Mastodawn

This is the 2^5th instance on which I find myself confronting a Saturday morning on which I have a zillion links that didn't make it into the week's newsletter, occasioning a linkdump post; here are the previous 31 installments:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/26/manifolds/#bark-chicken-bark

CryptoLek 45m ago

Gina Jul 5

The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀

Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥

https://news.itsfoss.com/french-city-replaces-microsoft/

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft

Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

It's FOSS News

CryptoLek 1h ago

George Monbiot 6h ago

If the police arrest me for this, it's a direct attack on the expression of opinion: ie on free speech. But the Terrorism Act is so madly oppressive and loosely framed that I have no idea which side of it I'm on. And I suspect it's the same for them.

CryptoLek 3h ago

Neil Brown 5h ago

tl;dr: too long; didn't read

ai;dr: contains AI slop; didn't read

av;dr: requested age verification; didn't read

451;dr: content unavailable for legal reasons; didn't read

js;dr: page required JavaScript; didn't read

ps;dr: problematic site; didn't read

dr;dr: I feel like a pair of curtains. Pull yourself together.

CryptoLek 3h ago

Paul Biggar 3h ago

New UK University Repression League Table. Ranking universities worst-to-best on attacks on students and complicit investments

https://updates.techforpalestine.org/announcing-the-uk-university-repression-league-table-2025/

Announcing: The UK University Repression League Table 2025

For the last two years, UK universities have attacked students for advocacy for Palestine, including censorship, restrictive speech policies, and the suppression of dissenting voices. These disgusting attacks on student speech are the opposite of what universities were meant for – creating an atmosphere where open enquiry, intellectual curiosity, and open

Tech for Palestine

CryptoLek 3h ago

Qasim Rashid, Esq.3h ago

It’s absurd that Establishment Dems have more energy to condemn CBS for firing Stephen Colbert than to condemn Netanyahu for committing genocide of Palestinians.

They have more energy to condemn Mamdani for wanting to raise taxes 2% on millionaires than to condemn Cuomo for 13 credible sexual abuse cases.

Establishment Dems need to grow a spine and choose human rights and working people over foreign lobbies and corporate donors—and actually be an opposition party, for once.

CryptoLek 4h ago

nixCraft 🐧8h ago

The Tea app is vibe-coded and has over 4 million users. Users' private data was breached, and all government-issued verification IDs, photos, and private messages were leaked. This is why you need a good team of experienced developers, IT and infosec folks to secure your infrastructures. You can’t just vibe code using AI and get away with poor jobs. Now they are going to use the same shity AI in government and everywhere and we will see more such things. What a mess

CryptoLek 4h ago

LOLGOP 6h ago

Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3luu6ty2evc22

CryptoLek 7h ago

Pablo Martini (Geezer)12h ago

Israel murders and maims more Gaza children

By SKWAWKBOX

This footage is horrific, but we must not look away

Israel again maimed and slaughtered hundreds of people on Friday, at its fake 'aid' stations and in the bombing of refugees in tents and civilians gathered in the streets. The Starmer regime continues to make noises about Israel's actions being 'intolerable' while aiding Israel directly and indirectly in its genocide.

Here are some of the people whose lives Israel either ended or altered forever today. The footage is horrific but we must not look away.

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/26/israel-murders-and-maims-more-gaza-children/

Israel murders and maims more Gaza children

This footage is horrific, but we must not look away Israel again maimed and slaughtered hundreds of people on Friday, at its fake ‘aid’ stations and in the bombing of refugees in tents …

SKWAWKBOX

CryptoLek 7h ago