Notices by Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)

In case you have forgotten; project Gutenberg gives you free ebooks and audio books. Over here I've only snapped a section of what they have, there is a lot
It's enough to call project Gutenberg a Library

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/480

#Entertainment #reading #fiction #science #physics #mathematics

Can I use KDE connect without installing KDE as my desktop manager?

On The machine in question, a miniPC, I have {Openbox} FluxBox as the DesktopManager, running MX Linux on the metal

KDE Connect (KDE Connect integrates your smartphone and computer)

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.kde.kdeconnect_tp/

#Internet #Android #Linux #OpenSource #DesktopManager #POSIX #programming #KDE #FluxBox

When was the last time that you actually contributed to an open source project?

I'm certain that you've heard of common voice at Mozilla

In case you haven't The languages that need more data are All of them. So even contribute 15 samples a Day does a lot on the whole.

I had slacked off on my Common Voice contributions, but I'm now picking it up again

@RL_Dane

🖋️ #Mozilla #commonVoice #OpenSource #contribute #samples #programming

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org

A great refresher on using email clients over web & thus power hungry browser interfaces by the Mozilla Thunderbird people

#Linux #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #UUCP #POP3 #IMAP #OpenSource #POSIX #programming #UA

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/why-use-a-mail-client-vs-webmail/

The #enshittification of #online #services #Uber #netflix #amazon
This guy #Mrwhosetheboss is nailing the way we are treated by these services

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVYG1mu8Lg8

@nixCraft why the hell is this sequence still in my active dBase ;)