New blog post about our local-first GNOME app initiative! Project Aardvark is growing up into a real app, called Reflection 🪩✨

Over the coming months we have a @PrototypeFund grant to expand the app into a proper local-first Hedgedoc replacement, with multi-cursor, sharing URLs, undo, permissions, and more.

Hopefully the first of many GTK+p2panda apps to come, especially once we add GObject bindings making this stack accessible to non-Rust apps :)

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update

At the end of #StarTrekDS9 S1E3, Keiko instructs the children in her new school to “turn on [their] computers” to begin the lesson.

At the time of filming, home computers were a thing, but they were normally left powered off when not in use.

What about now? Turning a computer on or off is still possible, of course, but is it still common?

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth

Wait, disability ... pride? Why would someone be proud to be disabled?

One of the most important aspects of disability pride for me is to counter the shame. The shame of “being different,” the shame of “needing help,” the shame of “being a burden,” the shame from the humiliation and abuse I have experienced.

Disability pride gives me the chance to counter the shame by saying, “I am disabled, and I am proud to exist and be who I am.”

#JulyIsDisabilityPrideMonth

Some really neat programing books from the 80s.

I like that the publisher made them available.

https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #commodore

Folks, is there a straightforward way to run a windows VM on a linux host, with all the VM's data sitting on a physical drive?

like a dualboot, but one OS inside the other

My idea is to add a linux distro to my PC on a fresh drive, and keep the current win10 setup more or less untouched

If I realize I need anything from the Windows system, I'd like to be able to fire up a VM with the old OS, grab *the thing* and move on, instead of shutting down linux and switching over completely to the other OS

bonus points if I could use the windows system through both a VM or a proper dual boot, e.g. for gaming (until I've had a chance to move all my games over properly)

I basically wanna Soulkiller my current PC