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Pinta, an #opensource image editor inspired by Windows app Paint.NET, has released a new beta with new features, effects, and port to GTK4/libadwaita

Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

this is unironically so beautiful and heartwarming

Apple and Meta trade barbs over interoperability requests

Assemble your very own Task Force M for home or office! New #CreatureCommandos figures available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/stores/page/...

Jim Carrey on playing both Gerald and Ivo Robotnik in ‘SONIC 3’: “I was excited to do 2 Robotniks until I found out it would be twice the work & the same salary”

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Fresh releases of Xfce, Mint, Cinnamon desktops out in time for the holidays

On Digital Rights Bytes we outline the differences between owning physical and digital media, and why we need to break down that barrier.

Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems

Severity of the risk facing the UK is widely underestimated, NCSC annual review warns

Fuck crypto 🖕

watching CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER for the first time in a minute and yeah, this is still in the top 5 of everything that has come out of marvel studios

‘COWBOY BEBOP’ The Complete Series on Blu-ray is on a #BlackFriday sale for only $19! Order here: amzn.to/3B6qjQC #ad

The moon disguised as Saturn

Death of Star vs Birth of Cell

Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge (pinnable feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...) Day 10. Geeky stuff.

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

Windows 10's farewell tour – not AI PCs – set to drive laptop sales in 2025

It's new #Firefox release day! Version 133 of the famous open-source web browser brings a small clutch of changes, including faster access to tabs open on other devices.

Yep.

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

There can only be one me. Help me let @bsky.app be aware that I’m the real me. Many thanks, Mar🐫 🙏 ♥️ 👍

Want to use Snap apps in Linux Mint? The distro ships a block file to 'forbid' their install, but it can be easily removed to give you access to software like Spotify, FreeCAD, and JetBrains.

Threads is an echo chamber on the left, Twitter on the Right, I hope this stays a sane normal place where some disagreement can be politely explored. Too much to ask??

I can’t tell you how different it is on X now after so many people have left. I have always followed mostly right-wing accounts because I cover them, and they are running out of people to pick fights with. So they’re just mostly fighting with each other.

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

"It’s not illegal to have a monopoly,” EFF’s Mitch Stoltz told @vox.com about Google. “But it is illegal to leverage one’s monopoly power to maintain that monopoly, basically to stay a monopolist by means other than simply having the best product.”

ICYMI: FreeCAD has finally hit version 1.0 after two decades in development - a huge milestone for this #opensource alternative to software like Autodesk Fusion.

Around $21 million in losses reported by users of DEXX November 16, 2024 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=dexx-losses

Post a #Superman.

Pillars of Creation through MIRI | JWST

New to Bluesky? Make sure you’re following the organizations, advocates, and journalists on the frontline speaking up for your digital rights with this starter pack.

Metal: Everything sucks, but I have my rage. Punk: Everything sucks, but I'll focus my anger. Rap: Everything sucks, but I know how to survive. Folk: Everything sucks, but there is beauty. Ska: Everything sucks, let's ignore it. Emo: Everything sucks, and I miss you.

🔭 The Medusa Nebula Image Credit & Copyright: Bruno Rota Sargi apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap24112...

Roman bread ovens were community ovens that were created to supply the local population with bread. Most Romans didn't have a personal oven so they would drop their bread off with an identifying stamp or scoring. Corruption within the empire disrupted supply chains of grain from Egypt and Africa.

Automatic window tiling has been added to the (really terrific) 'Tiling Shell' GNOME extension, meaning newly opened apps tile to a vacant space in the active layout right away www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/11/auto...

A new Linux kernel is out, and it includes a feature that's been in the making since 2005… #linux

Hello BlueSky! We at the #Glasgow Writers' Group are trying to expand our outreach efforts, maybe some skeets will get us a bit of attention. If you're a writer or aspiring writer looking for a group of peers to offer friendly feedback, consider checking us out. glasgowwritersgroup.substack.com

The result of more than a month’s rainfall in 24 hours in Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue, France. Nowhere is safe from #Climate chaos. Wealthy citizens in wealthy towns and cities still think it will be poor countries suffering first. Time for a wake up call. actu.fr/le-pays-d-au...