Cameron Bosch

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FOSS, Linux, and Hardware/Software Freedom Advocate. Owner of and writer for the Trancescend blog. Trance fan.

Also loves trance and progressive house music (hence the name for my blog).

Currently trying to work on my first FOSS contributions!

Moved from Fosstodon (where I had joined on 1 Nov 2022) on 27 April 2025.

GitHubhttps://github.com/cameronbosch
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Denmark Is Dumping Microsoft Office and Windows For LibreOffice and Linux - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Denmark's Minister of Digitalization, Caroline Stage, has announced that the Danish government will start moving away from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. Why? It's not because open-source is better, although I would argue that it is, but because Denm...

In niri v25.05, the screenshot UI learned to respond to some keyboard window movement bindings by moving the screenshot selection. Now it supports several more movement commands, including moving across monitors. It works similarly to a floating window: the selection origin is preserved relatively, and the size is adjusted by the monitor scale difference. Under the right conditions, it'll match a floating window exactly.

Also, holding Space will now let you move the selection origin!

#niri

Someone made a larger, updated version of the BlueCurve Xfwm4 theme like five years ago. It still works great, and the slightly increased size is pretty much a must. Excellent! Oh and it includes a 4K version for HiDPI displays!

https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1208465

Bluecurve Revival XFCE with 4k HiDPI version

XFCE port of RedHat's Bluecurve KDE theme. There are 2 versions:- normal version (for normal display)- 4k HiDPI version (for 4k HiDPI display)Metacity version can be found HEREBluecurve GTK theme...

Thanks, I hate it. 💀

"Press Gazette has been unable to verify the credentials of two journalists who front a new IT publication which appears to be largely AI-generated.

"US-based ‘Levelact’, which makes extensive use of AI-generated imagery, offers news and features on topics including: cloud, cybersecurity and quantum networking, It claims in outreach emails to have 97,000 subscribers.

"But the site’s editor, Marc Mawhirt, has no Linkedin profile, and does not appear to have been published elsewhere despite an a claimed 20 years of experience in the tech sector.

"His name is also spelt as Marc and Mark on the same page of the site, despite Mawhirt claiming to have a “keen eye for detail” and to be a “trusted voice in the tech community”.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/new-it-publication-appears-to-be-largely-ai-generated/

New IT publication appears to be largely AI-generated

Press Gazette cannot verify the credentials of the site's two named authors.

Press Gazette

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project

With the release of Android 16, Google changed how it developed Android. Development is now taking place behind closed doors, with the code dropped after the corresponding version has been released to Pixel devices. Well, it turns out this wasn’t the only thing Google has changed about Android development.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142553/rumour-google-intends-to-discontinue-the-android-open-source-project/

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews

Boom.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142553/rumour-google-intends-to-discontinue-the-android-open-source-project/

I've got some awesome help from people for this one, and you know who you are. Thank you.

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews

Back in '21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died.

Even as they were dying, most of those people couldn't admit where they'd gone wrong. Even death wasn't enough to open their eyes.

In case you were wondering if we'll ever be able to reach some of the people who got us into this shit.

The liberal obsession with optics serves the right and persuades no one. There is literally an active ethnic cleansing happening in the US right now, and the only thing that matters is making that as hard as possible to carry out.

Anarchists destroying intelligence assets saves lives. Every escooter thrown at a cop car is one less escort for a goon too afraid to kidnap random brown people without being flanked by a branch full of bad apples. Spray paint is not violence. Vandalism is not violence. Community self defense in all forms is legitimate.

Make no mistake, these raids are about changing demographics. Demographic trends have been shifting blue for a long time, and the right has, for a long time, been blaming "white replacement." Conspiracy theory aside, Democrats have also been relying on the growth of black and brown voters as a block. The nuances of whiteness as an identity are lost on the current administration and their supporters. They see that "white people will be a minority by 2050" and equate that with the "end of Western Civilization."

The only way to "save Western Civilization" is to change those demographics. Forced birth and forced removal are two sides of the same white nationalist objective. Of course they can't have due process, because they need to be able to kidnap anyone who they see as a threat to their demographic future.

They don't care about optics. The plan is to murder away any threat and flood everyone else with propaganda. There is no mythical middle. There's no one unconvinced. They know this, but they win when democrats buy that myth and save the police the work of policing the protests.

If your protest is 90% "peaceful," they'll take pictures of the 10% that isn't. If it's 99% peaceful, they'll shoot rubber bullets and teargas until someone throws a brick and take 100 pictures from a dozen angles. If its 100% "peaceful" and no one can be provoked, they'll generate pictures with AI or photoshop like they did during the George Floyd uprising and the pictures from the CHOP/CHAZ. Do you have literally no memory?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/13/media/seattle-fox-news-autonomous-zone-protest

You can't win on optics... And you don't have to. People trapped in Fox news will not be swayed by anything. They aren't necessary. There are more than enough people to stop this, if you stop policing each other and feeding people to the police in order to "keep it peaceful." A tiny amount of direct action is more than enough to completely collapse the ethnic cleansing machine.

There is not, and has never been, an unconvinced group. This is a myth the right uses to control you.

I'm not saying, "go loot 7/11." There are plenty of things that shouldn't be on the table. But I am saying that if someone is trying to flip an ICE van or police escort and y'all sit down so the cops can grab that person, you are murdering as many people as ICE can kidnap if those assets aren't destroyed. If you go tell the cops about someone burning a Waymo, you are helping ICE intelligence kidnap and rendition people to foreign death camps.

And you are doing it for nothing. None of your collaboration with the police will stop them. Look at Newsom. No matter how much you collaborate, you will always be the enemy. Just be the enemy and don't be afraid of it. Do what needs to be done to save lives, to save families, to save your neighbors. That's literally all that matters.

Genocide must be stopped by any means necessary and all means available. Anything less than that is collaboration with the perpetrators.

#USPol #FiftyFiftyOne #50501movenent #resistance #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayOfAction

Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations

Fox News published digitally altered and misleading images on its website’s homepage Friday that made a demonstration in Seattle, in which a group of largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters have occupied six city blocks, appear violent and dangerous.

CNN

I've been relying on the command line more and more recently to do some quick changes on my system, convert videos, and do some server admin, and I realized I had never really made a quick tutorial on the basics of the #Linux command line, so here we go:

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

Learn the LINUX COMMAND LINE BASICS: 40 commands in 15 minutes !

YouTube