S01E01. First Contact
Before the Future Came is a podcast that looks at the ideals of Star Trek as we voyage from one episode or film to the next, following a breadcrumb trail of motifs. How is the universe portrayed in Star Trek a truly egalitarian utopia, and how does the world subtly uphold the hegemonic values of our present day?
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#bondage #borg #borgQueen #braga #cochrane #collectivism #data #destiny #exceptionalism #fantasy #figuredWorlds #film #frakes #laForge #locutus #lore #moore #picard #temporalPrimeDirective #timeTravel #tng
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023 gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/hereโฆ
#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED #PCGaming #Linux
Here's the top Steam Deck games for December 2023
Recently Valve revealed the top Steam Deck games overall for 2023, but they only just posted up what the most-played were just for December 2023 which we have now.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Contribute To KDE Without CODE
Whilst programming is the most obvious way to help out a project like KDE, just because you don't know how to code doesn't mean you can't help. There are so ...YouTube
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/kde-โฆ
KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal
The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Interesting article on the bizarre Musk biography by Walter Isaacson. I liked Isaacson's Da Vinci book and considered reading some others that he wrote, but it's a bit hard to take his other work too seriously after reading this.
theverge.com/2023/10/1/2389506โฆ
How the Elon Musk biography exposes Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacsonโs Elon Musk is a strangely incurious book. Its shallow reporting and bizarre skew left me with more questions than I had before I read it.Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge)
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linuโฆ
Linux hits nearly 4% desktop user share on Statcounter
According to Statcounter, which should be taken with a pinch of salt of course like any sampling, the Linux share on the desktop hit nearly 4% in Decemeber 2023.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Yo! Linux it's getting more and more popular, that's both good and bad.
Good, because that means more software aimed to linux.
Bad, because that means more malware for linux it's gonna be made.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-โฆ
#RPG #Retro #Daggerfall #FOSS
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall remake Daggerfall Unity 1.0 out now
Another really impressive project that just got a big final release is The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall game engine remake Daggerfall Unity which has hit the 1.0 meaning it's now complete!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Deaths from hydroxychloroquine used to treat #Covid have been calculated.
It's over 15,000.
This is what #SloppyThinking, #BadScience and #Trumpism does.
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/scumโฆ
#ScummVM #Retro #RetroGaming #FOSS #Linux
ScummVM 2.8.0 released with new game support and plenty of upgrades
Just before the end of 2023 the ScummVM team released ScummVM 2.8.0 bringing with it support for running various new games along with improvements to other already supported classics.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/baldโฆ
Baldur's Gate 3 wins Game of the Year in the 2023 Steam Awards
Not really a big surprise here and thoroughly deserved! The 2023 Steam Awards are over and Baldur's Gate 3 has won Game of the Year. Here's all the results for you.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Troll awards, more like.
Starfield, the blandest Bethesda game so far wins for "innovation", Rockstar wins "labor of love" as Rockstar has left support for it die for over a year, Hogwarts doesn't run well on PC, sure as hell doesn't do well on the Steam Deck, and no one in the SD community at large cares about it. It was only voted to shove it in a "good game" category, which it is not.
This is basically a happy song. It's just so touching that I'm in tears any time I watch the video.
Be Yourself by Melinda Schneider
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@Joyce Donahue Do anything for you?
Be Yourself
Please Subscribe to my channel and check out https://www.MelindaSchneider.com for more!Come see Melinda Schneider LIVE: https://www.melindaschneider.com#Tour...YouTube
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Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility ๐
#RSS #Atom #FeedReader #Fediverse
The Uncomfortable Truth Of Wayland Adoption
Whilst I am hopeful for the adoption Wayland there is one issue that I have to acknowledge, there are some desktops that simply are never going to be ported,...YouTube
Jony Ive imagined the Vision Pro giving you Zoom eyes and sunglasses
A new patent granted to Apple details how the company has thought about ways an external screen on a head-mounted display could be used to indicate what youโre looking at.Jay Peters (The Verge)
A tiny fraction of all species forms most of nature: Rarity as a sticky state
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the curl maintainers are receiving bogus security issue reports based on LLM hallucinations:
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02โฆ
i recommend reading the second issue in particular, it's so obviously written by an LLM. every time it gets told it's wrong, it comes out to "clarify" by repeating the same information in a different order.
bogus security issue reports are already a bad enough issue with people reporting impossible "bugs" identified by automated fuzz tests, but this is only going to make it worse.
this has been happening a lot lately in many open source projects and different platforms. I have friends who have received these in the projects they maintain. I can only guess what are the goals of the people behind it...
Anyway, it's extremely unfair and unethical to burden open source maintainers with having to spend time dealing with these.
