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FunHouse Radio

"Hey, so… Not sure if anyone told you, but you’re absolutely not supposed to eat those packing peanuts. Yeah, they’re not real peanuts. They’re actually made of styrofoam, which you don’t want to consume. At least, you shouldn’t want to consume them…"
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news vice.com/en/article/people-are

VICE · People Are Seasoning Packing Peanuts—and Eating ThemBy Sammi Caramela
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FOSS NEWS

FreeBSD 13.5 released with updated packages, support for Purism keyboards with Coreboot and other improvements:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/

A Latvian film titled "Flow", made with Blender, won Oscar, beating Disney:
proton.me/blog/open-source-flo
(Now we have something to show for the elitist normies, who laugh at FOSS, think that only proprietary software can be good 😎️)

Bluesky adds support for uploading videos up to 3 minutes long, option to accept/reject chat requests from unknown users, support for muting account directly from a post etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/

Audacity 3.7.2 released with improvements for AppImage bundle for 22.04 LTS, option to turn off automatic tempo detection, new “get effects” button next to the ‘Upload Audio’ button, UUID instance support, bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/audacity-3-7-2-i

Framework Mono 6.14 released as the first release under WineHQ, with native ARM64 support for macOS, System.Windows.Forms improvements, improved Clipboard and Drag and Drop features etc.:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/

Spotube 4.0 released with redesigned UI, support for yt-dlp and NewPipe, home screen widget support for Android, custom editable Piped and Invidious instance support, bug fixes:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/3/

(Linux news in original post)

#WeeklyNews#News#FOSS
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Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

postmarketOS to get renamed, because the system isn't just for devices unsupported by factory OS anymore, devs ask the community for suggestions:
postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/
(I like how they consider the opinion of the community. Each project/company in the FOSS community should do the same (looking at you, Mozilla...))

Debian 12.10 released with 66 bug fixes and 43 security updates:
9to5linux.com/debian-12-10-boo

Garuda Linux introduces new COSMIC Edition:
9to5linux.com/first-look-garud

Ubuntu 24.04 gets fix for Bluetooth audio connection issues:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu

Ubuntu 25.04 will come with new icons for the Yaru theme:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu

KDE Plasma 6.3.3 released with battery charge threshold support for more devices, Night Light improvements for Intel GPUs, fix for issues like black lock screen on X11, a KWin crash on login, crash after waking from sleep etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-3

KDE Frameworks 6.12 released with background for the navigation bar of Dolphin and Gwenview, support for the kded6 daemon to restart automatically in the background when it crashes, MIME-type icons for Kdenlive project files in the Breeze icon theme, default naming for 7zip files without a name etc.:
9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6

LXQt 2.2 will add option to set default compositor and screen locker on the experimental Wayland session, other Wayland improvements, QTerminal updates and more:
9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-2-desktop

Dash to Panel GNOME extension update brings dock mode, new ‘Toggle Single / Spread Multiple’ option and more:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/dash-t

Mesa 25.1 will replace Nouveau driver with Zink/NVK by default for NVIDIA GPUs:
9to5linux.com/mesa-25-1-to-rep

DXVK 2.6 released with NVIDIA Reflex support for D3D11 games (e.g. God of War, Overwatch 2, and Quake Champions), more robust Vulkan swapchain implementation, support for the ID3D11On12Device1 interop interface, etc:
9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-6-adds-nv

(FOSS news in comment)

postmarketOSpostmarketOS in 2025-02: MSM89x7 Audio, Modern Xiaomis in Community, New Name ForeshadowingAiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
#WeeklyNews#News#Linux
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Snowshadow 🇨🇦

🤔 Beginning to think it wasn't about the fentanyl. /s

The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders

Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures

#News #Canada #USA

thelogic.co/news/canada-us-tra

The Logic · The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders - The LogicSince October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.
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Aure Free Press :verified:

Trump Blocking Free Press!

Voice of America has ceased broadcasting

The Voice of America has suspended broadcasting, and all employees have been sent on leave

Voice of America Director General Michael Abramowitz also stated that:

All 1,300 employees (journalists, producers, technical staff) have been placed on administrative leave.

For the first time in 83 years, Voice of America is forced to shut up
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews

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Keith Olbermann:
If Trump Was A Foreign Agent, What Would He Be Doing Differently?

"Crash the stock market, bring on a recession, make it worldwide, with economic policies so insane that yesterday CNBC called them insane, not only get out of NATO but pit the US AGAINST NATO... push a cease fire in Ukraine that serves only to give Russia 30 days to re-fortify their troop positions, threaten our forever allies like Canada..."
omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-k

omny.fmIF TRUMP WAS A FOREIGN AGENT, WHAT WOULD HE BE DOING DIFFERENTLY? - 3.13.25 - Countdown with Keith OlbermannSEASON 3 EPISODE 108: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: If Donald Trump were a foreign agent trying to destroy the U-S from within… what would he be doing differently? Crash the stock market, bring on a recession, make it worldwide, with economic policies so insane that yesterday CNBC called them insane, not only get out of NATO but pit the US AGAINST NATO, sacrifice countries to the Russian dictator, push a cease fire in Ukraine that serves only to give Russia 30 days to re-fortify their troop positions, threaten our forever allies like Canada and Mexico, cut off humanitarian aid fast enough to start killing people via disease outbreaks in the same month, start dragging citizens and LEGAL immigrants off the streets and hold them incommunicado in distant concentration camps without trial prior to deportation, try to break the constitution to hold office to avoid prison, blackmail the owners of the major media companies to support him or at least destroy their news outlets, violate every law and make sure all the prosecutors and judges are loyal to you and NOT to the law, decapitate not the EXCESS in government but the people who know how to stop plane crashes and epidemics, turn the agencies over to every con man and idiot and loser and lunatic he could find, roll back human rights for minorities, burn all governmental records, base his decisions on the failed economic policy of 1894 that the professor must’ve been talking about the ONE day he didn’t cut class in college, give a line item veto to a compulsive liar drugged-up foreigner who literally blows up everything he touches, and finally take a 100 million dollar bribe (I’m sorry, contribution) in public during a live infomercial for the druggie’s self-driving self-detonating cars. AND WHY WOULD Democrats give these creatures what they want? Why would Chuck Schumer try to finesse the Continuing Resolution as it comes to the Senate, when it is really just a bill to let Musk continue to resolve to shut down the government. Amazingly, Democrats fear being blamed if they block the bill and... there is a COMPLETE shutdown of the government. It's madness. The Republicans celebrate what the Democrats fear. AND UPDATED FOR 2025 with unspoken references to Trump and a video montage spanning the hero's time to literally this month that ended with Elon Musk and the loudest booing I've ever heard, last night saw the first preview of George Clooney's Broadway version of "Good Night And Good Luck" in which he stars as Murrow. It's a technical masterpiece and the message is as ever timely and even urgent. And I had the privilege of being there. B-Block (27:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Baseball has more new crap caps, only among these is one that spells out a vulgar Hispanic term for women's breasts. One of Marco Rubio's top State Department employees turns out to have been an online troll aimed at... Marco Rubio. And The Guardian asks "Is Stephen A. Smith The Answer for the Democrats" and the answer is surprisingly simply: no damn way. C-Block (43:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL. Since Stephen A. is clearly part of an organized campaign to make us all stop breaking into laughter at the thought of him running for president, let me just tell the story of why moving from sports into politics may not be the best idea. I use as my example... myself.    
#News#Politics#Democracy
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