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Have you ever had neck ache from looking down at your phone? Artist Dasha Ilina- founded The Center for Technological Pain (CTP), a mock company that uses humorous interventions to draw attention to the social and health consequences of our ‘always on’ culture. Ilina is one of the artists included in the #EverythingWillBeFine Exhibition that explores how society responds to crisis through the lens of technology. Explore the virtual exhibition: everythingfine.org/en/berlin-0…
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Hat tip to @morix for this thread on the Other Place. Lichen surviving and prospering in space (no stasis) twitter.com/annethegnome/statu…

@ephemeral for your attention, too

in reply to VI

I know, it's wild! Nice pictures in that tweet.

The ESA have run a few projects on this over the past 20 years, and have had a few successes. esa.int/Science_Exploration/Hu…

@morix



farcaster frames is an interesting extension of open graph tags. @dwr curious to see what developers come up with

docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/what-…

@dwr
in reply to 𝚓𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚕

@dwr@threads.net Isn’t this more or less a reinvention of OEmbed? That’s how all the click to play previews work in Mastodon.


Any KDE devs interested in taking a look at an annoying accessibility bug where the zoom feature doesn't allow you to pan to the top of the screen when in push mode if your monitors are offset vertically youtube.com/watch?v=3wH0wDqfF5…

in reply to Muse

@Muse Ha! I have always taken care to cover my pencil drawings lest I get graphite cat paw prints all over it.
@Muse
in reply to Muse

@Kenny Chaffin One day we will have to make paintings/drawings with intentional foot prints in them! hehehe!


Thin Section of the Northwest Africa (NWA) 7835 Meteorite in Cross Polarized Light.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/X6Z3PN

#meteorite

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Born in 1885, Clara Belle Williams became the 1st Black graduate of New Mexico College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts (now NMSU).

While a student, many professors did not allow her into lecture halls so she took notes from the hallway. When she graduated in 1937, commencement ceremonies were canceled bc a group of students refused to walk with her.

Williams persevered despite discrimination, earning recognition as a teacher & lifelong learner. libexhibits.nmsu.edu/onlinexhi… #HistoryRemix #history

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

I think it's important to elevate and publicise such women so that children grow up seeing an equal mix of genders and role models. And to remind us older people too.


Let's see how things are doing on the birdsite
looks good to me


in reply to Muse

... this one... She always says, "He's just a baby!"

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mastodon - Link to source
Lynnesbian
@bubbline the sequel is even better!




you know when you start up a PS1 and it's all like
ᵇᶦʷʷʷʷʷʷʷ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ ᴅᴏDAᴰᴵ pshhhwwwwwwwwww~...

ffwooaaAahh... dooooo, dooooo... duuuuu



Distro Bug Tracker Or Developer: Where To Report? #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/oCSJqZtTVxw


We have this painting at the National Gallery of Victoria. I have seen it...and now I can't unsee it as well!
in reply to Muse

I thought it was quite good -- and I generally don't go for these kinds of things.


Kooky Little Ceramic Aliens. Ceramic artist Monsieur Cailloux makes these cute little ceramic creatures that are members of the Cailoux tribe “straight from the stone planet MRCX”. kottke.org/24/02/kooky-little-…


Steam Next Fest returns with more demos and livestreams gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/stea…

#Steam #PCGaming #SteamDeck #LinuxGaming



Please consider lending your name in support of Amin, one of the most talented activists and teachers I have ever known.

Free Palestine, Decolonize This Place: A Statement in Support of Professor Amin Husain and Collective Speech Against Genocide widgets.commoninja.com/ef6c6f8…

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Signed and shared with others outside of Mastodon as well as with Mastodon users.


@ntnsndr is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:

community governance, conflict resolution, policy and legal, financing

He has a new book out, too: "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life". Sounds directly applicable to the #fediverse.

Discuss this and many other subjects with Nathan and other smart people? Join us March 19 and 20, 2024, online. Registration and more info: fediforum.org

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Not perfect but I think I did pretty good ​:neocat_flag_trans:


We are organising an 🌐 online open day ✨ tomorrow specially for those who are not near to Rotterdam any time soon!

📆 Tuesday 6 February

You can choose to jump into one of the two sessions:

⏲️ 10:00 - 11:00 (CET)
⏲️ 17:00 - 18:00 (CET)

To subscribe, visit:

xpub.nl/

📨 Just click on "February 6, 2024" and write a short mail to our course coordinator, she will send you the links you will need.

And/or! Join us for the open day at the 🛋️ XPUB studio 💻 later this week:

📆 Saturday 10 February
⏲️ 10:00 - 15:00 (CET)
📍 Wijnhaven 61 (4th floor), Rotterdam, NL

During all the open day moments, both students and staff will be present, we will present the course and you can ask us your questions!

