cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/memes/p/930951/the-next-de-generation

So i run most if not all of my GOG and Itch Games via Lutris which i am quite happy with :D But sadly i just get the "Stock" Executeable Icon instead of the Games Icon :( Also yes due to the my Icon Theme Set it does look different but eitherway is that not the Correct Icon for the Game :( Is there a better Way than downloading and changing the Icon for each Game manually? :(

Anthropic’s team got in touch with Firefox engineers after using Claude to identify security bugs in our JavaScript engine. Critically, their bug reports included minimal test cases that allowed our security team to quickly verify and reproduce each issue.

Our team are building an open-source IP/SIP intercom + video surveillance platform (GPLv3).

Policy changes introduced and maintained under Abbott's leadership [PM from Sep 2013 to Sep 2015] played a central role in driving that growth. The rate of growth in overseas student numbers from 2013 to 2019 is extraordinary (an increase of over 200,000 in just six years). These understandably fell during COVID and then increased even more rapidly after COVID due to further measures to accelerate the return of students implemented by the Morrison Government. These measures included unrestricted student visa work rights, fee-free applications, and a covid visa, which attracted huge numbers of students to switch to this cheap visa with unrestricted work rights and no requirement to study. The new Albanese Government was slow to tighten these policies.

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I would like to invite all of you Linux users to check out the latest release of Konform Browser.

The Wine Project, a compatibility layer that allows Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has released version 11.4, the fourth maintenance update in the stable 11.x series. Here are the main highlights.

I hope it's just a joke

Beyond the promise of new homes in an upcoming suburb, the announced restoration of the Glebe Island Bridge has been welcomed — less so the loss of adjacent port facilities.

I have had to migrate from Transmission to BiglyBT because the former has become increasingly unreliable and/or unstable.

Australia has been quietly executing one of the harshest deportation regimes in the so-called democratic world. It has done so not through emergency powers or wartime necessity, but through ordinary legislation — principally the Migration Act 1958, and s 501, the so-called “character” provision.

There is growing momentum that the insanely generous capital gains tax discount needs to change.

Archive/non-paywall link.

Of course, this is not only about Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint, as it would apply to all GNU/Linux distributions, desktop environments, and application hubs lke Flathub or Snap Store, which will have to comply with the upcoming law in the near future in some way, especially since similar laws have already been proposed in other US states, including New York and Colorado.

From the WeeklyOSM Newsletter, I thought it deserved its own post

Link is to one post of live blog.

Support for violence to resist feminism was highest among adolescent boys (28%), followed closely by adolescent girls (21%).

Are they able to make their own decisions or are they a slave to your conjuration magic?

This update, among other things, adds support for VK_EXT_descriptor_heap, which should bring significant performance boost to Nvidia cards, once it's properly implemented.

Australia and Canada on Thursday signed a series of new agreements on critical ​minerals, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said, including Australia ‌joining the G7 minerals alliance.

The KDE desktop environment has seen significant recent success. Following record donations announced at the end of last year, another prominent member of the FOSS community has joined its list of patrons.

for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.

see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult. It usually requires the unanimous consent of every person who has ever contributed a line of code, a feat nearly impossible for legacy projects. chardet , a Python character encoding detector used by requests and many others, has sat in that tension for years: as a port of Mozilla’s C++ code it was bound to the LGPL, making it a gray area for corporate users and a headache for its most famous consumer.

Fewer than half of young Australians believe democracy is always preferable to other forms of government, as trust in institutions wanes, new research has found.

Broad opposition to controversial freedom of information (FOI) law reforms that would have made accessing documents harder has forced Labor to back down.

The NSW government will back reforms that allow driving exemptions for medical cannabis patients, with Premier Chris Minns telling budget estimates on Thursday his government would be investigating new roadside drug testing rules for those impacted.

My small bee hotel established in 2021 has been a hit with the local population, usually fully occupied. I see many different native resin, leaf cutter and a few carpenter bees around. Lately, I've been seeing more of these bees or wasps show up. I'm having a great deal of trouble identifying them. Can anyone help me? It has a distinctive round abdomen, single pale yellow ring, and a tail coming out of the torso.