Palm oil from Brazil's Agropalma sports no less than ten different seals: Certified as organic, fair and sustainable, the oil is sold to food giants such as Ferrero, Kellogg’s and Nestlé.
JAKARTA — Deforestation for oil palm plantations continues unabated at the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, likely driven by new processing mills that in turn may ultimately be supplying major consumer goods companies.
New research finds that it's not only human babies who love to playfully tease each other. Researchers reasoned that since language is not required for this ...
New research finds that it is not only human babies who love to playfully tease each other. Researchers reasoned that since language is not required for this behaviour, similar kinds of playful tea…
chiaki4deck recently put up another small update, to add in a couple of new options that sound quite useful for those of you streaming a PlayStation to your Steam Deck.
Game devs, filmmakers, content creators: get over 22 hours of royalty-free music for your next project! Pay what you want & help Children’s Miracle Network.
Capes is shaping up to be quite an interesting strategy game, where it blends XCOM style with superheros and now they have a release window and new trailer.
the only thing I like about Snaps is that the syntax for working with them via the terminal is better than flatpacks. But even that isn't worth it for me.
Easy to dunk on snaps, but scammers tend to go with what is popular. Linux desktops have generally gotten away without having to worry about this sort of thing, but maybe Ubuntu in particular has hit critical mass.
WWE 2K24 released recently and at least for those with an AMD GPU (like the Steam Deck) there were various graphical issues, but it should now work better. Plus, Valve are looking into issues with Red Alert 2 in Proton.
ICYMI: Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming, although their statement on the Steam Deck being "Locked to the Valveverse" is easily demonstrably false gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/play…
Playtron have teased their PlaytronOS, taking aim at the gaming space to compete with SteamOS with a Linux-powered system. Could be exciting times ahead.
yeah, their current marketing is full if shit. Talking about how "immutability" of their OS is going to protect publishers from hacking in their games.
at the end this is going to be proton / valves improvements packaged into fedora.
- mockup looks like they're pitching a device. - mockup is missing critical functionality (buttons) - infected with cryptocurrency brainworms - they haven't decided about open source yet - trash talking existing devices, yet being vaporware itself - grand claims that have no backing in reality (like Epic, Fortnite, Roblox)
I've seen some talk about several of these, but most people have missed one or more, especially the cryptocurrency.
I don’t mind when another company says “Hey, we can do ‘this’ better…and here’s how.” When they say instead “Hey, we can do the *same* thing and btw we’re better because the other guy sucks because reasons.” …then my first thought is no and no…
it's just as "locked" to the valve eco system as Windows is to the Microsoft store. There are lots of ways to play games from other stores on the Steam Deck.
As an update to this: One of the videos Playtron supplied to The Verge, showcasing it on mobile, wasn't even their own and was taken uncredited from another person on YouTube, who hit them with a copyright claim and had it taken down. Not a good look.
Good Morning. Some interesting industry news for you here, as it seems Apex Legends has something of a hacker problem right now that has even messed up the Global Series esport tournament.
Hey! Two of my paintings are in the art show at the St Andrews Festival (just north of Hurstbridge). It will be held near St Andrews (hippie) Market. A famous tourist destination for all things hippie-like (and superior chai). The festival itself will supply Devonshire tea!
It seems like the big issue is that no normal person wants to deal with all of these different charging standards and regulators dragged their feet for so long on creating a single standard letting Tesla come along and just take over everything.
@BrodieOnLinux @I_have_a_technology like the CCS charging handle is as big as a cellphone, now imagine trying to line it up so it will plug in, in darkness or with a stiff cable. it’s doable, but as someone who previously had a tesla, it is sn’t very convincing 😂
@BrodieOnLinux @I_have_a_technology it was partially that, but also partially that the standard the industry came up with after years of bikeshedding is absolutely terrible. the giant adapter i have to use to connect to tesla chargers speaks for itself tbh
"We also need to take into account the future of the technologies. Auke Hoekstra, an energy transition researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, said emissions from fossil fuel cars cannot fall much further, meaning they are not a viable technology for a zero-emissions world. Yet battery development is still in relative infancy, and is likely to tip the balance further in favour of electric cars..."
"The scientific consensus is overwhelming: on any realistic like-for-like comparison a battery car will be cleaner than its petrol or diesel equivalent. Burning fossil fuels to make and drive electric cars will still cause emissions, but at a lower level than inefficient fossil fuel engines."
This is an article from the MIT climate portal featuring guest expert Sergey Paltsev, Deputy Director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. It is over a year old and already many things have changed. Most critically batteries no longer need to be made using either Lithium or Cobalt. Cars are already available with sodium batteries. And people like myself are powering our cars using our home solar panels.
“We shouldn't claim victory that with this switch to electric cars, problem solved, we are going to have zero emissions,” he says. “No, that's not the case. But electric cars are actually much, much better in terms of the impact on the climate in comparison to internal combustion vehicles. And in time, that comparative advantage of electric cars is going to grow.”
Yes: although electric cars' batteries make them more carbon-intensive to manufacture than gas cars, they more than make up for it by driving much cleaner under nearly any conditions.
