This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.
Transitous is a new community-driven routing service. Add your own city and help make it great.
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Off-Theme Presents: Commonality
For the fourth installment of Off-Theme we have a global theme based on the granddaddy of all the classic Unix desktops, a desktop that ruled the roost of the workstations from a bygone era. It is time to pay tribute to the DE that once dominated the Unix world.
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Off-Theme Presents: Shades of Purple
In the third installment of Off-Theme, we cover Shades of Purple, a global theme with a rather striking set of shades that sets it apart from many other flat themes.
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Off-Theme Presents: Graphite
Graphite is a global theme that boldly goes for a starkly monochromatic aesthetic and sharp window borders.
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Off-Theme Presents: Nostrum
Let’s take a look at a global theme that plays both with the old and new to create a rather striking aesthetic.
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“Bring Back [obscure feature]!”
Did a feature you love disappear from your Free Software project of choice? Before kicking up a fuss on Reddit, read this.
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Un escandaloso oligopolio del que nadie habla: Lo que pasa con el correo electrónico
A pesar de un protocolo abierto y libre, y una red pública y federada, el correo electrónico se ha convertido en un oligopolio. ¿Correrán la misma suerte Mastodon y el resto del Fediverso?
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Why Mastodon is Better
With the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon, and even mainstream praising the platform as “interesting”, should you too migrate away from Twitter? (TL;DR: Yes. You can carry on with your day now).
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Breaking: Open Source not to Blame in node-ipc Debacle
All the reasons that lay the blame for the node-ipc debacle at the feet of “open source” are, surprise, surprise, bullshit.
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Who’s Important
I am not about to start a flamewar, but how pointless is it we fret about what a couple of YouTubers and their sidekicks have to say about Linux desktops?
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