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Proud of my team at Distributed.Press / @compost for releasing our new feature, the Social Inbox โ€” It allows dweb websites to publish their posts directly to the Fediverse and integrate their comment section with users there.

Our announcement post on the @dripline blog >>> hypha.coop/dripline/announcingโ€ฆ

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My super old and blind cat Rowdy loves to hang out on the second story porch, but heโ€™s become so skinny he can fit through the railings. He has significant balance issues these days, and when he sticks his head and ENTIRE upper body through, I worry that one wrong move and heโ€™d tumble head first to his death. I stopped letting him go
out there because I was so worried. Saw this on Tik Tok, decided to try it. Havenโ€™t stopped cackling since. ๐Ÿคฃ #CatsOfMastodon


Since Iโ€™m here I might as well beat the drum about an opinion I had five years ago and maintain to this day: โ€œWhy Would Any Man Not Want to Be Bald?โ€ thecut.com/2019/01/bald-guys-aโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Being bald is pretty great, with one small quibble: my head gets cold quickly. I wear a hat indoors sometimes because of it.

Other than that, 10/10, will keep my head shaven.



Do you put your milk or serial in first?


Wise hasn't been here long enough to know counters are off limits. She demands merch tho. #cats #catsofmastodon


Elevate your skills with the "reproducing bugs and testing PRs" tutorial.

Learn efficient testing processes, set up a local Nextcloud environment effortlessly, and master professional pull request testing.

Explore the tutorial! ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿพโ€โ™€๏ธ

#NextcloudDevelopment #AppTesting

nextcloud.com/developer/



Are YOU a Dwarf, digging a hole? Then we have just the song for you! Remember all proceeds go towards @yogscast JINGLE JAM, where we're stopping by again this evening (round about now, in fact!) so head on over and support those charities!
youtube.com/shorts/l1KB5q5ngu8

twitch.tv/yogscast

#TheLongestJohns #TheYogscast #DiggyDiggyHole #JingleJam #Charity #CommunityProject #Choir




Skylight at the top of a 19th c Edinburgh stairwell. Photo by my old friend Boon Low.
#FensterFreitag


Today I turn 22. Hereโ€™s a pixel for every photo I took while I was 21. This is the most efficient way to share a photo recap as far as I'm concerned. No swiping or writing alt text for a bunch of slides or anything.


Scientists and the general public have long dismissed the cognitive abilities of cows, pigs, and other livestock. But farm animals are capable of much more than we think.

#Science #Biology #AnimalBehaviour #Behaviour #Cognition #intelligence #Cattle #Cow #Pig #Livestock #Chicken

๐Ÿ“„ Grimm D (2023) What are farm animals thinking? Science 382:1103โ€“1107 dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.adnโ€ฆ



Here is a very pleasing drawing of a piece of bread. And the story behind it, but mostly the bread. [via wordloaf] Prints here. waxingandweaving.substack.com/โ€ฆ


La #BrechaDigital no sรณlo se refiere a las dificultades en el acceso y uso de las tecnologรญas digitales, tambiรฉn tiene que ver con la adquisiciรณn de competencias digitales.

ยฟCuรกles son las estrategias participativas que luchan contra la desigualdad? โคต๏ธ

theconversation.com/una-estratโ€ฆ



Somehow stayed up to 4am watching the Game Awards and I've just been left with an overhanging feeling of frustration and anger at the state of the industry and the sheer disconnect between image and reality

It's an awards show almost without awards, centering adverts and celebrities over winners and creators, unable to address the major issues impacting creators like their concerns over genocide in Palestine or the masses of layoffs that went into making many of the games it chose to center

Far from creators being important, you highlight one game that proudly chose to use AI voices and another that mere weeks ago had a long investigation against published in IGN for how it treated women and all their employees (Black Myth: Wukong)

Creators are the bottom rung of dirt in such a so-called 'celebration' of gaming, presented by brands so you consume, consume, consume ign.com/articles/how-black-mytโ€ฆ

in reply to Alicia Haddick/ใ‚ขใƒชใ‚ทใ‚ข

You have a developer trying to thank someone they lost being ushered off by swelling music and a WRAP IT UP sign on a teleprompter because they need to make way for more ads

It makes you wonder why you make games, write about them, when clearly you don't matter

And it makes the industry seem immature that it can't handle serious issues and has been so unable to cultivate creators as public people that despite economic superiority over other mediums you need to let celebrities talk more about broken feet than award winners because you have no one who can be a similar face and name representative

And no, Kojima isn't that, but 10 minutes to him for a teaser while winners say nothing stings

It's just frustrating, honestly angry, and overshadows even the few games shown that look interesting to play (even if it shouldn't be a focus)

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World of Goo 2 announced for release in 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/worlโ€ฆ

#WorldofGoo2 #IndieGame




Cautiously hyped for Light No Fire from the No Man's Sky team at Hello Games gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/cautโ€ฆ

#LightNoFire #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

this seems like it's supposed to be what NMS was supposed to be.

