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Day 54 of #The100DayProject I try to tie my drawing with some major political issue if I can, but I’m not a cartoonist. So while I can think of plenty #disgusting people and things, I couldn’t get myself to draw it. So instead and inspired that we just had our wedding anniversary I sketched the opposite of it, our wedding cake with some Cobra art which at the time was considered also disgustingly too simple #PastInktober #FountainPen #WaterColour #Midori #MastoArt #InkyParker51

Day 49 of #The100DayProject
Outer space aliens are often depicted as something evil. That idea was brought to us by mostly white men and they have such often unfunded credibility in this world, that nobody bats an eye by that notion. But it’s human who want to concur the universe and those who can have bad intentions. I want to think of aliens as peaceful creatures who travel by #rocket that leave a trail of flowers
#PastInktober #FountainPen #WaterColour #Midori #MastoArt #InkyParker51

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FOSS NEWS

Mozilla launches Thundermail, a Gmail alternative email service with @thundermail email addresses, and Thunderbird Pro, which includes appointment scheduler, file sharing tools, and AI-powered features (Thunderbird Assist):
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/
(POV it will be killed off after a short time like other Mozilla products lol. There's already Proton Mail, a privacy-focused mail service from a company with a better track record, more than 100 million users, also Tuta for those who don't mind it not being fully FOSS, so I don't really think Thundermail has a shot here, but nice try regardless, at least they try to have some source of income other than Google.)

Firefox 137 released with HEVC playback support on Linux, ability to identify all links in PDF files and turn them into hyperlinks, new options in the Browser Layout section under General settings (vertical tabs, show sidebar); some progressively rolled out features: sign PDF documents, calculator feature for address bar (now you don't have to open the Console tab of dev tools for that lol), tab grouping:
9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-

Firefox 138 beta available new contrast control (same colors for all websites) setting, support for copying links for background tabs using the tabstrip context menu on Linux and macOS, more tab grouping features, new “Report broken site” feature, etc.:

Midori browser gets new ad blocker (Astian Privacy, also available for other Firefox-based browsers), VPN service (utilizing WireGuard, with OpenVPN support planned), search engine AstianGO now has its own indexing:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/

Inkscape 1.4.1 released with new splash screen, close button added to welcome dialog, collapsible groups in more toolbars, bug fixes and improvements:
omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/inksca

GIMP 3.2 will get support for more file formats, including JIF:
alternativeto.net/news/2025/4/

(Linux news in original post)

#WeeklyNews#News#FOSS