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> - #kupfer-development - https://gnome.element.io/#/room/#kupfer-devel:matrix.org
> - #kupfer-community - https://gnome.element.io/#/room/#kupfer-community:matrix.org
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Some time ago there was dismay on Mastodon (and Pleroma ?) instances about data scraping. Before that happened there were privacy concerned people automatically deleting their own toots, limiting them for example to the latest toots for thirty days. With Lemmy things are different since Lemmy is a link aggregator rather than micro blogging, and Mastodon has boost option (Called replay with Pleroma ?). However deleting your older comments (but not posts) automatically would be really nice for privacy reasons.
August 14, 2021 is the expected party time. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00003.html
More comments : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27939039
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Wow. The probably most popular on-line shop in Holland and Belgium is selling Linux laptops, with currently a choice of twenty laptops with Linux preinstalled, prices go from about 500 to over 3000 Euros. They usually partner with other companies to deliver the products. The names of these Linux laptops companies were unknown to me till today.
(Not wanting to "spam" in favor of them, only wanting to share this development, but if you want to fact check, try "linux laptop kopen" without the "" in Duckduckgo, and choose Belgium for country, and you will probably see that big name as the first hit).
Source image : https://ludditus.com/2021/04/15/looking-for-purity-in-arch-linux/
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Looks fun, but needs more attendees
Toying today with an upgrade from Buster to Bullseye I saw this on a desktop install, with no IRC clients or servers installed.
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*The desktop hasn't really taken over the world like Linux has in many other areas, but just looking at my own use, my desktop looks so much better than I ever could have imagined. Despite the fact that I'm known for sometimes not being very polite to some of the desktop UI people, because I want to get my work done. Pretty is not my primary thing. I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That's why, to me, it's not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it's a really hard area to enter. I'm still working on it. It's been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I'll wear them down.*
[Torvalds, Linus (2016-04-07). Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop. Retrieved on 2016-04-07.](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds)
(Found via https://mastodon.social/@hntooter but for some reason I can't find it on HN)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/72428
> From time I have been wondering if there is even such thing.
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> To be exact, I know that ICS protocol is not standard but just wanted to use XBoard and similar clients in places and platforms where Lichess cannot be used.
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Previous one was from 2013.
Just mentioning for FYI reasons, for installation there is : https://wiki.parabola.nu/Installation_Guide#Blind_and_visually_impaired_users
I think the problem is somewhat comparable with what one can see with LineageOS. If you have or buy a phone which is not so popular and there is only one developer of LOS for your device it can happen that one day the developer will buy a new phone or start a different life and drops development. With Linux and related software project it is still pretty often hobby or community projects (See the development of Thunderbird going from Mozilla umbrella to community, and Ubuntu Touch being dropped by Canonical but picked up by ubports community). For example, if you are an open source developer and you live with housemates who are into Matrix and Signal for communication, it would be no surprise that you would want to work on that as well. Of course there are bigger projects like KDE (Gnome looks big but seems to suffer lately with a few projects, e.g. Evolution and Geary seem currently basically one person driven projects) which are not so much “hobby projects” anymore and could focus on this.
A possibly solution ? Reach out to blind people and work with them. For example : Start a new house community project with a few KDE projects living with a few blind people and a few motivated open source contributors for say one year. I am sure that things can be accomplished.
Good green and cheap choices : Posteo and Mailbox.org
We are waiting for the free #Debian 11 instead! Who too?
We'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the Debian contributors for their work in the past and on the upcoming #Bullseye release. Thank you for reliably powering Codeberg since day one!
https://mastodon.technology/@codeberg/106436706496210275
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Flang is a board game similar to chess or shogi but differs in some special rules. If you like chess or other board games, you might want to try this one.
The unique thing about flang is the freeze mechanic. Once you move one of your pieces, it cannot be moved in your next turn because it is freezed except for the king.
(I tried it, much fun! Seems inspired by Lichess, uses the same sounds. Makes me wonder why the Lichess app never made it into F-Droid)
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This is about the Mastodon instance of the University of Twente, Holland. Fetched from : https://mastodon.utwente.nl/@fabi/106414293540395499
Good humor of that software author ;)
Cool looking project btw, and nice domain name https://brow.sh Been on my to-do list for some time to test it (One day...)
As a result of this meeting and our review, the FSF and GNU have decided to relocate our IRC channels to Libera.Chat. Effective immediately, Libera is the official home of our channels, which include but are not limited to all those in the #fsf, #gnu, and #libreplanet namespaces.
On June 25th, at 10:00 AM EDT (UTC 14:00), we plan to forward any channels remaining in the #fsf, #gnu, and #libreplanet namespaces on the Freenode network to their corresponding ##fsf, ##gnu, and ##libreplanet counterparts. As per Freenode policy, channels with the ## prefix are unofficial "topical" channels, and accordingly, they will not be moderated by GNU or FSF staff.
Please note that the irc.gnu.org address, which has historically pointed to the Freenode network, will be disabled on June 25th, to give any users still connecting with this address sufficient notice.
Had not noticed this mouse over text before for Remmina ;)
After debugging for hours and hours and searching every corner of the Internet you are about to give up but then there is this magical looking post with glowing letters with exactly the same question you had showing the most happy word SOLVED ...
Troy Hunt (Microsoft) went open source with HIBP - https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned
Debian v11 with codename bullseye is supposed to be released as new stable release soon-ish (let’s hope for June, 2021! :)). Similar to what we had with #newinbuster and previous releases, now it’s time for #newinbullseye!
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Not the traditional "western" chess, but I'd like to give this lichess alike (open source, free, no ads) cool site for Shogi more attention. There is also https://lidraughts.org/ for checkers.
Article in Dutch but with full games (and pgn download option) and photos. Fun trivia : The Europe Chess website mistakenly reported that the GM lost "against the much lower rated boy" (Eline is a girl). The decisive game part is shown in beginning of the article, for the full games of Eline you need to scroll down all the way.
Ksnip is a free and open source Qt5 screenshot tool that runs on Linux (X11, Plasma Wayland, GNOME Wayland and with this release, xdg-desktop-portal Wayland), Windows and macOS.
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I noticed that Scid on the go is a much older version on F-Droid, from 2013, than the source code one, which is from Mar 14, 2020. https://github.com/gkalab/scidonthego Is there a reason for it ? Does it not compile for F-Droid ? I know I best ask in the F-Droid forum but maybe someone here knows the answer.
Several people on Mastodon delete their old toots. Here a blog post from a well-known person on Mastodon with their reasons : https://kevq.uk/why-i-delete-old-content/
excerpt : I also wouldn’t want something I’ve said years ago be taken out of context (or taken correctly, but I’ve changed my opinion since). So it’s easier to delete my shizzle.