Most projects are great at saying what they're doing but most are also realy bad at explaining the why of what they're doing and this is where working with y...
@till There's also this symbiotic relationship, if you write a blog post or post about issues on mastodon, not only will people see it from you but it will also be covered to Linux news outlets and youtubers
@ale Gracias por tu comentario! signal es una opción, nos gustan varias. Las preguntas sobre el código se la tendrás que hacer a quienes desarrollan... Saludos!
You know what makes more sense than Unlisted or Quiet Public? Home. My brain follows this so much more. Public, shows up everywhere. Home, shows up in home timeline only. Followers, only shows up to your followers. Direct, just tagged people. So clear.
Quiet public posts don't just show up in the home feed. They're publicly accessible to anyone with a link, appear on your profile, and can appear in external search engines. Calling them "Home" would be deceptive, and confusing, because "Home" could also easily mean followers-only.
@ephemeral everything that was cool when we were younger is so expensive now/still. I bought a barely working Game Boy recently for £60!!! 10 year ago would've been around the £30 mark
Valve has finally done it! They've overhauled Steam Family Sharing with the new Steam Families set of features now available in Beta and it fixes the most annoying issue with it.
oh.. so now, 3 years after I stopped having 'children' and now have young adults, this is ok, despite asking #Steam for it .. way back when. #SteamOnLinux don't get me wrong Proton is Fine++ but it's not the only thing that needed developer time, well you know, beyond the mindless UX churn that fascinates them . .
The new changes are great, however they introduced a new term that completely screws it for me is that no longer can you have cross-region accounts in the same family. Which cuts me off from my family. Which worked before just fine.
I realise this is to prevent cross-region purchasing shenanigans, which Valve has constantly had so many bad-eggs ruin things with, but it really does make my LDR that much harder. Not cool 🙁
@ThatLuna I can easily see why they've done that though, there's not really all that many legit use cases for sharing a family across the world, it's supposed to be for a single household
Access Now revela radiografía del panorama legislativo de la #InteligenciaArtificial en América Latina #IA Este análisis revela las principales tendencias en políticas públicas en materia de Inteligencia Artificial en la región latinoamericana ⬇️ accessnow.org/press-release/re…
When Otter.ai announced their shitty pricing changes over the last couple of years, I paid up for a couple of years to stay at the reasonably-priced 6k minutes/month with Dropbox imports. That time has come to an end today. I don't use any of their meeting-related features, don't care about summaries or "insights". I just want to transcribe long podcasts and videos. Now, even their basic paid plan wouldn't handle anything longer than 90 min, which most of my files are. #podcast #accessibility
Furthermore, the performance of their editor on long transcripts had deteriorated significantly in recent months. Not only was it so sluggish that I could no longer edit on my Surface, I was getting "can't save, please reload" messages every 10 or so minutes, and I couldn't use alt-codes for em dashes without the editor choking and just showing a digit or two of the code.
I switched to a much simpler speech to text API a couple months ago, and so far it's going surprisingly well.
I wrote a little thing in python to push up an mp3, then take the returned data and format it how I like for podcast transcripts in plain text. Then I just edit in my text editor of choice with Audacity playing the audio alongside, and it is literally saving me hours and tons of frustration. The output quality is as good as Otter, although it removes the "like"-type utterances, which I'm very on the fence about. That's a personality thing that I think is important.
I have keys on my macropad for dropping in names and em dashes. I can easily customize vocab and spelling for the Star Trek-ass words we use on @show. And I'm in a regular text editor (well, VS Code), so I can navigate super smoothly with all the keyboard shortcuts I'm accustomed to.
There are a couple of downsides I'm working through, though:
For one, Audacity doesn't innately have a way to access its shortcut keys (play, pause and move cursor, change speed) without focusing on the Audacity window. I'm working through an AutoHotkey script to sort that out.
Second is that while I can also get subtitle files (SRTs), if I want both, I would need to hand-merge my edited text to/from a plaintext transcript, whereas Otter could just export the finished transcript to multiple formats. That's a bummer.
Good Morning. Some interesting industry news for you here, as it seems Apex Legends has something of a hacker problem right now that has even messed up the Global Series esport tournament.
We in the Finance Working Group have determined that the co-op should develop a cohesive annual budget. We currently take in far more than we spend; our current balance of £24k, for instance, exceeds our total spend over 5 years of £22k.
This thread is for The Stuff of real time meetings of the Finance Committee. The agenda for the meeting could get linked here. And a link to any meeting minutes.
Playtron have teased their PlaytronOS, taking aim at the gaming space to compete with SteamOS with a Linux-powered system. Could be exciting times ahead.
Charlie Jane Anders on why she stopped loving Captain Kirk. “Kirk is obsessed with maintaining his dominance over his crew, in a way that’s very much of its time but also a product of the men who created him.” buttondown.email/charliejane/a…
I used to look up to Captain Kirk, Star Trek's fearless leader, when I was a kid. When I was seven or eight, I had a homemade Starfleet captain shirt, which...
There really are a lot of games, and with more releasing every year, Steam has gotten rather large as a platform with it now listing over 100,000 games.
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