I hope they can have a good release and if they have to tone down some features for the release, that they end up supporting the game for many years to come, like they did with NMS.

in reply to Alex

@xinayder Not really, completely different style of game to NMS with a single planet
@Alex


SEGA tease new Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage and Crazy Taxi gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/segaโ€ฆ

#SEGA #PCGaming




Steam Deck Beta and SteamOS Preview fix up some annoying issues gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamOS #SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED



It was a big surprise to see an American file sync & share company go on a buying spree, buying several of our smaller European competitors like ownCloud and Dracoon.

If you rather not switch to Kiteware, you can move to Nextcloud and stay in control over your data!

We even have a migration tool! ๐Ÿš€

nextcloud.com/blog/kiteworks-aโ€ฆ



Another type of Internet fragmentation

Twitch to shut down in Korea over โ€˜prohibitively expensiveโ€™ network fees
techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/twitโ€ฆ




I so love this trend.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90985730/leica-m-series-analog-film-digital-photography

Flipped into LEICA OWNERS MAGAZINE
https://flipboard.com/@mike/leica-owners-magazine-57la80baz

in reply to Mike McCue

@thunderbird If anyoneโ€™s interested, I have a Nikon FM2 I havenโ€™t been using since I dropped my photography degree. Itโ€™s from the last series they made out of metal before switching to plastic.

Any takers?



My ISP Customer Service Absolutely Sucks #YouTube youtu.be/gQyu-uKsC8E


Every so often I check back in on the multi window protocol and everytime Matthias has to jump through more hoops to appease the Wayland protocol devs to avoid a global coordinates system we've now achieved meta windows that apps can position themselves in gitlab.freedesktop.org/waylandโ€ฆ
in reply to Brodie Robertson

to be fair, what are compositors like stardust supposed to do when there just isn't a global coordinates system?

i mean, i get scrolling compositors aren't popular and i can't find any active ones but stardust at least is active and has a genuine use-case for non-objective coordinate systems given wayland doesn't know what a z axis is

in reply to Nova๐Ÿงโœจ

@technobaboo That's a really weird case because normal apps are simply never going to work in a way that makes sense in that environment, things would need to be modified specifically for that style of system
in reply to Brodie Robertson

i don't think they'd need to, if windows can be placed relative to others then that's very directly translatable to 3D space!
in reply to Nova๐Ÿงโœจ

@technobaboo It's translatable but it'll never be as good as apps designed for a 3D environment, it'll just get them working
in reply to Brodie Robertson

technically yea, but you can get 99% of the way there and even make some 2D apps work better in 3D than 2D given the right translation
in reply to Nova๐Ÿงโœจ

@technobaboo Here's a question, couldn't a 3D compositor just use the coordinates given not as the literal position but as a spacing difference between the windows of the app
in reply to Brodie Robertson

yes, but given you have infinite space and the virtual monitor clips to the side, how can you make sure the windows always have room to put windows to the side?
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I really don't want to see a global coordinate system, unless all compositors allow turning self-positioning windows off.

With Wayland, apps are finally appearing on the correct (active) monitor, whereas with X lots of apps and all the windows they create just open on the leftmost monitor (coordinates 0,0), even though my primary and active monitor is to the right of it.

Thanks to e. g. KWin rules, users (but not apps) can still place individual windows on specific screens.



I just finished this painting. I am entitling it: Frog in a Turner Storm
Today is a fittingly stormy day for it!
I got all excited about painting something on a rather large round canvas. So I pulled out a detail image of just the frog.
#myart #frog #art


I like this approach, and hope more organisations adopt it. xlast.org/

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Listen to Shel Silverstein reading his works. Wonderful ...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=28qAGZA0โ€ฆ



Contrasting drivers of abundant phage and prokaryotic communities revealed in diverse coastal ecosystems
doi.org/10.1038/s43705-023-003โ€ฆ
#microbiology #bioinformatics


I promised weeb garbage, I deliver weeb garbage, live in a bit #neptunia youtube.com/watch?v=e-1SeRs5Uaโ€ฆ


New @lickability blog post from yours truly: Designing Mastodonโ€™s reply safety features

lickability.com/blog/designingโ€ฆ



ZONK!


We had a cat who would drool, smack his lips, and purr in his sleep. So good to know he had happy dreams! This fuzzy one must be having happy dreams as well!

in reply to Muse

Several of ours would meow and their paws would twitch as if they were handling prey,
in reply to Muse

๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ‘Œโค๏ธBaby๐Ÿถ





W4 Games raises $15M to help push Godot Engine gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/w4-gโ€ฆ

#Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

if this continues this might honestly replace everything else at some point.
A bit like Blender. Blender is such an incredible piece of software and unbelievably versatile.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

w4 games be like: "Oh hello Re-Logic, i heard you donated 100k$ to Godot, well, I'M GONNA BEAT YOU BY DONATING 15M$ SO SUCK ON THAT!" ๐Ÿ˜†


Since I love any chance talk about reducing #food waste (which wastes energy, water + contributes to #ClimateChange) I made this PBS short on why we needn't be so quick to toss out those brown bananas ๐ŸŒ

youtube.com/shorts/hhdwHYElIRk

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

As someone that likes them just a hair before they are ripe, I find brown disgusting to eat.. unless they are used in banana bread!
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

Spouse will only eat unripe (bright yellow, unspotted) bananas.

I wait until they're about 30% spots, but at that point they only have a couple of days before they become bread, or even better, muffins.

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