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The developer of the Graysky client for Bluesky has written up how to embed replies from Bluesky as comments on your blog.

Like I said for Mastodon comments, not going to enable this on my site.
#Bluesky #comments graysky.app/blog/2024-02-05-adโ€ฆ

in reply to Boris Mann

Phew, yeah. The only thing worse than blog comments are social media replies.


The Age of Realistic AI-Generated Video Is Here. OpenAI unveiled their prototype video generator called Sora โ€” I literally cannot believe what Iโ€™m seeing. Just stunning stunning videos. kottke.org/24/02/the-age-of-reโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

To be fair, two-legged horses and all other marvelous things we could see in a lot of those videos are not very realistic, I am afraid ๐Ÿ˜…
in reply to kottke.org

yeah but also itโ€™s awful and ugly and will only ultimately be used to deceive and manipulate people.


A rare photo of the last steam-sheep before electrification.


Democracy On, Not Just Around, the Internet ash.harvard.edu/publications/dโ€ฆ


TikTok, radiografรญa de la adicciรณn que daรฑa la salud mental de los menores

Un informe de Amnistรญa Internacional desvela que la aplicaciรณn, adictiva por diseรฑo, muestra vรญdeos que pueden ser perjudiciales...

#CuidadosDigitales

publico.es/sociedad/tiktok-radโ€ฆ



We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us weโ€™ll see a production-ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this yearโ€™s LinuxFest Northwest: System76 Says Cosmic Desktop's Alpha Release Is Almost Here - FOSS Force fossforce.com/2024/02/system76โ€ฆ


Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/metrโ€ฆ

#FPS #MetroExodus #PCGaming



More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/moreโ€ฆ

#Linux #HandheldGaming #Manjaro #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

some things I'm surprised with that they seem to get it right (trackpads, although terrible position), while other things I'm surprised they get it wrong (I really don't understand the need for a 1920x1200 screen. 800p is great and just more efficient)
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There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.

They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.

Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.

Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd

IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.

But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin




Arriving home in the highlands on the Caledonian sleeper never stops being magical. Sipping coffee and eating porridge in bed - bliss .


Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes and their script compiler is now open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/neveโ€ฆ

#RPG #Gaming #OpenSource #Linux




FlatOut is free on GOG tap in gog.com/en/game/flatout


if they ever remaster the simpsons hit & run, they should make the time limits on set to kill and alien auto-topsy part 3 even less forgiving

and change nothing else



Wowzers, that Mastodon CVE recently was quite something:

โ€ข You can inject a post that is attributed to any remote user
โ€ข You can overwrite the server's copy of any remote user
โ€ข You can rekey the server's copy of any remote user, by just listing another key

The full technical write up is worth a read: arcanican.is/excerpts/cve-2024โ€ฆ



hey everyone i made a funny meme. please remember to give attribution to me if you use it. i made it all by myself and want full credit


iced just published a new release with support for multiple windows and a multi-line text edit widget, among other things ๐Ÿ‘€


Great article! I hated PE as a kid. Other activities I have always enjoyed doing, I suppose because they didn't strike me as exercise--just fun. I like dancing, singing, long walks in nature (be sure to check these links!). Years later and I'm still recovering from having my back fractured. I am good at keeping at my exercises, because I keep turning them into dance-steps and do them to my favourite music. Walking involves saying "hi" to many of the neighbours, patting all the dogs being taken for a walk, and ends with a lovely cup of tea at my favourite cafe. So, things are getting better. And I feel emotionally better when I do them.

Running or yoga can help beat depression, research shows โ€“ even if exercise is the last thing you feel like

in reply to Muse

I am so sorry you had to experience that. PE can be sadistic.
As the new kid the other students would often gang up on me during dodgeball in order for them all to throw their balls at me at the same time. I'd come home bruised every time.
in reply to Muse

On the other hand, I loved fencing in college. Maestro Markie was strict, but he taught us step-by-step, different parries and maneuvers over the semester.


