Dream come true yesterday!
I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.
Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.
Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)
Echoes of Language
"The Power Cosmic"
https://art.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/imageViewer.cfm?id=125
#Power #Cosmic #ArtificialIntelligence
Curious about @COSMIC_desktop? Give it a try with the Fedora COSMIC Spin!
*COSMIC still not out of alpha, but it's fun to try things :)
Hola!
Estoy estudiando la ingeniería computacional en Los Estados Unidos en el Pennsylvania State University.
Me encanta #Linux y #Rust. También me interesa el programación de graficas.
Ahorita estoy trabajando en un reproductor de musica escrito en Rust con el crate #libcosmic para el escritorio de #COSMIC.
Can we just talk about how the new COSMIC Desktop is already really good, even in alpha???
So far no issues. It works even better than some other Wayland compositors for me out of the box (even on nvidia!)
COSMIC DE - The First Modular, Composable Desktop Environment - Carl Richell & Jeremy Soller:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fBcfjlFX-xM
(or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcfjlFX-xM)
#Cosmic looks so awesome! 
What a marvel of software engineering!
Love the #COSMIC Desktop Environment on #MocaccinoOS Hope we get more features soon! #Linux
Psst: It's bloody hot and you need something fresh? Don't look any further!
RADIO IRRTUM! (on air from Berlin)
has super fresh beats just for you!
↓↓↓ Deutsch Version below unten ↓↓↓
Da next fresh issue of #RadioIrrtum! will air this Saturday, 2025/07/05, 8:00pm UTC+2, Berlin time. At Alex Berlin FM at 91MHz / DAB+ K7D around #Berlin + worldwide at https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio-livestream .
#Radio Irrtum! is a German language #radioShow exploring the sonic vastness of the #underground. Emitted transmissions may raise attention for new unheard #music all over this planets genre spectrum. Don't worry about that #GermanLanguage - it's about the #music!
This time finally again more jazzy things in here, but there is by far much more, like...
- #summer pop from #Chile
- Retro #Cosmic #Beats
- Top Notch Jazzy #HipHop
- #Beatmaker stuff
- #VHS style Garage #Pop
- #electrofunk-y #BonkWave or maybe not
- Groovy #Dub
- a #140 #Halftime Banger
- #Fusion Jazz Beats
- improvised #Jazz (yeah, Jazz is back, baby!))
- excellent glitchy #IDM
- hefty #Punk
- brandnew 60s Garage #RockNroll
- dark Berlin #Shoegaze
- prepared #Piano music
An lot of this is released under the #CreativeCommons license, and a similar amount can NOT be found on #Sporify and the likes. I'll explain, why artist decide against Spotify more and more. The flag of the Fediverse is waved by @axwax@chaos.social like being bonkers ;).
Anyway: If at least a bit interested in kewl new unusual #music, tune in! 
And if you have questions? I'll gladly answer! Just ask!
Playlist + manuscript at Sunday here. Can't provide answers during the show or directly afterwards because the show is preproduced while at the same time I'll be CJing (yes!) at the c-base Berlin with two portable cassette players and a Kaosspad. For free.
So: CU all on Saturday - either at c-base or Radio Irrtum! . Info + answers Sunday then.
↑↑↑ English version above, the Deutsche welche jetzt ↓↓↓
Radio Irrtum! kommt näher → Samstag, 05.07., 20:00 isses soweit auf Alex Berlin (FM 91MHz/DAB+ K.7D / Stream URL oben).
Also die seltsame Funk(el)sendung, in der planetenumfassende Weiten des musikalischen Untergrunds erforscht werden.
Genres diesmal:
- Cosmic Retro Beats
- Jazzy HipHop
- Beatmaker Kram
- VHS Kassetten Garage Pop
- phunky BonkWave
- Groovy Dub
- nen 140er Halftime Banger
- Fusion Jazz Beats
- improvisierter Jazz (ja Jazz is back!)
- IDM
- Heftiger Punk
- brandneuer 60s Garage Rock'n'Roll
- dezent dunkles Shoegaze Zeugs auuuuuuus Berlin
- und träumerische, präparierte Piano Musik
Massig Creative Commons Tracks + immerhin ein Fediverse Künstler (s.o.!) + verdammt gute Musik, die NICHT auf Spotify ist.
Wird bestimmt heftig schön! Playlist + Manuskript nach der Sendung am Sonntag hier drunter. Fragen einfach stellen – ich antworte. Aber erst Sonntag, weil ich zur Sendezeit in der c-base Berlin Kassetten auf- ähh... einlege.
COSMIC Desktop is now available on Void Linux, giving users a chance to explore the next-gen Rust-based desktop environment from System76.
https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-lands-in-void-linux/
@rriemann @eluxzen @marleenstikker @eu_os do you want/have/got #translations provided to this #website?
If #experiënce with #cosmic #desktop translations to #Dutch. I, myself, find pages in my #nativelanguage much easiër to understand, than #English, I suspect there are more #Dutchophones like me.
The #COSMIC Store has recently added a category for panel applets, making it massively easy to grab community made applets. I love it to bits and even more so because that it's given me the opportunity to contribute my own applet. Logo Menu!
Upstream #Cosmic been kinda quiet lately. Wonder what's cooking.
#Cosmic #Inflation is a theory proposing that the universe underwent an extremely rapid, exponential expansion just a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
This burst of growth smoothed out initial irregularities and stretched quantum fluctuations to cosmic scales, providing the "seeds" for the large-scale structures we observe today, like galaxies.
What’s the deal with #Cosmic #Inflation and the #BigBang? : Medium
This #Exquisite #Archaeopteryx #Fossil reveals how #Flight took off in #Birds : Misc
Do look up: how #Science and #International #Cooperation closed the #OzoneHole : Nature
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
Inner Sanctum of the Great #Pagoda in the central area of Mount Kōya, with the #cosmic #buddha #Dainichi #Nyorai of the Taizōkai #Mandala in the center (only partially visible here to the right behind pillars) surrounded by four accompanying #buddhas from the #Kongōkai #Mandala, a visual statement of the ultimate unity of both #mandalas, Kongōbu-ji, #Japan.
#BuddhistArt #Buddhism
I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg
“But that's not what happens," Connor said.
Thus, these violent physical processes are sloshing ordinary #matter around across immense distances & consigning it to the #cosmic wilderness. This #gas is not in its usual state but rather in the form of #plasma, with its electrons & protons separated.
[very cool]
"So the question we've been grappling with was: Where is it hiding? The answer appears to be: in a diffuse wispy #cosmic web, well away from #galaxies," said #Harvard University #astronomy professor Liam Connor, lead author of the study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
#matter #science #physics #astrophysics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02566-y
