Turns out Pink Floyd was wrong. We do need education.
With the world changing around us, many governments and organisations are trying to reduce their dependency on tech giants. Here's an update on how one German federal state is moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (and longer-term, Linux): https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/03/13/updates-on-schleswig-holstein-moving-to-libreoffice/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
I don't know who needs to hear this but your Linux terminal can probably merge those PDFs for you with `pdfunite`.
We just released Mastodon 4.3.6, 4.2.19 and 4.1.24. They contain important security fixes.
We recommend server administrators to update as soon as possible if they use SAML, or are on the development version.
If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the nightly.2025-03-14-security tag.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page:
Jewish demonstrators in #NewYork are flooding into Trump Tower to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil.
Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells
New recycling method offers environmentally friendly way to deal with increasing e-waste from old smartphones and electric cars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/battery-recycle-lithium-ion-environment-b2713723.html
#lithium #batteries
Putin's demands for peace:
— Zelenskyy and his government needs to be removed
— The international community must recognize that 5 Ukrainian Oblasts are now Russian: Crimea, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Luhansk — areas which Russia does not even control.
Trump already calls this response “promising”.
This is the new US administration: When someone bombs, rapes, tortures, kills, plunders, and abducts 19,000 children, the solution is to run away scared and give them all they want.
Cowards.
PSA: 
Update Tor Browsers now!
On March 14, 2025, a Mozilla root certificate used for add-ons verification will expire, potentially disabling extensions like NoScript or breaking features such as the Security Slider on Tor Browser versions older than 13.5.11 legacy.
To avoid issues and security risks, update now to 14.0.7 stable or 13.5.13 legacy. https://blog.torproject.org/old-tor-browsers-breakage/
At the moment, I don't care about 2028 and who might run. Show me Democrats who will lead us effectively through the rest of 2025, and I'll be open to talking about 2028.
I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone did a Nazi salute you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.
Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.
Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html
I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.
: Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @gemlog)
Yep, Windows XP icons were designed and produced on a Mac in FreeHand.
Microsoft was our first paying client back in 1997: we made the icon suite for Outlook Express on Mac OS 9. It was the email counterpart to Internet Explorer 5.
https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/01/06/microsoft-announces-march-availability-of-office-98-macintosh-edition/
https://techhub.social/@maccatalan/114155754052920748
Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems:
(via instagram user data__is__beautiful)