@juglugs Me too, I do not drink alcohol, but my wife's beer is always put in front of me ...

A social norm (that's quite sexist really) is shown when I'm out for dinner with my wife.
I order a beer and a virgin mojito (or non-alcoholic beer) and without fail, they'll put the beer in front of me and the NA drink in front of my wife.

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XKCD 1810: Chat Systems

https://xkcd.com/1810/

(I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway.)

Man, I felt pretty insecure about the shaven head look (need to update the profile pic in here too), but the comments on YouTube have been insanely supportive, insane confidence boost!

I never thought I’d reach a point where YouTube comments would make me feel better 😂

Pattern in wealthy or moderately wealthy countries in Europe:

Low-paying jobs are no longer taken by locals, who generally seek higher wages, and often boomerang to their parents’ house or exploit the advantages of local currency through socially-inflated roles, such as public sector positions, manipulating others, or climbing the ranks within political parties with no prior experience — just to name a few examples.

These jobs are instead filled by hardworking immigrants from poorer Asian or African countries. With their hearts back home, they tend to view the host country primarily as a source of income, whether as a permanent destination or a temporary stop on their way further west. As a result, original cultures, languages, and traditions are getting diluted.

It’s saddening, but it’s a predictable outcome given the economic incentives involved.

Interested in exhibiting your community or project at #UbuCon #Asia 2025 in #Kathmandu, #Nepal? We're now accepting community #booth application! Apply for community #booth today!

https://blog.ubucon.asia/post/uca25-community-booth/

@gabe_sky niice!

I have one running here:

https://qr.stux.me

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Hey @lproven nice a11y piece, thanks!

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/apple_accessibility_features_2025/

I am already using edges of the a11y features (eg contrast up, animation down) in various places as I slump towards 60...

Every change creates 3 more TODO

Giving back to the projects that enable us to build awesome things ❤️
https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-thanks-dev-giving-back-to-open-source-developers
#ubuntu #canonical #linux

After two successful #OpportunityOpenSource conferences in the IIT Mandi and IIT Kanpur we are doing a third one!

On September 5-7 we will be in the IIT Kanpur in India again!

And this time we are co-locating the #UbuCon India with many Ubuntu-related workshops and talks!

The Call for Proposals is open, until June 16.

Our event takes place one week after the UbuCon Asia in Nepal, so you also can do the round trip to attend both.

https://openprinting.github.io/OpenPrinting-News-Opportunity-Open-Source-3.0/

I hope we see you all in India.

@MarkHoltom wonder if that is out of copyright and could be reprinted and sold today. Seems like it should be... would just need good copies of all the original graphics.

@ted @MarkHoltom Great would be a downloadable PIY (Print it yourself) or Print'n'Play version under a free license (Creative Commons something) ...

Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".

@jnsgruk in Frankfurt? Where?

A reminder to folks writing presentation proposals for conferences:

Your abstract will be read on a phone screen by someone balancing a paper cup of coffee (which is burning their fingers) and a stale blueberry muffin in their other hand, during a 15-minute coffee break, trying to decide which talk to attend next.

If your abstract is 4 paragraphs long and buries the “hook” in the middle of the 3rd paragraph, they’re going to the one that’s in the closer room with the catchier title.

New 50 TOPS DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC ships with Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS pre-installed

https://ubuntu.com//blog/new-50-tops-dc-roma-risc-v-ai-pc-ships-with-ubuntu-desktop-24-04-lts-pre-installed

#OpenPrinting as part of the #linuxfoundation will again mentor 11 contributors in this year's Google Summer of Code! #GSoC

Our projects cover CUPS 3.x support for #KDE Print Manager, #GNOME Control Center, system-config-printer, pyCUPS, CUPS on #Zephyr, visual analysis of print output for testing, #Rust bindings for libcups/cpdb-libs, utilizing #OSSFuzz Gen, OSS-Fuzz for Go/Python projects, modernize #GTK print dialog, web site improvement with #Nextjs.

More soon on
https://openprinting.github.io/news/