Notices by Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)

@jzb I had been purposefully reading about Linux and open source for several years. Although there were cheap CD sets of many distros available online, at the time I'd never ordered online and wasn't about to trust my credit card number to the Web. I discovered by accident while visiting Best Buy that they had the PowerPak edition of Mandrake, and a boxed sets of Red Hat Linux. - both for about $70. I went home, did some research, and bought Mandrake the next day. I've been using Linux since.

This writer and I both started using Linux at about the same time and we both started with Mandrake, which we bought shrink-wrapped at a bricks and mortar store: 20 Years of Linux | Blathering https://cubiclenate.com/2024/09/24/20-years-of-linux-blathering/

"Tech giants leading the AI race have found a way to conceal the climate impact of their growing electricity use: unbundled renewable energy certificates" - How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI's Real Carbon Footprint https://www.itprotoday.com/green-it/how-tech-companies-are-obscuring-ai-s-real-carbon-footprint

"Utah’s plans to erect a theocracy within the United States continue uninterrupted": Utah’s Book Banning Law Claims Judy Blume, Five Other Female Authors As Its First Victims https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/15/utahs-book-banning-law-claims-judy-blume-five-other-female-authors-as-its-first-victims/

It looks as if everyone is covering this Linux story: Linux Shoots Past The 2% Threshold For The Steam Survey, AMD CPU Use Breaks 75% - Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Steam-2024-Above-2

Man, the scariest, it-will-never-happen aspects of B-grade '50s sci-fi is becoming a reality right before our eyes: Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/robot-dogs-armed-with-ai-targeting-rifles-undergo-us-marines-special-ops-evaluation/

"As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by TechCrunch": Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encrypted-services-apple-proton-and-wire-helped-spanish-police-identify-activist/

Google this week announced changes to the way it collects and stores user location data that might bring an end to geofence warrants: Will Geofence Warrants Soon Be a Thing of the Past? Maybe, but Don't Hold Your Breath https://fossforce.com/2023/12/will-geofence-warrants-soon-be-a-thing-of-the-past-maybe-but-dont-hold-your-breath/

This November, the global RISC-V community will meet in Santa Clara, California to share technology breakthroughs, industry milestones, and case studies to network and build relationships and to experience much more" RISC-V Summit 2023 - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/event/risc-v-summit-2023/

With all the brouhaha over GNU's 40th birthday, those who are new to Linux and open-source might need this: Understanding GNU - The Backbone of Free Software Philosophy https://linuxiac.com/what-is-gnu-linux/

@errante @amerika If you think that advocating violence against law-abiding citizens should be tolerated (and advocating the forced deportation of people based on skin color and political beliefs is advocating violence), then I don't know what to tell you.

@amerika I never saw that with Twitter, and the only people I've heard that from are people from the far right who want to publish "information" that isn't true, as well as hate speech.

I see that your profile advocates relocating "all other ethnic groups" (which I assume means anybody who isn't white) and exiling "the defectives," which I assume means people like me who disagree with your tolerance of hate and exclusion.

I think that should be enough to have your account permanently canceled.

I was up until 3:30 am EST getting this article written and published: TweetDeck Goes Kaflooey - FOSS Force https://fossforce.com/2023/07/tweetdeck-goes-kaflooey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tweetdeck-goes-kaflooey

@amerika If he's having trouble with scrappers it's only because he's cut the platform's infrastructure beyond to the bare bones.

@amerika You call content moderation a "censorship racket"?

This is rather amazing: [The Washington Post] Pence says ‘history will hold Donald Trump accountable’ for Jan. 6th
Pence says ‘history will hold Donald Trump accountable’ for Jan. 6th

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/11/pence-says-history-will-hold-donald-trump-accountable-jan-6th/

The elimination round of our Linux desktop poll ends tomorrow and the final round goes up on Wednesday. KDE, Xfce, and Gnome share 80% of the 1,041 votes cast so far. The bottom four, (Cosmic, LXQT, Budgie, and DDE) are in serious danger of being eliminated from the final round, with less than 3% of the vote between them. i3 and Openbox lead in write-in votes, and will likely make it into the final Round. Vote, encourage your Linux friends to vote, for your fav DE or WM. https://fossforce.com/2023/02/what-linux-desktop-did-you-use-in-2022-take-our-poll/

A shout out to the @elementary OS community. 3 hours ago they had barely 20 votes in our Best Linux Distro 2022 poll with only 3% of votes cast. Since then the distros community has been voting to support their distro, which now has 113 votes for 10% of the total, and has gone from near last place in our poll to fourth place, ahead of @linuxmint , @debian , @manjarolinux , @mxlinux , @EndeavourOS , and @opensuse .

Voting is open until noon Eastern Time on Wednesday at https://fossforce.com/2023/01/its-time-to-vote-in-the-best-linux-distro-polls-final-round/

"It’s that time of year! Ever since works in the US finally started entering the public domain again, we’ve been hosting an annual game jam for designers to create games based on the year’s newly copyright-free works. This year, it’s Gaming Like It’s 1927! There are lots of interesting works becoming available this year": Gaming Like It’s 1927: Get Ready For Our Next Public Domain Game Jam https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/24/gaming-like-its-1927-get-ready-for-our-next-public-domain-game-jam/