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Futuro de Internet: frente a la Inteligencia Artificial corporativa, la inteligencia colectiva

💻

sursiendo.org/2023/04/futuro-d…



El próximo miércoles, @APC_News observará junto con otras organizaciones de sociedad civil la audiencia de apelación del caso #OlaBini.

#FreeOlaBini



Desde @derechosdigital estaremos presentes junto a organizaciones de la sociedad civil observando la audiencia de apelación del caso @olabini
.
#FreeOlaBini🗣️


Looking for some suggestions - I'm working with Archaeal genomic regions whose optimally fitting model seems to be Tamura-Nei (doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals…).

Would it be too much to suspect the Archaeal region is under similar types of evolutionary pressure?

#archaea #microbiology #evolution #phylogenetics #bioinformatics

in reply to naturepoker

if it's just model fit with something like Iqtree I would follow up with something more specific, or look at the difference with the next best model.
in reply to Frank Aylward

@foaylward
With the speediness of the current ML tools, why not just take a data set and run it using the plethora of models, including fully customised ones in RAxML-ng, and just test, if there's any critical effect on the topology by e.g. comparing the ML-BS supports across models for the same splits.

Screenshot from github.com/amkozlov/raxml-ng/w…



The best way to start your morning is by watching Tracy Chapman sing Fast Car at the Grammys last night. Her voice…it’s only gotten better. (Sorry for the Twitter link, but it’s the only place I could find it.) twitter.com/EZRideryoyall/stat…


The new Skate from EA will be coming to Steam gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/the-…

#Skate #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Can they do that with the rest of their games so we can finally ditch that god-awful launcher they keep trying to push?


A new @ThisWeekinLinux has dropped! (251) 😎🐧▶️ tuxdigital.com/twil251

@MichaelTunnell talks about Budgie Desktop, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Flathub, openSUSE, Purism & more Linux news on Your Source for #Linux GNews!

#podcasts #technews #opensource #tech



NonSteamLaunchers for Steam Deck expands automatic game shortcuts for more stores gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/nons…

#SteamDeck #Gaming

in reply to ❤️

@peoplearecute at least in Standard settings, it installs the prefixes deep inside steam Filesystem, I would therefore guess it requires steam OS, but not sure. On a Linux PC I would probably check lutris or heroic launcher.
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in reply to benoegen

@benoegen @peoplearecute all the files will be inside the .steam folder in your home

It should work fine on normal Linux desktops, as long as they don’t hardcode the deck username (which i personally submitted code previously to stop them doing)



Super Pocket Taito Edition Review - Licensed Linux Retro-gaming on a Budget gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/supe…

#RetroGaming #Retro #HandheldGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I have one of these. Had a really hard time deciding between Capcom and Taito, but in the end Elevator Action beat out 1943 for me. I love the thing!


Steam Deck open source Playstation Remote Play app 'chiaki4deck' gets smoother gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/stea…

#SteamDeck #PS4 #PS5 #PlayStation



Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld to come with Manjaro Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/oran…

#Gaming #OrangePiNeo #Manjaro #Linux



Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor hits Early Access on February 14th gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/deep…

#DeepRockGalactic #Steam #PCGaming



software design musing, NTFS

i recently watched a great talk about how NTFS isn't as bad as it's made out to be, and while i appreciate the host's patience with microsoft and hesitation to jump on the "this is bad because it's not how unix-likes do it" bandwagon...

i have to wonder, if you can get such a massive speedup by spawning another thread whose sole purpose is to close file handles... it kind of feels like a "you're holding it wrong" moment. like, why does the obvious way (open file, write, close) have such a massive performance penalty? why should tar (and rsync, and 7zip, and...) have to have a windows exclusive feature where it spins up a handle closing thread when every other system tar runs on doesn't need it? why does otherwise single-threaded software need to do this?

in reply to Ronflaix

@Ronflaix
correct on the first part. however, if i'm understanding the talk correctly, other platforms allow the close call to go through immediately, and then the kernel takes over the work of making sure all that stuff happens while the process continues on to its next file operation


Tomorrow evening (tuesday 6th, 22:00 CET) local upper-austrian radio station Radio FRO will be airing a #faircamp special, created and hosted by @fadimat. Expect two hours of music exclusively from the faircamp universe (!! (╯✧▽✧)╯), and a brief appearance of mine as a guest on the show. Don't forget your universal translators, the talking bits will be in german. 😀

dorninger.servus.at/fadimat-10… (de/en)

fro.at/fadimat105-feb24/ (de)

[Update: Corrected the post - there will be _two_ hours of music 👍 (one more than I announced originally ;))]

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My @Mastodon mug made it back unscathed from #fosdem2024!

Great to see everyone, the Mastodon stand looked super busy every single time I passed it, and it was incredible to see so many toots on the FOSDEM hashtags

#FOSDEM #Mugstodon

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Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

elective.collegeboard.org/clar…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence…
redhat.com/en/command-line-her…



COSMIC: Why Make Another Desktop Environment #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/EBefrrM4pis

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