Here's one for my German-speaking friends:

Today I soft-launched my new pet project. It's a website that helps you learn and practice what's probably the best German card game there is: Doppelkopf.

Check it out, share it with your friends, let me know what you think!

https://doppelkopf.club

Two villains, one goal - the cover of the latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel.

I've owned the domain "programming.lol" for two years now.

It's due for a renewal but I didn't manage to do anything with it so far. I could tell myself that next year is going to be different - but is it really?

Does anyone have any cool ideas for programming.lol that I should build? Or does anyone have a good idea for programming.lol that *they* want to build? Hit me up if so.

#programming

#tokyocameraclub

奈良井宿

#tokyocameraclub #東京カメラ部

#GermanNews picks of the day:

(All these accounts are in German)

@tazgetroete
@tagesschau
@ZDF
@Volksverpetzer
@ntv
@DIEZEIT
@DerSpiegel
@Tagesspiegel
@morgenpost
@FR_de
@SZ_de
@Stern_Digital
@AZMuenchen
@RNDAudience
@watson_de

SATIRE:
@zdfmagazin
@derpostillon

(All of these accounts have posted recently. If an account looks blank to you, follow it and its posts will start showing up on your server.)

#Deutsch #Deutschland

Not the journalism we thought we need but we definitely need right now. 😅 #scam #ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbH_KDz3yow

👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯

#DSpace & #DSpaceCRIS Potential Merger    

Result of vote by DSpace leadership:
21 voted in favor of the merger
0 abstentions
0 nay votes
The merger is officially approved and will begin with DSpace 10.

👯 👯 👯 👯 👯 👯

Lyrasis to get announcement ready in the next days.

https://youtu.be/aTpnxWvB63A?si=X9Z-U3KYzigZuLh7

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=411370090#content/view/411370090

just in case nobody has done it before

Wizard Zines is doing another Big Zine Sale again this year on Friday, November 28th! One day only.

here’s a google calendar link for the duration of the sale if you want a reminder: https://wzrd.page/cal (or an ICS link: https://wzrd.page/cal.ics)

Valve isn’t just the biggest force in PC gaming, and they’re not just the newest console manufacturer swaggering into the arena.

They’re morphing into something far bolder: the Apple of Linux.

If you’re not a gamer, that might sound unhinged. Maybe even a little deranged. But if you’re already deep in the Steam ecosystem—if your library scrolls so far it needs its own municipal transit system—you know this isn’t wild at all. It’s practically destiny.

Let’s rewind. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he didn’t reinvent the wheel. He just drew a big cross on a whiteboard and said: four products. iMac, Power Mac, iBook, PowerBook. Four neat squares. Four clean market segments. And everything Apple built slotted neatly into that grid.

Apple didn’t suddenly leap to 30% marketshare. They barely scraped 3%. Didn’t matter. Because the money wasn’t really in the hardware. It was in the ecosystem.

Buy a Mac and suddenly you’re buying OS upgrades, iLife apps, office software, music tools, the whole glittering Cupertino starter kit. That stack of software made the hardware profitable, and that hardware made the software inevitable. The loop fed itself.

Now fast-forward to Valve. Look at what they’ve assembled.

Four core hardware pillars:

• Steam Controller
• Steam Deck
• Steam Machine
• Steam Frame

Four segments. Four use cases. Four doors into the same house.

Already have a PC? You grab the Steam Controller.

Want your library in your backpack? Steam Deck.

Want it in the living room? Steam Machine.

Want it strapped to your face? Steam Frame.

And the moment you buy any one of these, something interesting happens: the rest of the ecosystem starts making sense. Buy a game on Steam and it works everywhere. Your save files carry across devices. You can stream titles between them. The more hardware you add, the smoother it all feels, and the more the ecosystem pulls you deeper in.

But here’s the part I really want you to notice: I didn’t say Valve wants to be the Apple of gaming. No. They want to be the Apple of Linux.

And that’s where this gets concrete. Their hardware ships with Linux that isn’t locked down or lobotomized. It has a real desktop environment hiding under a slick UI.

Which means Valve can evolve SteamOS in ways Apple never aimed to with macOS. Apple built a general-purpose OS that occasionally supported games. However, Valve built a gaming OS that can naturally branch outward into media, creative tools, and productivity. “Gaming-adjacent” doesn’t require a conceptual pivot. It’s the next logical step.

What might that look like?

• A native media center built directly into SteamOS—think Plex or Jellyfin, but officially blessed and seamlessly integrated.
• First-party creative tools that take advantage of Proton and GPU acceleration—video editors, music tools, asset creators.
• A productivity layer—file syncing, cloud storage, collaborative apps—that piggybacks on your Steam identity.
• A SteamOS app store that isn’t just for games. Apps, utilities, editors, streaming clients, the works.

They’ve already dipped into this with Big Picture Mode’s media features, Steam Link, Steam Input configurators, desktop mode on Steam Deck, and Proton opening the gates for thousands of non-gaming applications. Nothing stops them from extending that further.

That’s why Valve—private, secretive, and small enough to fit inside an Amazon lunchroom—is still one of the most valuable forces in the entire industry. Not because they sell hardware like Apple, but because they’re building an ecosystem like Apple. Except this one runs on Linux.

If you’re a PC gamer, none of this is news. But if you’re outside the gaming bubble and this future arrives exactly how I’ve described, just know: it didn’t come out of nowhere. You just weren’t looking in Valve’s direction.

Holy Shit, #Valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.

@stinerman @evan Yes, yes and yes! Who thought it would be a great idea to paste with effin formating? It is so frustrating.

Today makes ten years married. Been together twenty-eight. Never figured marriage would ever be on the table for folks like us.

We fought for it. Finally got it.

Now, these days, we worry it could get taken back. Freedom ain’t free, ain’t promised, and sure as hell ain’t guaranteed.

We stand with everyone fighting for the same right—to stand as who they are, love who they love, and not have to fight for the right to exist.

Secret Panel HERE 😮‍💨 https://tapas.io/episode/2321807

Forget Meyers-Brigg, this is the real personality test:

Der Internationale Strafgerichtshof trennt sich von Microsoft – kein Triumph, sondern ein Wendepunkt!
Was wie eine IT-Entscheidung aussieht, ist in Wahrheit ein politisches Signal: Europa beginnt, digitale Abhängigkeiten zu hinterfragen und Souveränität praktisch umzusetzen.
OpenDesk statt Outlook. Haltung statt Bequemlichkeit.

Hier der Artikel: https://www.pandolin.io/kein-triumph-sondern-ein-fanal/

#DigitaleSouveränität #OpenSource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #Linux #FOSS #Digitalpolitik #BeAVoice #CloudRebelAlliance

I love people like this 🤩

Sherman Tank vs Tesla

Killer quote:

“I’m going back to the Fediverse. Back to Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival strategy.“

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a-mastodon-migration-from-bluesky-would-be-different/

The shit we grew up with.

But we turned out alright.

Right?

.... Right?....