I do not twitch or stream, but I find the concept of the audience influencing the game interesting: https://store.steampowered.com/app/359960/Choice_Chamber/

@khaled أي أدوات التصميم الحرّة يدعم التلوين في المحارف و الحركات؟

@khaled ما الفرق بين Raqq و RaqqSura?

TIL that #Alexandria (EG) operates the oldest tramline in the #MiddleEast and #Africa. Operations started on January 8th, 1863. It is also one of the very few networks that uses double-deck cars […] [Original post on social.librem.one]

و لا نزال لا نعرف أي شيء عن حدود المعلومات التي تحتفظ بها شركات المحمول عن زباينها و لا حدود نفاذها إلى بيانات السجل المدني كما تدل الشواهد، و الآن تُضاف إليها البيانات البيومترية […]

More demolitions of Bedouin homes, this time in Ka'abiyye, in Northern Israel. Inside or outside the green line doesn't matter. Israel's ethnic cleansing targets Paleatinians in Gaza, the West Bank, and within Israel's recognized border […]

Today is the day! Happy #Halloween everyone! 🎃

Also, Sprecher aller Varianten des Deutschen bilden in ihrer Alltagssprache den Laut /χ/ (auch bekannt als Ach-Laut) mühelos, reichlich und allgegenwärtig. Dennoch sprechen sie das ch in TutAnchAmon als /ç/ (auch bekannt als Ich-Laut) aus. Gibt es eine Erklärung dafür?

Community Networks and Community Infrastructures bridge the digital divide and create affordable connectivity and first class Internet participation for underconnected communities. The Internet Society (ISOC) is currently selecting its Special Interest Groups (SIG) for 2026-2027. The five […]

Breaking free from the Atlassian Jira & Confluence lock-in. I'm excited to speak at @nextcloud Enterprise Day in #Copenhagen on October 22! After March 28, 2029, #Jira Data Center licenses will expire. Are you looking for a feature-rich alternative that also […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Signal does not work for me. Apparently @signalapp is being hosted by AWS? Given that AWS has a major outage & Signal is down for me. This is a perfect example why Signal still is too much of a single point of failure. We must demand a decentralized Signal and/or explore other alternatives […]

Now is another great moment to ponder if making your business rely on Amazon is a great idea.

Papers in social sciences are full of filler. The common writing style has the following structure: 1) a researcher is talking about how they "will demonstrate/show/analyse" or "present/propose" 2) "in this article/through this research/book" a 3) thesis/relationship/phenomena". Layers 1 and 2 […]

Reminder: Peter #thiel despises you personally. Do not put money in his pocket. Refrain from using #paypal.

Israel gives us daily reminders that ethnically cleansing Palestinians isn't limited to Gaza and the West Bank. It's also ongoing within the recognized borders of Israel.

I've published a new blogpost on the question of what "shâdhdh" of Qira'at mean. You can read it here: phdnix.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/m...

@alyanumbers زعزعة وإلا استقرار؟

I am really saddened by the news of Ahmed Mekkawy's @linuxawy passing. This is not just a great loss to his family and friends, but to the Free/Open Source Software community as a whole. He made significant contributions to the local Linux User Group (#eglug) and other grassroots initiatives […]

Liberal Zionist myth #728: Israeli settlement and ethnic cleansing only happens in territories occupied after 1967 and does not happen within 1948 borders […]

Contrary to the now standard Arabic pronunciation apparently in the mid third century AH in Kufa, pronunciations with ʾimālah of ʾalifāt maqṣūrah spelled with yāʾ was still widely considered 'good' and 'eloquent'.

Philomena Cunk for UNICEF

This chapter has now been out for more than six months and thus magically becomes #OpenAccess: scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/...

If you try to #translate "Two hundred and sixty four thousand, and five hundred and twenty one" to #german using #deepl, it will embezzle one, while at the same time showing the number correctly in digits. I couldn't reproduce this in any of the other five languages that I can decipher. #ai

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91. She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

The first episode of the 7th season of Black Mirror is good. The previous season was off. This one seems promising. #blackmirror

I appreciate you Barak

Can't overstate how much Israelis feel that they've been abandoned by the entire world and must fend for themselves. (It's as if the thousand-pound bombs delivered through the war and US warships actively defending Israel simply... didn't exist)

Settlers are bringing construction material to continue preparing the mobile homes, right in the middle of Umm al Khair, for permanent residents. They brought the kids because who said colonialism couldn't be family-friendly?