BISHI on Instagram: "Calling all classical music nerds, who love AI & Lego. (Itโs a vibe) These images have been created by Tarik OโRegan. Heโs picked the best pioneers and pieces in my humble opinion. ๐๐ถ๐๐พ๐ #bishiofficial #tarikoregan #ailego #deliaderb
2,987 likes, 61 comments - bishiofficial on December 17, 2023: "Calling all classical music nerds, who love AI & Lego. (Itโs a vibe) These images have been cre..."Instagram
It's hard to believe it's been 10 years since #CasualtiesOfCool was released. I've listened to that album about 110 times since then. If I remember correctly, this was the first song anyone heard, as a preview on their PledgeMusic campaign. PledgeMusic doesn't even exist anymore.
youtube.com/watch?v=mE9au9zL3_โฆ
Forgive Me
Provided to YouTube by Republic of MusicForgive Me ยท Devin Townsend ยท Chรฉ Aimee DorvalCasualties of Coolโ 2014 HevyDevy RecordsAuto-generated by YouTube.YouTube
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck) gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/linuโฆ
Linux use on Steam ends 2023 with a multi-year high (thanks Steam Deck)
Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software Survey is out now for December 2023, and it shows that Linux and Steam Deck overall finished 2023 on a very positive note.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
We knew little about the presence of pharmaceuticals in river waters, despite a growing body of evidence about their harmful effects on the environment. A large group of scientists addressed this gap by sampling 258 rivers in 104 countries on all continents:
๐ doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211394711โฆ
All samples were collected using the same equipment, with strict adherence to a single methodology + all samples were delivered and analysed in one place! ๐ This is what #openscience looks like today!
"Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in WebSocket Handling".
A bot? An AI? Just a silly reporter? Another fine waste of #curl maintainer time.
curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...
## Summary: Hello security team, Hope you are doing well :) I would like to report a potential security vulnerability in the WebSocket handling code of the curl library. The issue is related to...HackerOne
How To Join A KDE Network
Now that you know about what a KDE network is, how would you go about either joining an existing network or possibly starting your own if one doesn't happen ...YouTube
"Nektar und Ambrosia" by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1883).
archive.org/details/roscher_neโฆ
Nektar und Ambrosia : Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Nektar und Ambrosia:Mit einem Anhang รผber die Grundbedeutung der Aphrodite und Athene.Von Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher,Professor und Konrektor am Kgl....Internet Archive
"Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film."
youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5Fy6fgFUโฆ
Lightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse Film
#milkyway #nationalpark #timelapseLightyears 4K - Milky Way and Orion Astro Timelapse FilmAbout: Milky Way and Orion astrophotography timelapse film explorin...YouTube
"Interactive map of the sky from Gaiaโs Early Data Release 3."
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ESA/Gaia/DPAC. Acknowledgement: A. Moitinho., CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons.
Antechinus are not actually related to mice. They are just a very small relative of the kangaroo and koala.
Despite their cute appearance, they are darn feisty! A little antechinus can take down a chicken around five times its size, and eat it! The males also tend to die during a crazed mating season due to an overload of androgen.
These furry beasts are something else!
In the last hour we've had a dark storm roll in. So, the lighting isn't great for photographing the colour, but it's fine.
#art #myart #animals
@su ann lim @Clarice Boomshakala Bouvier @Kenny Chaffin
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OpenGL In Bash Is Terrifying And Incredible
There are so many ways you can write OpenGL code but writing it in Bash and actually making a game like that is not only a bad idea, it's an idea that you sh...YouTube
Excellent article by Charlie Stross
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Todayโs Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now theyโre trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookCharles Stross (Scientific American)
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@Mark Wollschlager I have seen that too. In fact I remember having discussions, even in the early days, where young wealthy optimistic programmers were arguing for "free" as in beer but only ever applying it to others work, not to their own work. "But I'm giving away software for free!" Yes, and then getting six figure or more salaries to alter and maintain it. Meanwhile, you have pulled the rug out from under many other people.
This is why I was working with Ted Nelson. His micropayment system was genius for providing a way for everyone to get paid for content provision, without having to worry about a YouTube or a Spotify to figure out how to dole out as little money as possible to creators. Could this also have been subverted so that a different pyramid of wealth extraction would emerge? I think the possibility is real, sadly.
Have you seen the movie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? Now THAT is what I mean by appropriate technology. We need more of THAT.
The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind | Offical Trailer [HD] | Netflix
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Based on the best selling b...YouTube
Most posts about #37c3 were published on the Fediverse.
I found 11.130 posts on the Fediverse (known to chaos.social or mastodon.social), 2.620 posts on X/Twitter and 1.069 on ATProto/Bluesky. Published between 2023-12-23 and 2023-12-31. (I haven't figured out how to collect posts on Threads, but I have found 150 there. Maybe there are more, but they don't show up in the search results.)
Lots-of-alone-time project update: I picked a bunch of willow yesterday because we have tons of it, and I started trying to make a basket after watching a bunch of youtube videos. Turns out...it's a bit harder than I guessed at first! But maybe I'll manage to make a couple of crappy baskets. We'll see...
I also learned that willow branches wobbling around in the air while I work (badly) with them is ABSOLUTELY irresistible to cats, who kept attacking the willows. Not helpful, guys!
If anyone else is interested in trying this, I used these two tutorials on youtube. Both are really great!
youtube.com/watch?v=iaPbg3C3lLโฆ
youtube.com/watch?v=SpYqs_ry_1โฆ
PART 1 - How to weave a round willow basket - The base
The first in our comprehensive 6 part tutorial. The round base can easily be adapted to make a flower.Running order00:18 Starting the base 02:16 The slath 07...YouTube
Peeping sheep.
(#Nikon f70, Nikkor, Ilford Delta 400)
#somerset #filmphotography #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead
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