The future of the Linux desktop can look like this. Maybe even the absolutely non-intrusive Clippy (Karl Klammer for our German speaking frens) might come back. The future is bright...😬 What do you think?

loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux

#Linux #asknostr

European Open Digital Ecosystems Initiative: Call for feedback If you are an EU citizen or based in the EU and free and open-source software is important to you, take a few minutes to fill in this European Commission survey 👇

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

#FOSS

"The killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and mother of three, by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on a Minneapolis street has forced an uncomfortable national reckoning. Within hours of her death, federal officials and Kristi Noem, US DHS Secretary, framed the encounter not as a tragic escalation during a law-enforcement operation, but as an act of domestic terrorism. That framing did more than explain the shooting; it attempted to settle it."

21st Century Wire

A Mother’s Life Cut Short: Minneapolis, ICE, and Domestic Terror Labels - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | When the language of terror becomes a trigger.

Debian needs your help! With no one left to handle data protection requests, the project is looking for new volunteers.

It's FOSS

Debian's Data Protection Team is No More, Maybe You Can Help?

With no one left to handle data protection requests, the project is looking for new volunteers.

#Linux #open-source #debian

Marco Rubio’s personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America. Watch or listen to Chris Hedges interviewing Maureen Tkacik 👇

US Claims It's 'Dictating' Venezuela's Decisions, US Bombs Somalia During Helicopter Raid, and More

😬 #Linux

"The recent escalation against Venezuela is essentially the implementation of a strategy that views Latin America as nothing more than a theater for Great Power Competition against China and Russia, as well as a collection of resources needed for that very “competition”. We find the blueprint in the 2023 report "Great Power Competition and Conflict in Latin America," produced by RAND Project AIR FORCE for the US Air Force and Space Force."

Substack

Nel Bonilla (@nelbonilla)

Venezuela as a Battlefield for US Hegemony The recent escalation against Venezuela is essentially the implementation of a strategy that views Lati...

Great-Power Competition and Conflict in Latin America

The potential for great-power competition in Latin America converges on the most populous and economically developed countries in the region. Among...

“If this is a war on drug trafficking organizations and oligarchs, as Rubio says, then it is automatically a war on the global banking system because you can’t separate the two. The target isn’t just jungle labs and drug boats. It’s the City of London. … The Caribbean area is the home of the infamous system of offshore banking established directly by the British. Back in 1960, the largest banking houses in London, working in partnership with the government and the exchequer established 14 completely secretive jurisdictions. These are the banking centers that now hold between $50 and $75 trillion dollars with all 50 of the world’s largest banks operating within them. These offshore centers exist outside of the control of sovereign governments. They’re secret, they’re unregulated and they facilitate illegal activity. There, legitimate banking has been transformed to criminal enterprise.”

Is Venezuela's fate a warning to Canada?

As bizarre as that sounds, Canada's Globe and Mail editorial board thought so. And with reason.

"Peropesis is a lightweight, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It is a free operating system built from free software, mostly distributed under the GNU GPL or BSD licenses. The Peropesis project includes the operating system itself and this website, which provides basic information about the operating system."

Peropesis - Linux operating system

Peropesis is a small-scale minimal operating system.

#linux #open-source

🔭💫 On this day, January 7, 1610 Galileo looked at Jupiter with a newly improved ~20× homemade telescope and noticed three nearby points of light—then followed their motion across nights and concluded they were moons orbiting Jupiter.

"Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation."

Ars Technica

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.

"Yesterday, the Justice Department dropped its claim that Venezuela’s “Cartel de los Soles” is a real organisation. This strongly suggests that the original allegation, that President Maduro led a terrorist cartel, was likely fabricated to justify potential U.S. military action against him and his wife without congressional approval."

21st Century Wire

Maduro’s Defense Could Expose CIA Drug Operations - 21st Century Wire

Freddie Ponton | How U.S. Intelligence secrets could collapse the Maduro prosecution.

US Walks Back Maduro Cartel Claim, Witkoff: Progress Made on Ukraine Security Guarantees, More

"I’m delighted that the Administrative Court of the Canton of Zurich ruled on 19 December 2025 that my arrest and detention by Zurich police last year was unlawful and violated the Swiss constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights." https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/swiss-court-rules-ali-abunimah-detention-was-illegal

Christmas Greetings I wish Orthodox Christians and all those who celebrate Christmas good health, success and all the very best.

The impeccable Anya Parampil on how the CIA turned Venezuela into a narco-state scapegoat...👇

Anya Parampil: How the CIA Turned Venezuela Into a Narco-State Scapegoat

Anya Parampil joins Judge Napolitano to dismantle Washington’s “narco-state” fairy tale about Venezuela—a projection that obscures decades ...

Pink Floyd - Dogs - Live at Oakland, 1977

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😱 "Some projects keep surprising me with their “solutions,” and this is one of those cases. A proposal under review by developers from GNOME and Mozilla could change how middle-mouse-button paste behaves on Linux and other Unix-like systems."

Linuxiac

GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

A long-standing Linux behavior is under threat as GNOME and Mozilla review a proposal to disable middle-mouse paste.

#linux