v1 locker could also become a simple compositor like this and just pass the buffer forward.
@jwz This one is a simple nested compositor indeed, as that's what was easy to do with the available ready-made building blocks 😀 But technically it doesn't even have to be a "compositor" at all to do this. Wayland itself is a buffer-passing protocol with some optional extras on top after all, so it could pass the client's wl_buffer straight to the server.
How it works? It's a Plasma wallpaper plugin which is an extremely simple QtWayland compositor that only handles a single fullscreen window and draws it - so any Wayland window can be drawn as a background. This window can of course also belong to Xwayland 😄
This means we can go beyond xscreensaver. How about... Wine? 😁
And here it is! Welcome back as my screensaver, Asciiquarium 😊
I could have reimplemented it in Qt, as it was done back in the KDE 3/4 days... or I could just run the original thing in a Konsole window and call it a day 😁
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