"Extracts taken from 'The Cosmotheoros' or 'The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets' by Christiaan Huygens (translated from the Latin, published in 1698)"
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17th Century Scientist Gives First Description of Alien Life // "The Cosmotheoros" (1698)
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"Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE | Full Audio Book"
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE | Full Audio Book
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard Le Bovier de FONTENELLE (1657 - 1757), translated by William GARDINER (1672 - 1719)Genre(s): *Non-fiction...YouTube
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Cutest story EVAH!
Woman mistakes bobble for baby hedgehog and rushes it to Cheshire animal hospital
Woman mistakes bobble for baby hedgehog and rushes to Cheshire animal hospital
The 'adorable hoglet' was brought in nestled in a cardboard box with food and a hot water bottle.Cheshire Live
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Paris Waiters Race Run for the First Time in 13 Years
There was a race in Paris where waiters from all the restaurants and cafes and hotels rush through the streets carrying trays withkottke.org
Building A Tiling Focused Ubuntu Flavour
I'm honestly surprised there isn't already a tiling flavour of Ubuntu Linux, there is one for Fedora but somehow the biggest distro in the world doesn't have...YouTube
Red Hat Tries To Make Better OPEN NVIDIA Drivers
If you wanted to use open source Nvidia drivers your only option for the longest time was Nouveau but a couple of Red Hat engineers are aiming to change that...YouTube
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Musical Clock Museum in Utrecht
Jasonโs only got one rule for guest editors and itโs, โIf youโre going to post about Utrecht once, you havkottke.org
Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/sworโฆ
Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
The team behind the post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG have launched a demo and crowdfunding campaign for Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a fantasy cRPG inspired by Infinity Engine titles like Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale and other classics.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
ZDNET shares a glowing review of #Nextcloud in Best Cloud Storage 2024.
โญ Recommended as the "most trustworthy cloud storage."
โญ Ideal "for everyone who values security and privacy."
โญ Perfect "for anyone who wants maximum control over their cloud."
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The best cloud storage services of 2024: Expert tested
We found the best cloud storage providers that offer an easy, reliable, and secure place to store all your files.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
(Re)descubriendo Mapas de GNOME
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(Re)descubriendo Mapas de GNOME
Cuando GNOME presentรณ hace aรฑos su app de Mapas lo vi mรกs como una simple curiosidad que otra cosa, pero me pareciรณ buena idea que usase el ยซmotorยป OpenStreetMap ya que conocรญa el proyecto. Por si โฆTHE_CHEI$
With ISIS back in the (US) news, I have been thinking back to this passage in chapter two of Governable Spaces on ISIS as an apotheosis of "implicit feudalism," a networked polity "with a clerical sysadmin."
Read the chapter: luminosoa.org/site/books/10.15โฆ
How I use screens
Nathan Schneider writes about how he uses screens: The underlying idea for me is that I like to keep a clear desk. In my office, forWerd I/O
KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/kde-โฆ
KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files
In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/freeโฆ
Free and open source action-adventure RPG 'Veloren' update 0.16 out now
It's free, it's open source and it's looking good! Veloren is a action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world and a brand new release is out with update 0.16.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/sci-โฆ
Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now
Hyperspace Deck Command is the next game in the Hyperspace Anthology from Sleeper Games that includes their two previous games Swirl W@tch and ---Red---Tether-->.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/novaโฆ
Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced
Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.nwildner (GamingOnLinux)
chiaki4deck the PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck tweaks rumble gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/chiaโฆ
#SteamDeck #PlayStation #PS4 #PS5
chiaki4deck the PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck tweaks rumble
Continuing to push out small but useful sounding tweaks, the unnoficial PlayStation Remote Play app for Steam Deck, chiaki4deck, has another little update out to make the experience better.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ilia Malinin Is Good As Hell At Ice Skating
Ilia Malinin is 19 and just won the world championship title of international ice skating or something by being an absolute wizardkottke.org
I've been following Otyken, a Siberian folk band for awhile now. This song is amazing!
