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Harlan Ellison on the word 'sci-fi'. yewtu.be/watch?v=YqFazuQr6P8

"'Sci-fi' is one of those horrific crotchets...it's like referring to the feminist movement as 'fem-lib'. This is all intended to diminish ... When you are able to diminish something, you don't actively have to go after it. When people start thinking Independence Day is science fiction, and they've never read a novel by AE van Vogt, or they've never read a novel by Kate Wilhelm, then what we have is a bastardized form."

While everyone is exposing celebrities.. I think it's time we have a conversation.
This week's donation went to the MATE project. MATE is a desktop environment that can be used on a variety of Linux and BSD distros. MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 that aims to maintain and continue the latest GNOME 2 code base, frameworks, and core applications. The code is licensed using GPLv2.



The project's main website is here:

https://mate-desktop.org/



The source code is located on Github:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/



If you wish to help the project financially you can do so by donating to the project through Paypal or donate to one of the dvelopment team through Github:

https://mate-desktop.org/donate/

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Alpine Linux is not affected by CVE-2024-3094 (backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise).

Where I live it was once an agricultural powerhouse. I walk daily and notice so much citrus going to waste. How would I go about organizing a Citrus Drive to benefit our local charter school's?
Arcade soccer game " Super Arcade Football " is now available DRM free on GOG. It was originally released in 2021. It has a native Linux version.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/super_arcade_football

What’s a better domain for an Akkoma + Mangane (a.k.a., Akkomane) server?

2D action platformer "Pepper Grinder" was released recently. It has a native Linux version and is available DRM free on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/pepper_grinder
Looks like they have only one box of child left. Must have been a good sales day.

FTC probes Reddit over data licensing deals for AI training 🕵🏽‍♀️

The US Federal Trade Commission is probing Reddit over its $60M/yr deals licensing user data to AI companies.

That makes us wonder: Is this really how we want our data to be used/abused?

news.bloomberglaw.com/artifici

Will my first pod episode reach 1000 downloads?
The second will be aired on Tuesday.

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