auspol, gambling

abc.net.au/news/2024-02-16/zerโ€ฆ

absolutely disgusting. you can't watch sports with your kids without being drowned in celebrity endorsed ads, teenagers are being encouraged to do "harmless" quick bets on the melbourne cup by their peers, keno is in every pub, and the albo government's response is "well, we made them put a single sentence at the end of the ads"

the labor government took around $13 million in lobbying money from the gambling industry in 2020, by the way

in reply to Lynnesbian

i cannot overstate my disappointment when i learned as a kid that the RSL's gaming rooms didn't contain a single xbox


If you've never heard it, Allan Day's talk about online communication from GUADEC 2023 is an absolute must watch youtu.be/dVVyokoQl2k?t=20064
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Thanks for highlighting it, I think it has some very useful things to learn or repeat to yourself. Especially when online stuff gets heated. I know you have covered a few of those situations.


"Life Comes from Space: The Decisive Evidence" (2022) by Milton Wainwright and Chandra Wickramasinghe.

Worth a read ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿค”, grab a copy here: worldscientific.com/worldsciboโ€ฆ



The Linux Cast Is Running Hyprland!?! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/F9ty1_1_ksE


@stux Opinion on minds.com?

I think it looks like #fediblock material

Anti-trans, anti-queer, global warming denial, magat talking points, ... It has everything.




Holy cow, this is bad - check out the nonsensical figures in this review: completely generated in Midjourney (!!), not even re-labeling the gibberish text labels (!!!).

This was published by Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, where the editorial office should have caught this and nuked it from orbit. Wow.

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33โ€ฆ

@academicchatter #genAI

Edit: It's been retracted 3 days after publication and 1 day after it blew up. That was quick.

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New clip on the react channel if you missed me talking about the insane emails youtu.be/YcPkMTORPpA
in reply to Brodie Robertson

using budgie to stand in for Birdie while the Budgie DE just uses a generic bird as their logo which does not resemble a budgie, is just too much for a Friday morning.


Last time we did probably our longest stream ever, that's not the plan today but let's still have fun youtube.com/watch?v=_O5VoVIJSvโ€ฆ


I love the colour and composition of this picture! AND IT'S FUNNY TOO!
in reply to Muse

I guess that folks these days are so attuned to their phones that they could catch a shot like that "from the hip". If you have a hungry gull stalking your ice cream it's a photo waiting to happen.
in reply to Muse

The photo may have been larger. The seagull may have already made lunges at the ice cream. Someone then would catch the shot, trimmed down to the action, then brightened the colour. Easy.



"Whatcha lookin' at?"


Crowdsourced Time Lapses That Help Monitor the Environment. โ€œChronolog is on a mission to engage communities with nature while recording important natural changesโ€ like restoration efforts, fire recovery, erosion, and invasive species. kottke.org/24/02/crowdsourced-โ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

Cool idea, but they are charging $200 a piece for what's essentially a 3d printed frame, an ImageMagick script, and an email vacation responder.



in reply to Eugen Rochko

Nice! I have some Blood Angels I need to get around to painting.


An innocent California man's arrest and three-week incarceration demonstrates "the police will use whatever tool they have, even if it's a tool that has a huge risk of misidentifying someone," EFFโ€™s Jennifer Lynch told the Ventura County Star. vcstar.com/story/news/local/20โ€ฆ


Sometimes a Nextcloud app grows from a simple idea to a top-rated store item โญ๏ธ

Excited to hear stories behind some notable Nextcloud apps, we invited Julien Veyssier to share his journey from a contributor to a Nextcloud team member.

Listen now:

#NextcloudPodcast

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-pโ€ฆ



Manjaro and Slimbook team up for the Slimbook Hero Linux gaming laptop gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/manjโ€ฆ

#Linux #Manjaro



No Man's Sky Omega Update arrives with a Free Weekend and lots new gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/no-mโ€ฆ

#NoMansSky #SteamDeck #PCGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

Looks like I will need to jump back into NMS for a bit to check out the changes. The Atlas Path choice change is probably what I am most interested in exploring.


I love the cover of Stephen & Evie Colbertโ€™s new cookbook, Does This Taste Funny? โ€œI love cocktail hour. It feels like a reward for having gone so long without a cocktail.โ€ amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/12โ€ฆ

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