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OTYKEN - CHUKOTKA (Official Music Video)
#Otyken #Indigenous #FolkListen: https://bfan.link/chukotkaA multinational band consisting of representatives of the indigenous peoples of Siberia, the group...YouTube
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Slice, Dice, & Everything Nice: D3 After Dark
This bundle from D3 is packed with risque action! Get Samurai Maiden, Bullet Girls Phantasia, Onee Chanbara Origin & more! Your purchase helps charity.Humble Bundle
Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599 gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/oranโฆ
#OrangePiNeo #Linux #HandheldGaming
Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599
After being revealed early in February, the upcoming Orange Pi Neo that will come with Manjaro Linux now has a price, and there will be multiple versions of it although we still don't exactly have a clear release date.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
GOG begin funding indie devs with Loco Motive releasing this Summer gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/gog-โฆ
GOG begin funding indie devs with Loco Motive releasing this Summer
GOG have announced that they're getting into game funding, with the first partnership being a boost for developers from Robust Games and publisher Chucklefish for their upcoming title Loco Motive.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/ubunโฆ
Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming
At last! Users from Ubuntu 24.04 onwards that's scheduled to release on April 25th should hopefully see a smoother Linux gaming experience.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Upcoming events at ^ including
Rot, Ferment and Decompose: a 2-week open studio/shop about all things rot by Vanya Lambrecht Ward
Sensors and Systems for Art: a 2-day workshop on sensors and open source software for artists by ^ artist Shane Finan
Open Mic Night: running for 10 years in Manorhamilton and in need of a new home
LEAK Leitrim Experimental Animation Kollective: monthly meetup led by Orla McHardy
Female time travellers!
The Respected Oxford Professors Who Say They Time Traveled
Two Victorian academics believed they saw Marie Antoinette at Versailles.
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Fire-retardant paint first to protect homes from extreme fire conditions
A partnership between UNSW Sydney and Flame Security International has produced BAL-40 accredited FSA FIRECOAT paint that could help prevent the spread of bushfires.
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KDE Virtual Desktops Still Broken After 20 Years
I've been very vocal on the way virtual desktops work on KDE Plasma and there has been an open issue about exactly this problem for the last 19 years and by ...YouTube
The BBC used generative AI to help draft promotional emails about Doctor Who and got a bunch of complaints. They will no longer use the technology because of that.
This is a bit silly and is akin to complaining that a spell checker was used to send you email spam. There is a lot of Luddite energy around generative AI and overreactions from companies both for and against it
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BBC Receives 'Doctor Who' AI Complaints Over Promotion Of The Show
The BBC received complaints over use of AI to promote 'Doctor Who' and has said it won't use it again.Max Goldbart (Deadline)
NPR Tiny Desk Concert 2024 Submission of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is โa collective endeavor which engages in rhythmic typewriter manipulation combined with elkottke.org
Grasmere Bench
I was heading back to the car as it was starting to rain. I spotted this bench as I hurried past. I decided to head back and grab this shot.
I've actually been back a few times to try to better it, but each time the conditions just haven't been as good.
#photomonday #fotoMontag #Fotografie #photography #landscapePhotography
Thanks for the compliment. If you can find the time, the Lakes are always worth a visit.
Metaโs new setting shadow bans politics on Instagram and Threads
How to find a new opt-out setting in Instagram that โlimitsโ the recommendation of political content from accounts you donโt follow in both Instagram and Threads.Alex Heath (The Verge)
The @osi features @Karlitschekโs keynote at FOSS Backstage: What the AI Revolution means for Open Source and our society.
Watch as Frank explores the many challenges and opportunities of AI within open source:
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Three perspectives from FOSS Backstage
FOSS Backstage is a conference that fosters discussions around three complementary perspectives: a) community health and growth, b) project governance and sustainability, and c) supply chain compliโฆOpen Source Initiative
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