After settlers murdered Saeed yesterday, they came back today during the Saeed's funeral ceremony and opened fire on mourners.

We waited so long for this moment!

@khaled جرّبت دا؟: https://bezy.org/

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) has launched a call for applications for projects under the title "Ecologies of Culture." The grant has an interesting category called "Creative Labs" which support co-creators from the arts and culture sector, and from a different professional field such […]

Congratulations to @Mastodon for launching its new service offerings. It’s win-win: we all need a strong Mastodon organization, and organizations looking to onboard need expert help from people who know. This only benefits the ecosystem and I’m excited to see it.

For transferring money to friends, please refrain from using PayPal. Don't put money in the pocket of Peter Thiel. He despises you anyway. Find another method, or simply use Signal payments.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@debborah/115229452690255355 Many interesting details about the type of urban development, the culinary, and many other aspects of daily life in the last days of one of the oldest continually settled places in Ancient's Egypt's delta: Imet, which was known for its […]

Personal web archaeology: A fruitful conversation I‌ had 14 years ago in traditional Chinese Wikipedia researching the name of an author for some digital preservation hobby I‌ was busy with at the time […]

@PhDniX do you think arabic سبي is cognate with Egyptian "sepi" from their common afroasiatic root, or a borrowing from the first into the latter?

ما من برهان أوضح من هذا على أنّ القواعد العسكرية الأجنبية في بلادنا يمكن أن تُستخدم ضدنا، و حتّى ضد البلد مستضيفة القاعدة نفسها.

Who is Abd el-Fattah, the jailed Egyptian-British dissident who may soon be pardoned? https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/who-is-abd-el-fattah-jailed-egyptian-british-dissident-who-may-soon-be-pardoned-2025-09-09/ #freealaa

علاء عبد الفتاح يعود للإضراب بعد وعود لم تُنفذ بالإفراج عنه https://www.madamasr.com/2025/09/07/news/u/علاء-عبد-الفتاح-يعود-للإضراب-بعد-وعود-ل/ (أعتذر أن الصفحة تحتوي على أخبار أخرى ليست لها علاقة ولا تتيح رابط مباشر للخبر.) Alaa Abdel el Fattah resumes his hunger strike. (Page in Arabic) […]

Bezahl nach Möglichkeit per Lastschrift statt mit Debit- oder Kreditkarte. Nutze Klarna als Zahlungsdienstleister statt Paypal.

@phdnix.bsky.social I had it in mind for a while to ask your opinion of the origin of the question words, specially kam, but all of them.

شفت دا يا @khaled ؟: https://x.com/bintbattuta/status/586932664252235776

@hoogla_kalfat هل عندك شواهد على أسلوب التبجيل ال فيه مزج بين ضمائر المخاطبين على النسق "إذا فخامتك يحب يعمل كذا..."؟ باحاول أفهم أساليب الاحترام في الألمانية و تغيّرها عبر الزمن و حلت لي المقارنة، لأنها في مرحلة سابقة كانت بتعمل نفس الالتفات. و بافكر إن كان الأسلوب دا أدخله الشماشرجية في […]

"SEO" is a misnomer for a practice that should have been known as "OFSE", short for "optimisation for search engines", and outlawed, since it has a prime factor for the entshitifaction of the web for two decades, and now accelerated by LLMs.

4. I see iOS as the biggest hurdle to your digital sovereignty. Companies are much more likely to comply, or over-comply with US sanctions and pressures than community-driven efforts. (the case of the ICC as an example).

3. FOSS that has its overseeing institutions in the US is still acceptable, in my opinion, since I do make a distinction between the government and the civil society. So long as they are able to work and produce the same functional software that is safe from backdoors and other possible […]

2. A distinction is due between services, and software that is downloadable, to be installed, and used [possibly] offline. The latter being a much easier case for replacement, where FOSS provides many viable alternatives, such as the ones you mentioned.

1. Counting FOSS software such as Mastodon and LibreOffice as specific to one country is not fair, because even though the institutions overseeing their development and maintenance may be seated in this or that country, and possibly even their founders, development is undertaken by contributors […]

Thanks. More people should be writing about their efforts to liberate themselves from big tech, which happens to be US at the moment. I know I should. I wanted to elaborate in a comment, and to draw your attention to some points, but it would have required me to open an account at Substack, a […]