UG_NewColorsOfLight Gallery Video


A public engagement video explaining my process in making new colors of light and inviting the public to submit drawings for me to make with the new colors of neon tubing made during the residency. You can see my fiance Ali and I blow glass with Leckie Gassman and pull tubes with Ali and Leckie. You can hear me voiceover explaining the process as well as scenes of me mixing phosphor powder and a bit about that process. I end the video talking about neon bending and have some scenes from that process, using the hand pulled tubing to make a "SUBMIT DRAWING HERE" in new colors divided by syllables.
The neon made is used as a color sample for a public submission box on view at the Urbanglass gallery/ store (Agnes Varis Arts Center) in downtown Brooklyn. One lucky drawing will be chosen on August 20th, to be turned into neon using the new colors made during the residency. Submit your drawings in person at Urbanglass, or digitally here color.cccfl.co
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Solus Linux Adopts Formal AI and LLM Contribution Policy


Solus Linux has announced a new policy on using AI and large language model tools in project contributions, explaining where these tools can and cannot be used.

The Solus team says developers can use AI to help with contributions, but they must take full responsibility for their work. Anyone submitting code or package changes needs to test them first. If AI was used, the commit should include an ‘Assisted-by LLM’ note. Only developers, not automated bots, can submit contributions.

“Contributions to Solus that were made with AI/LLM tools are allowed, as long as they follow our policy.”

Solus explains that the policy helps keep the operating system high-quality and easy to maintain. Since many people use Solus every day, contributors need to check and understand their submissions, not just share code made by AI.

However, the rules are stricter for written content. Solus does not allow any AI-generated or partly AI-generated material in its blog or official communications.

The team warns contributors not to hide their use of AI tools. If someone tries to cover up AI involvement, their work could be rejected, and they might be blocked from future contributions. Solus adds that the goal is to encourage open teamwork, not to watch every detail of how people work.

Solus says its new rules are based on the Budgie Desktop AI policy, which itself takes ideas from projects like the Linux kernel and Fedora. Still, they’re leaving the door open as the team also points out that this policy may change as AI tools become more common in software development.

For more details, see the official Solus announcement.

in reply to SocialistVibes01

I installed solus (along with a handful of other distros) during the last week, it seems decent enough, better than a lot of other distros, although were I to do it again I would probably forgo budgie for kde plasma. That being said, budgie does now seem like a very viable option.

But... my reason for distrohopping again was looking for viable alternatives to my main distro, ones that would (hopefully soon) come out with anti ai statements. Solus chose not to do that, so has now been deleted.

Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents


This Week in Plasma: Akademy Special


The 2026 G20 Summit in Context


The Political and Economic History of the G20 Summit, with a focus on the financial track summit in Asheville this year.
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Julian Fietkau - SciOp and decentralized research data rescue - FediDay2026


SciOp and decentralized research data rescue
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Marco Wähner - Against All Odds: The Fediverse from a Sociological Perspective - FediDay2026


Against All Odds: The Fediverse from a Sociological Perspective
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Paul Fuxjäger - Fediverse-Atmosphere Bridging - Current State and Future Developments - FediDay2026


Fediverse-Atmosphere Bridging - Current State and Future Developments
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Sandra Barthel - Digitale Abhängigkeiten sichtbar machen: parlamentarische Kontrolle & IFG - FediDay2026


Digitale Abhängigkeiten sichtbar machen: parlamentarische Kontrolle & IFG
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Thomas Kahle - Hochschulen im Fediverse: Ein Mastodon-Account macht noch keinen Sommer. - FediDay2026


Hochschulen im Fediverse: Ein Mastodon-Account macht noch keinen Sommer.
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A Fantastic FediVariety Circus — And now: the report!
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Software freedom day @ HSBXL - 2026


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Google is closing down Android more and more, Netherlands move to Linux - Linux Weekly News


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Netherlands goes with NixOS
itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-d…

Android is less and less open source
itsfoss.com/news/grapheneos-an…

GoogleBook OS introduced as a Linux based system
techradar.com/computing/laptop…

KDE's proposed AI policy leads to massive backlash
gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/kde-…
pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/…

GNOME dev offers a "no AI at all" policy
blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/…

KDE announces their 3 mains goals for 2027
phoronix.com/news/KDE-Goals-To…

SteamOS update brings many performance improvements
gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/stea…

Linux kernel 7.4 should open files 39% faster
phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Fa…

Ubuntu improves how the system behaves when out of memory
discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improvi…

Valve introduces new low latency codec for game streaming
steamcommunity.com/groups/home…

Ubuntu will update the kernel on a weekly basis
canonical.com/blog/acceleratin…

Cosmic 1.9 brings two new applications
linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-1-…

reactOS now has a solid DirectX implementation
github.com/reactos/reactos/pul…

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in reply to The Linux Experiment

My next phone will be running PostMarketOS. These things Google is doing like requiring app developers to register with them if you are using Google Play services in order to install their apps and only releasing security patches in a quarterly timeframe instead of monthly like they used to makes me think that eventually Google is going to stop publishing AOSP entirely.

