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System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks : Don't celebrate yet – more states are considering them

Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/f...

This ALSO feels like a good day to announce that I am launching a pet end-of-life care advice column in April! Please a) sign up and b) send advice questions to advice at allmydeadcats dot com

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none.

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Happy International Women's Day, comrades. 🌹 Today we celebrate the innumerable contributions women have made to the movement for the liberation of all people—revolutionaries, fighters, theorists, artists, liberators and mothers.

A better world is possible—let's build it together. 🌹 dsausa.org/join

The #openSUSE America Summit is coming to Barranquilla, Colombia! Submit a talk for this #opensource #software event for the Americas. Learn, connect, and celebrate open collaboration. events.opensuse.org

If they do offer Macs then I would choose that tbh but I get what you mean. Microsoft has an iron grip on the business world even though their products are terrible.

Voting Is Now Open for the openSUSE Board Election 2025 Voting for the 2025 openSUSE Board election starts today. All openSUSE Members have the right to vote and should have received their personal ballot link by ...

Voting is open for the #openSUSE Board Election! Four candidates, two seats. openSUSE Members, check your inbox and vote by March 8. #Linux #OpenSource #Governance news.opensuse.org/2026/03/01/o...

Get openSUSE Learn about the openSUSE distributions and download them for free

Now is the perfect time to switch to #Linux! #openSUSE offers a stable, secure, and user-friendly experience right out of the box. Get started today! get.opensuse.org

🎉 Please join us in congratulating Dr. Any Zhou, Barnard College, Columbia University, for her newly published book "Unequal Worlds of Care"

Book is available at UC Press, with discount code UCPSAVE30, as well as on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.

#ASA #MedicalSociology

Texas’ Anti-Trans Attorney General Declares Psychologists Must Impose Conversion Therapy on Trans Kids In a new opinion released Friday, Texas AG Ken Paxton has effectively prohibited therapists from treating trans kids—unless they try to convert them.

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Three American soldiers killed as U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran continue into 2nd day Another five soldiers were critically injured, according to the U.S. Central Command. They mark the first American casualties since the start of operation 'Epic Fury' on Saturday.

More war and more deaths for nothing.
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Attorney General Bonta Exposes Amazon Price Fixing Scheme Driving Up Costs for Americans, Asks Court to Immediately Halt Illegal Conduct New evidence shows Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products and making Amazon richer and richer OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob B...

Much surprise, wouldn’t have expected Amazon of price fixing.
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Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

A Community Safety Warning About the AYAGDOS Study Over the past few days, we’ve seen a “research study” called "Adolescent and Young Adult Gender Dysphoria Outcomes Study or AYAGDOS" being circulated in online spaces that serve transgender and gender...

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Zoom does offer good Linux support at least, more than just deb/ubuntu. There is also an unofficial flatpak that I found worked well.

Linux basically rules the enterprise world and not just servers. Linux workstations are common in many professions. We wouldn't even be where we are today with modern computing without Unix.

KDE plasma 100%

What is your preferred Desktop Environment on Linux? Lubos realized after tabulating the Leap 16 feedback results that the data indicates a large number of folks actually don’t seem to be using KDE Plasma, Gnome, or XFCE. What if you could add one more…

New poll: What’s your preferred Desktop Environment on Linux? #KDE Plasma, #GNOME, #XFCE, #LXQt, #COSMIC, #Sway, #Hyprland or something else? Cast your vote! 🐧💻 lowtechlinux.com/2026/02/17/w...

Bill Allowing Broad Discrimination Against Married Same-Sex Couples Passes Tennessee House Amid a renewed conservative push to roll back marriage equality, a bill allowing businesses & individuals to refuse to recognize same-sex marriages just passed a legislative chamber.

Bill Allowing Broad Discrimination Against Married Same-Sex Couples Passes Tennessee House
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The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself Automating knowledge production and teaching weakens the ecosystem of students and scholars that sustains universities, raising existential questions about their mission.

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself.
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Nashville, Tennessee job with Vanderbilt University Department of Sociology | 1311435 The Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher to join the National Study of Old...

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vanderbilt University
Department of Sociology
Specialization in singlehood, social networks, and health in later life

Application deadline: March 31, 2026

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Our new study in Social Science & Medicine: Using 2022–23 BRFSS and IRT-derived ACE scores, we show higher childhood adversity → higher odds of problem drinking in adulthood. Social support attenuates the risk. Open access link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mc9L-CmV9...

#pophealth

Calls for Board Candidates Moves Forward The openSUSE Project has opened nominations and candidacy for its regular Board Election and voting is scheduled to begin March 1. After a delay to clean up ...

🗳️ The #openSUSE Board election process is underway! Nominations are open until Feb 28 for two seats. Help shape the #opensource community. news.opensuse.org/2026/02/16/c...

Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-...

Happy Valentine's Day

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