drew devault went and tried to track down these grants/donations FUTO are making. apparently they donated small sums to a lot of projects through github sponsors, and many projects were unaware of the donations and did not authorize their logos to be used in this way...

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

3 billion devices run KDE Plasma

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
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https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

back to the future actually had to be shot over a period of 30 years as time travel had not been invented at the time

Join the #LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/10/27/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-scripting-support-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/

My Pixel 3a running #postmarketOS has never looked better after my visit to #osc25tk 😄

i don’t want to ‘seize the day’ i want to place it gently back where i found it and go back to bed

Following the advice from #postmarketOS maintainers, I submitted my nightlight patch to the LKML.
Once it will be accepted, it will become available for all the phones using close-to-mainline kernels, without having to manually add the patch to every repository.

Upstreaming the code to mainline is the only way of supporting hardware in a sustainable way (from the effort point of view), and everyone benefits of our code.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-msm/patch/20251018-dpu-add-dspp-gc-driver-v1-1-ed0369214252@izzo.pro/

#linuxmobile #upstreamfirst #mainline

do you hate the alpine linux "please run usr-merge" nag message? you can now turn it off: apk add '!usr-merge-nag'

of course, this does not change the fact that split-/usr systems will no longer be supported with alpine 3.29

IP/Port: 168.119.181.185:5900
Hostname: static.185.181.119.168.clients.your-server.de
Client Name: i like tortles
Location: Falkenstein, Saxony, DE 🇩🇪
ASN: AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH
VNC Password: N/A
ID: 94181589
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Last seen: 05/07/2025, 02:59:59 PM (UTC)
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/94181589

As largely expected, #ChatControl will soon be back.

Voted down several times already, last time just a couple of weeks ago, Denmark is now trying to bring it up again and reach a deal by December.

Let that sink in. Europe has many priorities on its table right now. Spying people’s conversations ain’t one of them. And yet the EU Parliament is stuck discussing the same thing again and again just because some governments really love surveillance.

Other topics - the war in Ukraine, support for Gaza, the loss of productivity and growth, the stagnating birth rates, the threat of the US sanctions on one side and China’s aggressive exports in response that pose a further threat to the competitiveness of EU economies - all take a backseat.

Spying on citizens’ conversations is so important that it’s worth to slow down progress on everything else and discuss the same thing 3 times in a year.

archive.ph/aZHRE

Google's new motto: "Don't be evil, unless the price is right."

Taking money to deny a UN-recognized famine isn't just advertising—it's genocide complicity with a tech shield

Even the first swimming lessons can be tough, so it’s always best to start with simple experiences and learn step by step when you’re young. #linux #opensource #Foss

Running #mainline on the 10 year old Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch at @spline. Still quite unstable, but Sway in a full Debian starts!

@catsalad I like this New Yorker cartoon by Julia Suits

Note to self: if @lunduke is calling you out in particular, it means you're doing the morally correct thing