philipp @philipp@familie-tux.de

Fedora Linux 40 is HERE! Check out all our latest variants for desktop, server, and more.

New features include:
* @kde Plasma 6
* @gnome 46
* Fedora Atomic Desktops (rebrand for Silverblue et al)
* PyTorch / ROCm
* And more!

Learn more and try Fedora 40 today! https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-40/

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Gnome #KDE

This is excellent.

One of the nicest thank-you for free software messages that I've ever received

It's official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device.

It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.

Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this?

I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

My mom 60 years ago with an IBM 1401 and me 6 years ago with a DEC PDP-10.

#InternationalWomensDay

Lonely parrots are unhappy parrots, so researchers set out to find a way for some of the estimated 20 million pet birds living in the United States to connect with each other.

Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It.

Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-taught-pet-parrots-to-video-call-each-other-and-the-birds-loved-it-180982041/ #parrots #birds

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $204,500,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $196,000,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $170,400,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

#Calls

So, RSS Parrot is my new favorite fedi thing. You can use it to follow blogs, websites, podcasts, even Bluesky users: https://rss-parrot.net/

Adventist employee: Please sign this form saying we have provided you with a patient privacy statement.

Me: OK, but can I read the form?

A.E.: No, it's in another part of the hospital.

Ladies and germs, this was a real conversation I actually had with an allegedly functioning adult this very morning.

XKCD is brilliant. You knew that, of course. Today's is brilliant and sobering.

https://xkcd.com/2889/

Albuquerque, NM, has become the largest U.S. city to permanently make public transportation free for everyone. The city found that fares didn’t cover the administrative fees, so they actually save money by making public transportation free.

We have two new adopted missions!

#LISA will capture the ripples of spacetime, all the way from from supermassive black holes colliding to the gravitational ‘ringing’ from the initial moments of our Universe ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Capturing_the_ripples_of_spacetime_LISA_gets_go-ahead

And #EnVision will head to #Venus, to study it from the atmosphere to the inner core: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/We_re_heading_for_Venus_ESA_approves_EnVision

#astrodon #astronomy #ESA #space

Poll: what terminal emulator do you use on your #Linux or #Unix machine?

Federalist #69,Alexander Hamilton explains key dif btwn "king of GB" & "President of US." King Hamilton explains is "sacred & inviolable" & "there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable." As a result, "no punishment to which he can be subjected w/out involving crisis of a national revolution." US President can be "impeached" and "removed from office." President of US after leaving office, is "liable to prosecution, punishment in the ordinary course of law." https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed69.asp

What browser do you use? Curious what the stats look like on fedi. Boosts for visibility appreciated.

Man bekommt die Leute vielleicht schnell ins Fediverse, aber das Corporate Social Media Statistikvoodoo nicht so schnell aus ihren Köpfen.

Leute, scheißt bitte einfach auf die Zahlen von euren Follower, Favs, Reposts. Oder den von anderen. Es ist völlig und vollständig egal. Diese kleinen Zahlen sollten euch früher manipulieren. Ihr seid hier frei. Ihr braucht das nicht mehr. Schreibt schöne, oder wichtige, Sachen. Erfreut euch an den Posts Anderer.

Das war’s. Mehr braucht es nicht.