I'm not just going to wait around for that to happen. I'm going to be working on using the alternative and hopefully getting developers to start moving their apps over to PostMarketOS.

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BSOD


Kinda funny, kinda neat.

I have no idea what the QR-code might reveal (I could not read it from this picture), so I pixelised it just to be sure.

FWIW I know exactly what happened and did not panic. To reproduce, boot your device with init=/bin/sh, then type exit.

CachyOS


The picture above is generated by Drm panic which is part of the kernel itself, or maybe a separate module. The data in the QR code is the kmsg log.

Not systemd, which wasn't running when that happened.

And it's been around for years; I guess I haven't had a kernel panic in a long time.

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webfinger package for NodeJS


About 14 years ago, I created a webfinger package for NodeJS. At the time, NodeJS was only a few years old. I had created pump.io as a new social networking engine and the successor to StatusNet. I needed a client for webfinger lookup — the process of converting a user@domain.tld handle to a API endpoint for processing messages — and there wasn’t one for NodeJS, so I made it.

It is kind of an antique — very old callback-style code that has its own HTTP processing system. It supported the older version of Webfinger, RFC 6415, using XML for the data format. It also supported the (at that time) new Webfinger specification, RFC 7033.

Since its last release in 2013, version 0.4.2, I hadn’t touched the project. It’s just been languishing in the npm repository, squatting on the “webfinger” package name, and collecting dust. The Webfinger RFC was published, ActivityPub was standardized, and the Fediverse grew and grew, without a single change to the package.

I realized I was sitting on this package a couple of years, ago, and I’ve been wanting to get a new version out. This week, I just did it. I ripped out all the legacy support for RFC 6415, upgraded the tests to use the Node test runner, switched from callback style to async/await, changed to ESM modules, and changed the format to StandardJS.

I also added a little utility method, so it’s easier to look up links in the JRD file that is returned. Now, to get an ActivityPub actor, you just do this:

<div>const types = [</div><div>  &apos;application/activity+json&apos;,</div><div>  &apos;application/ld+json; profile="<a href="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"&apos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">w3.org/ns/activitystreams"&apo</span><span class="invisible">s</span></a>;</div><div>]</div><div></div><div>const actorId = (await webfinger(&apos;user1@foo.example&apos;)).link(&apos;self&apos;, types)?.href</div>

I think the dependencies are low enough that you can use this version of the library from browser apps, although I haven’t tried it yet.

Anyway, I published version 0.5.1 today. I hope it provides some value to other people working on Fediverse software.

Elena Rossini - FediDay2026


Reasons to be hopeful: success stories from the Fediverse this year
ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/…
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IA : le grand enfumage


Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : blast-info.fr/soutenir

L'IA va-t-elle résoudre tous nos problèmes ? C'est ce qu'essaient de nous faire croire les dirigeants des grosses entreprises tech qui la développent.
Pourtant, entre les bouleversements du marché du travail, le coût écologique des data centers, ou les manipulations politiques et la diffusion de fausses interventions, la réalité est beaucoup moins rose que les publicités qu'on nous vend.

Alors dans cette émission, Lou Welgryn et Théo Alves Da Costa, les dirigeants de l'association Data for Good, démontent quelques uns des mythes autour de l'intelligence artificielle, afin de garder le regard le plus lucide possible sur ces transformations majeures déjà en cours. Quels sont les enjeux de pouvoir qui se cachent derrière la course à l'intelligence artificielle ? Éléments de réponse dans cette émission pour Blast.

Avertissement : cette émission ne traite pas tous les enjeux autour de l'IA, il y en a beaucoup trop, qui seront très bientôt traités dans d'autres formats à Blast.

Journaliste : Salomé Saqué
Montage : Émilie Fortun, Sandra Perrin
Son : Baptiste Veilhan, Théo Duchesne
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Production : Hicham Tragha
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert

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#IA
#Economie
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Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents


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Excess Ejaculation Linked to Chronic Indigestion


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F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom


No, KDE isn't turning into an AI desktop


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00:00​ Intro

00:36​ Sponsor: TuxCare

01:46​ KDE's AI policy

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