leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es

Post-Self is free for the rest of the week! https://itch.io/s/103433/skunks-etc

New position statement from a large cross-section of the #OpenSource community (including both @osi and @fsfe) with final comments about what's wrong with the #CRA - tl;dr:

"legal responsibility should only be on commercial entities supplying the software in the course of a commercial activity"

https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/cra-should-support-open-practices-open-source-and-development-european-open

#FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareFreedom #security #Europe #Policy

Want to support a decentralized and FOSS social VR platform? Help me make barkvr a reality, let's make what these platforms should have been from the start.

Support us here please:
https://www.patreon.com/pupperdev
https://ko-fi.com/zodiepupper

PSA: Google has now begun to roll-out the Ad Topics "feature" onto Android itself. It's not just in Chrome you have to disable the settings. Please #Boost to spread awareness.

If you didn't get the pop-up screen on your Android device (it'll look like the first two screenshots), to opt-out of these settings:

1. Go to your device Settings
2. Press on "Google"
3. Press on "Ads"
   • While you're here, press on the "Delete Advertising ID" button and delete it
4. Press on "Ad Privacy"
5. Review: "Ad Topics", "App-suggested ads", and "App Measurement". Make sure they are all labelled as "OFF". (This page will look like the third screenshot.)

If you don't see "Ad Privacy" in Step 4 then it means that it hasn't been rolled out to you yet. You might need to wait and check back in a couple of days to see if/when it has been implemented to disable these settings.

#Android #Google #Privacy #AdTopics

Coming soon: The Destiny of Dragons 10 Year Anniversary editions on Kickstarter! Follow the campaign to get notified when it goes live!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jfrcoates/the-destiny-of-dragons-10-year-anniversary

The #fediverse is international, but there may are continents with more users. Let’s proof that!

Which continent are you living on?
#poll #earth

Where to Buy eBooks (Other Than Amazon)

Every six months or so for the past several years, I’ve been doing a thread on Fedi about where to buy ebooks other than Amazon. It finally occurred to me that I could write it once, put it up on website, and update as needed, rather than constantly reinventing the wheel.

So, here we are. (And in spite of the title, this isn’t JUST about eBooks)...

https://jessmahler.com/where-to-buy-ebooks-other-than-amazon/

Don't like supporting Amazon? Don't blame you. There's better places to buy your books. Come take a look!

The "Oh No, #Unity has Done it Again" Sale!

My #GodotEngine course "Ultimate Godot User Interfaces Course (Game GUI and Inventory Systems)" is 80% off for the 1st time ever!

10h of content. Learn how to create complex data driven UI, dynamic systems w/ database of items & custom resources &+! #Godot

👉 Available on itch, DRM-free: https://splitpainter.itch.io/dynamic-inventory-system-and-ui-with-godot-course

ℹ️ The Dynamic Inventory System built in the course is open-source: https://github.com/alfredbaudisch/GodotDynamicInventorySystem #GameDev #Unity3D

Unity: We need more funding for engine development, therefore we will unilaterally increase fees and start charging per installation, or you can be exempt from that if you lock yourself into our advertising platform, and it's not like you can really switch to a competitor anyway

Godot: We need more funding for engine development, therefore we will cut out the donation processing middleman so that we get to keep more of your contribution, and do an additional funding drive for those who can afford it, but don't worry if you can't contribute!

I don't know, but if I were a game developer, I'd certainly be developing some Opinions around engine choices and sustainability right about now

Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5C7uct72cxGnEQJn6LqdSn
https://youtu.be/u4HnwqidYFo?si=2Dr9MM9mzi1cQmwr

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6

"Research shows 150 Indigenous communities acknowledge multiple genders; colonialism introduced idea of binary"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/indigenous-lgbtq-words-1.6953445

Every time I hear people argue that copyright is bad because rich psychopaths and powerful corporations abuse it, I think back to reading Jurassic Park and getting annoyed that Crichton really did write a novel about how science is bad because rich psychopaths and powerful corporations abuse it.

Think of how “X is bad because rich psychopaths and powerful corporations abuse it” is also regularly deployed to attack basic commerce, medicine, climate action, and many other things, and maybe, maybe you will finally notice that there’s actually one glaring common denominator right under your nose.

If you refuse to… well, I can only promise one thing: whatever you invent to replace copyright, please know in advance that rich psychopaths and powerful corporations will abuse it.

It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set.

#Plasma6 should land on your computer in February 2024 🤞.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/09/06/september-plasma-6-update/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at http://BlinkingGuy.com

Good morning. A reminder. #elon #elonmusk #tesla

Can we get a solarpunk rival to burning man, where people congregate to permanently upgrade civic infrastructure somewhere instead? Like a convention of hippy nerds going door to door offering to install free insulation, guerilla gardening on empty lots, repairing derelict houses, running volunteer transit, hosting pop-up pay-what-you-can grocers and restaurants.. something that revels in _mattering_ instead of "leaving no trace" (but at exorbitant cost)

Reject techbros
Embrace furries

If you're in the UK and are looking for a gig doing PHP/Laravel, deployments, and GIS, the #SlowWays team is hiring a 4 days a week person at £40k: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/sayb9vvbjx

SlowWays is a project to create a walking network for the whole of the UK. I've walked many of their routes!

#GetFediHired

UK peeps: Please consider signing this parliamentary petition (Stop the passing of the Online Safety Bill)? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725